Het Zesde Metaal
Points show how well known and in demand an act is today in Belgium and the Netherlands, based on public figures such as listeners and hits. They say nothing about the quality of a show. The letter is the level by the festival's own scale. How the points work ›
Chances for 2027
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Figures
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Career
- Line-ups
- Rock Werchter 2017
- Active since
- 2005
- Albums
- Het langste jaar 2024
- Skepsels 2019
- Meesters 2019
- Calais 2016
- Nie voe kinders 2014
- Hits since 2015
- Naar de wuppe BE #50, 2016
Stature
- De Tijdloze 2025
- 3 nummers, hoogste #309 (Ploegsteert)
- in the list since 2019, 7 years
- per song
- Biggest own venue
- Cactus Concertgebouw Brugge, Brugge
- ±1.200 plaatsen
- 2025 (Benelux, last three years)
Older concert dates are still being added, so this may be incomplete.
Today
- Radio
- Last 30 days
VRT Radio 1 16 3,7 per week Willy 15 3,5 per week Studio Brussel 5 1,2 per week Since we track the stationWilly 304 3,0 per week since Dec 2024 Studio Brussel 205 1,3 per week since Nov 2023 VRT Radio 1 19 2,0 per week since Sep 2026 - Similar to
- Raymond van het Groenewoud, Brihang, The Van Jets, De Mens, Zwangere Guy, Compact Disk Dummies
- Home act
- 97% of worldwide search volume comes from Belgium and the Netherlands (typically a few percent)
De Tijdloze on StuBru
De Tijdloze is the all-time list of Studio Brussel, the Flemish rock station. Listeners vote for their favourite songs every year, and since 1987 StuBru has broadcast the top 100 at the end of December. Since 2019 the rest of the vote is known as well: 500 places in 2019, around 2,000 since 2021. A place above 100 did not make the broadcast. The figures come from tijdloze.rocks, an independent site that keeps every list since 1987. Click a column header to sort.
| Song | From | Years in the list | 2025 | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ploegsteert | 2012 | 7 (2019–2025) | #309 | #188 (2019) | #376 (2024) |
| Naar de wuppe | 2016 | 6 (2020–2025) | #1186 | #716 (2023) | #1186 (2025) |
| Dag zonder schoenen | 2014 | 1 (2025) | #1794 | #1794 (2025) | #1794 (2025) |
| Gie, den otto and ik | 2014 | 3 (2021–2024) | – | #1559 (2023) | #1890 (2024) |
| Tid van ton | 2019 | 1 (2023) | – | #1909 (2023) | #1909 (2023) |
| Toe nu maar | 2014 | 1 (2023) | – | #2105 (2023) | #2105 (2023) |
Records
Studio albums, the highest position in the Belgian and Dutch album charts (Ultratop, Dutch Charts) with the number of weeks, and gold and platinum (BEA, NVPI).
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Het langste jaar | 2024 | #1 (11 wk) | – | – |
| Skepsels | 2019 | #5 (27 wk) | – | – |
| Meesters | 2019 | – | – | – |
| Calais | 2016 | #3 (74 wk) | – | – |
| Nie voe kinders | 2014 | #7 (52 wk) | – | – |
| Ploegsteert | 2012 | #7 (63 wk) | – | – |
| Akattemets | 2008 | #82 (2 wk) | – | – |
Other albums in the charts or with gold or platinum (live, compilations, reissues):
| Album | Year | Belgian album chart | Dutch album chart | Gold/platinum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Randgevallen | 2025 | #3 (3 wk) | – | – |
| Wachten | 2022 | #6 (4 wk) | – | – |
| Live 2020 | 2021 | #2 (2 wk) | – | – |
| Het beste metaal | 2018 | #3 (27 wk) | – | – |
How popular is Het Zesde Metaal compared with other countries?
Based on search volume and listeners from the various sources. Each country compared with the worldwide figure.
Best-known songs (Deezer)
Per edition, historical
Score measured in the twelve months before each edition, place = rank in that line-up. The letter differs per festival: an A at Best Kept Secret can be a C at Rock Werchter.
| Edition | Score | Level | Rank | Exceptional | Belgium | Netherlands | World | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Werchter 2017 | – | – | – | – | – | – | charts, stature |
Over the years
◆ purple = album, ▲ red = festival in Belgium, ▲ green = festival in the Netherlands, ● grey = own concert. Click the legend to switch them on or off.
Festivals and own concerts
- ●12/10/2025 · Cactus Concertgebouw Brugge, Brugge
- ●24/03/2024 · Cactus Club, Brugge
- ●23/03/2024 · Cactus Club, Brugge
- ●12/06/2022 · Cactus, Brugge
- ●11/06/2022 · Cactus, Brugge
- ●27/07/2018 · Cactus, Brugge
2 earlier dates
- ▲July 2017 · Rock Werchter
- ●25/02/2017 · Cactus, Brugge
Studio Brussel since August 2023, NPO 3FM and KINK since 2020, the other stations since late October 2026. "Compare countries" shows the average per station.
Songs per station, last 18 months
| Station | Country | Most played |
|---|---|---|
| Studio Brussel | Belgium | Naar De Wuppe 41 · Ploegsteert 19 · Tid Van Ton 14 · Gie, Den Otto En Ik 14 · Het Langste Jaar 1 |
| VRT Radio 1 | Belgium | Nie Voe Kinders 3 · Gie, Den Otto En Ik 2 · In De Plaaster 2 · Het Langste Jaar 2 · Stempel 1 |
| Willy | Belgium | Service 106 · Naar De Wuppe 88 · Tid Van Ton 59 |