Studio Brussel Zware Gitaren streams nonstop hard rock, metal, and alternative rock with no DJs and no talk, just heavy guitars around the clock. Press play on Radio Shuffle and it streams instantly, free, with no account or app download required.
A digital theme stream from Belgium's public broadcaster
Zware Gitaren, Dutch for "heavy guitars," is a digital theme stream run by Studio Brussel, part of Flemish public broadcaster VRT. Formerly known as StuBru Bruut, the channel strips away presenters and talk entirely, running a continuous feed of hard rock, metal, and alternative rock available through VRT MAX, the VRT Radio app, and the broadcaster's public streams.
Home to Belgium's biggest metal countdown
The channel is closely tied to De Zwaarste Lijst, the Heaviest List, a listener-voted countdown of the best metal songs that Studio Brussel has broadcast on Easter Monday every year since 2009. The list regularly proves just how strong homegrown Belgian metal has become: the Belgian band Amenra's "A Solitary Reign" has repeatedly topped the countdown against international heavyweights, and in 2022 the Belgian band Brutus knocked Metallica out of first place entirely, a genuine statement for a small country's metal scene going up against the genre's biggest global names.
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Studio Brussel Zware Gitaren streams around the clock, and Radio Shuffle carries the feed live with nothing to install and no subscription required. Press play for the channel that gave Belgian metal fans their own annual countdown and let homegrown bands beat the genre's biggest names.