Bring your Brutal Kids to Brutal Assault!

This year, we've once again prepared a rich program for your little brutal offspring! Over the years, we’ve gradually improved these services, and this year we’ve raised the bar significantly! All our little metalheads can look forward to the traditional kids' corner (now with voluntary admission) and rhythmic lessons, but we’re also introducing something brand new: the Brutal Kids Camp – a children's camp supervised by professional instructors, featuring indoor accommodation, quality meals, and loads of fun activities! We believe your kids will find their dream activity in our program, allowing the whole family to enjoy Brutal Assault to the fullest.

More info for the kids here: https://brutalassault.cz/en/for-kids-and-juniors

Brutal Express train to Brutal Assault!

This year again, our hellish trains will depart to take you from Prague and Hradec Králové straight to Jaroměř! During the ride, you’ll be able to choose your seat based on your genre preferences - options include the Thrash, Death, Black, Hardcore or Alternative carriage. You’ll also have the opportunity to swap your ticket for a festival wristband during the journey. All aboard the hell train!

You can buy the train tickets here: https://brutalassault.cz/en/tc-68/travel-tickets

Here it is – the day-by-day breakdown is out! And even though this year we're seeing the highest demand for tickets in the festival's history, we've decided to launch the sale of single-day tickets for our most loyal fans who can't make it for the full event – including single-day parking. Please note: only 400 single-day tickets are available for each day!

Check out the what day your fav bands are playing here: https://brutalassault.cz/en/a/621/day-by-day-breakdown-single-day-tickets

Bands Update for Brutal Assault!
Did we say last week that the lineup was complete? We were wrong! We're adding the Czech thrash metal powerhouse FAÜST to the lineup! AVULSED were already part of the lineup, but we're "announcing" them again as an apology for having left them out of the death metal genre poster.

The bands performing on the KAL stage will be revealed very soon, along with the day-by-day breakdown of all performers. Stay tuned!

We bring you another batch of bands! The British collective Five the Hierophant will bring their gloomy mix of black, doom, and post-metal! Alongside their unique sound, they’ll impress you with their lineup – in addition to traditional instruments, you'll hear saxophone, French horn, trumpet, and ritual drums. Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Sylvaine will enchant with her blend of black metal, post-rock, and shoegaze, while the reborn American ensemble Sleepytime Gorilla Museum will deliver an avant-garde metal performance that blurs the line between music and theater! One thing these artists have in common – they’ll all perform at the Josefov Fortress for the first time!

Check out the lineup here: https://brutalassault.cz/en/line-up

We’re introducing a ticket like no other in Brutal history!

The last time we created designer paper tickets was for the 25th edition of BA—some of you might still remember them. And this year, the idea came back to life. When we received the first graphic drafts from Matěj Bašta, the artist behind this year’s visuals, we knew we couldn’t keep this masterpiece from you. And so, the panoramic ticket was born.

This is a stunning piece in a stylish envelope, revealing all its intricate details and cool features only when opened. And there are plenty of them! On top of that, you’ll also get a patch and three stickers. You even get to choose your patch—since we couldn’t decide whether to go for a colorful or black & white version (both look absolutely stunning), we made both. The choice is yours!

Already have an electronic ticket? No worries! You can still grab this collectible piece as a keepsake through our e-shop: https://brutalassault.cz/en/collector-tickets

Arthur Brown at Brutal Assault

Arthur Brown. An undisputed psychedelic/shock rock legend who influenced a whole generation of future stars with his 1968 hit "Fire". A hit that so many know without necessarily associating it with its author. The living legend, who will be 83 years old this summer, will convince you in the Fortress that age is just a number and genre boundaries are just an abstract concept.

Blood Fire Death: A Tribute to Quorthon and the MusTwenty years after Quorthon’s passing, his legacy comes alive in a unique performance at Brutal Assault, presenting iconic Bathory songs — Blood Fire Death: A Tribute to Quorthon and the Music of Bathory — led by members of Watain, Enslaved, Aura Noir, Vltimas, Mayhem, Bathory, and several other exclusive guests!

On June 3rd 2004 the metal world lost one of it’s biggest icons. Thomas ‘Quorthon’ Forsberg was instrumental in redefining metal as we knew it. With the seminal 1984 debut, “Bathory”, Quorthon single handedly laid the foundation of what has become the world-renowned phenomenon, that is black metal. There was Venom before him, but musically he laid out the blueprint for myriads of bands that followed, especially from Scandinavia, in the coming decades.

Upon his passing a wide array of celebrated musicians from the Norwegian black metal scene was summoned to pay their tribute to the fallen pioneer. At the annual Hole in the Sky festival in Bergen, Norway, musicians from bands like Darkthrone, Emperor, Enslaved, Satyricon, Immortal, Gorgoroth and Aura Noir performed a carefully selected set of Bathory classics that helped shape the sound of the Norwegian scene. In 20224, on the 20th anniversary of Quorthon’s passing, the core members of the original tribute constellation got together again at the Beyond the Gates festival, held in the revered Grieghallen, to once again pay their respect to the legend and the music of Bathory. This time the line-up also included E from Watain, who also contributed to the stage design and concept. The result can be summed up by two words: Pure magic.

As people have lamented their praise for the show, we have decided to do some select shows with the concept at some carefully selected summer festivals next summer. Blood Fire Death – A tribute to Quorthon and the Music of Bathory will feature the same band that fronted the 2024 edition:

E (Watain) – vocals

Ivar Bjørnson (Enslaved) – guitar

Blasphemer (Vltimas, ex-Mayhem) – guitar

Apollyon (Aura Noir) – bass & vocals

Faust (Djevel, ex-Emperor) – drums

In addition to the band, the concert will feature guest singers and musicians such as Grutle (Enslaved), Gaahl (Trelldom, ex-Gorgoroth) and Frederick Melander (ex-Bathory) along variety of other exklusive guests that will be announced later.

The show is based on Quorthon’s own vision of how he pictured a Bathory concert would look like should he ever bring his music to the live stage. „20 years after his passing, Quorthon continue to shiver our spines, curdle our blood and fuck our brains up with his music,“ says vocalist E (watain) about the project.

Dark atmosphere, emotional despair, slow awakening...

Heilung, Cult of Luna, Moonspell, The Ocean Collective, Russian Circles, Saturnus, Crowbar, Maybeshewill, EYEHATEGOD, Bell Witch, Church of Misery, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX (official), MANTAR, Solothus, MESSA, Kurokuma, Konvent, Tribulation (Official), 1914, Cobra The Impaler, Forgotten Silence , LLNN, Profetus & Church of the Cosmic Skull

Tickets: https://brutalassault.cz
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CHILDREN´S RHYTHM CLASSES

Your child can play at Brutal!

You have a unique chance to give your children an unforgettable experience while boosting the development of their listening skills and developing their musical talent

This is also part of our music workshop in the BRUTAL KIDS zone at the festival!

6 to 9 years > https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets/detail/id/483
Over 9 years > https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets/detail/id/484

Less than a month to go!
Get your tickets here: https://brutalassault.cz

Some cancellations and some new bands for Brutal Assault.

New bands: I BUILT THE SKY, DEVOID OF THOUGHT, HEALTH and HYPNO5E.
Cancelled: Car Bomb, Volumes, White Ward and Within Destruction

We would like to share with you the findings of this year. As part of the band booking process, we were able to snag a line-up that we were proud of and that represents both the spirit of Brutal Assault and most of your requests. Unfortunately, we live in turbulent times and far more bands are cancelling than would be healthy and than we ourselves would like.

We do our best to replace these artists, but bands like Anthrax for example cannot be fully replaced 4 months before the festival. Sure, we have Kreator here for example, but all bands like that have already made their plans for the summer and possibly signed exclusives at other Czech shows. That's why this year we ask for your kindness, all the changes we make are with the best of knowledge and conscience and the lesson that we will try to make up for it with an even more interesting line-up in the following year.

Build your own festival poster for Brutal Assault!

Check out this link: https://my.brutalassault.cz

Parking in the city will be severely restricted this year. We don't have the final word yet, nevertheless we are already adding up parking areas and opening two new lots after Parking Lot 1-3 sold out.
You can now find Parking 4 for cars and caravans (a tent next to car option is also possible) and Parking 5, which will be for parking only.
https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets

In the sad event that you can´t make it to Brutal Assault this year, or if you are looking for a ticket. Then take a look here: https://brutalassault.cz/en/xchange

A safe way buying/selling tickets.

Too old to camp in the forest of Brutal Assault..? Then you better hurry up finding yourself some accomodation, many hotels etc. are sold out already.

More info here: https://brutalassault.cz/en/accommodation

Even more bands for BA, this time 10 more.

One of the things you appreciate about Brutal Assault is that we aim to discover and bring you artists that are new and unconventional. And that's what the current update is all about, with one exception - well-known and popular mood-makers SÓLSTAFIR from Iceland. Along with the enigmatic and gloomy Finns SKEPTICISM are the only bands re-appearing once again in our line-up. The remaining names are to be seen for the first time at BA!

This will be a premiere at BA for BLOODYWOOD coming from India, the psychedelic hypnotists ORANSSI PAZUZU, the implacable PUPIL SLICER and the death-mongers CARNATION. SLOPE will get you moving with their "funky monkey", DOOL on the other hand will nail you to the floor the same as on the regular band extended THE DEVIL'S TRADE from Hungary. Lastly, for the first time to play abroad we're bringing THY CATAFALQUE!

Tickets: http://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets

New Year's Brutal Discounts!

Socks from granny keep your heart and feet warm, but we bet there are other things you crave and haven't found under the tree. Your chance is now!


We have restocked the sold-out items in the shop (chilli sauces, softshell jackets, shirts, towels) and put vast discounts on a bunch of stuff: the BA calendar, BA shirts, caps, scarves and many more...The New Year's sale starts today and runs until January 17, 2022!


https://brutalassault.cz/en/sc-31/brutal-merch

And if you still don't have your ticket, now is the time - the current price for the five-day Brutal is only valid until the end of January!

Not sure what X-mas presents you should buy... Get your friends and family tickets for Brutal Assault. Now with 11 new bands confirmed.

Grab your tickets here: https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets

Christmas is coming so it's the perfect time to give you some presents. We've targeted all genres with these new bands, added more headliners, and so now the line-up for the upcoming five-day Brutal Assault has more than a hundred names!

11 new bands for Brutal Assault: AMENRA, CRADLE OF FILTH, DECAPITATED, EXTINCTION A.D., HUMANITY'S LAST BREATH, JINJER, LORNA SHORE, SKYWALKER, SWALLOW THE SUN, TESSERACT a UNEARTH

Hope this special update has made you even more excited for our 25th anniversary. Merry Metal-mas!

Get your brutal calendar before X-mas!

After its great success last year we are coming with the new edition with the very best photos from our official festival photographers. Previously a part of the "I am Brutal" package you can now gen one on its own! Hang it on your wall and each month you can choose from two sides with different photos. Just Brutal!

Please keep in mind that the delivery services are extremely busy this time of the year. If you're ordering from the EU (incl. Slovakia) make sure you place your order before Dec 15, in order to receive your package by the end of the month. Orders from the Czech Republic by Dec 15 should be delivered by Christmas Eve, but we highly recommend not waiting until the very last minute!

https://brutalassault.cz/en/d-1830/brutal-assault-2022-wall-calendar

And there is 15 more bands for you!

Welcome back the genre icons PARADISE LOST, CATTLE DECAPITATION and ALCEST!

You can also be looking forward to an increasingly popular quartet IGORRR, LEPROUS, BENIGHTED and BLOOD INCANTATION, the renewed thrashers EVIL DEAD and classics MISERY INDEX.

Lovers of underground and fast rhythms will appload the death metal duo MASS INFECTION and NUNSLAUGHTER, slower tempos will be brought by doomsters AHAB and HANGMAN'S CHAIR, progressive metal is represented by URNE, and TALLAH closes the list of the new fifteen additions with what could call nu core.

On a less positive note, DEATH BY STEREO are taking a break this year and dropped from the line-up.

Tickets: https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets

Event: https://facebook.com/events/493050868165392

80 bands confirmed for Brutal Assault (and more to come...)!

1914, ABBATH, ABORTED, AD NAUSEAM, ARCTURUS, AS I LAY DYING, ASPHYX, AT THE GATES, ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, BAEST, BELL WITCH, BLOODBATH, BUTCHER BABIES, CANNIBAL CORPSE, CLUTCH, COMEBACK KID, CONJURER, DARK FUNERAL, DARKEST HOUR, DEATH BY STEREO, DIE KRUPPS, DRACONIS INFERNUM, EVOKEN, EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS, EXHORDER, EXHUMED, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, FRONTIERER, FUELED BY FIRE, GAAHLS WYRD, GOD MOTHER, HENTAI CORPORATION, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, INSOMNIUM, KATATONIA, LIFE OF AGONY, LOST SOCIETY, MANES, MAYHEM, MELT-BANANA, MERCYFUL FATE, MORS PRINCIPIUM EST, MUNICIPAL WASTE, MYSTICUM, NAILED TO OBSCURITY, NECROPHOBIC, NECROT, NEKROGOBLIKON, ONSLAUGHT, OTTONE PESANTE, PALLBEARER, PENSÉES NOCTURNES, PENTAGRAM, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS, PHLEBOTOMIZED, PSYCROPTIC, PSYKUP, RAZOR, REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER, RINGS OF SATURN, RIVERS OF NIHIL, SACRED REICH, SIGH, SLAGMAUR, SOEN, SOREPTION, STATIC–X, STRIGOI, SUFFOCATION, THE AGONIST, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, UADA, UNDERGANG, VALKYRJA, VENOM, VITRIOL, VOICES, VOLA, WINTERFYLLETH

Get your ticket now for this brutal line-up: https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets

Some lucky metalheads made it to the covid version of Brutal Assault. Check out the aftermovie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsPqATRJPk/ And see you next summer for the real deal

Let’s open this mega update with black metal stormblast! Over seven years, deathlike silence has filled the halls of the world’s biggest black metal forge, whilst powers have been gathering to resurrect the band right in time for their 25th anniversary. And now DIMMU BORGIR have finally returned with a vicious work of art that is their latest album Eonian and they are coming to storm the main stage at Brutal Assault!
Wicked aural filth comes from the islands with GODFLESH, who are highly regarded as one of the pioneers of industrial metal; they took industrial to the next level with their fuse of heavy guitars and mixing it with slow drum loops and effects and their unique approach has spawned several musical styles since their conception.
Brutal Assault will also present a combo of iconic thrashers that need no introduction, ANTHRAX and SACRED REICH will make it to the fest alongside upcoming crossover thrash ministry IRON REAGAN and a staple name of the genre PRONG. Elusive French synth mastermind CARPENTER BRUT draws its influences from 80s TV shows and B-movies loaded with cheap thrills and sharp synthesizers. The mysterious and discreet man behind the pentagon – or the Brutagram as his fans would call it – evokes an encounter between Justice beats and the universe of John Carpenter. Into the brutagram at BA 2019! Through parted flesh, mental scars and waning health – from misfortune and adversity that would have broken lesser men, comes another black metal legend that almost doesn’t perform live… Welcome French titans ANTAEUS, come to your condemnation and witness Satanik Audio Violence! For the fans of modern death metal and hardcore amalgamation we are gonna have glowing hot Brits VENOM PRISON, their returning fellow countrymen ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY and Australia‘s own THY ART IS MURDER who are on fire right now! Anglophone domination over the genre will be contested by Japanese metalcore sensation CRYSTAL LAKE, who just set an impossible bar to leap over with their latest output Helix. If you think it’s enough incredibly energic music for now, then we beg to differ because we are also gonna have vigorous metal hardcore of GET THE SHOT and American noise rock kings DAUGHTERS, who are doing one of their rare live appearances at BA 2019! Equally rare live are CULT OF LUNA and these Swedish visionaries have been praised for their live performances for a long time and Brutal Assault will host one of their few appearances in 2019. You shouldn’t miss this opportunity to witness a shattering audio-visual feast of iconoclastic proportions! Other thoughtful bands for thinking audience on the list are the German musician collective THE OCEAN with their immersive audial experience, US progressivists AFTER THE BURIAL and Norwegian masters of stellar Avant-Garde MANES. You can also look forward for rising stars of Danish scene SLÆGT, who play an epic blackened heavy metal but without any kind of limitation when approaching the style, their compatriots TAPHOS with their gut-wrenching death metal and progressive heavy metal outlet of Dutch singer Anneke van Giersbergen under the moniker VUUR. Gloomy rock doom in the end, the very godfathers of the genre THE OBSESSED who were formed already back in 1976 by Scott "Wino" Weinrich are back from the dead to perform for you at BA 2019!
In the end, we have some band news – A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH are unable to perform on Brutal Assault, because of the technical difficulties.

YOUTUBE:
GODFLESH – Live Brutal Assault 2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVzdp9lHPr4

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So far the line-up goes: ABORTED, AFTER THE BURIAL, ALIEN WEAPONRY, AGNOSTIC FRONT, ANNAL NATHRAKH, ANATHEMA, ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY, ANTAEUS, ANTHRAX, CARCASS, CARPENTER BRUT, COUNTING HOURS, CRYSTAL LAKE, CULT OF LUNA, CYTOTOXIN, DEICIDE, DAUGHTERS, DESTRUCTION, DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA, DIMMU BORGIR, EKTOMORF, ELECTRIC WIZARD, GET THE SHOT, GODFLESH, GUTALAX, HEILUNG, HIGHER POWER, HYPOCRISY, IMMOLATION, IRON REAGAN, JINJER, JUNGLE ROT, KRISIUN, LIONHEART, MANES, MESHUGGAH, METAL CHURCH, MGŁA, MIDNIGHT, MYRKUR, NAPALM DEATH, NECROS CHRISTOS, OF MICE & MEN, OCEANS OF SLUMBER, PERFECITIZEN, PRONG, RAISED FIST, ROTTING CHRIST, SACRED REICH, SAOR, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, SLÆGT ,TAAKE, TANKARD, TAPHOS, TESTAMENT, THE OBSESSED, THE OCEAN, THY ART IS MURDER, TOSKA, UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION, VARGRAV, VENOM PRISON, VUUR, WINDHAND, WOLFBRIGADE a WOE UNTO ME.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/322562071846842/

LINE-UP UPDATE WITH BORIS, WOLVES IN THE THRONEROOM AND CROWBAR

Sadly we have to start this announcement with two bands that had to withdraw from our lineup for this year - LIFE OF AGONY and GRUESOME. On the other hand we are very happy to welcome atmospheric black metal innovators WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, who kickstarted whole alternative course of the genre some 15 years ago!

And the same goes for BORIS, the Japanese experimental genre shifting trio, that excites fans worldwide by their music drawing influence from psychedelic rock, punk, sludge, doom metal, drone, pop, noise, shoegaze and ambient for 25 years now! The English VALLENFYRE on the other hand have much simpler musical worldview consisting of gloomy death metal like only the British islands inhabitants can produce.

Lousiana‘s own CROWBAR formed around the charismatic character of Kirk Windstein will present the genre they helped to shape down there in the muddy swamps of NOLA - their characteristic blend of personal confession sludge. Two young bands - namely energic sludgy hardcore of Sweden’s GOD MOTHER and lively American metalcore of MISS MAY I - will be in contrast to all the seasoned veterans above.

Dark metal of Czech legends ROOT will celebrate 30 years in hell and Italians GRAVEWORM will cast shadow over our beloved fortress, while three closing acts of this batch will stir up the dust by setting armies of hardcore fans on collision course in the pit. These three bands are New York City hardcore punk SHEER TERROR, California metallic hardcore FIRST BLOOD and female fronted nu metal from Moldova INFECTED RAIN.

WE’RE THICKENING THE LINE UP!

Let’s take look on what’s going on at Brutal Assault camp! Swedish legends CLAWFINGER has disbanded after their last BA appearance in 2013 and ever since they only did a handful of shows, returning to some of the very special places they played during their career. This also stands true for Brutal Assault 2017!

The Russian pagan’s ARKONA founded exactly 15 years ago by the leader and main composer Masha Arkhipova represents the cream on top folk metal based on typicaly slavic melodies and pagan mysticism. It’s been mainly their powerful performance including great front(wo)manship by Masha, that put ARKONA on the map and currently the’re re-releasing their re-worked debut album to celebrate their anniversary.
BORN OF OSIRIS are also a cream on top band but of completely different genre, being fine representatives of progressive death metal / core branch, leading the pack towards new a new horizons.

Horizons are also the direction set by the viking ships of EINHERJER, the co-foudners of viking metal, who are also revisting their seminal debut album released in 1996. GRUESOME on the other hand are quite far from inventing a genre of their own but what they do they do best in the world and that is bringing the spirit of Chuck Schuldiner and Leprosy era Death in general!

MALIGNANT TUMOUR have recently celebrated 25 years on the scene by a new album with a simple title The Metallist! And they continue to spread their swinging earth-shaking rock’n’roll vibe with full force! MOURNING BELOVETH are fine Irish export and thus it seems their heavy, desperate and anguish inducing sound is a mandatory feature for them as it is for their fellow countrymen in the heavy music field.

THE LURKING FEAR are a band that you’ve probably haven’t heard about yet as their are still working on their debut 7‘‘ and album. THE LURKING FEAR plans to bring sheer, natural weirdness and horror back to the scene, as they want their death metal ugly, twisted and possessed. Why should you care? Well let’s take a look at the line-up!
Tomas Lindberg – vocals (At The Gates, Disfear, Skitsystem)
Jonas Stålhammar – guitars (God Macabre, Crippled Black Phoenix, Bombs Of Hades)
Fredrik Wallenberg – guitars (Skitsystem)
Andreas Axelsson – bass (Tormented, Disfear, ex Edge Of Sanity, ex Marduk)
Adrian Erlandsson – drums (At The Gates, The Haunted, ex Paradise Lost, ex Cradle Of Filth)
We are also very excited that Swiss masters of darkness SAMAEL will celebrate their 30 year anniversary with a special set at Brutal Assault 2017, alongside French purveyors of macabre black death with atmospheric planes SVART CROWN.

While black metal fans should be more than satisfied with the line-up by now, with this batch we’re gonna make happy mostly the headbangers of death, as the title suggests!
Swedish death dealers AEON have recently reminded Europe on their tour with Cannibal Corpse that they’re still a force to be reckon with! And the same applies for the band revolving around Terrance Hobbs, possibly the only death metal guitar hero to share his hairdresser with the Predator! Indeed NY/DM godfathers SUFFOCATION are still a massive live force despite the recent line-up changes. CRYPTOPSY will present their own innovative ways of brutal death while the represantatives of the US murder capital Chicago under the monicker of MACABRE will indeed tell some tales of a macabre nature, revolviing around…surprise, murders and murderers!
Chicago took the torche from New York, a city that once witnessed it’s own Epidemic of Violence and the mighty thrash force DEMOLITION HAMMER has reformed to show You how it was like back in 1992! Besides the old school masters we’ll also have the cream on top of the new school US thrash with HAVOK!
ROTTEN SOUND will once again unleash a grinding fury that is yet to be surpased while their countrymen WOLFHEART on the other hand showcase the sad nature of Finland. Their thoughtful attitude is shared by German black metal DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT that will debut at our festival.
A band that needs no introduction and will not debut at our festival are ARCHITECTS, who are sadly returning without the deceased founding guitarist Tom Searle.

BRUTAL ASSAULT festival: A DEADLY CHRISTMAS BATCH OF BANDS IS HERE!



The impossible became reality and 25 years after their last show, the legendary MASTER'S HAMMER will do an exclusive summer festival show at Brutal Assault 2017! The band will do a set based on the early 90's songs for the old fans and those, who were not even born at the time alike..


There‘s no better way to open this christmas pack than with the goatfathers of unholy rotten death metal INCANTATION! GORGUTS, long-running Canadian craftsmen of technical death metal and possibly the greatest innovators of the genre will return in 2017! Another band on the bill offers very modern view on metal submerged in dreamy soundscapes, their unmerciful drums barrage and inhuman vocals will convince you, that FALLUJAH belongs to the realm of death after all. Another debut on BA will be performed by a band from the opposite side of the US; Boston’s REVOCATION are drilling the thrash waters in a way so powerful that they transcend again to the realm of death metal here and there. And no band knows more about that than the band that originally crossed the thrash – death bridge, POSSESSED will play BA for the first time!
German PROTECTOR took it the other way around and ended up with Teutonic thrash only after they started with their signature death thrash mixture, even for them this will be their BA debut and the same applies for a band that saw the first rise of thrash.. METAL CHURCH are active since 1980!
New York’s LIFE OF AGONY will bring their crossover debut line-up and for the fans of grindcore we can offer both the fun side of the thing by local gore rollers GUTALAX but also the dark nihilistic sludgy side of grind as presented by Holland’s own TEETHGRINDER. Dark sludgy waters are also a home to German MANTAR.
It has been written: 'The man shall live not by metal alone.‘ That is why French producer Gautier Serre will bring torture by mixing breakcore, death metal and baroque melodies under his pseudonym IGORRR. Also this is the reason for legendary Canadian electro-industrial group FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY to appear at BA 2017!
If you would fancy more black metal in the mix, we hope that an eastern orthodox ritual by BATUSHKA will do for you for now but make sure to come back on Thursday, we will have quite an announcement out in this field..

BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL: THE SECOND BIG BATCH OF BAND ANNOUNCED!

The second round of bands confirmed for BA 2017 is here! This time lets start with Swedish OPETH, unique metal act combining heavy riffs and prog elements for more than 20 years. British SIKTH will finally come to festival to play their influental music to the djent movement within progressive metal.


The other bands also do not need any special introduction: Greek gothic black metal matadors ROTTING CHRIST or American PRONG playing groovy crossover thrash.


Polish tech death metal DECAPITATED announced a special set to 20th anniversary. Another death metal act on the bill DESERTED FEAR is raging fierce take on the genre. Norwegian TSJUDER is known best for their relentless, aggressive approach to Black Metal. American COUGH is bringing their devastating heavy sludge/doom.


Three acts will offer uncompromising core music: THE AMITY AFFLICTION and CHELSEA GRIN and WHILE SHE SLEEPS. While Australians THE AMITY AFFLICTION will bring metalcore with post-metal elements, American CHELSEA GRIN will serve killing deathcore. The last is British metalcore WHILE SHE SLEEPS, powerful live band and one of the most promising band of the genre.


Last but not least on the bill are German respected industrial veterans KMFDM and American experimental music collective WREKMEISTER HARMONIES that combines drone and postrock elements.


Check out our website for more: http://brutalassault.cz/en/

BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL: THE FIRST BIG BATCH OF BAND ANNOUNCED!

The first big batch of bands confirmed for BA 2017 is here! Let's start first with bands, that were forced to cancel their appearance this year but will come to play for You in 2017: ELECTRIC WIZARD, NILE and TERROR. While ELECTRIC WIZARD are the best stuff the drug-infused sabbathian doom has to offer, NILE helped to reshape death metal with new themes and energy by the turn of the millenium and TERROR are years proven veterans of the HC scene!

But the other bands also do not need any introduction! AUGUST BURNS RED will bring their powerful metalcore, AMORPHIS will present their unique transformation from old school death metal to their distinctive melodic take on the genre, GADGET will bring blasting swedish grindcore and MAYHEM will play the legendary De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas in its entirety! MORBID ANGEL have reunited with the charismatic frontman Steve Tucker and will play our festival after quite a long hiatus, needles to say this lineup has set up very high expectation from the fans from all over the world!

Returning to our fest are NERVOSA, this all-female thrash power trio is raging with typical Brazilian fury while different take on the genre will be presented by SACRED REICH, who will debut on our fest and who despite not making it into the big four are a genre classic! Next band on the list SWANS are a band that needs to be witnessed. Avantgarde rock group revolving around Michael Gira has a new album out and this tour will be the last in the current lineup, that witness the band in the best shape and productivy during their carrer. The last band on this list is the band that made the most of the combination of old thrash and modern approach to metal - TRIVIUM.

Check out our Youtube channel with live videos from bands like Death, Decapitated, Marduk, Primordial, Mayhem and many more and don't forget to subsribe!
The early bird ticket for "Brutal Assault 2017" is available for 78 EUR (1900 CZK) till April 30th at http://brutalassault.cz/en/eshop/

WIN FREE 2016 FESTIVAL PASS!

Below are the winners of the first round of our #mybrutalassault contest, congratulations! And here comes the second round, this time You can win 5 free festival passes! The rules are the same as the last time. Five randomly selected people, who will share their line-up poster with the ‪#‎mybrutalassault‬ hashtag on facebook, will receive free festival pass. The pass is to be picked up at the festival on Your ID card. Beware, the post must be set as "public" otherwise we won't be able to see it so it couldn't enter the draw. Otherwise it's pretty simple, just share Your line-up poster on Your timeline or set it as Your cover photo and add the aforementioned hashtag. Find the poster app here! http://my.brutalassault.cz/en/

First wave winners:
Maja Gabryelska
Patrik Žák
Asja Bedić
Lucie Horáková
Maciej Waskiałło
Martin Egresi
Filip Avramov
Guillermo Molvert
Dušan Kollár
David Růt

BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL: LINEUP COMPLETE, FESTIVAL TRAILER REVEALED, FREE TICKETS UP FOR GRABS!

The lineup is now complete! For list of all confirmed bands and the already revealed daily schedule please follow http://brutalassault.cz/en/
Also we would like to draw Your attention to the very few remaining cheap hostel rooms (including shuttle service), that are available here.
Also we are again giving You the opportunity to create Your own Brutal Assault poster! Our simple website app lets You pick 10 of Your favourite bands from this year's line-up and put them in order based on Your preferences. In the next step You can add info about the total number of editions You've visited and then we'll generate the poster for You. The poster is available for download or sharing on Your facebook page. There are several genre-centred versions of the poster based on the selected bands, so we have something for everyone! As a bonus, You can win free festival ticket just by sharing Your personalised poster.
Five randomly selected people, who will share their line-up poster with the #mybrutalassault hashtag on facebook, will receive free festival pass. The pass is to be picked up at the festival on Your ID card. Beware, the post must be set as "public" otherwise we won't be able to see it so it couldn't enter the draw. Otherwise it's pretty simple, just share Your line-up poster on Your timeline or set it as Your cover photo and add the aforementioned hashtag.

Also we've revealed the official festival trailer, check it out here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfKJdcJVwdU

Check out our Youtube channel with live videos from bands like Death, Decapitated, Marduk, Primordial, Mayhem and many more and don't forget to subsribe!
The final edition of tickets for "Brutal Assault 2016" is available for 80 EUR (2000 CZK) till August 8th at http://brutalassault.cz/en/eshop/

CHEAP HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION!

For those who are looking for a cheaper hostel type of accommodation we just sealed a deal that will offer You this simple but cheaper option.The service will even include a shuttle bus from the hostel to the festival ground as with our hotel packages. The hostel is situated in Hradec Kralove, approx. 20km from the festival ground. See what hostel Academic can offer and if you are interested in ordering a room, scroll down and click on the Reservation form, the rooms are not likely to last long! http://brutalassault.cz/en/hostel-academic/

BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL: BANDS BY DAYS REVEALED, 2016 MYBRUTALASSAULT CONTEST UP!

You still got seven weeks of dusting Your bones before the festival hell breaks out, but we have already revealed 95% of the line-up and right now we're bringing You the festival SCHEDULE, where You can find out which bands play in the respective days.
http://brutalassault.cz/en/schedule/

Also we are again giving You the opportunity to create Your own Brutal Assault poster! Our simple website app lets You pick 10 of Your favourite bands from this year's line-up and put them in order based on Your preferences. In the next step You can add info about the total number of editions You've visited and then we'll generate the poster for You. The poster is available for download or sharing on Your facebook page. There are several genre-centred versions of the poster based on the selected bands, so we have something for everyone! As a bonus, You can win the festival hardcover book we put out last year to celebrate 20 years of the festival and festival hoodie simply by sharing Your poster on facebook! Available designs in the photo below, info on the book in here: http://brutalassault.cz/en/news/new-20th-anniversary-book-ba

The rules are easy, 10 randomly selected people, who will share their line-up poster with the ‪#‎mybrutalassault‬ hashtag on facebook will receive the festival book or the hoodie. The merch is to be picked up at the festival on Your ID card. Beware, the post must be set as "public" otherwise we won't be able to see it so it couldn't enter the draw. Otherwise it's pretty simple, just share Your line-up poster on Your timeline or set it as Your cover photo and add the aforementioned hashtag. The winners will be announced June 30th! Find the poster app here http://my.brutalassault.cz/en/

BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL: LINEUP UPDATE WITH 1349, PERTURBATOR AND KRONOS!
Norwegian black metal tornado 1349 will once again whirl a massive cauldron of chaos at Brutal Assault fest! Also returning after his successful performance last year is French master of retro futuristic synth dark wave PERTURBATOR with his new album The Uncanny Valley. Two bands of different spectre of death metal will join us, namely French BDM savagery KRONOS and long running Italian progressive band SADIST. One of the most interesting bands in the current Polish black metal scene THAW will also play BA 2016 alongside legendary Czech thrashers DEBUSTROL and a new Frantisek Štorm (of Master's Hammer fame) project MORTAL CABINET. The Mortal Cabinet show will include some Master's Hammer songs! For more info about tickets please continue here and for purchase please navigate to our e-shop!

For list of all confirmed bands and ordering info please follow http://brutalassault.cz/en/

The current edition of tickets for "Brutal Assault 2016" is available for 80 EUR (2000 CZK) till August 8th at http://brutalassault.cz/en/eshop/

BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL: LINEUP UPDATE FROM THE BLACK FRIDAY!
This time we’re about to bring more orthodox stuff to the table, starting with Norwegian giant gone solo ABBATH! The aptly named DARKENED NOCTURN SLAUGHTERCULT will perform their blood soaked ritual at this BA. We are also welcoming the pagan veterans MOONSORROW. Germans DUST BOLT bring thrash metal as well as their partners in crime LOST SOCIETY from Finland. Blasphemous Polish death metal act EMBRIONAL will be part of the line-up as well as Swedish melodic doom/death act OCTOBER TIDE and lycanthro punk originators WOLFBRIGADE. Fans of modern forms of metal would appreciate young Australian metalcore with mathcore elements JACK THE STRIPPER. American songwriter KING DUDE will perform his dark neo folk. Unfortunate news in the end, NILE had to pull out the fest, however we managed to get two other great death metal acts on the bill to compensate this loss. Namely the godfathers of Swedish death metal GRAVE and the returning turn-of-the-millenium Brazilian prospects REBAELLIUN!

For list of all confirmed bands and ordering info please follow http://brutalassault.cz/en/

BLACK FRIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT WITH ABBATH, MOONSORROW AND GRAVE!

This time we’re about to bring more orthodox stuff to the table, starting with Norwegian giant gone solo ABBATH! The aptly named DARKENED NOCTURN SLAUGHTERCULT will perform their blood soaked ritual at this BA. We are also welcoming the pagan veterans MOONSORROW. Germans DUST BOLT bring thrash metal as well as their partners in crime LOST SOCIETY from Finland. Blasphemous Polish death metal act EMBRIONAL will be part of the line-up as well as Swedish melodic doom/death act OCTOBER TIDE and lycanthro punk originators WOLFBRIGADE. Fans of modern forms of metal would appreciate young Australian metalcore with mathcore elements JACK THE STRIPPER. American songwriter KING DUDE will perform his dark neo folk. Unfortunate news in the end, NILE had to pull out the fest, however we managed to get two other great death metal acts on the bill to compensate this loss. Namely the godfathers of Swedish death metal GRAVE and the returning turn-of-the-millenium Brazilian prospects REBAELLIUN!

BRUTAL ASSAULT CONFIRMS NEUROSIS, DYING FETUS, STICK TO YOUR GUNS, VENOM INC. AND MORE!
The immensely brutal power trio of Maryland DYING FETUS will Reign Supreme at Brutal Assault 2016, alongside their labelmates OBSCURA, who will premiere songs from their brand new album Akróasis. From the swamps of Lousiana GOATWHORE will present the incarnation of the old school soul of extreme metal. The influental NEUROSIS will return with their opressive-mood-laden and original mixture of styles. STICK TO YOUR GUNS on the other hand will bring hardcore punk also straight outta California. Rap metal veterans STUCK MOJO will make appearance at BA 2016 as well as modern metal stars TESSERACT and UNEARTH. Sadly Tesseract will serve as a substitution for SIKTH, who once again pulled off our fest because of full US tour they will do in summer. There again is a mutual will to do a show at the very next edition of Brutal Assault. Closing this bill are VENOM INC., who are currently building a reputation of great live version with the true spirit of the original band. Mantas, Abaddon and Demolition Man (the Prime Evil lineup) reformed in April last year and have already toured the world (including China, Japan, Europe and America) with a full and classic VENOM set and proved to everyone they're the true powerhouse!

For list of all confirmed bands and ordering info please follow http://brutalassault.cz/en/

20 YEARS OF BRUTAL ASSAULT FESTIVAL IN HARDCOVER
On the occasion of 20th anniversary edition of Brutal Assault, organizers published a truly unique book that summarizes the entire history of the festival from the very beginning in 1996 to the present. The publication simply entitled "Brutal Assault: 20 years (1996-2015)" describes in detail a growing festival from a small event for a few hundred people to one of the biggest metal festivals in Europe. A total of 442 pages in Czech and English offer comprehensive information about every single edition of the festival ¬ memories of headliners as well as loyal fans. An intergral part of the book are also behind¬the¬scenes stories about preparation and organization.
"Some stories seem adventurous, if not crazy," says author Pavel Kriklan. "Would you pawn your own house to get money for headliner?" asks Kriklan. The text is accompanied by hundreds of photos. A series of photos, for example, is about reconstruction of the fortress in 2007, when all those wooded areas with old houses have become a place for a huge metal event.
The book also contains a summary of all the best that occurred over the years including a comprehensive index of all performing bands.

Fresh confirmed bands with VOIVOD, EYEHATEGOD & SIKTH!
This time we start with caveman battle doom, from the swamps of mythical Hyborian ages comes English doom hammer CONAN! Considered by some an ugly bastard spawned by Black Sabbath and Sun O))), they’ve defined their own sound on the split with Slomatics and their debut EP Horseback Battle Hammer. Industrial metal/EBM stars DIE KRUPPS will join us alongside legendary southern bastards EYEHATEGOD, who will claim their repugnant dopethrone for the first time at our festival! Next a band that formed entirely new vision of progressive metal at dawn of our milenium, SIKTH! These guys were supposed to play last year but their studio schedule prevented them from doing so in the end. But the wait was totally worth it, the new EP Opacities is again a gamechanger, or at least a piece that bursts with creativity and technical skills and oscillates between madness and classical musical approach. Controversy sprouting Niklas Kvarforth and his Swedish enslemble SHINING will take part as well as Norway’s own SLAGMAUR, who will honour us with one of their extremely rare avantgarde black metal shows. A big name in the end, VOIVOD! VOIVOD seem to be in perfect shape ever since Canadian guitar hero Daniel Mongrain (Martyr, Cryptopsy, Gorguts) has joined their ranks to replace the sadly deceased Piggy and will celebrate the musical greatness of various genres.
For more please follow http://brutalassault.cz/en/

A MASSIVE LINEUP UPDATE IS HERE!

The first band in this batch comes from Belgium and is revolving around Sven de Caluwé – yes we’re talking about the butchers from ABORTED! Returning to the festival after many years are ARCH ENEMY, this time with the notoriously blue haired singer Alissa White-Gluz as a frontwoman! We’re also extremely pleased to welcome Swiss masters of technical thrash CORONER to the line-up for the first time! Pioneers of the Gothenburg scene DARK TRANQUILLITY will appear at Brutal Assault 2016 alongside one of the hottest bands in modern extreme genres ESKIMO CALLBOY. If you’re an old school death metal fan (escpecially in the vein of Leprosy by Death) we have GRUESOME for you. For the fans of experimental music on the other hand we have HYPNO5E from France and Norwegians LEPROUS, who have already played our fest as Ihsan’s live band. Esoteric atmosphere laden bands will be represented by Portugese legends MOONSPELL and and the American Egyptologists NILE! Florida death metal scene will not by represented by it’s dispiles GRUESOME but also by the mighty co-founders OBITUARY, who are in a magnificent shape! Not only the last time announced Insomnium will represent the finnish version of melodic death metal, they will be joined by OMNIUM GATHERUM. The final unholy trinity of black metal acts consists of TAAKE, SATYRICON, who will perform a 20th Anniversary Nemesis Divina set, and of SIGH from Japan!

Some of you might consider it odd, that we have controversial black metal act TAAKE of Norway on this years' roster, since some of you have their 2007 third reich symbol scandal on mind. We've been thinking about this for at least two years. These things are against our principles and our policy and we think these things have no place in metal nor in daily life. We're still opposed to intolerant ideologies of all kinds. However this TAAKE case is a bit different. The band itself has nothing in common with political ideologies nor haven't the band's artistic course been shaped by a political ideology. We consider this live performance incident of the singer a stupid provocation, that was already punished years back. Everyone has a right to change their opinion or to mess something up and change his ways afterwards. A lifetime persecution is an instrument of undemocratic regimes. The band has been claiming not to be political act since 2008 and has apologized for the incident several times. Nine years after we came to believe that this was a one-off foolishness and we've decided to give TAAKE a chance to play Brutal Assault 2016. If you don't believe in their reforming, we ask you to understand our stance. The motto of the festival is still against violence and intolerance and this will remain

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Lineup changes published 3 days ago

Last couple of weeks brang us some good and some bad news, hence these line-up changes. M.O.D. ceased to exist while Evergreen Terrace, Rings of Saturn and Cattle Decapitation have canceled their tours. Instead of Evergreen Terrace we have PRO-PAIN on the bill, Rings of Saturn were replaced by HORSE THE BAND and MONUMENTS, Cattle Decapitation were replaced by HOUR OF PENANCE and instead of M.O.D. we'll have DR. LIVING DEAD.

Besides aforementioned PRO-PAIN, HORSE THE BAND, MONUMENTS, HOUR OF PENANCE and DR. LIVING DEAD we've confirmed Polish OUTRE, Swedish VICTIMS and NEGLECTED FIELDS from Latvia.

Official festival trailer revealed, unleash the creature inside You!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaVxSVqhho

New bands with SOULFLY and Cult of Fire

Max Cavalera recently put out his autobiography, so there's no need to tell the story of his departure from Sepultura and forming SOULFLY here. What is important however, is the fact that we have both SEPULTURA and SOULFLY on the bill.We're also proud to announce that elusive black metal cult known as CULT OF FIRE will play our fest once again! We remain the one and only open air fest they ever agreed to play and we will make this a very special show, stay tuned for more. From Israel or Netherlands more precisely we will have MELECHESH playing their middle east influenced black metal. From Melbourne, Australia NE OBLIVISCARIS will bring their own way of mixing progressive with classic and melodic with extreme metal. For the fans who like to discover new things we confirm shamanic music ritual of Bön tradition as performed by PHURPA, group of Russian artists focusing on ancient tibetian traditions. Finally, the bands MAXIMUM PENALTY and WISDOM IN CHAINS will represent american hardcore scene. We're now updating all the bands' profiles at our homepage, so take a look!

New confirmed bands with Mayhem and DHG

We bring You new confirmed bands led by cult black metal act MAYHEM. MAYHEM of corpse need no introduction, especially not at our fest, where they already had showed what they later confirmed with Esoteric Warfare, that they finally found tight line-up, which delivers great performance on stage and in studio as well. However the no-introduction-needed status may not be the case with Italian quartet AD NAUSEAM. AD NAUSEAM deliver extreme state-of-art death metal with no artistic compromises. Their music is still yet to be discovered by all the technical / avantgarde death metal maniacs but be sure this will rip Your head off, especially if you dig Gorguts' avant-garde songwriting and the complexity of Ulcerate. Check their debut album here. Next news on the bill are ARCTURUS, the famed all-stars bedlam of Norway! And yet again from the other side of the musical spectre german digital hardcore ATARI TEENAGE RIOT will cause mayhem at our fest. Two more bands from Norway are part of this batch, one of them being renowned death metal instution BLOOD RED THRONE and the other the mighty and untamed DØDHEIMSGARD, who recently released follow up to their aclaimed album Supervillain Outcast under the name A Umbra Omega. HED PE from California will bring their unique mixture of punk rock, metal and rap, while the mysterious half man, half synthesizer PERTURBATOR will hunt down humans with his dark retrofuturistic synths terror. The latest addition to our bill is french bizzare metal act SEBKHA-CHOTT.



LAST CHANCE TO PICK REDUCED PRICE FESTIVAL PASSES!


Dear fans,
You have the last chance to pick the reduced pre-sale price 4-day festival passes for 69 EUR. This edition of tickets is available only until April 30th 2015! Past this date the regular price festival pass will be available only. The regular price festival 4-day pass will cost 74 EUR. The tickets are available in our new e-shop here. And by the way, we're announcing new batch of confirmed bands tomorrow, so beware! ;-) To get the most up-to-day info and to keep in touch with us, you can use our official facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/brutalassault.cz/photos/a.783591901698549.1073741838.109528949104851/886314761426262/?type=1&theater

New confirmed bands: MASTODON, Walls Of Jericho, Godflesh and more!!!
www.brutalassault.com

New confirmation!

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever the mighty rock titans MASTODON will join Brutal Assault festival! This new batch of bands continues with Belgian sludge / hardcore pathfinders AMENRA and cult epic doom metal trailblazers CANDLEMASS! After their stunning performance three years back, industrial visionaries GODFLESH will return to our fest. Dutch death metal veterans GOD DETHRONED will join us alongside almost forgotten electro crossover experimentators HEADCRASH. Thrash metal crossover spirit re-animators RAMMING SPEED will unleash their fury, on the other side of musical spectre SKEPTICISM will deliver one of their few and unique performances. From Reykjavik, Iceland the mystical SÓLSTAFIR will bring their thinkful music while US machine WALLS OF JERICHO will crush your bones with the sheer power of their metalcore! Last one are experimental electro combo TRAP.

Another bands confirmed!

Happy New Year from Brutal Assault team! We’ve got some presents for you, here comes a new batch of confirmed bands headed by UK grindcore legends NAPALM DEATH! Hailing from Denmark, death metal/post-thrash BLOOD EAGLE are a brand new band, however they’re composed of experienced metal veterans of various genres. CARNIFEX one of leading deathcore bands will join us on their way from sunny California as well as India’s most brutal death metal band GUTSLIT. Good-natured viking metallers SKÁLMÖLD are comming from much colder city of Reykjavík on Iceland. From the capital of goregrind – Białystok in Poland we will have SQUASH BOWELS on the bill. This batch of bands is completed by deathcore stars SUICIDE SILENCE!

Brutal Assault announces newly confirmed bands!
BRUTAL ASSAULT confirms another load of bands for the 2015 edition! Dutch death metal legends ASPHYX will be returning to the fortress once more. Another band receiving glorious appraisal at our fest ANAAL NATHRAKH is returning next year with their mixture of hateful black metal and blasting grindcore. For hardcore fans we've booked a classic New York band BIOHAZARD. Oldschool death metal fans can rejoice as well as we confirm that Swedish all star project BLOODBATH and cult Buffalo butchers CANNIBAL CORPSE will play. The young generation fans of extreme music who appreciate death metal/metalcore fusion can look forward for the show of EMMURE. Britain's fantastic ESOTERIC will make the funeral doom fans happy, while dancewilling youngsters should get ready for ILL NINO. Charismatic Irish veterans PRIMORDIAL and pioneers of post thrash/melo death metal THE HAUNTED will aslo play the festival in 2015.

New batch of bands confirmed!
New batch of bands confirmed! Mexican cartel BRUJERIA is on the list among Canadian hyperblast death metal masters CRYPTOPSY and exotic DEMONIC RESURRECTION of India, who are returning to our festival as well more known and respected progressive death/black metal band. Cold nordic chill will be present through Norwegian viking metalers EINHERJER and blasting Swedish black metal by MARDUK, who will perform their classic album Panzer Division Marduk in its’entirety for the last time ever! Hailing from Brasil is NERVOSA, all female thrash power trio! Another band will bring their fresh South American thrash metal like from the golden age of 80's – NUCLEAR from Chile, while Australia’s own PSYCROPTIC will deliver thinking mans‘ death metal. Modern extreme technical deathcore RINGS OF SATURN will debut a tour fest as well as ROSETTA – well known post-hardcore ensemble from Philly. Old school crossover – thrash will be heared from classic band of the genre - M.O.D.! SVARTIDAUÐI from Iceland will bring their psychedelic black metal visions and VADER will join with their unaging death metal.

Within the framework of expansion of our service for BA fest visitors we’ve prepared Guarded Parking Place for cars, caravans, vans and motorcycles. This service is available from Tuesday 03:00 PM to Sunday 08:00 AM, price: 500 CZK for car, 900CZK for caravan or van and 300 CZK for motorcycle (prices for the whole festival, leaving and re-entry with your vehicle possible). Parking place is limited. You can park your car in the Josefov city but at your own risk only.

Parking fee is payable via PayPal only via booking form in the Info section: http://brutalassault.cz/en/order/parking/

The ticket presale (http://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets/order/) at 75,00 EUR (incl. transaction fees via PayPal) ends on July 31st midnight but we would like to encourage you to place your ticket order the sooner the better. All the etickets will be procesed until August 03rd. Though there will still be a chance to reserve ticket http://brutalassault.cz/en/reservations/order/ (10,00 EUR reservation fee + 70,00 EUR payable upon your arrival) until Aug 05th .

If you would be willing to visit the festival for only one day, daily tickets will be available at the box office at the main festival’s gate for 1.200CZK (approx. 44,00 EUR).

The festival's gates of hell are opening on Wednesday's noon (6th August 2014) already and the first band kicks off at 15.30 at one of our main stages – Jägermeister stage! For complete timeschedule see SCHEDULE.

This year we're also revealing timeschedule for our tent stage at the same time with our main stages. The old club stage is gone as we're enlarging the chill out zone, so be ready for a new tent stage (MetalGate stage), new pub at the chill out zone and tons of new attractions!

TIMESCHEDULE REVEALED!
http://brutalassault.cz/en/schedule/

Luc of GORGUTS invites you to Brutal Assault

Brutal Assault is coming closer and we are not the only ones who think about it. You can find an invitation from Luc from Gorguts and his good memories of BA 2012. In the next link you can check 2 newly published Gorguts songs from the BA 2012 festival.

Invitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_gun1V2JI
Gorguts live at BA 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWUB8bme4

Brutal Assault announces band names divided into single days

BA will be full running in 4 weeks. What you can expect in single days can be found in the SCHEDULE section


Also we should not forgot the Onkel Sodom Tom’s invitation to this year’s Brutal Assault – http://youtu.be/Ch-Q8y-T4Kg

Accommodation during BA

We have got couple of questions about available capacities at hotels and VIP camp. We have good news about VIP camp, where the capacities will be increased comparing to the last year. Also we will be offering “ready to sleep” tents rental (more details coming soon). As for the hotel capacities, they are getting thinner however there still single rooms (very few), double and triple rooms available. For more details check the ACCOMMODATION section.

Lineup changes

Brutal Assault announces two line up changes. American death metal band PYREXIA has been forced to cancell all European tour including Brutal Assault. As their replacement Brutal Assault announes Hungarian death metallers GUTTED.
Unfortunately also TESSERACT have cancelled their appearance due to serious family reasons.

You can also check warm-up video: http://youtu.be/SW3BEonoVjs

BA will be full running in 4 weeks. What you can expect in single days can be found in the SCHEDULE section on official page (http://brutalassault.cz/en/schedule/)

Also we should not forgot the Onkel Sodom Tom’s invitation to this year’s Brutal Assault – http://youtu.be/Ch-Q8y-T4Kg

Luc of GORGUTS invites you to Brutal Assault

Brutal Assault is coming closer and we are not the only ones who think about it. You can find an invitation from Luc from Gorguts and his good memories of BA 2012. In the next link you can check 2 newly published Gorguts songs from the BA 2012 festival.

Invitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_gun1V2JI
Gorguts live at BA 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWUB8bme4

Luc of GORGUTS invites you to Brutal Assault

Brutal Assault is coming closer and we are not the only ones who think about it. You can find an invitation from Luc from Gorguts and his good memories of BA 2012. In the next link you can check 2 newly published Gorguts songs from the BA 2012 festival.

Invitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_gun1V2JI
Gorguts live at BA 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWUB8bme4

Brutal Assault line-up is complete

Last bands for 19th volume of Brutal Assault festivals are here. Heading by Dutch cult apocalyptic black metal band DODECAHEDRON, French avantgard metallers CARNIVAL IN COAL, Russian thrash/HC band SIBERIAN MEAT GRINDER and INFERNAL TENEBRA from Croatia.
Other Czech and Slovak confirmed bands are: SPASM, INSANIA, LIVE EVIL, ISACAARUM, FLESHLESS, PANYCHIDA, EPICARDIECTOMY, HEAVING EARTH, KEEP ON ROTTING, PRVNÍ HOŘE, RATS GET FAT, HEIDEN, RADIOLOKATOR, SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION and SUBURBAN TERRORIST.




LAST ROOMS AVAILABLE AT CERNIGOV HOTEL!

The hotel room capacities are getting low though you still have a chance to book your room and enjoy the comfort of the hotel stay during the festival. Other services included in the price:

- buffet breakfast
- shuttle service to the festival ground and back once a day
- a free 3-day pass for the natural ground with a view on both stages

Rooms available from Wednesday Aug 06, 2014 til Sunday Aug 10, 2014.

Book here:
http://brutalassault.cz/en/accommodation/

Newly confirmed bands are FLOTSAM & JETSAM, EXIVIOUS and HAMMERCULT

Arizona based thrash metal veterans FLOTSAM & JETSAM, Dutch „fusion – metal“ band EXIVIOUS and Israeli thrash metallers HAMMERCULT have been announced as newly confirmed acts for BA 2014. More bands coming soon.

Brutal Assault confirms HIGH ON FIRE, SKELETONWITCH, MODERN DAY BABYLON and MARTYRDOD

Brutal Assault announces next four bands for this year headed by Californian stoner metal band HIGH ON FIRE, US based thrash metallers SKELETONWITCH, Czech djent group MODERN DAY BABYLON and Swedich crustcore/black metal band MARTYRDÖD.

Unfortunately VICTIMS have been forced to cancel their participation due to some personal reasons.

SLAYER!

Today Brutal Assault reaches its big milestone. We are very pleased and extremely proud to announce that legendary thrash metal band SLAYER will headline Brutal Assault Festival 2014!
At the Brutal Assault Festival there has not been other more desired band than SLAYER and age-old dreams of many BA fans and organizers are finally coming true.
For many fans SLAYER is the most influential metal band on the planet and we are very happy to welcome this legendary metal band as a headliner of this year’s edititon. The SLAYER confirmation is also a BIG thank you to all loyal BA supporters!
After the loss of Jeff Hanneman the band line-up consists of Tom Araya, Kerry King, Paul Bostaph and Gary Holt.

Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mHm3ZXhHWWM

Last two weeks for buying BA tickets for extra prices

Please note that today you have last two weeks for buying BA tickets for current extra prices. Right now you can buy your ticket online for 64 EUR (+ 3 EUR transaction fees) or reserve your ticket for 80 Eur. Please visit the „Tickets“ section for more detailed information. Due to the presale progression it is highly recommended to buy the tickets in advance.

The ticket prices will grow up since May 01.

ONSLAUGHT, BLINDEAD and FEASTEM confirmed for Brutal Assault

Brutal Assault is back with three newly confirmed acts for its 19th volume. Today with British thrash metal veterans ONSLAUGHT, Polish sludge-doom metal band BLINDEAD and Finnish grindcore group FEASTEM. More bands coming soon.

Also let us remind you that there are 4 weeks to buy the ticket for current prices. The ticket prices will grow up since May 01.

New bands are MGLA, DEW SCENTED and BRUTALITY WILL PREVAIL

Polish true-black metal legend MGLA, German death/thrash metallers DEW SCENTED and UK based hardcore act BRUTALITY WILL PREVAIL have been announced as newly confirmed acts for BA 2014.

BRUTAL ASSAULT announces MANES, IWRESTLEDABEARONCE, GRAND EXIT

Brutal Assault announces three newly confirmed bands headed by legendary avantgarde black metal act MANES! Here is the message from the band: „Once again, after 8 years or so, we'll climb onstage and do our thing. Not once, but twice, at Brutal Assault 2014. We'll be doing a more stripped-down semi-accoustic thing on Friday, and crank it all the way to three, maybe max five, at the grand mainstage on Saturday... We've never played outside Norway before, and who knows; maybe we'll never play outside Norway again after this, so this'll most certainly be something special for both you and us!“

Another confirmed bands are LA-based experimental metallers IWRESTLEDABEARONCE and Swedish thrash/death metallers GRAND EXIT.

SOILWORK, CHURCH OF MISERY AND OKKULTOKRATI HEADING TO BA!

Swedish melodic metal maestros SOILWORK with great new album „The Living Infinite“ are heading to Brutal Assault 2014! Another confirmed bands for today are Japanese CHURCH OF MISERY (doom/psychedelic metal) and Norwegian OKKULTOKRATI (black/sludge/HC/metal).

Brutal Assault confirms TERRORIZER, RED FANG and RINGWORM
Brutal Assault announces three newly confirmed bands headed by legendary grindcore act TERRORIZER! Founding TERRORIZER member and legendary drummer Pete Sandoval (ex-Morbid Angel) will be joined by Lee Harrison (Monstrosity) on guitar and Sam Molina on bass and vocals.
Another confirmed bands are Portland-based stoner rock metallers RED FANG and hardcore band RINGWORM.

GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, ENTHRONED and TEXAS IN JULY confirmed for BA 2014

Three newly confirmed acts are here. Brutal Assault announces Irish post-metal band GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, Belgian black metallers ENTHRONED and US metalcore band TEXAS IN JULY as newly confirmed bands.

Next bunch of newly confirmed bands

It is Monday and we are back with newly confirmed bands for BA 2014. Today with American sludge metal veterans CROWBAR, Norwegian black/death metal band GEHENNA and American experimental metallers ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS.

Swedish Viking/black metal band MANEGARM, American death metallers BROKEN HOPE and German post-metal band THE OCEAN have been confirmed for Brutal Assault 2014. More bands coming soon.

Brutal Assault confirms six new bands

Hello BA fans! Today we are back with six newly confirmed bands. Here we go, Brutal Assault announces British metalcore band ARCHITECTS, American brutal/death metallers SUFFOCATION, Taiwanese black metal band CHTHONIC, German thrash metallers CRIPPER, Norwegian stoner metal band KRAKOW and American metalcore band STRIFE. More bands coming soon.

First bands’ announcement in 2014 is here!

Shining - Avantgarde band from Norway which rose as a jazz quartet and during the years was gradually changed into cold, dark, synthetically needled avantgarde metal with black metal influences. To see them live is usually a big experience so let's hope they will deliver the same on the BA festival and let's get focused on their show.

Misery Index - Rough ornithological death/ grind hails from Baltimore US. The band delivers heavy riffing with one of the fastest and most powerful baterry on the current scene with mr. Jason Netherton behind the mic. So once the power of music should kill someone, you will be killed.

H2O - hails Brutal Assault for the very first time ever with their music roots from NY ghettos. These HC /punkers will enlarge the variety of BA artists and will reveal that their music is heavy enough but just from a bit different perspective.

Satyricon - one of the greatest ikons of black metal genre confirmed their performance on 19th edition of Brutal Assault festival. The leader of the band Satyr bewitch their crowd for over 23 years contrary to some other black metal bands he still has the burning force and appetite to do things different way which designites them to conquer...

Nightfall - Legend of Greek melodic death/doom metal makes their first live appearance in CZ after their reunion. They have brought to the scene such gems as Macabre Sunset (1993) or Athenian Echos (1995). Their latest album is called Cassiopeia.

Hacktivists - What a great combination of djent technics and hard core / rap barking with their first ever performance on BA.

As this is the last bands' announcement in 2013, let us thank you for your support and wish you a happy and successful 2014.

Pre-Xmas present from BA 2014

Today with six newly confirmed bands! Brutal Assault proudly confirms hugely influential UK black metal legendary band VENOM, German thrash metal veterans SODOM, Swedish dark rockers KATATONIA, French orthodox blackers AOSOTH, Irish folk metallers CRUACHAN and funeral doom metal band from Germany WORSHIP.

Brutal Assault confirms SIX FEET UNDER, IGNITE, HAVOK

American death metallers SIX FEET UNDER headed by vocalist Chris Barnes have been confirmed for Brutal Assault 2014. Another confirmed is Californian melodic hardcore band IGNITE and American thrashers HAVOK. More bands coming soon.

If you are planning BA2014 ticket as a gift for the upcoming X-mass, place your orders no later than Dec 22. Also if you have enough friends you can get a hellish bundle of 10 tickets + a t-shirt of your choice at the festival at the unholy price of 666 EUR.

New bands for this week: DOWN, COMBICHRIST, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE

We are pleased to announce that American heavy metal „supergroup“ DOWN headed by Phil Anselmo (ex-Pantera) has been confirmed for Brutal Assault festival 2014.
Another confirmed acts are COMBICHRIST (Norway/USA – electro metal) and FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE (Italy – sympho-death metal).
More bands coming soon.

CONVERGE, PENTAGRAM CHILE and MORS PRINCIPUM EST among newly confirmed bands for BA 2014

Massachusetts-based hardcore/metal band CONVERGE, doom metal pioneers PENTAGRAM CHILE and Finnish melodic-death metal band MORS PRINCIPIUM EST have been announced as newly confirmed acts for BA 2014.

Brutal Assault confirmes CHILDREN OF BODOM, JESU and THE AGONIST

We are glad to announce that Finnish melodic death metal band CHILDREN OF BODOM has confirmed their appearance at next year’s Brutal Assault Festival!

Next confirmed band is British post-metal band JESU and Canadian progressive metalcore band THE AGONIST.

Newly confirmed bands are SICK OF IT ALL, TESSERACT and SEVERE TORTURE

It is Monday and next bunch of newly cofirmed acts for BA 2014 is here. This time with NY Hardcore legend SICK OF IT ALL, British progressive band TESSERACT and Dutch brutal death metallers SEVERE TORTURE.

HAVE A NICE MONDAY: THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, GORGUTS, INQUISITION
Brutal Assault is proud to announce that THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, headed by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend, has been added to the bill for BA 2014!

Another confirmed acts are Canadian technical death metallers GORGUTS and Colombian/USA based black metal band INQUISITION.

More bands coming soon.

Brutal Assault announces next confirmed bands

Another three confirmed bands are here. Today with Swedish death metal pioneers UNLEASHED, Finnish black metallers IMPALED NAZARENE and French groove metal band DAGOBA.
Next bands coming soon.

REPULSION, VICTIMS and HAIL OF BULLETS confirmed for BA 2014

Brutal Assault announces three new names which will appear at the BA festival 2014.
First confirmed is one of the most influential grindcore band of all time REPULSION which are regarded as one of the cornerstones in extreme music and one of the innovators of the grincore genre, influencing such bands as Carcass, Napalm Death or Terrorizer.
Next confirmed are Swedish hardcore/punk commando VICTIMS and Dutch old school death metallers HAIL OF BULLETS.

P.S. Next week Brutal Assault will announce a big comeback of the Czechoslovakian metal legend…

BA 2014 ticket presale starts now!

Dear BA fans, from now you can buy your ticket or make reservations online. Tickets are available at 1600 CZK (+PayPal fees) until April 30, 2014. Get more information by clicking on the „Tickets“ menu.

RETURN OF THE LEGEND, BRING ME THE HORIZON and IN MOURNING

The comeback of a legend is here. 30 years since the establishment, 17 years since their last appearance at the BA, the only show this year. Christopher, Bruno and Pegas are back. KRABATHOR is back! Brutal Assault confirmes legendary death metal band KRABATHOR as a newly confirmed act for August 2014.


Another confirmed bands are British metalcore leaders BRING ME THE HORIZON and Swedish progressive death metal band IN MOURNING.

BRUTAL ASSAULT 19 news: # 1

Newly confirmed bands

Next bunch of newly confirmed band is here. Brutal Assault announces six new acts to play alongside with previously confirmed AMON AMARTH, AUGUST BURNS RED and BENEDICTION.


New adds to the festival’s bill are British doom metal pioneers MY DYING BRIDE, legendary American death metal band OBITUARY, death/thrashers from Emirates NERVECELL, NY based brutal death formation PYREXIA, Norwegian black metallers SARKE and Austrian death metal legends THE CHURCH OF PUNGENT STENCH.

Tickets pre-sale starts in middle October via Brutal Assault website exclusively.

Service innovation in the Old Army Fortress

Brutal Assault Festival this is not only the marathon of extreme music which offers the best from a variety metal genres, in total over 80 bands from around the world.

It also offers several places for your non-musical activities. Do not hesitate to visit the „chill out“ zone on the place called „Greenfield“ inside the Fotress, just a short walk from the main stage area. This year with „Marshall City“ big top (workshops, guitars, amplifiers, meet and greet etc), Horror Cinema House or huge Metalmarket. „Brutal bars“ will offer various kinds of alco/non-alcoholic drinks, including new kinds of soda or 100% natural Absinth. If you are travelling by train, you can get a 50% discount on your train ticket if travelling with Ceske drahy. Among other things you cal also look forward to the ATM (placed near the main entrance gate) or large tent with 1000 seats placed close to the natural stand.


Tickets check, VIP camp, BA Afterparty

We are once more sorry for last year’s long queues for e-tickets validation as well as for VIP camp failure.
We have been working hard on this and finally prepared new system for tickets check for this year.
There are three most important innovation: 1, In the main box office (E-TICKETS) there will be five times more electronic readers for checking the barcodes. 2, In the main entrance area there will be 12 check-in points for wristbands. 3, The main box office (E-TICKETS) will be open from Tuesday, August 6th, from 3:00pm onwards.
The same innovation is connected to the VIP camp, the box office for VIP camp reservation will be also open from Tuesday, August 6th, from 3:00pm onwards (VIP camping site will also open its gates from 3:00pm).

We would like to invite you to the official BA afterparties which will be held in Praha and Bratislava:

11.8. Praha, Modra Vopice (www.modravopice.eu) – HATEBREED, KATALEPSY, SATURNUS + more bands will be confirmed. Ticket price: 200,- CZK (for BA 2013 wristband holders), 600,- CZK (normal ticket price).

13.8. Bratislava (Slovakia), Randal Club (www.openrock.sk) – TRIVIUM, WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER. Ticket price: 10 Eur (for BA 2013 wristband holders), 25/26 Eur (Normal ticket price, presale in Ticketportal.sk).


Another festival news

We are more than happy to announce another improvements that will be greatly enjoyable for your stay at the BA festival:

Now you can enter the festival area with cameras with interchangeable lenses, but for the purpose of photographing only. Taking videos or enter with cameras is still prohibited.

Another, more important news is that we finally realized the long-planned raised platform for the handicapped persons, who can find plenty of space for a better view on the main festival ground.

Stay tuned for upcoming news this weekend.

Service innovation in the Old Army Fortress

Brutal Assault Festival this is not only the marathon of extreme music which offers the best from a variety metal genres, in total over 80 bands from around the world.

It also offers several places for your non-musical activities. Do not hesitate to visit the „chill out“ zone on the place called „Greenfield“ inside the Fotress, just a short walk from the main stage area. This year with „Marshall City“ big top (workshops, guitars, amplifiers, meet and greet etc), Horror Cinema House or huge Metalmarket. „Brutal bars“ will offer various kinds of alco/non-alcoholic drinks, including new kinds of soda or 100% natural Absinth. If you are travelling by train, you can get a 50% discount on your train ticket if travelling with Ceske drahy. Among other things you cal also look forward to the ATM (placed near the main entrance gate) or large tent with 1000 seats placed close to the natural stand.

The Old Army Fortress will offer many more less or more visible innovation so keep your eyes open!

BA festival becomes green and cups info

It is also our pleasure to announce that BA festival becomes green! This year we bring another novelty again, concretely ArecaGoodPlates which are natural and high duality disposable plates made from fallen dried leaves of Areca palm tree. At this moment a big container from India is arriving to Josefov and you can already look forward to this original stuff which will be a part of the equipment of all refreshment kiosks at the festival.

We also continue in separated waste program and also in the refundable cups system. This year the advance deposit for 1 BA cup will be 1,5 coupon (45,- Czk).

Few line-up details published

On the grounds of your comments we have decided to rearrange playing times of few bands to not overlap with those silmilar in genre. We believe these changes will make your stay at BA more pleasant. Thank you, guys, for your factual remarks.

Namely it goes for ambiguity of double occurence of Novembers Doom on our list. You have to know that these doom pioneers will really play twice, on Thurs at Metalshop stage and then there will be their accoustic performance on Fri at Obscure stage. We have been also forced, due to a partial line-up share in In Vain and Solefald, to switch Solefald and Aborym, whose live set has been modified. US death metal commando Skeletal Remains has been finally put on the list on Thurs at Obscure stage. The programme should be actual right now.

BA timeschedule announced published

Complete timeschedule for this year's Brutal Assault Festival has been announced. See the "Program" section for more information about the running order.

Complete line-up also includes 8 Czech bands: HYPNOS (death metal), MALIGNANT TUMOUR (crust-rock’n’roll), ABSTRACT ESSENCE (experimental metal), ATTACK OF RAGE (grind), GUTALAX (grind), BEAST WITHIN THE SOUND (thrash/death/HC), DYING PASSION (progressive) a HENTAI CORPORATION (thrash-rock’n’roll).



„Obscure Stage“ program announced, Tickets Pre-Sale information

Complete timeschedule for „Obscure Stage“ has been announced in the „Program“ section.

Next information is connected with tickets pre-sale. It is highly recommended to buy the tickets in pre-sale since the attendance this year will be surely attacking the capacity of the festival’s area. You can still buy the BA-ticket at a reduced pre-sale price of 1700,- CZK ( + fees via Paypal) but remember that this edition is on sale till the end of July only!
Due to a massive interest in tickets for this BA edition we highly recommend to buy your ticket in pre-sale.

Proximity (CZ, modern metal), Straight (CZ, hardcore), Stíny Plamenů (CZ, black metal), The Fall Of Ghostface (CZ, electro metalcore), In Vain (NO, avantgarde metal), Five Seconds To Leave (CZ, core), Divadlo Marza (CZ, alternative theatre), PerfeCitizen (CZ, grindcore), Beautiful Caffilery (CZ, hc death metal), Empyrion (SK, death black), FOB (CZ, death metalcore), FDK (CZ, post metal), Minority Sound (CZ, cyber metal), Secret Of Darkness (CZ, black metal).

There is also a chance to reserve your ticket by sending a small fee in advance via Paypal and paying the rest of the ticket price at the festival in cash upon your arrival or buy your ticket right now.

Line up changes and One-day tickets

We are sad to announce that both KILLING JOKE (serious family problems) and D.R.I. (injured guitarist) have been forced to cancel their performance at BA festival.
But we are also happy to announce that famous drummer Dave Lombardo (Slayer) and his band PHILM have been confirmed as a new act for this year’s edition.
Other newly confirmed bands are Swedish death metallers VORMITORY and Ukrainian nihilistic black metal band BALANCE INTERRUPTION.

Tickets information:
For those who want to enjoy a single day with music and atmosphere at BA Festival we will offer one-day tickets for each day of the festival (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday). The price of one-day ticket will be approx. 47 Eur (1200 CZK) and you can buy them directly at the festival’s main box office only.

BRUTAL ASSAULT 18 news # 27

Rotations on BA roster
BA line-up has registred two changes. Both American bands AS I LAY DYING and EMMURE have announced the cancellation of their currently scheduled summer performances including BA festival.
AS I LAY DYING message: „Given the circumstances, we feel that it is best for the band to be off the road while the current situation (Tim Lambesis cause) gets sorted. We would like to thank all of our fans for their ongoing support at this difficult time.“ EMMURE are recording their new album and planning upcoming autumnal Never Say Die Tour.

As replacement for mentioned two bands we are happy to announce French progressive modern metal band HACRIDE, German neuro-core band WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH and Croatian math groove metalists E.N.D. as a newly confirmed acts for BA 2013.

BRUTAL ASSAULT fest: trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrBTTT95zk

Brutal Assault announces PRO-PAIN, KATALEPSY and BROTHERHOOD OF THE LAKE

Brutal Assault Festival announces newly confirmed bands. Today with US legendary hardcore/metal band PRO-PAIN, Russian deathmetallers KATALEPSY and UK based „Blackened Crust Metalcore“ band BROTHERHOOD OF THE LAKE.

COMRADE BOOKING PROUDLY PRESENTS

THE REBIRTH TOUR 2013

From the depths of the Czech Republic, after their conquest with The Korea, ready more than ever, and crushing everything in their way comes the technical deathcore machine Noostrak with their upcoming (The) Rebirth Tour 2013. The band is setting sale on May the 12th, and all of you better come out and see this awesome crew on their conquest of Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Romania and Slovakia.

profiles:
http://www.facebook.com/noostrak
http://bandzone.cz/noostrak
http://www.youtube.com/user/noostrakband

shops:
http://noostrak.bandcamp.com/
http://www.noostrak.bigcartel.com/
http://www.ceske-kapely.cz/kapela/noostrak

label:
http://www.gothoom.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Gothoom

festival:
http://www.brutalassault.com

DATES: https://www.facebook.com/events/168971733251408/

12.05.2013 - AUSTRIA - Vienna -The Shelter

13.05.2013 - CROATIA - Zapresic - Klub Austajder

14.05.2013 - CROATIA - Zagreb - Glazbeni Klub Črnomerec

15.05.2013 - CROATIA - Split - Club Kocka

16.05.2013 - BOSNIA - Lukavac - Club BBCC

17.05.2013 - BOSNIA - Bratunac - CB Peckham

18.05.2013 - BOSNIA - Sarajevo - Club AG

19.05.2013 - BOSNIA - Visoko - Club Kult

21.05.2013 - BOSNIA - Mostar - OKC ABRASEVIC

22.05.2013 - SERBIA - Beograd - Klub Ladja, 5th floor

24.05.2013 - ROMANIA - Oradea - The Abyss Metal Pub

25.05.2013 - ROMANIA - Cluj-Napoca- Irish & Music Pub

26.05.2013 - ROMANIA - Sibiu - Bohemian Flow

27.05.2013 - ROMANIA - Bucharest - Ageless Club

28.05.2013 - ROMANIA - Carei - Ludy Live Music Pub

29.05.2013 - HUNGARY - Debrecen - Kaptar Music Club

30.05.2013 - HUNGARY - Szeged - Club Noir

31.05.2013 - HUNGARY - Budapest - Szabad az Á

01.06.2013 - SLOVAKIA - Komarno - Rock Club 25

This 20 day tour will be one of the last tours in which the band will promote their first full length album HUMAN TRAGEDIES EVERY DAY, of which they will play every song of it on the majority of shows. Noostrak plays quality progressive deathcore with technical death metal elements accompanied with mighty breakdowns and stunning blast beats that will leave the listener, and viewer speechless. They are a professional band that had numerous shows and tours, including a tour with the Russian giants The Korea, and an appearance on the Brutal Assault festival. An interesting thing is that the founding members were only 9 when they started out with Noostrak, which means you will get to see many years of dedication, practice, commitment, energy and strength in just one place, at your local show.

COME OUT

Their first full length is surely not all they will promote on The Rebirth Tour 2013, as this tour is a promo tour for one of the best metal festivals in the world - BRUTAL ASSAULT 2013. On this tour you can purchase BA tickets for a special promo price, and BA promo will be available on the whole tour. Brutal Assault is surely biggest metal festival in eastern Europe, and this years edition will host names such as In Flames, Messugah, Madball and many many others. This band is handpicked by the founders of Brutal Assault to promote their fine festival in the best manner they could - promote and at the same time CRUSH the venue of your local show. Tickets are available at distro in the venues at the tour, payable in euro only - 68€!!!

Life is made out of those little moments, as a peaceful getaway on a local show, especially when it hosts an awesome band from far away. One hell of a road will be crossed for you to get to listen one of eastern Europe's finest deathcore bands to date.

YOU ARE TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL METAL SCENE

GOJIRA will atack Fotress Josefov!

It is our pleasure to announce that French progressive metallers GOJIRA have been confirmed for this year’s Brutal Assault Festival!
Other confirmed bands are Polish black/death metallers HATE and French black metallers GLORIOR BELLI.
Unfortunately American psych/black metallers NACHTMYSTIUM have cancelled all their live performances for this year including Brutal Assault Festival.

New confirmed bands are TESTAMENT, AETERNUS and SKELETAL REMAINS

Next trio of newly confirmed bans is here! Today with thrash metal titans TESTAMENT, Norwegian dark metal band AETERNUS and Californian death metallers SKELETAL REMAINS.

More bands coming soon!

Save 4 Euros and buy your BA ticket today!

If you are you planning to visit the Brutal Assault Festival this year and haven’t got your ticket yet, then do not hesitate and buy your ticket today and save 4 Euros!

The current ticket price (1600,- CZK) is ending today at midnight and from tomorrow there will be an increase in ticket price up to 1700,- CZK (plus PayPal fees). Visit “Ticket” section for more detailed information.

Also we are working on a new check-in system, that will have much bigger capacities than the last year’s system. No matter whether you will pick the e-tickets or any other option of the BA2013 tickets, you will be served much faster at the entrance than this year. This is our commitment for BA2013.

BIOHAZARD, VOIVOD and JUNGLE ROT confirmed for Brutal Assault!

New York hardcore/metal veterans BIOHAZARD, Canadian progressive metal pioneers VOIVOD and American death metal band JUNGLE ROT have been confirmed for Brutal Assault Festival 2013!

New bands for Brutal Assault are FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER and LOUDBLAST

Here we go with the new bands for Brutal Assault 2013.

British gothic/doom metal titans FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM are newly confirmed for this year’s edition!

Other confirmed acts are German electronic/deathcore band WE BUTTER THE BREAD WITH BUTTER and French death/thrash pioneers LOUDBLAST.

BRUTAL ASSAULT tickets (reduced price) available at THE KOREA + NOOSTRAK european tour!!!


THE KOREA (ru) – prog, groove metal, djent
www.facebook.com/thekoreaband
www.youtube.com/thekoreaband
www.myspace.com/wearethekorea

The Korea band was formed in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, in 2003. Preparing the material for their records the band rehearsed and performed a lot. Their first full-length release "On The Broken Wings" was presented in March 2006. Later the band made the first video for their track "The Poles". The Korea's second album "The Pulse" was released in October 2007. The band had several big tours supporting the album in Russia and CIS countries. After a long creative break the band recorded a single called "The Sandman" which was released online on April 9th, 2010. In awhile the band made their decision to change the name, sound and stylistic concept. That led to the change of the lead vocals. In summer 2011 The Korea got into the studio to record their third long-play "The Chariots Of The Gods". November 19th the band presented their new single and music video "The Chaos Theory". The album "The Chariots Of The Gods" was released on January 15th. 12 sept The Korea sign with Rogue Records America and start to record new EP called "Saturnus".


NOOSTRAK (CZ) - blackened deathcore
http://www.facebook.com/noostrak
http://www.youtube.com/user/noostrakband

Noostrak is progressive deathmetal band formed in Havlíčkův Brod, Czech republic by guitarist Michal Florian, drummer Jarda Soukup (two former members of current line-up) and bassist Jakub Pekař in 2002/2003 (in that time they were only 9 years old!). In 2011, they've finally succeed. Vašek Jaroš joined the band as the bassguitarist and Luboš "Fred" Kristek (Smashed Face) as vocalist. It was the new beginning for all of them, the've started to make new songs, record first full lenght album (released in June 2012), a lot of shows came suddenly.
We're fully absorbed in making new songs right now, but unfortunately we have experienced another line up change on a post of the bass guitar. We do believe this inconvenience should be fixed until our Tour.
A good news for all the fans of our merchandise is that there should be a bunch of new designs during the tour.



FB event: http://www.facebook.com/events/111062725713844/

Tour period: 1.4. - 22.4.2013

01.04.2013 - EE - Tallinn - Rockclub Tapper [ KOREA only]
02.04.2013 - LV - Riga - Music Factory A Nice Place [ KOREA only]
03.04.2013 - LV - Jelgava - Baleria [ KOREA only]
04.04.2013 - PL - Warsaw - Radio Luxembourg [ KOREA only]
05.04.2013 - SK - Košice - Colloseum
06.04.2013 - HU - Budapest - Dürer-Kert club
07.04.2013 - SI - Lubljana - Rog club
08.04.2013 - IT - Bologna - La Distilleria
09.04.2013 - IT - Chatillon - Hibou
10.04.2013 - CH - Lausanne - Bar 31
11.04.2013 - CH - Basel - Hirschneck Bar
12.04.2013 - DE - Sondershausen - Stocksen
13.04.2013 - BE - Liege - Mamac
14.04.2013 - DE - Cologne - MTC
15.04.2013 - LU - Fennange - Café Nicola

16.04.2013 - ger / BeNeLux

17.04.2013 - DE - Essen - Opium
18.04.2013 - DE - Liepzig - 4 Rooms
19.04.2013 - CZ - Prague - Rock Cafe
20.04.2013 - PL - Wroclaw - Lynked
21.04.2013 - PL - Bielsko-Biala - Rudeboy club
22.04.2013 - PL - Katowice - Straszny Dwór club [ KOREA only ]


Have you ever heard of Brutal Assault festival, held in the Czech republic?

www.brutalassault.cz

It's going to be it's 18. anniversary this year, including these bands:

ABORYM
ALCEST
AMORPHIS
ANTHRAX
ANTROPOFAGUS
AS I LAY DYING
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT
BELPHEGOR
BEHEMOTH
BENEDICTION
BORKNAGAR
CARCASS
CARPATHIAN FOREST
CLAWFINGER
COFFINS
CONTRASTIC
CRUSHING CASPARS
CULT OF LUNA
DECREPIT BIRTH
DEVILDRIVER
D.R.I.
DOWNSET
DR. LIVING DEAD
DYING FETUS
ENSIFERUM
ENTOMBED
FEAR FACTORY
HATEBREED
IHSAHN
IN FLAMES
KILLING JOKE
LEPROUS
MADBALL
MAGRUDERGRIND
MARDUK
MESHUGGAH
MISANTHROPE
NACHTMYSTIUM
NOVEMBERS DOOM
OBSCURA
OCTOBER FILE
OPETH
OVERKIL
PRIMORDIAL
ROTTEN SOUND
SATURNUS
SOLEFALD
SUFFOCATION
SYLOSIS
TRIVIUM
VREID
WHITECHAPEL

Brutal Assault confirmes ORPHANED LAND, EMMURE and CENTURIAN

Dear BA fans, next bunch of newly confirmed bands is here. Today with Israeli progressive Oriental metal masters ORPHANED LAND, American deathcore combo EMMURE and Dutch death metal band CENTURIAN.

New bands are KILLING JOKE, DEVILDRIVER and BELPHEGOR

Legendary British post-punk/metal/industrial band KILLING JOKE headed by demonic frontman Jaz Coleman has been confirmed for BA 2013. Another confirmed bands are California based metallers DEVILDRIVER and Austrian black metallers BELPHEGOR.

MISANTHROPE, NOVEMBERS DOOM and DECREPIT BIRTH confirmed for BA 2013

Hello BA Fans! Another bunch of newly confirmed bands is here. Today with French progressive extreme metal band MISANTHROPE, American doom metal Titans NOVEMBERS DOOM and California based technical death metallers DECREPIT BIRTH.

More bands coming soon.

Brutal Assault announces new names: CARCASS, ENSIFERUM, SYLOSIS

British extreme metallers CARCASS have been confirmed for this year’s Brutal Assault Festival. Reactivated grindcore legends are putting the finishing touches on their first studio album in 17 years with acclaimed producer Colin Richardson. Guitarist Bill Steer said: „People can expect to hear a fairly different Carcass set, the old favourites will in there, of course, but we’re also planning to play a couple of the less obvious tracks from our past, as well as songs from the album we’ve just completed.“

Another confirmed bands are Finnish Viking/folk metallers ENSIFERUM and British melodic death/thrash metallers SYLOSIS.

Another three bands confirmed

Suffocation has ever belonged to the group of major death metal bands and to the most periodically recurring headliners of BRUTAL ASSAULT. A recently published song has shown, who sits on the imaginary death metal throne and you will definitely find it out this year seeing them with their former vocalist Frank Mullen.

D.R.I. - the living contemporaries of Huston, will whirl up the dust under legs of all the lovers of festival motion. They may even play songs from a forthcoming album which has been anticipated for a while.

French post black metal romantics Alcest made a great success last year but that's not the only reason why we will invite them in the fortress again.

Brutal Assault Festival confirms OPETH, DYING FETUS and ANTROPOFAGUS

Brutal Assault is haunting big names in Sweden these days and is happy to announce that progressive metallers OPETH have been confirmed as one of the headliners for the 18th edition of the festival.

Other confirmed acts are American death metallers DYING FETUS and Italian brutal death metal band ANTROPOFAGUS.

Swedish band IN FLAMES has been confirmed as headliner for the BA 2013! After more than 20 year career, 8 studio albums, sold out tours through Europe, USA and Asia, this will be the bands first time performing at the Brutal Assault Festival and there is no doubt that the Fortress will be IN FLAMES!

Other confirmed are legendary German digital hardcore group ATARI TEENAGE RIOT and British post-hardcore band OCTOBER FILE.

Fotress Josefov will be IN FLAMES!

Swedish band IN FLAMES has been confirmed as headliner for the BA 2013! After more than 20 year career, 8 studio albums, sold out tours through Europe, USA and Asia, this will be the bands first time performing at the Brutal Assault Festival and there is no doubt that the Fortress will be IN FLAMES!

Other confirmed are legendary German digital hardcore group ATARI TEENAGE RIOT and British post-hardcore band OCTOBER FILE.

From now you can also book places in VIP camp and also in hotel Černigov and Alessandria in Hradec Králové. See "Accommodation" section for more detailed information.

More info: http://brutalassault.cz/en/

It is time to announce BA 2012 Survey winners. Here we go:



1. first prize (DVD BA 2011 + free entrance for all concerts presented by Obscure promotion till the end of 2013 + free entrance for BA 2013)

Jan Konečný



2. second prize (DVD BA 2011 + free entrance for BA 2013)

Robert Litványi

3. third prize (DVD BA 2011 + free entrance for BA 2013)

Dan Šafránek

4.-15. prizes (DVD BA 2011)

Karlis Ceizins, Titiana Poktonova, Maksym Chezanov, Vojtěch Kolář, Tomáš Procházka, Václav Talaš, Jana Ráčková, Maria Borzová, Jana Hladíková, Milan Poprašic, Angella Owsian, Daniel Schmidt
First confirmed bands in 2013 are HATEBREED, ROTTEN SOUND and OBSCURA 
First confirmed bands for this year are American metal/hardcore masters HATEBREED, Finnish grindcore maniacs ROTTEN SOUND and German death metallers OBSCURA.

More bands coming soon.

Next explosion: ANTHRAX, AS I LAY DYING, DR.LIVING DEAD 
Brutal Assault Festival is pleased to confirm ANTHRAX, one of the „big four“ of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer, as newly confirmed act for its 18th volume!

Next confirmed bands are San Diego-based metalcore stars AS I LAY DYING and Swedish thrash/crossover band DR.LIVING DEAD.

Last but not least, if you want to purchase your tickets and get them before X-Mass, please place your order on December 21st the latest. More details can be found in the TICKETS section.
This week with FEAR FACTORY, CULT OF LUNA and COFFINS
Industrial metal titans FEAR FACTORY have been confirmed for the next year’s edition of the Brutal Assault Festival. They promise a very special playlist which will include all songs from the legendary album „Demanufacture“.

Next confirmed are Swedish post-metal pioneers CULT OF LUNA and Japanese doom/death metal band COFFINS.

TRIVIUM, ENTOMBED and CRUSHING CASPARS confirmed for BA 2013
Regular dose of new confirmed bands is here. Let us introduce fresh trio headed by Florida metallers TRIVIUM, Swedish death metal veterans ENTOMBED and German old-school hardcore representatives CRUSHING CASPARS.

New bands are WHITECHAPEL, MAGRUDERGRIND and ABORYM

American deathcore stars WHITECHAPEL, powerviolence/grindcore band MAGRUDERGRIND and Italian industrial/black metallers ABORYM have been confirmed as new acts for Brutal Assault 2013.

Brutal Assault Festival announces 3 new names headed by Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH, New Jersey based thrash metal veterans OVERKILL and Norwegian black metallers VREID.

Just to remind: From now you can buy your BA 2013 tickets and make your reservations online. Tickets will be available at 1600CZK (approx. 64 EUR) + PayPal fees until April 30, 2013. You will get more information by clicking on the „Tickets“ menu.

Online tickets Pre-Sale and Reservations!
Dear BA fans, from now you can buy your BA 2013 tickets and make your reservations online. You will get more information by clicking on the „Tickets“ menu. Tickets will be available at 1600CZK (approx. 64 EUR) + PayPal fees until April 30, 2013. In the ticket price is also included DVD BA 2012 that you will receive next year directly at the festival.

California-based hardcore/punk/rap group DOWNSET, NY Hardcore legend MADBALL and Norwegian avant-garde black metal band SOLEFALD have been confirmed as new acts for upcoming BA Festival.

Brutal Assault 2013 announces first confirmed bands
Brutal Assault Festival announces first confirmed bands headed by Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH, Norwegian musical visionary IHSAHN or Finnish melodic deathmetallers AMORPHIS. Next confirmed are Norwegian black metallers CARPATHIAN FOREST and BORKNAGAR and also progressive metallers LEPROUS.

BA 2012 announces its daily schedule, 4 new bands and Tickets information

Brutal Assault announces its daily program, see the „Schedule“ section for more information. More detailed running order will be announced in the next days (including the new third Budweiser Budvar club stage program).

To make the line-up complete we need to announce last 4 bands. Byelorussian doom/pagan metallers GODS TOWER, French Avant-Garde metal band SEBKHA-CHOTT and two Czech representatives: old-school death metal band BRUTALLY DECEASED and blackmetallers TROLLECH will also play the main stage this year.

It is highly recommended to buy the tickets in pre-sale since the attendance this year will be surely attacking the capacity of the festival’s area. You can still buy the BA-ticket at a reduced pre-sale price of 1550,- CZK ( + fees via Paypal) but remember that this edition is on sale till the ond of July only!

Krisiun for Deicide, newly confirmed also Anaal Nathrakh and Truth And Its Burden

Unfortunately death metal veterans DEICIDE have cancelled their summer European Tour due to unforeseen circumstances.


For this reason BA festival announces Brazilian death metallers KRISIUN as a replacement.
Another newly confirmed acts are Britisth black metallers ANAAL NATHRAKH and South African metalcore band TRUTH AND ITS BURDEN.

Save 50% on a special BA train ticket!
In cooperation with ČD (Czech train operator) we offer a 50% discount on train tickets to Jaroměř. It is very easy: When purchasing your train ticket to Jaroměř show your BA Festival ticket and you will get a 50% discount. Then visit an „Information center“ directly at the festival (at the entrance gate) and your train ticket will be stamped. The return train ticket wouldn‘t be valid without this special stamp!

Budweiser Budvar became the official beer of this year's Brutal Assault!


BRUTAL ASSAULT photo contest again!

Today we have a special competition. Because there is an increased interest in Brutal Assaut among FaceBook users and a lot of you are using this application on regular basis we decided to set up a competition for all those enthusiasist who try to forecast bands and comment our news every Monday.

What is a goal? When we were watching photos from previous Brutal Assaut issues we noticed loads of festival merch photos. So we came with an idea to set up a competition for all of you who bought Brutal Assault merchandise. If you are one of them send us your photo wearing a T-shirt or a hoodie or other merchandise. We will collect your photos for one week and then upload to a special folder on our FaceBook profile and during next week there will be polls for those photos. There is only one and simple principle - the best rated photo will win. No matter how do you pose or how many friends you are going to arrange for voting for your photo. The best rated photo will win.

And prices? First place is a ticket to Brutal Assault festival, second place is a hoodie Brutal Assault and third place is a T - shirt Brutal Assalt - both are brand new desings for this year.

You can send your e-mails to schizmo@shindy.cz or as a link directly throught a FaceBook message: http://www.facebook.com/brutalassault.cz

SWALLOW THE SUN and UNEARTH confirmed for BA
Finnish doom/melodic death metal band SWALLOW THE SUN and US metalcore band UNEARTH have been newly confirmed for the 17th edition of the Brutal Assault Festival.
KYLESA, ENGEL a INQUISITION confirmed for BA 2012.
Dear BA fans, thank you for your continuing support! We would like to remind you that this week is the last term for ordering tickets at a reduced price of 1450,- Czk (+ fees). The price will be rising from May 01st. Visit „Tickets“ section for more information.
And now to the newly confirmed bands:
Georgia-based psych-sludge metal band KYLESA, Swedish melodic thrash/death metallers ENGEL and American black metal band INQUISITION have been confirmed for the 17th edition of Brutal Assault Festival.

BRUTAL ASSAULT news

AGNOSTIC FRONT, NORMA JEAN and SAMAEL confirmed for BA 2012

Dear BA fans, we are pleased to announce 3 newly confirmed bands.

New York Hardcore legends AGNOSTIC FRONT, Atlanta-based post-hardcore/metal band NORMA JEAN and Swiss elektro/industrial dark metallers SAMAEL have been confirmed as new acts for Brutal Assault Festival 2012.

Unfortunately, Canadian band PROTEST THE HERO have been forced to cancel BA Festival due to some term collision with their US tour.

Brutal Assault announces NAPALM DEATH, CROWBAR and ALCEST

British grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH, New Orleans sludge metal legends CROWBAR and French shoegazing band ALCEST are newly confirmed bands for Brutal Assault Festival 2012.

FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, SHAPE OF DESPAIR and RISE AND FALL confirmed for BA!
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM, one of a mayor influential gothic/doom band of the eighties has been confirmed for Brutal Assault Festival 2012.

Another confirmed acts are SHAPE OF DESPAIR (funeral doom metal, Finland) and RISE AND FALL (hardcore, Belgium).

Brutal Assault confirms FINNTROLL, SKARHEAD and ROOT

Finnish „humppa-folk metallers“ FINNTROLL, New York hardcore veterans SKARHEAD and Czech black metal legend ROOT have been officially added to the BA 2012 line up.

More bands coming soon.

Brutal Assault news!

Bands for this week are CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, SÓLSTAFIR and GORGUTS
North Carolina stoner metal legend CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, Icelandic post-rock/metal band SÓLSTAFIRand Canadian death metal band GORGUTS have been confirmed for Brutal Assault 2012.
GODFLESH, NILE and KAMPFAR confirmed for Brutal Assault 2012
This is another part of the mosaic called Brutal Assault 2012.

GODFLESH, industrial metal pioneers from Birmingham, UK, formed in 1988 by Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green, have confirmed their appearance at BA 2012. The group disbanded in 2002 but reformed in 2010, appearing in few festivals and starting to produce a new studio album.

Another confirmed acts are American extreme technical death metallers NILE and Norwegian black metallersKAMPFAR.

Further dose of newly confirmed bands headed by IMMOLATION
New York-based death metal veterans IMMOLATION, VALLENFYRE - U.K. death/doom metal band featuring members of My Dying Bride, Doom or Paradise Lost and Polish progressive band RIVERSIDE are becoming a part of the Brutal Assault 2012.

Brutal Assault news!

Moshpit will go non-stop with HATEBREED, SUICIDE SILENCE and MUNICIPAL WASTE!
Today we announce three bands that will for sure cause loose of kilograms that you may gain during the X-Mass.

All of them coming from the States, all of them will make you mosh like crazy: HATEBREED, SUICIDE SILENCEand MUNICIPAL WASTE.

Ticket presale starts on January 01st, 2012.

Brutal Assault news!

Headliner confirmed: MACHINE HEAD!
We are pleased to announce that American metal legend MACHINE HEAD is officially the new headliner of Brutal Assault festival 2012.

Masters of their craft and a band which has been redefining the genre of metal for two decades. Now, four years since the epic success of „The Blackening“, new MACHINE HEAD studio album „Unto The Locust“ was released this year.

The Old Fortress in Josefov is ready to host one of the most important metal bands in history. Be ready forMACHINE fucking HEAD!!!

Other confirmed bands are Finnish melodic death metal band INSOMNIUM and German death metal legendMORGOTH.

DARKEST HOUR, ABORTED and TOXIC HOLOCAUST at BA 2012

There is nothing better than start new week with new bands, isn’t it?

Brutal Assault announces American metallers DARKEST HOUR, Belgian death/grinders ABORTED and American metal-punk warriors TOXIC HOLOCAUST as newly confirmed bands for Brutal Assault 2012.

Line-up is becoming stronger: SIX FEET UNDER, SICK OF IT ALL, PIG DESTROYER

We are pleased to announce 3 newly confirmed bands for Brutal Assault 2012.

This time represented by Florida based death metallers SIX FEET UNDER headed by Chris Barnes, New York hardcore legends SICK OF IT ALL and Virginia grindcore titans PIG DESTROYER.

More bands coming soon. Ticket presale starts on January 01st, 2012!

Brutal Assault News

First confirmed bands for Brutal Assault Festival 2012, set to take place August 9-11, 2012 in Josefov, Czech Republic, have been announced.Bands like IMMORTAL, MOONSPELL, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, PARADISE LOST, TEXTURES, INCANTATION, VIRUS, ARKONA, GENERAL SURGERY or CATTLE DECAPITATION will appear in Old Army Fortress next summer.Watch www.brutalassault.cz for actual information about new bands and tickets.

Reactivated American industrial metal band MINISTRY have confirmed their appearance at the Brutal Assault Festival 2012! Reunited line-up headed by Al Jourgensen will introduce new album "Relapse" which will be released March 30th 2012. MINISTRY line-up will exist of Al Jourgensen, Mike Scaccia (Rigor Mortis), Tommy Victor (Prong), AAron Rossi (Prong), John Bechdel (Prong) and Tony Campos (Static-X).

Other confirmed acts are Norwegian legendary black/avant-garde metal band ARCTURUS and Finnish melodic death metallers NORTHER.


Norwegian symphonic black metallers DIMMU BORGIR, German thrash metal pionners SODOM and American deathers THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER have been confirmed for Brutal Assault 2012.


It is a return after two years from their last attendance - Brutal Assault 2012 confirms American hardcore/metal band CONVERGE!


Other confirmed bands are American thrashers HEATHEN and Canadian progressive metal band PROTEST THE HERO.

9 bands confirmed for Wednesday’s Warm Up party! pThis year’s Brutal Assault Warm Up party already knows its line-up. The program will start on Wednesday at 4:30 pm on the main stage. Complete Warm Up party line-up in alphabetical order see bellow:



ČAD (violence-thrash, SVK)

FRONTSIDE (deathcore, POL)

GRIDE (hardcore-grind, CZE)

HERMAFRODIT - comeback show after 15 years! (grind, CZE)

MOMMA KNOWS BEST (alternative-hardcore, CZE)

PSYCHOTIC DESPAIR (death-grind, CZE)

SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY (folk metal, CZE)

SMASHED FACE (deathmetal / deathcore, CZE)

STÍNY PLAMENŮ (black metal, CZE)

Another slots occupied by KREATOR and UNEVEN STRUCTURE

Dear BA fans, thank you for your actual support and interest in this year’s BA Festival. We are almost ready with the final line-up. Next trio contains one of the last bands for the 16th volume of the festival.

Let’s start with the highest caliber. German thrash metal veterans KREATOR will play Brutal Assault for the first time! One of the most influential and successful European metal bands will rock the Fortress.

Next confirmed have been French ambient/experimental band UNEVEN STRUCTURE.

BA confirms CRYPTOPSY and NERVECELL. Nevermore and Norther canceled.

This year’s line-up is almost complete. As one of the last confirmed band has been confirmed Canadian deathmetal killing machine CRYPTOPSY headed again by Jon Levasseur, former lead guitarist and major creative contributing force behind “None So Vile”, “Whisper Supremacy”, “And Then You’ll Beg…” who has returned to the band.
Next confirmed are United Arab Emirates-based death/thrash metallers NERVECELL with new album “Psychogenocide”.

Due to Jeff Loomis and Van Williams leaving the band, NEVERMORE announced that they would be cancelling all their planned shows, including BA 2011. Another canceled band is Finnish NORTHER, in this case for non-professional work of their agent.
We will intensively look for adequate compensation.

New movements on the roster published

KATATONIA, together with Opeth a leading representative of current Swedish progressive metal scene will appear at the Brutal Assault Festival. KATATONIA is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year so be ready for a special show!

Other confirmed is well known American female fronted industrial metal band GENITORTURERS.

ARCHITECTS and UNEXPECT confirmed for BA 2011

British metallers ARCHITECTS are newly confirmed for Brutal Assault 2011. Progressive metalcore band has just released their new album “The Here and Now”.
Other newly confirmed is Canadian avant-garde extreme metal band UNEXPECT. Eccentric ensemble has set a May 31 release date for its new album “Fables Of The Sleepless Empire”.

BA confirmes new bands published

Finnish „battle metal“ warriors TURISAS, German thrash/death metallers DEW SCENTED and „marijuana-themed“ death metallers CANNABIS CORPSE are newly confirmed for the BA Festival.

New bands for BA 2011

BA line-up is becoming stronger. Experimental hardcore band HORSE THE BAND, well known for their 8-bit Nintendo-influenced sound, American slam death metal band WAKING THE CADAVER and French death/grindcore band BENIGHTED have been confirmed for Brutal Assault 2011.

Please note that this Saturday (04-30) is the last day for ordering tickets at a reduced price of 52,40 EUR (approx.). Do not miss this great opportunity how to get your ticket at lowest price.
Last but not least please note that we have extended our accommodation offer for Hotel Cernigov in Hradec Kralove. By now we are selling very limited capacity of twin rooms available at 60,00 EUR per night and suites (with 3 beds) at 100,00 EUR per night.

Brutal Assault confirmes: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Forbidden, The Exploited

It is the right time to get on with new bands confirmed for BA 2011.

Neurotic ensemble of mathcore professors THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, Bay Area thrash metal legend FORBIDDEN and Scottish punk veterans THE EXPLOITED are newly confirmed acts for the Brutal Assault festival 2011!

New wave of newly confirmed band is rolling. Boston-based hardcore re-united
band BLOOD FOR BLOOD, French death/black metalers SVART CROWN and Czech
thrash metal pioneers DEBUSTROL are newly confirmed acts for the Brutal
Assault 2011.

Unfortunately bad news came from GORGUTS management. The band has cancelled
all shows in summer because of delayed release of their new album.

For those who are looking for a hotel type of accommodation we can offer a great option that will even include a shuttle bus from the hotel to the festival ground. Hotel CERNIGOV is situated in Hradec Kralove, approx. 20 km from the festival ground, and offers next services:

* single rooms available at 35,00 EUR per night
* double rooms available at 60,00 EUR per night
* rooms available for Wednesday Aug 10th, Thursday Aug 11th, Friday Aug 12th, Saturday Aug 13th and/or Sunday Aug 14th (you can choose from the mentioned days, not necessary to book all the days)
* buffet breakfast included in the price
* shuttle service to the festival ground and back once a day included in the price (a van will be available within 60 min after ordering)
* a free 3-day pass for the natural ground with a view on both stages (you save 90CZK = approx. 3,50 EUR)
* other hotel services (not included in the price): laundry, safe-box, casino, restaurant & bar, etc.

For more information click on the next link: http://brutalassault.cz/en/hotel-cernigov/.

„VIP camping site“ is from year to year more and more popular. It especially offers camping in the permanently fenced area in special sectors, toilets and washbasin capacities for use of the VIP camp inhabitants exclusively, depository, free 3-day pass for the natural ground and other benefits.

If you are interested in the VIP camping site do not hesitate and click on the next link for more information:http://brutalassault.cz/en/camp/.

Newly confirmed bands coming soon!

Let’s go on with three new bands. Brazilian/American metal icon SEPULTURA returns to the BA Festival! After last year’s unexpected changes on the schedule when many of you BA-fans missed their appeareance, SEPULTURA will come back again in summer 2011. Please, consider their return as our apology for last year.
American hardcore band FIRST BLOOD and Norwegian avant-garde metal band RAM-ZET have been also confirmed as new acts for this year’s Brutal Assault Festival.

It is confirmed. Legendary British band MOTÖRHEAD headed by rock icon Lemmy
Killmister have been announced as the headliner of the Brutal Assault
Festival 2011!

MOTÖRHEAD, over three decades synonym for wild, fast and loud rock’n’roll,
performed with an unrivalled ruthless attitude, will appear at the Old Army
Fortress in Josefov with their new release „The Wörld Is Yours“.

Fronted by Lemmy, as the living embodiment of a rock’n’roll life style,
MOTÖRHEAD are still full of unrelenting rock power and are pounding their
sounds into the ears of audiences across the globe.

MOTÖRHEAD it is not only music, MOTÖRHEAD, this is a life attitude! BORN TO LOSE, LIVE TO WIN!

Brutal Assault announces new bands: ANATHEMA, HAIL OF BULLETS, SCAR SYMMETRY.

British legendary doom-metal band ANATHEMA has been confirmed for Brutal Assault 2011. After 3 years from their last appearance at the BA Festival they are coming back with their great new album "We're Here Because We're Here".
Other newly confirmed are Dutch death metal band HAIL OF BULLETS and Swedish melodic death metallers SCAR SYMMETRY.