Brutal Assault 2017, 9-13 augustus @ Jaromer, Tsjechië

[Wessel]

Legendary annual Czech metal open air with unique festival site located at historic fortress! Come enjoy great atmosphere, cheap Czech beer, tasty food, crazy fans and 100+ bands from all round the world in 4 brutal days!

PREMIUM CZECH BUDWEISER BUDVAR 0.5l / 1.10€
SELECTION OF WORLDWIDE CUISINE (BOTH VEGAN AND CARNIVORE)
GREEN CHILL OUT ZONE
HORROR CINEMA
UNIQUE FESTIVAL SITE
GREAT ATMOSPHERE OF HISTORIC FORTRESS
NATURAL GRANDSTAND WITH SITTING SPOTS
HUGE METAL MARKET
VIP CAMPSITE

and TONS OF OTHER ATTRACTIONS!

for more visit our official website!

http://www.facebook.com/brutalassault.cz

http://www.brutalassault.cz/
http://www.brutalassault.com/


area overview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7ir1EudVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFnSzM9N9xc

Confirmed bands so far:

AEON
AMORHPIS
ARCHITECTS
ARKONA
AUGUST BURNS RED
AVERSIONS CROWN
BATUSHKA
BIRDS IN ROW
BORIS
BORN OF ISIRIS
CLAWFINGER
CHELSEA GRIN
COUGH
CROWBAR
CRYPTOPSY
DECAPITATED
DEMOLITION HAMMER
DER WEG EINER FREIHET
DESERTED FEAR
EINHERJER
ELECTRIC WIZARD
ELUVEITIE
EMPEROR (Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk set)
FALLUJAH
FIRST BLOOD
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY
GADGET
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
GOD MOTHER
GORGUTS
GRAVEWORM
GUTALAX
HATEBREED
HAVOK
HELHEIM
IGORRR
INCANTATION
INFECTED RAIN
KING PARROT
KMFDM
MACABRE
MALIGNANT TUMOUR
MANTAR
MASTER'S HAMMER (early works set)
MAYHEM (De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas set)
MISS MAY I
METAL CHURCH
MORBID ANGEL
MOURNING BELOVETH
NERVOSA
NILE
OATHBREAKER
OCEANS ATE ALASKA
OPETH
OVERKILL
POSSESSED
POWER TRIP
PRONG
PROTECTOR
REVOCATION
ROTTEN SOUND
ROTTING CHRIST
SACRED REICH
SAMAEL
SHEER TERROR
SIKTH
SUFFOCATION
SVART CROWN
SWALLOW THE SUN
SWANS
TEETHGRINDER
TERROR
THE AMITY AFFLICTION
THE CROWN
THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
THE LURKING FEAR
THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU
TIAMAT (Wildhoney set)
TRIVIUM
TSJUDER
ULCERATE
VALLENFYRE
VISION OF DISORDER
WALLS OF JERICHO
WHILE SHE SLEEPS
WINTERSUN
WOLFHEART
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
WREKMEISTER HARMONIES
ZHRINE

Ticket en hotel reeds geregeld, wordt mijn vierde keer alweer.

[Wessel]

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.

Amorphis, Electric Wizard, Mayhem, Morbid Angel, Nile, Ulcerate en natuurlijk Emperor: ik ben een blij mens.

[yowannuzz]

Jezus christus te paard, man ...

Gadget ook nog trouwens, tevens zeer genietbaar.

[Wessel]

Ga je te paard die kant op? Ik ga denk ik gewoon weer vliegen.

[yowannuzz]

Jesus Christ looks like me, jesus christ.

Ik weet nog niet eens of ik uberhaupt ga, ik heb hoop dat Emperor en andere gave shizzle ook dichterbij te zien gaat zijn.

[Wessel]

Het zou me eigenlijk verbazen als Fortarock en/of Graspop Emperor binnen hengelen, aangezien dit ten tijde van de optredens in 2014 ook niet het geval was. Het concert op Wacken is exclusief voor Duitsland, dus daarmee zijn Summer Breeze en Party San alvast uitgesloten. Hellfest is wel een kanshebber denk ik.

[yowannuzz]

Denk ik inderdaad ook, ja.
Ik heb ze daar in 2014 ook gezien.

We gaan eens kijken, iets met centjes en zo.
Maar het duurt nog ff voor het zo ver is, dus wie weet.

[Wessel]

Het is in Tsjechië he, ergo dermate goedkoop dat het bijna gratis is.

[Wessel]

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 KDFDM and American experimental music collective WREKMEISTER HARMONIES that combines drone and postrock elements.
Check out our website for more: http://brutalassault.cz/en/

Erg blij met Tsjuder en Rotting Christ!
Opeth viel wel te verwachten natuurlijk.

[Wessel]

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 Thrusday, we will have quite an announcement out in this field..

All the bands announced so far: http://brutalassault.cz/en/
Tickets and limited bundle offers: http://brutalassault.cz/en/eshop/

Verdomd vette toevoegingen!

[Wessel]

Wow!

The impossible became reality and 25 years after their last show, the legendary MASTER'S HAMMER will do an exlusive 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..

[Wessel]

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 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 THE ARCHITECTS, who are sadly returning without the deceased founding guitarist Tom Searle.

Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Demolition Hammer, Rotten Sound.

[Wessel]

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.

[Wessel]

The Devin Townsend Project gig at BA 2010 edition was hit by a massive thunderstorm, where the heavens have opened up and tons of rain bombarded the stage and the fans. The fans however stayed in front of the stage through the whole storm and together with the band thus created one of the strongest experiences in the history of the festival. And this year THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT shall once again return to our stage and add one more show not to be forgotten! Swedish TIAMAT will perform a cornerstone of atmospheric metal - for the first time you'll be able to witness this ultimate festival experience with the Wildhoney album being performed in its entirety. Both WALLS OF JERICHO and their frontwoman Candace Kucsulain should be in the metal dictionary under the entry powerful performance, don't miss this show out if you wanna see real relentless intensity in action! SWALLOW THE SUN on the other hand are a fine example of the sombre doom as trailblazed by Finnish bands. GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT is also returning to our festival after a great success they had at our fest in the past and it makes certainly pleased that our fans are open minded to welcome bands like them. Swedes THE CROWN on the other hand would probably have a success on every other metal festival out there and that's no wonder because they put on a hell of a melodic death thrashing show! BIRDS IN ROW are a French Deathwish inc hardcore punk band, with the label affiliation already giving you an idea about their attitude. We are also proud to have meditative and disharmonic death metal diamond forged by fire and ice - ZHRINE from Iceland on the bill! And in the end we would also like to make the fans of contemporary attitude happy so we are welcoming aboard OCEANS ATE ALASKA and for the hardcore fans we have 90's Long Island groovy hardcore punk with VISION OF DISORDER.

[MetalJan]

Programmeert dit festival ook steeds breder of ligt dat aan mij?

[Wessel]

Aandacht voor de core-genres was er altijd al, de afgelopen paar edities zijn daar avangardistische- en post-achtige zaken bij gekomen. Maar in de kern is en blijft het een walhalla voor de liefhebbers van extreme metal, waar ik jaarlijks reikhalzend naar uitkijk.

Tevens werden er vandaag alweer nieuwe namen aangekondigd:

Many of you wanted to see more hardcore bands in the line-up and you shouldn’t be disappointed! HATEBREED are returning to BA stage once to present metallic hardcore with hooks that will catch you and never let you leave the pit! THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN are doing a couple of farewell shows this summer and BA just couldn’t be left out! OVERKILL have been around for almost 40 years but their brand new record lefts no one in doubt, that with their show you’re still gonna feel the fire like it’s 1985! There are not many bands that are universally loved but their live shows are more scarce than platinum so it makes us very proud to bring you a WINTERSUN show!

Debutants at BA stage, OATHBREAKER from Belgium, are oscillating between post-hardcore and post(black)-metal, while another debutants AVERSIONS CROWN from Australia utilize three guitarists brandishing 8 string guitars to present their pummeling blend of mechanized death and haunting atmospherics. Texan crossover thrashers POWER TRIP will share their incredible live energy with you as well as one of the most insane mathcore bands of the early 2000’s THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU, who are coming back after a six year hiatus. Last two bands of this announcement are the vikings of Bergen HELHEIM and the most intense band from Australia KING PARROT with their dirty thrasing sludgy grindcore.

[MetalJan]

Ah oke, dacht meer dat het vroeger zo'n festival ala Party San was, maar hier word dus duidelijk breder geprogrammeerd. Wat natuurlijk beiden zo zijn charmes heeft natuurlijk.

[Wessel]

PSOA en BA vallen altijd samen, dus de line ups zijn jaarlijks wel zeer overeenkomstig. Blijft wel zonde trouwens dat die altijd tegelijkertijd zijn, anders zou ik zeker ook eens naar Party San gaan.

[Wessel]

[yowannuzz]

Heel interessant !!

[Wessel]

LINEUP UPDATES WITH BORIS, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM 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.
And don't forget, early bird ticket prices are valid til end of April!
http://brutalassault.cz/en/

[Wessel]

Over een maand is het weer zover!

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[Wessel]

Ook hier Carcass als vervanger van Morbid Angel!

[Wessel]

Ook mijn vierde keer Brutal Assault was erg gaaf. Blijft in veel opzichten mijn favoriete festival: overdadige line up, unieke locatie, over het algemeen een opvallend goed geluid, lekker en gevarieerd eten, op organisatorisch vlak gaat het festival er elk jaar op vooruit en het is natuurlijk allemaal bijzonder goed te betalen.

Bands die heel indrukwekkend waren en onvergetelijke optredens gaven waren voor mij (in chronologische volgorde) Gorguts, Nile, Emperor, Suffocation, Rotting Christ, Wolfheart, Crowbar, Possessed, Swallow The Sun, Carcass, Demolition Hammer, Incantation en Amorphis, maar ik heb nog veel meer gezien!

Tegenvallers waren er gelukkig niet veel. The Crown had werkelijk het slechtste geluid dat ik ooit meegemaakt heb tijdens een concert, de frontman van Tiamat was beschamend dronken en van de DMDS-set van Mayhem had ik, na de positieve berichtgeving over hun optreden op Graspop, hogere verwachtingen, maar het bleek een ‘standaard’ Mayhem-optreden met abominabel geluid te zijn (al gaf het me wel een ongemakkelijk gevoel en dat lijkt me de bedoeling bij een Mayhem-optreden).

Volgend jaar weer? Ik denk het wel!