Brutal Assault 2013

Event: Brutal Assault 2013
Date: 07.08. – 10.08.2013
Place: Fortress Josefov, Jarom??, Czech Republic

Brutal Assault is a metal festival traditionally held in the XVIII century army Fortress Josefov (built from 1780 to 1787 by the Emperor Joseph II on the left bank of the Elbe and Mettau rivers) in Jarom??, Czech Republic. The name Brutal Assaults actually says it all and the festival is specialized in brutal music only, i.e. various metal stuff. It takes place each August traditionally on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the beginning of the month and works as a platform both for the internationally famous bands and for the local heavy acts. The festival was started in 1995 as a single-day-event featuring mostly grindcore music. For many years it was a small show with mainly local Czech and Slovak bands performing. Growing each year, in the late 2000’s it has become one of the biggest extreme metal summer music festivals in the Central Europe. Brutal Assault has two stages with music on one concert stage starting within minutes after the end of performance on the other stage, so no one misses anything. The festival’s official motto is “Against violence and intolerance”… Read more »

Line-Up

Aborym | Aeternus | Alcest | Amorphis | Anthrax | Atari Teenage Riot | Balance Interruption | Behemoth | Belphegor | Benediction | Biohazard | Borknagar | Brotherhood of the Lake | Carpathian Forest | Centurian | Clowfinger | Coffins | Contrastic | Crushing Caspars | Cult Of Luna | D.R.I. | Decrepit Birth | Devil Driver | Downset | Dr.Living Dead | E.N.D. | Entombed | Fear Factory | Fields Of Nephilim | Gojira | Hacride | Hatebreed | In Flames | Ihsahn | Jungle Rot | Katalepsy | Killing Joke | Leprous | Loudblast | Madball | Magrudergrind | Marduk | Meshuggah | Misanthrope | Nachtmystium | Novembers Doom | Obscura | October File | Orphaned Land | Overkill | Philm | Primordial | Pro-Pain | Rotten Sound | Saturnus | Skeletal Remains | Solefald | Suffocation | Testament | Trivium | Voivod | Vomitory | Vreid | War From A Harlots Mouth | We Butter The Bread With Butter | Whitechapel |

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