Brutal Assault

Brutal Assault

View on the main stages
Location(s)	Czech Republic, Europe
Years active	18
Founded by	Vladan, Martin Brzobohatý a.k.a. Shindy, Tomáš Fiala[1]
Date(s)	August
Genre	Extreme metal, death metal, black metal, doom metal, thrash metal, power metal, pagan metal, grindcore, hardcore, metalcore
Website	www.brutalassault.cz

Brutal Assault is an extreme metal open-air music festival taking place in the 18th century army Fortress Josefov in Jaroměř, Czech Republic. It takes place each August traditionally on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the beginning of the month. The festival was started in 1995 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 2000s it became the biggest extreme metal summer music festival in Central Europe. Brutal Assault operates a two stage system, with music on one concert stage starting within minutes after the end of performance on the other stage. Sometimes, a body modification group from Prague performs their "Hell Show" at Brutal Assault. The festival motto is: "Against violence and intolerance".

History

Brutal Assault started as a one night show in the Czech village of Obůrka near Blansko in the year 1996.

In 2000, Brutal Assault started using two sound stages, and also began to give out a free CD compilation at entry.

Location

Brutal Assault takes place in Josefov, an imperial army fortress built from 1780 to 1787 by Emperor Joseph II on the left bank of the Elbe and Mettau rivers near Jaroměř. The two concert stages are built against the outer walls of this huge fortress. The fortress features extensive three-storey deep underground corridors formed in cretaceous rocks, creating a labyrinth running for 45 kilometers.

The approximate capacity of the current location of Brutal Assault is 15,000 visitors. The change of location is a controversial issue with the organizers for several reasons. The historical fort is a unique place for performing extreme metal music and more importantly, it is a much appreciated bonus for the performing bands. In comparison, many other rock or metal festivals in Europe take place on a field or an airport. The bands actually have part of their backstage area inside the fortress. Also, the political representatives of Josefov and Jaroměř have reacted very positively to the presence of the music festival, as have most of the local inhabitants. The festival provides an enormous economic opportunity for a couple of days each year.

Safety

Stealing from the tents and bodies of drunk visitors is common at Brutal Assault. Guests are advised to keep their valuables at safe places (e.g. deposit boxes provided by the festival organizers for a fee, locked inside the trunk of a car, and so on).

The festival area at Brutal Assault in Josefov is surrounded by a hill, which can be difficult to navigate. Nicknamed "the hill of death", it becomes muddy and slippery after rain. Intoxicated visitors should prepare to fall often under wet conditions. The hill can be walked around, however, and the site is fully accessible to the handicapped.

Brutal Assault in 2014 (BA 19 in Josefov on August 6–9, 2014)

First confirmed bands (in alphabetical order): Amon Amarth (SE), Aosoth (FR), Architects (UK), Arsonists Get All the Girls (US), August Burns Red (US), Benediction (UK), Bring Me the Horizon (UK), Broken Hope (US), Children of Bodom (FI), Chthonic (TW), Combichrist (NO), Converge (US), Cripper (DE), Crowbar (US), Cruachan (IE), Dagoba (FR), Down (US), Enthroned (BE), Fleshgod Apocalypse (IT), Gehenna (NO), God Is an Astronaut (IE), Gorguts (CA), H₂O (US), Hacktivist (UK), Hail of Bullets (NL), Havok (US), Ignite (US), Impaled Nazarene (FI), In Mourning (SE), Inquisition (US), Jesu (UK), Katatonia (SE), Krabathor (CZ), Kraków (NO), Månegarm (SE), Misery Index (US), Mors Principium Est (FI), My Dying Bride (UK), Nervecell (AE), Nightfall (GR), Obituary (US), Pentagram Chile (CL), Pyrexia (US), Repulsion (US), Sarke (NO), Satyricon (NO), Severe Torture (NL), Shining (NO), Sick of It All (US), Six Feet Under (US), Sodom (DE), Strife (US), Suffocation (US), Tesseract (UK), Texas in July (US), The Agonist (CA), The Church of Pungent Stench (AT), The Devin Townsend Project (CA), The Ocean (DE), Unleashed (SE), Venom (UK), Victims (SE), Worship (DE)

Brutal Assault in 2013 (BA 18 in Josefov on August 7–10, 2013)

Day 1

Abstract Essence (CZ), Proximity (CZ), Coffins (JP), Decrepit Birth (US), Magrudergrind (US), Dr. Living Dead (SE), Hate (PL), Hacride (FR), Downset (US), Belphegor (AT), Devildriver (US), Dying Fetus (US), Ensiferum (FI), Gojira (FR), Anthrax (US), Fear Factory (US), Voivod (CA), Entombed (SE), Whitechapel (US), Marduk (SE), Balance Interruption (UA), Empyrion (CZ), FOB (CZ), FDK (CZ), Minority Sound (CZ), Secret Of Darkness (CZ)

Day 2

Antropofagus (IT), Attack of Rage (CZ), Katalepsy (RU), October File (UK), Obscura (DE), Glorior Belli (FR), Hypnos (CZ), Misanthrope (FR), Pro-Pain (US), Loudblast (FR), Philm (US), Orphaned Land (IL), Malevolent Creation (US), Alcest (FR), Fields of the Nephilim (UK), Meshuggah (SE), In Flames (SE), Amorphis (FI), Carcass (UK), Overkill (US), Cult of Luna (SE), Brotherhood of the Lake (UK), Aeternus (NO), Atari Teenage Riot (DE), Novembers Doom (US), Divadlo Marza (CZ), PerfeCitizen (CZ), Beautiful Caffilery (CZ), Stíny Plamenů (CZ), Five Seconds to Leave (CZ)

Day 3

Gutalax (CZ), Crushing Caspars (DE), We Butter the Bread with Butter (DE), War from a Harlots Mouth (DE), Sylosis (UK), Vreid (NO), Benediction (UK), Rotten Sound (FI), Primordial (IE), Vomitory (SE), Biohazard (US), Leprous (NO), Ihsahn (NO), Trivium (US), Clawfinger (SE), Hatebreed (US), Behemoth (PL), Opeth (SE), Borknagar (NO), Madball (US), Carpathian Forest (NO), Saturnus (DK), Contrastic (CZ), Solefald (US), Aborym (IT), Centurian (NL), Proximity (CZ), Straight (CZ), Divadlo Marza (CZ), The Fall of Ghostface (CZ), In Vain (CZ)

• Bands performing at the warm-up show on August 7, 2013: Beast Within the Sound (CZ), Dying Passion (CZ), Jungle Rot (US), E.N.D. (HR), Malignant Tumour (CZ), Testament (US), Hentai Corporation (CZ)

• Bands that cancelled their appearance: Suffocation (US), As I Lay Dying (US), Emmure (US), D.R.I. (US), Killing Joke (UK)

Brutal Assault in 2012 (BA 17 in Josefov on August 9–11, 2012)

Bands^[2] (in alphabetical order): Aborted (BE), Agnostic Front (US), Ahumado Granujo (CZ), Alcest (FR), Amon Amarth (SE), Arcturus (NO), Arkona (RU), At the Gates (SE), Be'lakor (AU), The Black Dahlia Murder (US), Cattle Decapitation (US), Converge (US), Corrosion of Conformity (US), Crowbar US), Darkest Hour (US), Dimmu Borgir (NO), Engel (SE), Finntroll (FI), General Surgery (SE), Godflesh (UK), Gorguts (CA), Kylesa (US), Hatebreed (US), Heaven Shall Burn (DE), Immolation (US), Immortal (NO), Incantation (US), Inquisition (CO), Insomnium (FI), Kampfar (NO), Krisiun (Brazil), Lock Up (UK), Machine Head (US), Ministry (US), Moonspell (PT), Morgoth (DE), Municipal Waste (US), Napalm Death (UK), Nile (US), Norma Jean (US), Norther (FI), Paradise Lost (UK), Pig Destroyer (US), Protest the Hero (CA), Rise and Fall (BE), Root (CZ), The Safety Fire (UK) Samael (CH), Sebkha-Chott (FR), Shape of Despair (FI), Sick of It All (US), Six Feet Under (US), Skarhead (US), Sodom (DE), Sólstafir (IS), Suicidal Angels (Greece), Swallow the Sun (FI), Textures (NL), Toxic Holocaust (US), Unearth (US), Vallenfyre (UK), Vildhjarta (SE), Virus (NO), Warbringer (US)

• Bands that cancelled their appearance: Deicide (US), Dødheimsgard (NO), Fields of the Nephilim (UK), Heathen (US), Riverside (PL), Suicide Silence (US)

Brutal Assault in 2011 (BA 16 in Josefov on August 11–13, 2011)

Bands:

Day 1

I Divine (HUN), Nervecell (AE), Frontside (PL), Sworn Enemy (US), Uneven Structure (FR), Comeback Kid (CA), Hecate Enthroned (US), Sylosis (UK), Horse the Band (US), Skeletonwitch (US), Threat Signal (CA), Unexpect (CA), Asphyx (NL), Kreator (DE), Suicidal Tendencies (US), Motörhead (UK), Morbid Angel (US), Septicflesh (GR), Exhumed (US), Týr (FO), Tsjuder (NO)

Day 2

Excrementory Grindfuckers (DE), Cannabis Corpse (US), Dordeduh (RO), Your Demise (UK) Benighted (FR), First Blood (US), Debustrol (CZ), Ram-Zet (NO), Svart Crown (FR), Scar Symmetry (SE), Hail of Bullets (NL), Decapitated (PL), Gorod (FR), KYPCK (FI), The Exploited (UK), Katatonia (SE), Exodus (US), The Dillinger Escape Plan (US), Satyricon (NO), Soilwork (SE), Cathedral (UK), Mayhem (NO), Dew-Scented (DE), Einherjer (NO)

Day 3

Blood Red Throne (NO), A Pale Horse Named Death (US), Trigger the Bloodshed (UK), Absu (US), Seventh Void (US), Dagoba (FR), Draconian (SE), Kvelertak (NO), Exivious (NL), Skyforger (LV), Forbidden (US), Haemorrhage (ES), Genitorturers (US), Blood for Blood (US), Vader (PL), Turisas (FI), Cryptopsy (CA), As I Lay Dying (US), Anathema (UK), Sepultura (BR), Triptykon (CH), Kataklysm (CA), 1349 (NO), Khold (NO), Ahab (DE)

• Bands performing at the pre-Assault show on August 10, 2011: Smashed Face (CZ), Momma Knows Best (CZ), Čad (SK), Stíny Plamenů (CZ), Gride (CZ), Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (CZ),Fire Show, Hermafrodit (CZ), Psychotic Despair (CZ)
• Bands that cancelled their appearance: Atheist (US), Gorguts (CA), Nevermore (US), Waking the Cadaver, Cro-Mags, Norther, Forbidden, Architects

Brutal Assault in 2010 (BA 15 in Josefov on August 12–14, 2010)

Bands (in alphabetical order): Afgrund, Agnostic Front, Alkonost, The Arusha Accord, Aura Noir, Bal-Sagoth, Barren Earth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bleed from Within, Bonded by Blood, Callisto, Candlemass, Cannibal Corpse, Catamenia, Children of Bodom, Cock and Ball Torture, Converge, Crushing Caspars, Demonic Resurrection, Despised Icon, Devin Townsend, Devourment, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Disfigured Corpse, Dying Fetus, Ensiferum, Fear Factory, Gaza, Gojira, Gorgoroth, Graveworm, Gwar, Hypnos, Hypocrisy, Ihsahn, Ill Niño, Insania, Jesu, Kalmah, Kylesa, Lock Up, Lost Soul, Lyzanxia, Macabre, Madder Mortem, Meshuggah, Minority Sound, Mnemic, Monstrosity, Moonsorrow, My Dying Bride, Napalm Death, Necrophagist, Obituary, Origin, Proghma-C, Ragnarok, Rotten Sound, Sadist, Sarke, Sepultura, Short Sharp Shock, Sigh, Suicidal Angels, Sybreed, Tankard, Trail of Tears, Voivod, Watain

• Bands performing at the pre-Assault show on August 11, 2010: Abstract Essence (CZE), And Hell Followed With (US), Godless Truth (CZE), Honour Is Dead (UK), Ignominious Incarceration (UK), Mindwork (CZE), První Hoře (CZE), Stíny Plamenů (CZE)
• Bands that cancelled their appearance: Ahab (GER), Kypck, Arsis, Cro-Mags

Brutal Assault in 2009 (BA 14 in Josefov on August 6–8, 2009)

Bands (in alphabetical order): Action, Ador Dorath, Agathodaimon, Anaal Nathrakh, Ashes You Leave, Atheist, Atrox, Beneath the Massacre, Biohazard, Black Bomb A, Brujeria, Brutal Truth, Carnifex, Casketgarden, Cripple Bastards, Cynic, Dagoba, Dark Funeral, Darkane, Demonic Resurrection, Depresy, Eternal Deformity, Evergreen Terrace, Evile, The Faceless, FDK, Flowers For Whores, Forgotten Silence, Gadget, Gama Bomb, Ghost Brigade, Grave, Hate Eternal, Immortal, Lucifer Principle, Madball, Marduk, Misery Index, Mithras, Negura Bunget, Novembers Doom, Obscura, Orphaned Land, Opeth, Pain, Pestilence, Psycroptic, Raunchy, The Red Chord, Rotting Christ, Sadus, Skepticism, Suffocation, Testament, Turisas, Ulver, Vomitory, Vreid, Walls of Jericho, War from a Harlots Mouth

Brutal Assault in 2008 (BA 13 in Josefov on August 14–16, 2008)

Bands:

Day 1

Finntroll, Mayhem, Exodus, Samael, Septicflesh, Textures, Hollenthon, Sadist, Beheaded, General Surgery, Gloomy Grim, Suffocate Bastard, Inveracity, Harmony Bay, Mindwork, Rasta

Day 2

Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Anathema, Soilwork, Swallow the Sun, 1349, Novembre, Primordial, Entombed, Neurosis, Cephalic Carnage, The Berzerker, All Shall Perish, Warbringer, ETHS, Tisíc Let Od Ráje, Sworn Enemy, Grenouer, A Storm of Light, Debustrol, Despised Icon, Malignant Tumour, Psychotic Despair

Day 3

Arch Enemy, Carcass, Paradise Lost, Sodom, Kataklysm, Six Feet Under, Arkona, Esoteric, Hate, Ador Dorath, Agnostic Front, Wayd, Code, Hour of Penance, Uprise, Zubrowska, Illidiance, Attack of Rage, Jig-Ai, Kruger, Locomotive, Sebkha-Chott

Brutal Assault in 2007 (BA 12 in Josefov on August 9–11, 2007)

Bands: Soulfly (BRA), Satyricon (NOR), Dark Tranquillity (SWE), Cynic (US), Malevolent Creation (US), Madball (US), Pain (SWE), Vader (POL), Gorgoroth (NOR), Immolation (US), Katatonia (SWE), Suffocation (US), Dismember (SWE), All That Remains (US), Enslaved (NOR), Dying Fetus (US), Zyklon (NOR), Haemorrhage (SPA), The Black Dahlia Murder (US), Mnemic (DEN), Misanthrope (FRA), Carnival in Coal (FRA), Belphegor (AUT), By Night (SWE), Cataract (SWI), Dagoba (FRA), Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (GER), Depresy (SVK), E-Force (FRA), Ensiferum (FIN), Gorerotted (UK), Inhume (HOL), Le Scrawl (GER), Leng Tch'e (BEL), Madder Mortem (NOR), Onslaught (UK), Red Harvest (NOR), Hacride (FRA), Obtest (LIT), Root (CZE), Saturnus (DEN), Sayyadina (SWE), To-Mera (UK), Uprise (CZE), She Said Destroy (NOR), Outburst (HOL), Trepalium (FRA), Keep of Kalessin (NOR), Despise (CZE), Opitz (CZE), Rubufaso Mufuko (CZE), Pigsty (CZE), Panychida (CZE), Abstract Essence (CZE), M.A.C. of Mad (CZE)

• Bands that cancelled their appearance: Deicide (US), Cephalic Carnage (US)

Brutal Assault in 2006 (BA 11 in Svojšice u Přelouče on August 10–12, 2006)

Bands (in order of appearance): Jig-Ai (CZE), Rites of Undeath, Crashpoint (CZE), Mortifilia, The Ocean (GER), Cenotaph (TUR), Birdflesh (SWE), Gojira (FRA), Orphaned Land (ISR), Fear Factory (US), Severe Torture (HOL), Mourning Beloveth, Solfernus, Negligent Collateral Collapse, Illidiance, Smashed Face, X-Core, Deadborn, Galadriel (SVK), Ophiolatry, Trollech (CZE), Ingrowing, Rasta, Visceral Bleeding, Locomotive (CZE), Born from Pain, Skyforger, Rotten Sound (FIN), Carnival in Coal, Sick of It All, Amorphis, Dimmu Borgir (NOR), Textures, Disavowed (HOL), Depresy (SVK), Ador Dorath, Sacrist, Wasteform, Uprise (CZE), Obscura, Colp (CZE), Sanatorium (SVK), Cerebral Turbulency, Fleshgore, Tisíc Let Od Ráje (CZE), Arsebreed, Neglected Fields, Skinless, Root (CZE), Gorefest, Destruction, Morbid Angel (US), Napalm Death (UK), Mayhem (NOR), Ephel Duath (ITA)

Brutal Assault in 2005 (BA 10 in Svojšice u Přelouče on August 11–13, 2005)

Bands (in order of appearance): Mrázek (CZE), Oblomov, Ahriman (HUN), Greedy Invalid, Solfernus, Natron (ITA), Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (CZE), Gadget, Textures (HOL), Obituary, Lord Belial, Pathology Stench (SVK), Coward, Scenery, Hecate, Hazy Decay (CZE), Return to Innocence, Casketgarden, Ahumado Granujo, Six Degrees of Separation, Disfigured Corpse, Shaark, Isacaarum (CZE), Disillusion (GER), Negura Bunget (ROM), Depresy (SVK), Belphegor (AUT), Root (CZE), Callenish Circle (HOL), Agathodaimon (GER), Forgotten Silence, Dissolving of Prodigy (CZE), Ethereal Pandemonium (SVK), Gutted (HUN), Abstract, Pigsty (CZE), Onset, Alienation Mental, Happy Death, Memoria, The Rays of the Sun, Despise, Squash Bowels, Lost Soul, Equirhodont (CZ), Krisiun, My Dying Bride (UK), Necrophagist (GER), Ador Dorath, Contempt, Made by the Fire

• Bands that cancelled their appearance: Poostew

Brutal Assault in 2004 (BA 9 in Hvozd u Konice on August 5–7, 2004)

Bands (in alphabetical order): Abortion, Ador Dorath, Antistar Co., Barracuda, Bed Sores, Beltaine, Cannibal Corpse (US), Cerebral Turbulency, Colp, Dark Gamballe, Darkside, Darzamat, Dead Infection, Deaf 99, Deflorace, Demolition, Depresy, Dying Passion, Endless, Euthanasia, F.O.B., From Beyond, Galadriel, Godless Truth, Graveworm (ITA), Gride, Immortal Tears, Impaled Nazarene, Ingrowing, Jack Slater, Lex Talionis, Livores Mortis, Lunatic Gods, Melancholy Pessimism, Martyrium Christi, Melissy, Memoriu, Misery Index (US), Neglected Fields, Nobody, Nocturnal Devotion, Pathology Stench, Poppy Seed Grinder, R.E.T., Rites of Undeath, Root, Sacrosanctum, Sanatorium, Sear Bliss, Smashed Face, Sun Has Cancer, Torment, Sungate, Utopia, Wayd

• Attendance: approximately 2,000 (1,500 paying and 500 non-paying guests)^[3]

Line-up in 2003 (BA 8 in Hvozd u Konice on August 7–9, 2003)

Bands: Kataklysm (CAN), Malevolent Creation (US), Pungent Stench (AUT), Novembre (ITA), Hollenthon (AUT), Pyaemia (HOL), Necrophagist (GER), Disavowed (HOL), Depresy (SVK), Root (CZE), Equirhodont (CZE), Godless Truth (CZE), Contrastic (CZE), Pathology Stench (SVK), Ador Dorath (CZE), Onset (CZE), Inner Fear (CZE), Ephel Duath (ITA), Opera IX (ITA), Agathocles (BEL), Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (CZE), Cerebral Turbulency (CZE), Locomotive (CZE), Imperial Foeticide (CZE), Disfigured Corpse (CZE), Tisíc Let Od Ráje (CZE), Return to Innocence (CZE), Six Degrees of Separation (CZE), Sorath (CZE), Surgical Dissection (SVK), Laniena Mentis (CZE), Rays of the Sun (CZE), Editor (SVK), Dysanchely (SVK), Animé (CZE), Despise (CZE), Avenger (CZE), Scenery (CZE), Memoria (CZE), Shaark (CZE), Agony (CZE), Ebola Joy (CZE), Mortifilia (CZE), Abstract (SVK), !T.O.O.H.! (CZE), Sacrist (CZE), Bethrayer (CZE), Varso (HUN), Absurd Conflict (CZE), Asgard (CZE), YBCA (CZE), Craniotomy (SVK), Forrest Jump (CZE), Virtual Void (CZE) Death Sentence (CZE), Draco Hypnalis (CZE), Adultery (CZE), Morgain (SVK), Hecate (SVK)

• Attendance: approximately 2,000 (both paying and non-paying guests)^[4]

Brutal Assault in 2002 (BA 7 in Hvozd u Konice on August 23–24, 2002)

Bands: Tiamat (SWE), Incantation (US), Callenish Circle (HOL), Ancient Rites (BEL), Behemoth (PL), Root (CZ), Sear Bliss (HUN), Neglected Fields (LAT), Undertakers (ITA), Belphegor (AUT), Mastic Scum (AUT), Godless Truth (CZ), Hollenthon (AUT), Danse Macabre (BEL), Scarve (FR), Intervalle Bizzare (CZ), Deepred (FIN), Lunatic Gods (SK), Cock and Ball Torture (GER), Dark Gamballe (CZ), Endless (CZ), Tisíc Let Od Ráje (CZ), Dying Passion (CZ), Alienation Mental (CZ), Pandemia (CZ), Darkside (AUT), Bethrayer (CZ), Ingrowing (CZ), Pathology Stench (SK), Thalarion (SK), Infliction (ITA), Inner Fear (CZ), Galadriel (SK), Tortharry (CZ), Rays of the Sun (CZ), Sungate (SK), Melancholy Pessimism (CZ), Colp (CZ), Dissolving of Prodigy (CZ), Seeds of Sorrow (AUT), Immortal Tears (CZ), R.E.T. (CZ), Poppy Seed Grinder (CZ), Malignant Tumour (CZ/HOL), Protest (SK), Hypnotic Scenery (CZ), Abortion (SK), Six Degrees of Separation (CZ), Ciaff (ITA), Orkrist (SK), Barracuda (CZ), Coward (CZ), Brainwash (ITA), Martyrium Christi (CZ), Infectious Germs (CZ), Lovecraft (CZ), Avenger (CZ), Mater Monstifera (CZ), Ravenarium (SK), Mincing Fury (CZ), Mortura (CZ)

Brutal Assault in 2001 (BA 6.66 in Výstavište, Přerov on August 17–18, 2001)

Bands: The Haunted (SWE), Ancient (NOR), Night in Gales (GER), Behemoth (POL), Agathodaimon (GER), Mastic Scum (A), Root (CZ), Necrophagist (GER), Godless Truth (CZ), Depresy (SK), Bastard Saints (I), VUVR (CZ), Contrastic (CZ), Tortharry (CZ), Nefas (I), Pathology Stench (SK), Intervalle Bizzare (CZ), Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (CZ), Fleshless (CZ), Lykathea Aflame (CZ), Laniena Mentis (CZ), Cerebral Turbulency (CZ), Barracuda (CZ), Draco Hypnalis (CZ), Mind Snare (I), Alienation Mental (CZ), Absurd Conflict (CZ), Interitus (CZ), Promises (CZ), Euthanasia (CZ), Brainwash (I), Desecrated Dreams (SK), Typhoid (SK), Perversist (CZ), Esicastic (I), Masturbace (CZ), Breaking Beads (CZ), Substance of Change (CZ), Imperial Foeticide (CZ), Murder Persons (CZ), Sungate (SK), Antares (SK), Pigsty (CZ), Braiwash (I), Bethrayer (CZ), Mind Snare (I), Return to Innocence (CZ), Deflorace (CZ), Sanatorium (SK), Bizarre Embalming (CZ), !T.O.O.H.! (CZ), Immortal Tears (CZ), Virtual Void (CZ), Endless (CZ), V.A.R. (CZ), Salamandra (CZ), Shaark (CZ)

• Bands that cancelled their appearance: Napalm Death (UK), Fleshgrind (US)

Brutal Assault in 2000 (BA 5 in Zimní stadion, Blansko on August 18–19, 2000)

Bands (in alphabetical order): Absurd Conflict (CZE), Al Sirat (POL), Amon, Asgard (CZE), Avenger (CZE), Bethrayer (CZE), Callenish Circle (HOL), Cerebral Turbulency (CZE), Cerebrocide, Contrastic (CZE), Coward, Crusher, Dementor (SVK), Depresy (SVK), Disfigured Corpse (CZE), Disgusting (CZE), Dying Passion (CZE), F.O.B. (CZE), Fleshless (CZE), Godless Truth (CZE), Imperious Malevolence, Infectious Germs, Inferno (CZE), Ingrowing (CZE), Insania (CZE), Intervalle Bizzare (CZE), Isacaarum (CZE), Kaviar Kavalier (CZE), Love History (CZE), M.A.C. of Mad (CZE), Macabre (US), Malignancy (US), Mechanický Pomeranč (CZE), Mortician (US), Mortura (CZE), Pandemia (CZE), Panzerfaust (CZE), Pathology Stench (SVK), Perversist (CZE), Psychopathia (CZE), Punishment, Rhea, Sarcom, Sear Bliss (HUN), Sezarbil (CZE), Sickness (CZE), Stigma (CZE), Sunterra, Surgical Dissection (SVK), Thalarion (SVK), Tisíc Let Od Ráje (CZE), Tortharry (CZE)

Brutal Assault in 1999 (BA 4 in Blansko, Zimní stadion on August 20–21, 1999)

Bands: Septic Flesh (GRE), Sear Bliss (HUN), Root (CZE), Krabathor (CZE), Insania (CZE), Dark (CZE), Depresy (SVK), Ingrowing (CZE), Garden of Shadows (US), Isacaarum (CZE), Anarchuz (CZE), Fleshless (CZE), Pathology Stench (SVK), VUVR (CZE), Lunatic Gods (SVK), Sanatorium (SVK), Kaviar Kavalier (CZE), Contrastic (CZE), Melancholy Pessimism (CZE), Sad Harmony (CZE), Thalarion (SVK), Bizarre of Brutality (SVK), Monastery (CZE), YBCA (CZE), Oxide of Chrome Opaque, Stigma (CZE), Coarse Grain (CZE), Destroying Themselves (CZE)

Brutal Assault in 1998 (BA 3 in Blansko, Zimní stadion on August 21–22, 1998)

Bands: Callenish Circle (HOL), Root (CZE)

Brutal Assault in 1997 (BA 2 in Obůrka, near Blansko on August 22–23, 1997)

Bands: Night in Gales (GER), Asgard (CZE), Root (CZE), Tisíc Let Od Ráje (CZE), Krabathor (CZE), Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (CZE), Godless Truth (CZE), Imperial Foeticide (CZE), Eternal Deformity (PL), Ritual (CZE), Stigma (CZE), Death Sentence (CZE), Ingrowing (CZE), Melancholly Pesimism (CZE), YBCA (CZE), Head (CZE), Aggressive Tyrants (CZE), Lux Occulta (POL), Tortharry (CZE), YBCA (CZE), Sickness (CZE), Psychoanalytic (CZE), Love History (CZE), Immured (GER), VÚVR (CZE), Livores Mortis (CZE), Infanticide (CZE), Fleshless (CZE), Darkness Dreams (CZE), Melancholy Pessimism (CZE), Dark (CZE), Depresy (SVK), Contrastic (CZE), Agony (CZE), Napalmed (CZE), Cales (CZE), Like Fool (CZE)

Brutal Assault in 1996 (BA 1 in Obůrka, near Blansko on August 24, 1996)

Bands: Kaviar Kavalier (CZE), Enochian (CZE), Scenery (CZE), Head (CZE), Vacuum (CZE), Psycho Analytic (CZE), Aggressive Tyrants (CZE), Infanticide (CZE), Y.B.C.A. (CZE), Sickness (CZE), Stigma (CZE), Ingrowing (CZE), Silent Stream of Godless Elegy (CZE)

See also

• List of music festivals

References

External links

• Review of Brutal Assault 2009 in English
• Reviews of Brutal Assault 2008 in English and Russian
• Review of Brutal Assault 2006 in English

Picture gallery

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  Inside the Fortress of Josefov.

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  Greek band Septic Flesh performing at Brutal Assault 2008