Brutal Assault updates line-up with Wolves in the Throne Room, Boris and Crowbar!
Sadly we have to start this announcement with two bands that had to withdraw from Brutal Assault‘s 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 kick-started 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!
The rest of the line-up is:
Electric Wizard
Nile
Terror
August Burns Red
Amorphis
Gadget
Mayhem (De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas)
Morbid Angel
Nervosa
Sacred Reich
Swans
Trivium
Opeth
Sikth
Rotting Christ
Prong
Decapitated
Deserted Fear
Tsjuder
Cough
The Amity Affliction
Chelsea Grin
While She Sleeps
Wrekmeister Harmonies
Incantation
Gorguts
Fallujah
Revocation
Possessed
Protector
Metal Church
Gutalax
Teethgrinder
Mantar
Igorrr
Front Line Assembly
Batushka
Aeon
Suffocation
Cryptopsy
Macabre
Demolition Hammer
Havok
Rotten Sound
Wolfheart
Der Weg Einer Freiheit
Architects
Clawfinger
Arkona
Born of Osiris
Einherjer
Malignant Tumour
Mourning Beloveth
The Lurking Fear
Samael
Svart Crown
The Devin Townsend Project
Tiamat (Wildhoney set)
Walls of Jericho
Swallow The Sun
God Is An Astronaut
The Crown
Birds In Row
Zhrine
Oceans Ate Alaska
Vision of Disorder
Hatebreed
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Overkill
Wintersun
Oathbreaker
Aversion Crowns
Power Trip
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Helheim
King Parrot
