Brutal Assault’s last major line-up update!

We now bring you the final Brutal Assault line-up update for this year. This time we bring you some of the most interesting underground bands of their respective genres out there.

As their name implies, THE GREAT OLD ONES are heavily inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Like the sinister novels and stories of the horror icon, the music of these Frenchmen delves into the forbidden, dark, haunting and violent spheres of post-metal and ambient. HIGHER POWER play brassy hardcore the British way while PHURPA will perform soul cleansing musical ritual of Bön tradition. Polish FURIA has a very personal take on black metal including several style transgressions and the same goes for FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE and their way of interpretating death metal. MERCY TIES are touring with Birds in Row this year and present punk-rock gone schizo; a deformed approach that adds elements of math rock and grind to create something unsettling, unpredictable and distinctive. Norwegian avant-garde representatives MADDER MORTEM will travel through a wide array of musical landscapes and German black metal band ULTHA will show their own hybrid of Scandinavian and US-black metal, doom and dark wave melodies. The first Saturday slot will traditionally let you relax on the wave of cheerful goregrind this time executed by Polish NUCLEAR VOMIT while the tradition of the last slot of the fest draining you of the last bits of energy by gloomy funeral doom will be upheld by French MONOLITHE. Latest addition we have for you is SOEN, a super-group project of former Opeth, Amon Amarth and Willowtree members with contribution of Steve DiGiorgio. Expect melodic, heavy, intricate and very unique blend of progressive metal.

The lineup will be further completed with the most interesting bands from the local scene…

Earlier confirmed bands are:

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
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
Wolves In The Throne Room
Boris
Vallenfyre
Crowbar
God Mother
Miss May I
Root
Graveworm
Sheer Terror
First Blood
Infected Rain
DispersE
Collision