Brutal Assault

Listen up! This is one of the most monumental announcements of the year: “Blood Fire Death: A Tribute to Quorthon and the Music of Bathory” is set to take center stage at Brutal Assault next year. Twenty years after the legendary Quorthon’s passing, an extraordinary lineup of metal’s elite...

Brutal Assault, one of Europe’s premier heavy metal festivals, has unveiled an impressive lineup for its 2025 edition, with  Gojira, Dimmu Borgir, and Ministry leading the charge. The festival will also showcase a wide range of metal styles, from Obituary, Asphyx, AngelMaker, Suffocation, Unleashed, PigDestroyer, Benighted to August Burns Red, Between...

The Brutal Assault lineup is expanding as we bring the announcement of four genre updates: DEATH METAL Death metal is expanding with the addition of Florida masters of the genre Deicede after their last year’s excellent performance. Along with them, the technically proficient Canadian Cryptosy will take Brutal by...

There is another band update from Brutal Assault: this time they are announcing seven names of American thrash metal bands that will shake the stage at the next edition.  Four big names who have been involved in the formation of this genre will be coming from California – namely...

Brutal Sabbath brings a wave of black metal bands to Brutal Assault! The blackest wave of black metal will undoubtedly come from an act whose name speaks for itself: Abbath will play the songs of Immortal! All fans of the dark genre will also enjoy Triumph Of Death, who,...

Brutal Assault has made it official: Satyricon comes to the Fortress again! They haven’t performed live in five years, and haven’t appeared in the Fortress since 2016. They’ve always forged their own unique path to the previously unexpressed. And since they have a new album scheduled for May 2024,...

Read the first details about next year's edition....

Floowing the public’s increased interest for live videos from Brutal Assault, a new Vimeo channels with full concerts has been created. Here’s the full statement from Brutal Assault: “You’ve been asking for full concert sets for quite a while and we’ve been looking for a way to deliver. Editing...

Online stream/chat  – planned news and what about 2020 edition? We have been receiving lots of questions about the current situation of the global pandemic and its impact on our festival. As there are no fortune tellers amongst us, just like the rest of society we cannot predict the...