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15 bands join our 25th edition line-up!

Welcome back the genre icons PARADISE LOST, CATTLE DECAPITATION and ALCEST!You can also be looking forward to an increasingly popular quartet IGORRR, LEPROUS, BENIGHTED and BLOOD INCANTATION, the renewed thrashers EVIL DEAD and classics MISERY INDEX.Lovers of underground and fast rhythms will appload the death metal duo MASS INFECTION and NUNSLAUGHTER, slower tempos will be brought by doomsters AHAB and HANGMAN'S CHAIR, progressive metal is represented by URNE, and TALLAH closes the list of the new fifteen additions with what could call nu core. On a less positive note, DEATH BY STEREO are ta ...

80 confirmed bands for the 25th edition

Finally, we are bringing the line-up from last year back to life! Most of the bands have already re-confirmed their participation for Brutal Assault 2022 and we're waiting for more to join, so if you're not finding the one you're looking for, don't despair yet! Meanwhile, we've already started with booking new artists, so below is the current line-up of both, re-confirmed and newly confirmed bands for 2022: ABORTED, AD NAUSEAM, AT THE GATES, CANNIBAL CORPSE, COMEBACK KID, CONJURER and PALLBEARER!Don't forget that we've decided to extend our belated 25th edition celebration for you! The festiva ...

The planting of BRUTAL FOREST 2

Just like last year, we are going to plant more trees for Brutal Forest!With this project, we're aiming to help to reforest the Czech landscape affected by the bark beetle calamity and at the same time to reduce the ecological footprint of our festival. In cooperation with the Forests of the Czech Republic (Lesy České republiky), the planting will take place near last year's location Černá studánka (check out photos here) - at a place called U pomníku, we'll plant 2,000 resistant pines, oaks, and beech trees!If you would like to get involved and help our landscape while spending a day do ...

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Refunds have started!

Do you have money left on your wristband? You can now request a refund using the link below via a simple refund form for our new cashless system - Flyn.There is no charge for requesting a refund and your balance can be split if you'd wish to donate even just a portion of what's left to a good cause and support a meaningful project: support Brutal Assault, Ravelin No. XIV - Fortress preservation (www.josefov.com), Krtek - Children's Oncology Foundation (www.krtek-nf.cz), or the non-profit organization Sea Shepherd (www.seashepherd.org).Any residual amounts that will not have been requested will ...