Brutal Assault 2026 live in Jaroměř

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

One of Europe's biggest extreme-metal festivals at Josefov Fortress (Jaroměř, Czech Republic), 120+ bands. The 2026 edition features Cradle of Filth, Primus, Deicide, Amorphis, Deafheaven and Body Count.

Festival Days

Day 1

Wed, Aug 5

Lineup

Lineup and set times are subject to change — please verify on the official festival website.

Body Count

Metal, Thrash Metal, Hardcore

Body Count is a US crossover thrash / rap metal band from Los Angeles, founded in 1989 by rapper Ice-T. Notable albums...

Primus

Rock

Primus is a pioneering alternative metal and experimental rock band from El Sobrante, California. Formed in 1984, they...

The Sisters Of Mercy

Gothic, Post-Punk, Dark Wave

The Sisters of Mercy are a gothic rock band formed in Leeds, England. They incorporate elements of dark wave and...

Wardruna

Wardruna is a Norwegian group founded in 2003 by Einar Selvik, dedicated to Nordic folk music built around historical...

Misþyrming

Black Metal

Misþyrming is an Icelandic black metal band formed in 2013 in Reykjavík around frontman D.G. Their debut "Söngvar elds...

Cradle Of Filth

Black Metal, Metal

Cradle of Filth is a British extreme metal band from Suffolk, founded in 1991 by vocalist Dani Filth. They blend black...

The Ghost Inside

Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore

The Ghost Inside is an American band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2004. They are known for their blend of...

Animals As Leaders

Progressive Metal, Metal

Animals as Leaders is an American instrumental progressive metal band from Washington, D.C., formed in 2007 by...

Amenra

Doom Metal, Hardcore

Amenra is a Belgian post-metal and sludge band from Kortrijk, founded in 1999. They are known for their intense live...

Katatonia

Doom Metal, Progressive Metal

Katatonia is a Swedish band formed in Stockholm in 1991 by Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström. Originally rooted in...

Amorphis

Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal

Amorphis is a band formed in Helsinki, Finland, in 1990. Initially, their sound was rooted in death/doom metal. Over...

Alcest

Black Metal

Alcest is a French band founded in 2000 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. They are widely credited as pioneers of blackgaze,...

Septicflesh

Septicflesh are a symphonic extreme metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 1990. Known for fusing brutal death metal...

Candlemass

Doom Metal

Candlemass is a Swedish doom metal band founded in 1984 by bassist Leif Edling. Their 1986 debut Epicus Doomicus...

Marduk

Black Metal, Metal

Marduk are a Swedish black metal band formed in 1990 in Norrköping. They rank among the most prolific acts in the...

Deicide

Death Metal

Deicide is an American death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida in 1987. They are known for their blasphemous lyrics...

Triptykon

Black Metal, Doom Metal

Insomnium

Metal, Melodic Death Metal

Insomnium is a melodic death metal band formed in Joensuu, Finland. Their music is characterized by melancholic...

Borknagar

Black Metal, Progressive Metal

Borknagar was founded in Bergen, Norway in 1995 by guitarist Øystein G. Brun, with an initial lineup drawing from...

Sólstafir

Metal, Black Metal

Sólstafir is an Icelandic post-metal/atmospheric rock band from Reykjavík, formed in 1995. Their sound has evolved from...

200 Stab Wounds

Metal, Death Metal

200 Stab Wounds is a brutal death metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 2019, the band consists of Steve Buhl,...

A.a. Williams

Rock, Gothic

A.A. Williams is an English singer-songwriter known for her dark and atmospheric gothic rock. Her music blends elements...

Ahab

Doom Metal

Ahab is a German funeral doom metal band formed in 2004, renowned for its glacially slow, crushingly heavy sound and...

Allt

Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal

Allt is a progressive metalcore band from Sweden, blending technical riffs and complex time signatures with heavy,...

Altars Ablaze

Death Metal, Black Metal

Altars Ablaze is a Czech death/black metal band.

Angelus Apatrida

Thrash Metal

Antimatter

Gothic, Rock

Antimatter is an English dark rock project formed in Liverpool in 1998 by Mick Moss and Duncan Patterson (ex-Anathema)....

Armored Saint

Metal, Power Metal

Armored Saint is a heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California. The band's sound blends traditional heavy metal...

Arottenbit

Arottenbit is a chiptune project from Milan, Italy, created in 2008 by Alessandro Galli. All material is written and...

Arthur Brown

Rock

Arthur Brown is an English rock singer born in 1944 in Whitby, best known as the frontman of The Crazy World of Arthur...

Aura Noir

Black Metal, Thrash Metal

Aura Noir is a Norwegian black/thrash metal band from Oslo, founded in 1993. Members have included Apollyon (Immortal,...

Baest

Metal, Death Metal

Baest is a death metal band formed in Aarhus, Denmark in 2015. Their sound is characterized by a blend of old school...

Batushka

Black Metal

Batushka is a Polish black metal band that fuses Eastern Orthodox liturgical chant with raw, atmospheric black metal....

Blackbraid

Black Metal

Blackbraid is a US black metal project from New York led by Native American musician Sgah'gahsowáh. The debut album...

Bleed From Within

Metalcore, Metal

Bleed From Within is a Scottish metalcore band from Glasgow, founded in 2005. Notable albums include 'Era', 'Fracture'...

Blush Response

EBM, Industrial

Blush Response is the industrial techno and EBM project of American-born, Berlin-based producer Joey Blush. His work...

Bolehlav

Industrial

Bolehlav is the electro-industrial project of Michal Milko from Melnik, Czechia, blending dubstep, breakcore, metal and...

Bölzer

Black Metal, Death Metal

Bolzer is an experimental black/death metal duo from Switzerland. Guitarist and vocalist Okoi Jones is also known for...

Bunkerer

EBM, Industrial

Bunkerer is a one-person industrial/EBM project from Kladno, Czechia, operating under the motto 'Dictatorship of love.'

C4AT

Noise

C4AT is a Czech noise and experimental artist based in Prague, associated with the Organizovany Plevel collective.

Carpathian Forest

Black Metal

Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1990, fronted by Nattefrost (Roger Rasmussen). They are...

Carpenter Brut

Synthwave, Industrial

Carpenter Brut is a French darksynth project by Franck Hueso from Poitiers. He is known for the 'Trilogy' EP series and...

Castle Rat

Doom Metal

Castle Rat is an American doom metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2019. Known for their 'medieval fantasy doom...

Celina

EBM, Industrial, Gothic

Celina is a Hungarian electro-industrial and EBM artist who works as producer, sound engineer and vocalist. Blending...

Chaotian

Death Metal

Chaotian is a Danish death metal band formed in Copenhagen in 2017. Their debut album Effigies of Obsolescence (2022)...

Clawfinger

Metal, Industrial

Clawfinger is a rap metal band formed in 1989 in Stockholm, Sweden. Their music blends heavy metal with elements of rap...

Coffins

Death Metal, Doom Metal

Coffins is a Japanese death/doom metal band formed in Tokyo in 1996. They are known for their crushing, filth-laden...

Conjurer

Doom Metal, Black Metal, Metal

Conjurer are a British post-metal/sludge band from the Midlands, England. They collide crushing heaviness with haunting...

Coroner

Thrash Metal

Swiss technical thrash metal trio active from 1985 to 1996, reunited in 2010. Renowned for their progressive approach...

Corrosion Of Conformity

Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, Hardcore

Corrosion of Conformity (COC) is a US heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1982. Their music...

Coven

Rock

Coven is a US occult rock band from Chicago, founded in 1967. Their 1969 debut 'Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps...

Crippling Alcoholism

Post-Punk, Dark Wave, Gothic

Crippling Alcoholism is a Boston-based project blending post-punk, coldwave and gothic noise rock. Their dark,...

Crowbar

Metal, Doom Metal

Crowbar is a sludge metal band formed in 1989 in New Orleans, led by Kirk Windstein. Pioneers of sludge metal, blending...

Cryptic Shift

Death Metal, Thrash Metal

Cryptic Shift is a technical death and thrash metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2013. Their music fuses...

Cryptopsy

Metal, Death Metal

Cryptopsy is a brutal death metal band formed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1988, originally under the name Necrosis....

Deafheaven

Black Metal, Metal

Deafheaven formed in February 2010 in San Francisco, California, as a two-piece project by vocalist George Clarke and...

Death Angel

Thrash Metal

Death Angel is a pioneering thrash metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1982 by Filipino-American...

Deceased

Thrash Metal, Death Metal

Deceased is a US death/thrash metal band from Arlington County, Virginia, founded in 1984. They were the first band...

Demolition Hammer

Thrash Metal, Death Metal

Demolition Hammer is an American thrash metal band formed in New York in 1986. Their brutally intense albums Tortured...

Der Weg einer Freiheit

Black Metal

Der Weg einer Freiheit is a German black metal band from Würzburg, founded in 2009. Notable albums include 'Stellar',...

Deserted Fear

Death Metal

Die Krupps

Industrial, Metal

Die Krupps are a band formed in Düsseldorf in 1980 around Jürgen Engler. Together with co-founders Ralf Dörper and...

Djerv

Metal, Rock

Djerv is a Norwegian band from Bergen fronted by vocalist Agnete Kjolsrud. Formed around 2010, they combine heavy metal...

Dom Zły

Black Metal, Crust Punk

Dom Zły is a Polish post-black metal and crust band formed in 2017 in Puławy. The five-piece balances atmospheric black...

Doodseskader

Doom Metal, Metal

Doodseskader is a sludge/post-metal band formed in Ghent, Belgium in 2016. They incorporate elements of industrial...

Draconian

Doom Metal, Gothic, Death Metal

Draconian is a Swedish gothic doom/death metal band from Säffle, formed in the mid-1990s. They are known for their...

Draugveil

Black Metal

Draugveil is a Czech black metal project from Prague, formed in 2025. Its atmospheric black metal explores themes of...

Dusk

Death Metal, Doom Metal

Dusk is an American death/doom metal band formed in 1993 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After a long hiatus they returned...

Eivør

Elder

Doom Metal, Rock

Elder is an American psychedelic doom / stoner metal band formed in 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts. The group is known...

Filth

Fit for an Autopsy

Fit for an Autopsy is a deathcore band from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 2008. The band has released seven studio...

Front Line Assembly

Industrial, EBM

Front Line Assembly is an industrial and EBM duo formed in 1986 in Vancouver, Canada. Composed of Bill Leeb on vocals...

Fu Manchu

Rock

Fu Manchu is a stoner rock band formed in 1985 in Southern California. Originally named Virulence, they initially...

Grave

Death Metal, Metal

Grave is a Swedish death metal band from Visby, formed in the late 1980s and regarded as one of the pioneers of Swedish...

Guilt Trip

Hardcore, Metalcore

Guilt Trip is a British hardcore band formed in Manchester in 2015. They combine modern metallic hardcore with beatdown...

H2O

Hardcore

H2O is a hardcore punk band from New York City, formed in 1994 by singer Toby Morse and guitarist Rusty Pistachio on...

HEALTH

Noise, Industrial

HEALTH are an industrial rock band formed in 2005 in Los Angeles, consisting of Jake Duzsik (vocals, guitar), John...

Heavy // Hitter

Hardcore, Metalcore

Heavy // Hitter is an American hardcore band from Florida, known for their heavy, beatdown-oriented sound.

Hnilomorna

Noise

Hocico

EBM, Industrial

Hocico is a Mexican dark electro duo from Mexico City, formed in 1993 by cousins Erk Aicrag (vocals) and Racso Agroyam...

Ill Niño

Metal, Nu-Metal

Ill Niño is an American nu-metal/metalcore band from Union City, New Jersey, formed in 1999. The group blends heavy...

Illdisposed

Death Metal

Imminence

Metalcore, Metal

Imminence is a Swedish metalcore band formed in 2010 in Trelleborg. The group is notable for its prominent use of...

Immolation

Metal, Death Metal

Immolation is a death metal band formed in Yonkers, New York, in 1988. Their music is characterized by complex song...

Internal Bleeding

Death Metal

Internal Bleeding is an American slam/brutal death metal band from Long Island, New York, formed in 1991. They are...

Iotunn

Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Death Metal

Iotunn is a Danish/Faroese progressive death metal band from Copenhagen, formed around 2009 by guitarist Jesper Gräs....

Jadran

EBM, Noise

Jadran is a Czech performative rave project that evolved from a hardcore duo into a raw old-school rave act laced with...

Kalich

Noise, Industrial

Kalich is a Czech harsh techno and noise duo from Prague, performing live-only sets of industrial-tinged experimental...

Kariti

Gothic

kariti is a Russian-born, Italy-based dark folk artist whose 'mourning folk' features fingerstyle guitar, eerie vocal...

Kim Dracula

Metal, Rock

Kim Dracula is an Australian metal artist known for their experimental blend of metalcore, electronic music, and...

Kittie

Metal

Kittie is a Canadian band formed in London, Ontario in 1996. They are known for being one of the first all-female bands...

Kraanium

Death Metal

Kraanium is a Norwegian slam/brutal death metal band formed in Oslo in the early 2000s, known for their heavy,...

Królówczana Smuga

Black Metal

Królówczana Smuga is a one-person project by Adam Piętak from Biłgoraj, Poland, blending Polish vagabond-song folklore...

Kylesa

Metal, Rock

Kylesa is an American band formed in Savannah, Georgia in 2001. Their music blends elements of sludge metal with...

LEFT TO DIE

Metal, Death Metal

Left to Die is a death metal band from Tampa, Florida, featuring early Death members Rick Rozz and Terry Butler...

Lvmen

Hardcore, Crust Punk

Lvmen is a long-running Czech band mixing screamo, crust and post-hardcore with atmospheric, emotive songwriting.

Madona

Industrial, Noise

Madona is an experimental act working at the crossroads of industrial techno, hardcore and noise.

Master Boot Record

Master Boot Record is the Rome-based solo project of Victor Love that fuses heavy metal with chiptune synthesizers and...

Metal Church

Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal

Metal Church is a pioneering American heavy metal band formed in Aberdeen, Washington in 1980. Known for their blend of...

Monstrosity

Death Metal

Monstrosity is a pioneering American death metal band formed in 1990 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Part of the...

Morax

Metal

Morax is a Norwegian heavy metal one-man band from Bergen, formed in 2023 by Remi Nygård (Inculter). Its occult-tinged...

Mordloch

Death Metal

Mordloch is a Czech death metal band from Kolín playing old-school 'stench death metal' in the vein of Bolt Thrower,...

Mortal Sin

Metal, Thrash Metal

Mortal Sin are an Australian thrash metal band formed in 1985 in Sydney, pioneers of the scene with their debut...

Municipal Waste

Thrash Metal

Municipal Waste is an American crossover thrash band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2000. They've released seven...

Nadja

Doom Metal

Nadja is a Canadian drone/doom metal duo led by Aidan Baker, now based in Berlin. Their music layers heavy,...

Naher Einer

Noise

Nahum

Death Metal, Thrash Metal

Nahum is a Czech death/thrash metal band from Ostrava, combining aggressive death metal with thrash elements.

Nevermore

Thrash Metal, Metal

Nevermore is an American progressive and thrash metal band formed in 1991 in Seattle by vocalist Warrel Dane and...

Novembers Doom

Death Metal, Doom Metal, Melodic Death Metal

Novembers Doom is a death-doom metal band from Chicago, USA, formed in 1989.

Octopoulpe

Punk, Hardcore

Octopoulpe is the solo project of a French musician based between France, Mexico City and Seoul, blending hardcore...

Old Man's Child

Black Metal

Old Man's Child is a Norwegian symphonic black metal project founded in 1989 in Oslo by Galder. Albums such as "Born of...

Onslaught

Metal, Thrash Metal

Onslaught is a British thrash metal band formed in Bristol, England, in 1983. Initially playing a punk-influenced style...

OvO

Noise

OvO is an Italian experimental noise duo formed in 2000.

Paleface Swiss

Metalcore, Hardcore

Paleface Swiss is a slamming deathcore band from Zurich, Switzerland. Formed in 2017, the band has released four...

Patriarcha

Black Metal, Death Metal

Patriarcha is a Slovak black/death metal band.

Peelingflesh

Death Metal

PeelingFlesh is a brutal/slam death metal band from Oklahoma, USA.

Periphery

Metal, Progressive Metal

Periphery is an American progressive metal band from Washington, D.C., formed in 2005. They are known for their...

Perturbator

Perturbator is the solo project of James Kent (born 1993 in Paris), a French electronic musician and composer. His...

Petrolio

Noise, Industrial

Petrolio is the dark ambient/noise/industrial project of Italian musician Enrico Cerrato, founded in Asti in 2015.

Philipp Strobel

Industrial, EBM

Philipp Strobel is a Berlin-based EBM/industrial/techno artist and DJ, and founder of the aufnahme + wiedergabe label.

Pig

Industrial, Metal

Pig (<PIG>) is the British industrial project of Raymond Watts, formed in London in 1988.

Protest the Hero

Progressive Metal, Metalcore

Protest the Hero is a Canadian progressive metalcore band from Whitby, Ontario, formed in 1999.

První Hoře

Rock

První Hoře is a Czech avant-garde rock band.

Psychonaut

Metal

Psychonaut is a band formed in Mechelen, Belgium in 2013. Their sound incorporates elements of sludge, post-metal, and...

Ragana

Black Metal, Doom Metal

Ragana is an American atmospheric black metal/doom duo from Olympia, Washington.

Ratos de Porão

Hardcore, Thrash Metal

Ratos de Porão is a Brazilian hardcore punk and crossover thrash band formed in 1980 in São Paulo around vocalist João...

Revocation

Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal

Revocation is a technical death metal band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2006. The band is known for blending...

Sacred Reich

Thrash Metal, Metal

Sacred Reich are an American thrash metal band formed in 1985 in Phoenix, Arizona, by bassist and vocalist Phil Rind....

Sadistic Intent

Death Metal

Sadistic Intent is a US death metal band from Los Angeles, formed in fall 1987. One of the earliest standard-bearers of...

Samael

Black Metal, Industrial, Metal

Samael is a Swiss metal band formed in Sion in 1987, evolving from black metal to industrial metal.

Sand Nudes

Noise

Sand Nudes is a Czech drone/noise collective (David Tichý, Václav Dobiáš, Vojta Tomášek) on the Anabasis label.

Sanguisugabogg

Death Metal, Metal

Sanguisugabogg is a brutal death metal/deathgrind band formed in 2018 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Saor

Black Metal, Folk Metal

Signs Of The Swarm

Death Metal

Signs of the Swarm is an American deathcore band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, formed in 2014. The group is known for...

SLIFT

Rock, Metal

SLIFT are a French psychedelic rock band from Toulouse, formed in 2016 by brothers Jean and Rémi Fossat and drummer...

Slope

Hardcore, Punk

Formed in 2014 in the Ruhr area of Duisburg, Germany, Slope is a five-piece band blending the raw energy of hardcore...

Sněť

Death Metal

Sněť is a Czech old-school death metal band from Prague, formed in 2018.

Terror

Hardcore

Terror is an American hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, formed in 2002 around vocalist Scott Vogel. They are...

The 3rd and the Mortal

Doom Metal, Gothic

The 3rd and the Mortal is a Norwegian atmospheric doom/gothic metal band from Trondheim, formed in 1991.

The Casualties

Punk

The Casualties are a street punk band formed in New York City, USA, in 1990. They are known for their distinctive...

The Goondock Saint

Synthwave

The Goondock Saint is a darksynth/synthwave project from Münster, Germany.

The Laws

Black Metal, Thrash Metal

The Laws is a Brazilian project led by founding Sarcófago member Gerald "Incubus" Minelli, performing Sarcófago's...

The Mon

Dark Wave

The Mon is the dark folk/ambient/electronic solo project of Urlo, singer and bassist of Ufomammut, from Italy.

The Ruins Of Beverast

Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal

The Ruins of Beverast is a black/doom metal project formed in 2003 in Aachen, Germany. The project is the work of...

Thy Art Is Murder

Metalcore

Thy Art Is Murder is an Australian deathcore band from Blacktown, New South Wales, formed in 2005. Albums such as...

Thy Catafalque

Black Metal, Metal

Thy Catafalque is an avant-garde metal project from Makó, Hungary. The project blends elements of black metal, folk,...

Tormentor

Black Metal, Thrash Metal

Tormentor is a Hungarian black/thrash metal band from Budapest, formed in 1985 (fronted by Attila Csihar).

Trauma

Death Metal

Trauma is a Polish death metal band formed in 1986 in Elbląg, originally under the name Thanatos. One of the veteran...

Unearth

Metalcore, Metal

Unearth is an American metalcore band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1998, widely regarded as a foundational act of...

Utarm

Black Metal, Noise

Utarm is the solo project of Norwegian artist Sindre Foss Skancke, blending experimental black metal with harsh noise...

Vader

Death Metal, Thrash Metal

Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn, founded in 1983 by Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek. One of the oldest and most...

Vended

Metal, Metalcore, Nu-Metal

Vended is an American nu metal/metalcore band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 2018. The line-up includes sons of...

Vio-lence

Thrash Metal

Vio-lence is an American thrash metal band formed in 1985 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Fronted by vocalist Sean...

Violent Magic Orchestra

Black Metal, Industrial

Violent Magic Orchestra (VMO) is an experimental collective that fuses black metal with techno, industrial and noise...

Vulvodynia

Vulvodynia is a slamming deathcore band formed in 2014 in Durban, South Africa. Signed to Unique Leader Records, they...

Waltari

Metal

Waltari is a Finnish band formed in 1986 in Helsinki, known for its genre-crossing sound that blends heavy metal with...

Whydie?

Witch Club Satan

Black Metal

Witch Club Satan is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, formed in 2022. The all-female trio combines black metal...

Wormed

Death Metal

Wormed is a Spanish technical and brutal death metal band from Madrid, formed in 1998. Known for science-fiction-themed...

Wyatt E.

Doom Metal

Wyatt E. creates a sonic pilgrimage to the ancient world, crafting a doom metal soundtrack for forgotten civilizations...

Zaffer 9

Zaffer 9 is an experimental duo from Prague formed by Helena Hájková and Viktor Jenčuš, blending witch house, doom and...

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