Brutal Assault 2026

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...

Rock

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

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

Black Metal

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

Black Metal, Metal

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

Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore

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

Progressive Metal, Metal

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

Doom Metal, Hardcore

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

Doom Metal, Progressive Metal

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

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...

Black Metal

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

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

Doom Metal

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

Black Metal, Metal

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

Death Metal

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

Black Metal, Doom Metal

Metal, Melodic Death Metal

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

Black Metal, Progressive Metal

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

Metal, Black Metal

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

Metal, Death Metal

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

Rock, Gothic

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

Doom Metal

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

Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal

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

Death Metal, Black Metal

Altars Ablaze is a Czech death/black metal band.

Thrash Metal

Gothic, Rock

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

Metal, Power Metal

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

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

Rock

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

Black Metal, Thrash Metal

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

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...

Black Metal

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

Black Metal

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

Metalcore, Metal

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

EBM, Industrial

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

Industrial

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

Black Metal, Death Metal

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

EBM, Industrial

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

Noise

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

Black Metal

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

Synthwave, Industrial

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

Doom Metal

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

EBM, Industrial, Gothic

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

Death Metal

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

Metal, Industrial

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

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...

Doom Metal, Black Metal, Metal

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

Thrash Metal

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

Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, Hardcore

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

Rock

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

Post-Punk, Dark Wave, Gothic

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

Metal, Doom Metal

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

Death Metal, Thrash Metal

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

Metal, Death Metal

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

Black Metal, Metal

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

Thrash Metal

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

Thrash Metal, Death Metal

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

Thrash Metal, Death Metal

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

Black Metal

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

Death Metal

Industrial, Metal

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

Metal, Rock

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

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...

Doom Metal, Metal

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

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...

Black Metal

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

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...

Doom Metal, Rock

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

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

Industrial, EBM

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

Rock

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

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...

Hardcore, Metalcore

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

Hardcore

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

Noise, Industrial

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

Hardcore, Metalcore

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

Noise

EBM, Industrial

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

Metal, Nu-Metal

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

Death Metal

Metalcore, Metal

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

Metal, Death Metal

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

Death Metal

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

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....

EBM, Noise

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

Noise, Industrial

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

Gothic

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

Metal, Rock

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

Metal

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

Death Metal

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

Black Metal

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

Metal, Rock

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

Metal, Death Metal

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

Hardcore, Crust Punk

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

Industrial, Noise

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

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

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...

Death Metal

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

Metal

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

Death Metal

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

Metal, Thrash Metal

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

Thrash Metal

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

Doom Metal

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

Noise

Death Metal, Thrash Metal

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

Thrash Metal, Metal

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

Death Metal, Doom Metal, Melodic Death Metal

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

Punk, Hardcore

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

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...

Metal, Thrash Metal

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

Noise

OvO is an Italian experimental noise duo formed in 2000.

Metalcore, Hardcore

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

Black Metal, Death Metal

Patriarcha is a Slovak black/death metal band.

Death Metal

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

Metal, Progressive Metal

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

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

Noise, Industrial

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

Industrial, EBM

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

Industrial, Metal

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

Progressive Metal, Metalcore

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

Rock

První Hoře is a Czech avant-garde rock band.

Metal

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

Black Metal, Doom Metal

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

Hardcore, Thrash Metal

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

Metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal

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

Thrash Metal, Metal

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

Death Metal

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

Black Metal, Industrial, Metal

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

Noise

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

Death Metal, Metal

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

Black Metal, Folk Metal

Death Metal

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

Rock, Metal

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

Hardcore, Punk

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

Death Metal

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

Hardcore

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

Doom Metal, Gothic

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

Punk

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

Synthwave

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

Black Metal, Thrash Metal

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

Dark Wave

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

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...

Metalcore

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

Black Metal, Metal

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

Black Metal, Thrash Metal

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

Death Metal

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

Metalcore, Metal

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

Black Metal, Noise

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

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...

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...

Thrash Metal

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

Black Metal, Industrial

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

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

Metal

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

Black Metal

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

Death Metal

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

Doom Metal

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

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