BRUTAL ASSAULT 2019 BANDS UPDATE

Let’s open this mega update with black metal stormblast! Over seven years, deathlike silence has filled the halls of
the world’s biggest black metal forge, whilst powers have been gathering to resurrect the band right in time for their
25th anniversary. And now DIMMU BORGIR have finally returned with a vicious work of art that is their latest
album Eonian and they are coming to storm the main stage at Brutal Assault!
Wicked aural filth comes from the islands with GODFLESH, who are highly regarded as one of the pioneers of
industrial metal; they took industrial to the next level with their fuse of heavy guitars and mixing it with slow drum
loops and effects and their unique approach has spawned several musical styles since their conception.
Brutal Assault will also present a combo of iconic thrashers that need no introduction, ANTHRAX and SACRED
REICH will make it to the fest alongside upcoming crossover thrash ministry IRON REAGAN and a staple name
of the genre PRONG. Elusive French synth mastermind CARPENTER BRUT draws its influences from 80s TV
shows and B-movies loaded with cheap thrills and sharp synthesizers. The mysterious and discreet man behind the
pentagon – or the Brutagram as his fans would call it – evokes an encounter between Justice beats and the universe
of John Carpenter. Into the brutagram at BA 2019! Through parted flesh, mental scars and waning health – from
misfortune and adversity that would have broken lesser men, comes another black metal legend that almost doesn’t
perform live… Welcome French titans ANTAEUS, come to your condemnation and witness Satanik Audio
Violence! For the fans of modern death metal and hardcore amalgamation we are gonna have glowing hot Brits
VENOM PRISON, their returning fellow countrymen ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY and Australia‘s own
THY ART IS MURDER who are on fire right now! Anglophone domination over the genre will be contested by
Japanese metalcore sensation CRYSTAL LAKE, who just set an impossible bar to leap over with their latest output
Helix. If you think it’s enough incredibly energic music for now, then we beg to differ because we are also gonna
have vigorous metal hardcore of GET THE SHOT and American noise rock kings DAUGHTERS, who are doing
one of their rare live appearances at BA 2019! Equally rare live are CULT OF LUNA and these Swedish
visionaries have been praised for their live performances for a long time and Brutal Assault will host one of their
few appearances in 2019. You shouldn’t miss this opportunity to witness a shattering audio-visual feast of
iconoclastic proportions! Other thoughtful bands for thinking audience on the list are the German musician
collective THE OCEAN with their immersive audial experience, US progressivists AFTER THE BURIAL and
Norwegian masters of stellar Avant-Garde MANES. You can also look forward for rising stars of Danish scene
SLÆGT, who play an epic blackened heavy metal but without any kind of limitation when approaching the style,
their compatriots TAPHOS with their gut-wrenching death metal and progressive heavy metal outlet of Dutch
singer Anneke van Giersbergen under the moniker VUUR. Gloomy rock doom in the end, the very godfathers of
the genre THE OBSESSED who were formed already back in 1976 by Scott „Wino“ Weinrich are back from the
dead to perform for you at BA 2019!

So far the line-up goes: ABORTED, AFTER THE BURIAL, ALIEN WEAPONRY, AGNOSTIC
FRONT, ANNAL NATHRAKH, ANATHEMA, ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY, ANTAEUS,
ANTHRAX, CARCASS, CARPENTER BRUT, COUNTING HOURS, CRYSTAL LAKE, CULT OF
LUNA, CYTOTOXIN, DEICIDE, DAUGHTERS, DESTRUCTION, DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA,
DIMMU BORGIR, EKTOMORF, ELECTRIC WIZARD, GET THE SHOT, GODFLESH, GUTALAX,
HEILUNG, HIGHER POWER, HYPOCRISY, IMMOLATION, IRON REAGAN, JINJER, JUNGLE
ROT, KRISIUN, LIONHEART, MANES, MESHUGGAH, METAL CHURCH, MGŁA, MIDNIGHT,
MYRKUR, NAPALM DEATH, NECROS CHRISTOS, OF MICE & MEN, OCEANS OF SLUMBER,
PERFECITIZEN, PRONG, RAISED FIST, ROTTING CHRIST, SACRED REICH, SAOR, SHAPE OF
DESPAIR, SLÆGT ,TAAKE, TANKARD, TAPHOS, TESTAMENT, THE OBSESSED, THE OCEAN,
THY ART IS MURDER, TOSKA, UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION, VARGRAV, VENOM PRISON,
VUUR, WINDHAND, WOLFBRIGADE a WOE UNTO ME.

Picture and Text: OBSCURE PROMOTION / BRUTAL ASSAULT