(new single-hardcore punk) Check out Brutalligators new video/single!

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We are very excited to share the new single and video from South East UK punks Brutalligators.

Taken from their upcoming second EP, ‘Friends I wish I’d Had’, coming via Real Ghost Records on digital and limited tape cassette in July. This EP sees the band amped up, angry, and delivering 5 tracks of blistering punk goodness.

Here’s how the band describe the single ‘Kill Your Heroes’:

“KYH was written back in 2017, after the news of abuse claims against both PWR BTM and The Football Club. Both featured respected, outspoken idols in marginalised communities abusing their power and position to be horrible people. It was so sad and angering, and since then it’s been one after the other. Powerful people (mostly men) taking advantage of their privilege, power and position for their own sexual gain. We’re fucking sick of it.”

Brutalligators are a four-piece pile of limbs from South East UK, playing energetic and happy sounding songs about heartbreak, life going wrong and all of the injustices in the world today.
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(NEWS) FINAL BRUTAL ASSAULT LINE-UP ANNOUNCED, FURTHER NEWS, GET YOUR TICKETS WHILE THERE ARE STILL SOME LEFT!!!

BRUTAL ASSAULT 2019 #24

August 7th – 10th, 2019, Jaroměř – Fortress Josefov

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„The final“ underground lineup update!

First off we unfortunately need to start with bad news as MANES are forced to pull out due to personal issues, however we’ve already made a deal to bring them next year which makes them the first band announced for 2020.

Now to the good news! Pagan black metal stalwarts KAMPFAR of Norway will be back with their brand new records Ofidians Manifest, representing the force of black metal in 2019. 25 years on from their foundation, KAMPFAR condensate the struggles of the recent years into a powerful record, that is supported even more powerful live performances.

Next on the list are Japanese experimentators CROSSFAITH who continue to evolve in unique style with synths that sound like guitars, guitars that sound like laserbeams and bleeding-edge beats throughout, it’s the sound of a band who have carve out their own new identity with every release.

The Spaniards ALTARAGE are bristling with black and dissonant death metal fury that immediately evokes a plethora of sinister images in the brain. Their relentless soul-crushing sound will send your minds into overdrive.

The Polish enigma ENTROPIA will showcase a one of a kind psyched, hypnotic and psychedelic and sludgy post-black metal while Icelanders UNE MISÈRE will take you to Icelands darkest and bleakest landscapes via their hardcore sound that pushes boundaries and cuts deep.

The Germans UNPROCESSED will present their latest output Artificial Void, which has highly diversified sound and can be described as a technically sophisticated modern progressive djenty metal. The local scene will be represented by unrelenting head-bashing death metal of BRUTALLY DECEASED, modern sounding black/death MALLEPHYR that will surely pleasure every Behemoth fan, modern sounding death metal with prog and metal/death/core influences ELYSIUM and one of the longest running shape-shifing acts, that cannot be bound into a single genre (or a couple of them for that matter), FORGOTTEN SILENCE. They will play a special „THOTS“ album set!

But we are not done yet with the lineup! You can still expect the announcement of the KAL stage artists and of Tuesday’s warm-up party! Additionally, in the upcoming week we will release the schedule of the bands for each festival day!

Finally, we would like to remind all of you, who haven’t bought your tickets yet, that we have far exceeded the 80% of sold tickets, so you should not hesitate to get the last available ones!

tickets:

BRUTAL ASSAULT 2019 festival pass [PRINT@HOME ticket] https://shop.brutalassault.cz/en/tickets/detail/id/154

BRUTAL ASSAULT 2019 festival pass [collector’s design hard paper ticket] https://shop.brutalassault.cz/en/d-1078/brutal-assault-2019-festival-pass-collectors-design-hard-paper-ticket

facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/322562071846842/

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List of all bands confirmed so far: ABORTED, AFTER THE BURIAL, AGNOSTIC FRONT, ALIEN WEAPONRY, ALTARAGE, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, ANNAL NATHRAKH, ANATHEMA, ANTAEUS, ANTHRAX, THE ARSON PROJECT, AU-DESSUS, AZUSA, BATUSHKA, BRUTALLY DECEASED, CAR BOMB, CARCASS, CARPENTER BRUT, CASPIAN, COMBICHRIST, THE CONTORTIONIST, COUNTING HOURS, COVEN, CROSSFAITH, CRYSTAL LAKE, CULT OF LUNA, CYTOTOXIN, ČAD, DAUGHTERS, DR. LIVING DEAD, DECAPITATED, DECULTIVATE, DEICIDE, DELUGE, DEMOLITION HAMMER, DESTRUCTION, DIABLO SWING ORCHESTRA, DISCHARGE, EKTOMORF, ELECTRIC WIZARD, ELYSIUM, EMPEROR, ENSIFERUM, ENTROPIA, ESKHATON, EXUMER, EYEHATEGOD, FORGOTTEN SILENCE, FROG LEAP, GET THE SHOT, GODFLESH, GOROD, GOST, GUTALAX, HEILUNG, HELLHAMMER – TRIUMPH OF DEATH, HEXIS, HIGHER POWER, HYPOCRISY, IMMOLATION, INCANTATION, IRON REAGAN, JINJER, JUNGLE ROT, KAMPFAR, KRAANIUM, KRISIUN, LETTERS FROM THE COLONY, LIONHEART, MALLEPHYR, MEAT SPREADER, MESHUGGAH, METAL CHURCH, MGŁA, MIDNIGHT, MONSTER MAGNET, MYRKUR, NAPALM DEATH, NECROS CHRISTOS, NORDJEVEL, THE OBSESSED, THE OCEAN, OCEANS OF SLUMBER, OF MICE & MEN, OMNIUM GATHERUM, PARKWAY DRIVE, PERFECITIZEN, PRIMORDIAL, PRONG, RAISED FIST, ROTTING CHRIST, SACRED REICH, SAOR, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, SICK OF IT ALL, SKELETAL REMAINS, SLÆGT, SLAPSHOT, SODOM, SOILWORK, TAAKE, TANKARD, TAPHOS, TESTAMENT, THERION, THY ART IS MURDER, TOSKA, UNE MISÉRE, UNFATHOMABLE RUINATION, UNPROCESSED, VAMPILLIA, VARGRAV, VED BUENS ENDE, VENOM PRISON, VIOLATOR, VIOLENT MAGIC ORCHESTRA, VOIVOD, VULVODYNIA, VUUR, WALLS OF JERICHO, WINDHAND, WOE UNTO ME, WOLFBRIGADE, WORMED, ZURIAAKE.

The attractive lineup our festival draws audience from all around the world and we’ve already sold 85 % of all available tickets – thank You for your interest! Our lineup also misses just a couple of last bands and the artists from our KAL stage to be completely revealed… and that is happening soon! We can only recommend to everyone not to hesitate with the purchase of the festival pass, because there are gonna be no more tickets when the currently available capacity is gone.

The festival passes are 102€ (full festival passes only), but you’ll also find discounted festival passes for the disabled and for kids in our e-shop here.

e-shop: https://shop.brutalassault.cz/en/tickets

Which 10 bands are you looking forward to the most this year’s BA?! Show your style!

We bring back the Mybrutalassalt campaign you know from previous years! You can now generate your own Brutal Assault poster with bands ordered according to your liking and share your taste with the world! More over, if you share your #mybrutal2019 poster on Facebook or Instagram, you can win a free festival pass!

Find more details at: http://my.brutalassault.cz/en/

 

 

(record review)BROADSIDE-Empty/King Of Nothing

Victory Records used to stand for brutal and also metalic sounding hardcore bands when I was a kid growing up in the mid 90-ies. They released records from some really awesome bands that were ahead of their time like Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Strife… Today, Victory continues to carry on their own path, releasing interesting bands from the underground, maybe not all hardcore, but they kept their hardcore roots and expanded to more musically varied style remaining in the underground.

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Broadside are hailing from Richmond, USA and this is their brand new seven inch single containing two songs. The music of these guys could be categorized as pop/punkrock. Empty is a gentle song, just made for daydreaming and carries in itself a haunted melody that somehow stays with you all through the day never leaving your ear. It is pretty atmospheric song. King Of Nothing is a bit harder song, carrying more punkrock and even melodic hardcore elements in the song structure. Back then 20 years ago, I would say, geet ouut and only laughed at this music being ignorant hardcore kid growing up. Now in my 40-ies, I love this one. Well written, well played and it is really a pleasure having listening to this fine record. Get your copy!

7,5/10

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