Brutal Assault is an open-air extreme metal festival that takes place in the 18th-century army fortress Josefov , located in Jaroměř , Czechia. It is held each August early in the month from Wednesday until Saturday. The festival started in 1996, originally focused on grindcore . For many years, it was a small event with mainly Czech and Slovak bands performing. It changed location several times and grew into a large event by 2006, when over 7,000 people attended the festival in Svojšice . After moving to Josefov, attendances grew further to 15,000 in 2012 and the festival has operated two alternating main stages since. Currently, Brutal Assault features artists that perform all forms of extreme metal, including some of the genre's most prominent figures, as well as artists with dark and intense styles from genres outside of heavy metal such as punk rock , experimental rock and electronic . The festival motto is: "Against violence and intolerance".
15-501: Brutal Assault takes place in Josefov , an army fortress built between 1780 and 1787 by Emperor Joseph II on the left bank of the Elbe and Mettau rivers near Jaroměř . The two main stages are built against the fortress walls. Brutal Assault offers mandatory cashless payment with a wristband chip, reducing risk of lost items or theft. Guests can keep their valuables in deposit boxes provided by
30-608: A Welsh hardcore punk band founded in Cardiff . Formed in 2005, the band went through significant lineup changes throughout their 17 year career, including seven years fronted by vocalist Ajay Jones who featured on their first three studio albums, and ten years fronted by Louis Gauthier. The band officially disbanded in 2022. They released six studio albums and six EPs, including two split EPs . In 2005, vocalist Gareth Arnold, guitarist James Goodman, bassist Dale Williams and drummer Adam Evans formed Brutality Will Prevail. This lineup released
45-541: A residential district. The biggest extreme metal music festival in Central Europe , Brutal Assault , takes place here each August, with the music stages built against the outer walls. Metalheads from all over Europe occupy the fortress for four days each year. 50°20′21.4″N 15°55′48.8″E / 50.339278°N 15.930222°E / 50.339278; 15.930222 Brutality Will Prevail Brutality Will Prevail (sometimes abbreviated BWP ) were
60-603: Is a large historic defence complex of 18th-century military architecture in Jaroměř in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic . It was built between 1780 and 1787. Together with Terezín fortress, it was built for protection against attacks from Prussia , but its military importance, like other such fortresses built across Europe, was minimal as decisive battles were often fought elsewhere. In 1948 it became part of
75-553: The Life Is Our War EP later that year, before Arnold and Williams both departed. Subsequently, Ajay Jones was hired as the band's vocalist and Emlyn Lamb as bassist. Their debut album Forgotten Soul was released in 2009, and their second Root of All Evil was released the following year. In December 2011 and January 2012, they toured the United Kingdom and mainland Europe alongside Harm's Way and Dead End Path, including
90-586: The Girls and Gorguts (who were instead announced for Brutal Assault 2015). Suburban Terrorist Keep on Rotting Flotsam and Jetsam The Agonist High on Fire Chthonic Terrorizer Venom Modern Day Babylon Panychida Havok Ringworm Texas in July Pentagram Chile iwrestledabearonce Church of Misery Onslaught Misery Index Månegarm Ignite Crowbar Obituary Red Fang Suffocation Bring Me
105-1861: The Horizon Slayer Children of Bodom Architects Katatonia Khold Isacaarum Rise of Surya Cripper Fleshless GrandExit Obscure Sphinx Heiden Mors Principium Est Skeletonwitch Fleshgod Apocalypse Carnival in Coal Unleashed H 2 O Six Feet Under Blindead The Devin Townsend Project Amon Amarth Shining Broken Hope Combichrist Nightfall Spasm Liveevil Nervecell Martyrdöd Insania Severe Torture Hacktivist Dew-Scented Manes Impaled Nazarene Cruachan August Burns Red Sodom Soilwork Sick of It All Krabathor Down Satyricon Converge My Dying Bride Hail of Bullets Siberian Meat Grinder Gutted Brutality Will Prevail Feastem Inquisition Epicardiectomy God Is an Astronaut (extended set) Gehenna ? Heaving Earth Infernal Tenebra Rats Get Fat První hoře Kraków The Ocean Pungent Stench Manes (acoustic show) Enthroned Mgła Worship Radiolokator Hammercult Okkultokrati In Mourning Exivious Repulsion Carnival in Coal Benediction Jesu Aosoth Dodecahedron Six Degrees of Separation Josefov Fortress Josefov Fortress ( Czech : Pevnost Josefov , German : Josefstadt or Josephstadt )
120-618: The January 2012 Outbreak Festival . In March 2021, they toured the United Kingdom support the Acacia Strain alongside Hang the Bastard and TRC . In 2012, their third studio album Scatter the Ashes was released, during this album's touring cycle, Jones departed from the band, citing that touring had led to the band becoming full time when he only wanted to ever do it part time. Louis Gauthier joined
135-459: The area of Plesy, near the town of Jaroměř. Designed by the French architect Claude Benoît Duhamel de Querlonde and fortified by octagonal-shaped, bastion-like brick walls extending over 289 hectares, the fortress is a system of fortifications in the form of an amphitheatre with extensive three-storey deep underground corridors formed in cretaceous rocks, and running through a labyrinth of 45 kilometers,
150-495: The band as their new vocalist, as did Craig Reynolds as drummer. In November 2013, the band then entered the Monnow Valley recording studio to record their next album. Suspension of Consciousness was then announced on 27 January 2014, and officially released on 7 April. On June, they played the 2013 Download Festival . Guitarist Ash Gray departed from the band in 2015 to form Venom Prison . and soon after Marc Richards rejoined
165-632: The band on drums. On 8 February 2017, they released the music video for the single "Penitence", which was followed on 25 March 2017 by the release of their fifth studio album In Darkness . Their sixth album Misery Sequence was released on 13 September 2019. On 21 September 2021, the band announced they would be disbanding following a final tour during 2022. Critics have categorised Brutality Will Prevail's music as metallic hardcore , sludge metal , tough guy hardcore , and heavy hardcore , often incorporating elements of doom metal , Southern rock , and post-rock . The band's early EPs made use of
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#1732875627907180-514: The festival organisers for a fee. The site is fully accessible to disabled visitors. The nineteenth annual festival was held from Wednesday 6 August to Saturday 9 August 2014. It was headlined by Slayer , Amon Amarth , Satyricon , Venom , Bring Me the Horizon , Children of Bodom , Devin Townsend and Down . Three bands were announced but eventually had to be cancelled: Strife , Arsonists Get All
195-628: The likes of which cannot be found anywhere else in Europe. It had three distinct sections - the main fortress with its residential and public function, the lower Crown fortress with a fortified island, and a forward redoubt in Brdce fortress. The town had four gates. The dominant part of the whole Josefov Fortress is the Empire Church, which was built between 1805-10. It was designed by Heinrich Hatzinger, Julius D’Andreis and Franz Joseph Fohmann. Before that, there
210-523: The town of Jaroměř . After the coronation of Emperor Joseph II , new fortifications began to be built for the defence of the northern border of the Empire. The defence of Moravia was entrusted to Olomouc , which was fortified by powerful forts. When the work was completed, the fortification of Hradec Králové commenced between 1766-88. The Emperor Joseph II himself had the Josefov Fortress built around
225-466: Was a fountain in the same place, which was made by the Czech J. Malinský in 1817. The Josefov fortress was originally named Ples, and only later, in 1793, was it renamed Josefov. In 1948 the fortress town was incorporated into Jaroměř and today it is an urban monument reservation preserving 18th-century military building techniques and classicist urbanism. Over the years, the fortress has been converted into
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