Unorthodox fans of metal music will not miss Brutal Assault. On its original date, there is a three-
day, smaller festival named after the original name of the imperial fortress town, that has been
hosting Brutal Assault for years.
For the second year in a row, due to all too well known circumstances, everything is different, but even
this year the organizing team behind Brutal Assault has not given up. And so, due to restrictions and the
situation around the coronavirus, just like the last year, they have come up with a variant of a smaller
festival, named JOSEFSTADT.
Anyone who has ever been to Brutal Assault knows that it is unique for its atmosphere, dramaturgy and
location. And the goal for JOSEFSTADT is to bring the same experience to this „little Brutal“ - in the
same fashion as with full scale version – so no one should feel any difference in the level of services
provided.
JOSEFSTADT is a three-day festival taking place at Josefov Fortress from 12-14 August 2021 and is
officially the replacement event for Brutal Assault 25, which is postponed to 2022. More than 40 artists
primarily from Europe will play on two stages, incl. two icons from Sweden – melodic death dealers
HYPOCRISY and black metal warmongers MARDUK, eccentric French project IGORRR, Polish black
stars MGŁA, German thrash punchers DESTRUCTION and a combo of death metal legends from Poland
VADER and DECAPITATED.
As usual with Brutal Assault, the genre focus of JOSEFSTADT is not looking solely backwards and it
encompasses both household names and bands whose halo is still gaining in intensity. Thus we can talk
about death commando AZARATH with Behemoth’s drummer Inferno, post-black atmosphere seekers
HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY, a faction of modern directions stemming from deathcore in the form of
bands WITHIN DESTRUCTION, MENTAL CRUELTY and DISTANT, the dissonant Italians AD
NAUSEAM, the French E-FORCE with former Voivod singer, who prepared a set based on the albums
„Phobos“ and „Negatron“ or by tribal folk influenced Romanians DORDEDUH.
And why Josefstadt you ask? It's the former name of the historic 18th century imperial fortress town that
was built by the Habsburgs on the orders of Emperor Joseph II - now called Josefov – which has been
home to the festival since 2007. This military fortress later served as a hospital for the wounded and as a
prison camp, and for three centuries was inhabited by military garrisons of various armies, whether they
were Austrian, Czechoslovak, German or Soviet. Today, it is a historic landmark with an unmistakable
character and the site of the annual holy of the holies of metal fans worldwide, this year in the form of
JOSEFSTADT.
Festival line-up:
Ad Nauseam, Altars Ablaze, Azarath, Beast Within The Sound, Belzebong, Bohemyst, Burning Witches,
Catastrofy, Crippled Fingers, ČAD, Debustrol, Decapitated, Destruction, Distant, Doomas, Dordeduh, E-
Force, Gride, Gruzja, Harakiri for the Sky, Hypocrisy, Igorrr, Implore, InnerSphere, Insistent, The
Materia, Marduk, Mean Messiah, Mental Cruelty, Mgla, Mindwork, Reactory, S.D.I., Sick Sinus
Syndrome, Skywalker, Sněť, Spasm, Stíny Plamenů, Teethgrinder, Truchlo Strzygi, Vader, Within
Destruction
Tickets
- e-TICKET:
https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets/detail/id/309
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