I havent been to brutal assault before but im going next year, hence im watching all these reviews and stuff, it looks to be unique which is something that draws me in

Great festival really enjoyed it

I enjoyed all the bands I saw and my top 5 is (no particular order) Be'lakor, Shadow of Intent, Carpenter Brut, Perturbator and Archspire. I was surprised by Zeal & Ardor and Horskh. A bit disappointed by Heilung and Anaal Nathrakh concerts. The previous times I saw these two the shows were better. I like that BA allows some electronic music artists to play on the big stages as well because I like industrial, EBM and synthwave as well (Carpenter Brut and Perturbator this year, Front Line Assembly and Combichrist previous years). I do understand that it's not everyone's cup of tea especially on extreme metal festival. I would say that Insanity Alert had the best interaction with the crowd. I only watched them on tv inside the fortress walls chill area but it looked fun. They usually play some ambient or electronic musinc on the small KAL (Keep Ambient Lodge) stage where you can chill on the couches. Unfortunatelly this is year I was not there much because I either had clashes or the music was not interesting to me. A lot of people were commenting on the lack of the drinkable water. I did not use the tanks myself but they should definitely add more next time because apparently there were like 20+ minutes queues to get the water. Same with the non-alcoholic beer. I was fine with the current options but I understand that people want more variety. The last downside I can think of is the Octagon stage. They had to move the stage from Bastion area where postapo convoy had the base to Octagon area because of the building statics in Bastion. Apparently it was not suitable for a stage. That move made the path through fortress (from main stages to KAL/Obscure stage) congested in the evening when bads played at Octagon stage which made a lot of people angry. They made it one way only but they need to think of better solution of they have to have Octagon stage next year. Let the year-long wait for the next one begin.

Brutal assault is great; but it’s usually amateurs night when the fun stuff happens! So, have you ever been to krhanice open air?

In my opinion Crisix, Angelus Apátrida and Brand of Sacrifice were the best bands on the festival.

I thought Meshuggah played a good set, Ingested were also good. The absolute best investment of the festival was the Natural Stage, being able to sit up on the verge and see the bands when you want to take a break from standing at the front!

Best band : Archspire

Marduk blew away EVERY band that played before them, Mortuus just shadowed every other single vocalist. Dying Fetus, Benediction, Skinless, Misthyrming, Ingested, Cult of Luna, Russian Circle... ah, and Messa. These were the best performers.

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