Brutal Assault has announced next confirmed bands:
Brutal Assault is proud to announce that THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, headed by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend, has been added to the bill for BA 2014! Another confirmed acts are Canadian technical death metallers GORGUTS and Colombian/USA based black metal band INQUISITION. More bands coming soon.
Confirmed bands, so far, are:
AMON AMARTH, AUGUST BURNS RED, BENEDICTION, BRING ME THE HORIZON, DAGOBA, GORGUTS, HAIL OF BULLETS, IN MOURNING, INPALED NAZARENE, INQUISITION, KRABATHOR, MY DYING BRIDE, NERVECELL, OBITUARY, PYREXIA, REPULSION, SARKE, THE CHURCH OF PUNGENT STENCH, THE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, UNLEASHED, VICTIMS.
BA 2014 ticket presale has started. Now you can buy your ticket or make reservations online. Tickets are available at 1600 CZK (+PayPal fees) until April 30, 2014. Get more information by clicking HERE.
Brutal Assault has announced next confirmed bands:
Another three confirmed bands are here. Today with Swedish death metal pioneers UNLEASHED, Finnish black metallers IMPALED NAZARENE and French groove metal band DAGOBA. Next bands coming soon.
Confirmed bands, so far, are:
AMON AMARTH, AUGUST BURNS RED, BENEDICTION, BRING ME THE HORIZON, DAGOBA, HAIL OF BULLETS, IN MOURNING, INPALED NAZARENE, KRABATHOR, MY DYING BRIDE, NERVECELL, OBITUARY, PYREXIA, REPULSION, SARKE, THE CHURCH OF PUNGENT STENCH, UNLEASHED, VICTIMS.
BA 2014 ticket presale has started. Now you can buy your ticket or make reservations online. Tickets are available at 1600 CZK (+PayPal fees) until April 30, 2014. Get more information by clicking HERE.
Brutal Assault organizators have issued the following update:
The comeback of a legend is here. 30 years since the establishment, 17 years since their last appearance at the BA, the only show this year. Christopher, Bruno and Pegas are back. KRABATHOR is back! Brutal Assault confirmes legendary death metal band KRABATHOR as a newly confirmed act for August 2014. Another confirmed bands are British metalcore leaders BRING ME THE HORIZON and Swedish progressive death metal band IN MOURNING.
Confirmed bands, so far, are:
AMON AMARTH, AUGUST BURNS RED, BENEDICTION, BRING ME THE HORIZON, HAIL OF BULLETS, IN MOURNING, KRABATHOR, MY DYING BRIDE, NERVECELL, OBITUARY, PYREXIA, REPULSION, SARKE, THE CHURCH OF PUNGENT STENCH, VICTIMS.
BA 2014 ticket presale has started. Now you can buy your ticket or make reservations online. Tickets are available at 1600 CZK (+PayPal fees) until April 30, 2014. Get more information by clicking HERE.
Brutal Assault Festival, which will take place at Fortress Josefov (CZ) on August 6-9 2014, announces three new names which will appear at the BA festival 2014.
First of the new confirmed bands is one of the most influential grindcore band of all time REPULSION which is regarded as one of the cornerstones in extreme music and one of the innovators of the grincore genre, influencing such bands as Carcass, Napalm Death or Terrorizer. Next confirmed are Swedish hardcore/punk commando VICTIMS and Dutch old school death metallers HAIL OF BULLETS.
Confirmed bands, so far, are:
AMON AMARTH, BENEDICTION, AUGUST BURNS RED, MY DYING BRIDE, OBITUARY, NERVECELL, PYREXIA, SARKE, THE CHURCH OF PUNGENT STENCH, REPULSION, HAIL OF BULLETS, VICTIMS.
BA 2014 ticket presale has started. Now you can buy your ticket or make reservations online. Tickets are available at 1600 CZK (+PayPal fees) until April 30, 2014. Get more information by clicking HERE.
According to Metal Blade, Swedish heavy metal titans AMON AMARTH have announced a headline tour of the US for January and February 2014 in support of their newly released album Deceiver of The Gods. Very special guest on the dates will be ENSLAVED with additional support from SKELETONWITCH (NO ENSLAVED ON SAN DIEGO).
Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg comments, “After our successful part of the Rockstar Mayhem Festival this summer, it is with great confidence we’ll be heading back to North America as the headliner in January. We are proud and happy to announce that our friends in Enslaved and Skeletonwitch will be supporting us on this raid and pillage tour across the continent! Come and join us for all the fun of a real metal show! WE. SHALL.DESTROY!”
AMON AMARTH
+ ENSLAVED
+ SKELETONWITCH
Friday, January 17 – Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
Saturday, January 18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red
Monday, January 20 – San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live
Tuesday, January 21 – Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
Wednesday, January 22 – Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
Friday, January 24 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
Saturday, January 25 – Tampa, FL @ The Ritz
Sunday, January 26 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
Monday, January 27 – Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues (*no Skeletonwitch)
Wednesday, January 29 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
Thursday, January 30 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVA
Friday, January 31 – Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore
Saturday, February 1 – Boston, MA @ House Of Blues
Monday, February 3 – Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
Tuesday, February 4 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
Friday, February 7 – Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
Saturday, February 8 – Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
Sunday, February 9 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
Tuesday, February 11 – Denver, CO @ Summit Theatre
Wednesday, February 12 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Murray Theater
Friday, February 14 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency
Saturday, February 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Sunday, February 16 – San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues (* No Enslaved)
General on-sale tickets will be available on September 20th and can be accessed at the same link.
Deceiver of the Gods, Amon Amarth’s latest studio release via Metal Blade Records, has broken the band’s previous sales records around the world. The album landed at #19 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and #19 on the Top Current Albums Chart. The band’s last album, Surtur Rising, entered the Top 200 Chart at #34 making Deceiver of the Gods the band’s highest charting record to date.
In related news, AMON AMARTH is currently putting the finishing touches on the official video for colossal track “Father Of The Wolf.” The video will be unveiled leading up to the band’s US tour kicking off in January. Until then, check out the trailer now playing below:
In Germany, Deceiver of the Gods entered the Top 100 Chart at #3 and the official Media Market/Saturn Chart at #3.
Deceiver of the Gods came in at #9 on Canada’s Top 200 Chart, #2 on the Hard Music Charts and #21 on the Digital Music Chart. Additionally, the record came in at #2 on the iTunes Metal Chart, #2 on the iTunes Rock Chart and #7 on the iTunes Top 200.
In the UK, the record entered the official Album Charts at #67, the Rock/Metal Chart at #4 and the Independent Chart at #14 marking the highest UK chart placements for the band yet.
Elsewhere, Deceiver of the Gods came in at #9 on the Top 100 Album Chart in Switzerland, #7 on the Austrian Top 100, #9 in Sweden, #27 in Denmark, #51 in France, #34 in Czech Republic and #51 in Hungary.
“Deceiver Of The Gods”, the ninth studio album from Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH, sold around 17,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 19 on The Billboard 200 chart. The record arrived in stores on June 25 via Metal Blade Records.
AMON AMARTH‘s 2011 CD, “Surtur Rising”, opened with around 15,000 units to debut at No. 34. The band’s 2008 album, “Twilight Of The Thunder God”, registered a first-week tally of more than 11,000 copies to enter the chart at No. 48.
Recorded at Backstage Studios in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, and produced, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap (OPETH, MEGADETH, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE), “Deceiver Of The Gods” delivers ten fiery battle hymns made of buzzsaw riffs and epic harmonies all driven by vocalist Johan Hegg‘s commanding Viking roar and absorbing accounts of Norse crusades and treachery.
“Deceiver Of The Gods” comes adorned with another outstanding Tom Thiel-created cover portraying a mythical battle between the Norse Gods Loki and Thor. As an added bonus, Messiah Marcolin (CANDLEMASS) makes an appearance as guest vocalist on eighth track, “Hel”.
AMON AMARTH is opening the main stage of this year’s edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, which kicked off on June 29 in San Bernardino.
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