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Brutal Assault 2027

4–7 August 2027 Jaroměř, Czechia · Josefov Fortress 4 days
Camping festival 63 acts so far Presale on Extreme metal / death metal / hardcore approx. 20,000 (estimate, not verified)

Central Europe's most important extreme metal festival: death, black, grind, hardcore and post-metal in a historic fortress, with many special sets and rarities.

Listen to the line-up Official website ↗

Updated 18 October 2026

Photo: mirji · CC BY-SA 3.0

Full line-up 2027

63 acts

Mercyful Fate / Children of Bodom / The Sisters of Mercy

Death Metal & Grind 13

Carcass / Dismember / Hypocrisy / Benediction / Six Feet Under / Defleshed / Gruesome / Azarath / Fulci / Gorgasm / Peelingflesh / The Zenith Passage / Schizophrenia

Black Metal & Avant-garde 14

Emperor / Mgła / Kanonenfieber / Arcturus (Special Set) / Belphegor (special set) / A Tribute to Quorthon and Bathory / Master's Hammer (Special Set) / Igorrr / Vintersorg / Stormkeep / Perchta / Plebeian Grandstand / Møl / Mick Gordon

Heavy, Thrash & Melodic Death 10

Mercyful Fate / Children of Bodom / Destruction / DevilDriver / Dethklok / Suicidal Angels / Norther / Insanity Alert / John Bush Celebrating the Songs of Anthrax 1993–2003 (Special Set) / John 5 and the Creatures feat. Wednesday 13 (Special Set)

Metalcore, Deathcore & Djent 13

Heaven Shall Burn / Knocked Loose / Malevolence / Shadow of Intent / Sylosis / Brand of Sacrifice / Carnifex / Humanity's Last Breath / Left to Suffer / Make Them Suffer / The Acacia Strain / Volumes / Unprocessed

Punk & Hardcore 4

Agnostic Front / Gorilla Biscuits / Get the Shot / Mucky Pup

Doom, Stoner, Post & Gothic 6

The Sisters of Mercy / Yob / The Obsessed / Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats / John Garcia / Russian Circles

Others 3

Forsmán / Towards the Sinister / Whispers

63 confirmed acts, according to the organiser «47 % confirmed».

3 headliners · 63 acts in total · order as announced · Highlighted = in «My artists». Every name links to the artist page with their festival tour.

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Fit for your compass. Weights in small print.

    Plan the trip

    Typical weather

    24°daytime high
    15°night low

    days with rain: 4.0/10. Pack: rain jacket, boots

    Average 2001–2025 for the festival days · ERA5-Land (Copernicus)

    Getting there

    Brutal Assault offers the BRUTAL EXPRESS special train from Prague via Hradec Králové to Jaroměř, with a Sunday return from Jaroměř. For the 2026 edition, bus tickets from Trutnov and another location to Prague were sold. Parking can be booked through the official e-shop, while parking in the town is limited.

    • WRO107 km
    • PRG121 km
    • DRS174 km

    Station close by: Jaroměř zastávka (0.6 km), Jaroměř (1.7 km)

    Distance as the crow flies from the festival site · airports: Wikidata, stations: © OpenStreetMap contributors · Source: brutalassault.cz, brutalassault.cz, brutalassault.cz

    Travel & stay

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    On site

    • ✓Camping
    • ✓Family-friendly
    • ✓Accessible

    Stages: 4 (two main stages side by side plus two side stages, as of previous years, not verified)

    Tickets

    Festival pass 2027 (second price tier) € 229.90 available, Junior € 85; camping «Natural stand» and VIP lounges sold out.

    Camping on meadows and in the fortress; the «Natural stand» and VIP pitches are already sold out, car park 4 is still available. Many visitors travel by train to Jaroměř.

    Official website

    Map

    OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles · © OpenStreetMap

    At a glance

    Why
    Stages in and between the walls and casemates of an 18th-century fortress, including underground passages.
    Line-up announcement
    Line-up usually announced in mid-September
    first acts announced: 27 September 2023, 12 August 2024, 25 September 2025

    Artists also playing other festivals in 2027

    Festivals nearby

    Sources: Brutal Assault – Line-up · Brutal Assault – Tickets

    Researched automatically from these sources; facts are checked against the official website wherever possible.

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