A feast of extreme music is coming to Brno!
A feast of extreme music is coming to Brno! Campaign for Musical Destruction 2027 brings grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH, the technical brutality of MISERY INDEX, the mechanical industrial of AUTHOR & PUNISHER, neocrust band HABAK and the raw PIECE. On 5 February 2027 Fléda gets the very best of today's guitar extremes.
Birmingham icons NAPALM DEATH defined the extreme metal underground with their groundbreaking debut Scum (1987) and made it into the Guinness Book of Records with the shortest song in history, "You Suffer". But instead of comfortably living off their own history, the line-up around Barney Greenway and Shane Embury keeps looking for new sonic challenges. Records such as Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism and the EP Resentment is Always Seismic prove that their relentless grindcore tempo and death metal riffs can organically absorb cold post-punk, noise and industrial soundscapes without losing any of their socially critical explosiveness.
MISERY INDEX are an American death metal band with strong elements of grindcore and hardcore punk, formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland. The band was founded by bassist and vocalist Jason Netherton, and its name comes from the economic misery index (a combination of unemployment and inflation). The band is known for its high technical skill, high-energy concerts all over the world and lyrics that take sharp aim at political and social issues.
AUTHOR & PUNISHER, the one-man project of Tristan Shone, turns the definition of heavy metal upside down. A former mechanical engineer, he uses pneumatic and electronic machinery of his own design, physically wringing massive sub-bass frequencies, industrial rhythms and an impenetrable wall of sound out of it. His fusion of doom metal, industrial and drone is a unique physical experience, where technology becomes an extension of human rage.
Mexico's HABAK bring dramatic build-ups and emotion to the line-up. Their take on neocrust is built on the contrast between a relentless d-beat tempo, dark hardcore and immersive, atmospheric passages with a touch of post-rock. The evening opens with PIECE, who go for direct, unpolished grind/hardcore with a clear goal: setting a devastating pace from the very first drum hit.