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Brutal Assault 2024 11

28.06 - Finland
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31.07 - Romania
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17.05 - Germany
Rock Hard Festival 2024 3

24.05 - Serbia
Rammstein: European Stadium Tour 2024 2

05.06 - Poland
Mystic Festival 2024 2

09.06 - Portugal
NADA Fest 2024 2

Members: 7

Guests: 991

Musicians' birthdays:

34 - Alexander Andersson
57 - Andrés Giménez
40 - Bruno Santos
34 - Bryan Boorsma
41 - Casey J. Hogan
51 - Charles Petter Andreason
25 - Chris Ward
54 - Coby Koch
68 - Douglas Pearce
45 - Francesco Bucci
(1945-2020) - Gordon Haskell
51 - Juuso Jalasmäki
47 - Kálmán Oláh
36 - Kenta Koie
36 - Kevin Grem
45 - Koen Romeijn
53 - Mårten Hagström
53 - Mauro "Tschibu" Casciero
43 - Michiel Van Der Plicht
28 - Mike Douglas Marques Miranda
48 - Mikko Korsbäck
33 - Nicoletta Rosellini
40 - Patrick Martin Stumph
73 - Paul Daniel Frehley
42 - Per Lengstedt
40 - Pierre Garcia
36 - Remi Johannesen
58 - Remo "Brögi" Broggi
(1977-2002) - Robert Charles "Rob" Lumbre
37 - Roman Borshchevsky
54 - Rusty Cooley
46 - Sami Hinkka
(1984-2010) - Sebastian "Sebbo" Gallinat
48 - Simon "Smerte" Petersen
29 - Stefano Viola
42 - Stevie Floyd
34 - Susanna Coltrè
40 - Tara McLeod
37 - Vitalis Kast
(1977-2006) - Yann Pacaud

RIP:

2022 - Erik Lund

Charts Top of 2024 Top 200

1.	Týr Battle Ballads
2.	My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding
3.	Ingested The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams
4.	Judas Priest Invincible Shield
5.	Cistvaen At Light's Demise
6.	The Vision Bleak Weird Tales
7.	Labyrinthus Stellarum Vortex Of The Worlds
8.	Hamferð Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
9.	Belore Eastern Tales
10.	Deicide Banished By Sin

1.	Death Symbolic
2.	Megadeth Rust In Peace
3.	Judas Priest Painkiller
4.	Metallica Master Of Puppets
5.	Opeth Blackwater Park
6.	Metallica Ride The Lightning
7.	Black Sabbath Paranoid
8.	Iron Maiden Powerslave
9.	Death The Sound Of Perseverance
10.	Agalloch The Mantle

1.	Judas Priest Invincible Shield
2.	My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding
3.	Cistvaen At Light's Demise
4.	In Vain Solemn
5.	Dödsrit Nocturnal Will
6.	Borknagar Fall
7.	Sgàile Traverse The Bealach
8.	Eternal Storm A Giant Bound To Fall
9.	Labyrinthus Stellarum Vortex Of The Worlds
10.	Necrophobic In The Twilight Grey

	Band	Style	Country	Formed	Split	Fans
1	Rotting Christ 1987-	Black metal Gothic metal	Greece	1987	-	1096
2	Ne Obliviscaris 2003-	Extreme progressive metal	Australia	2003	-	805
3	Cynic 1987-	Progressive death metal Progressive metal	USA	1987	-	670
4	Deathspell Omega 1998-	Black metal Avantgarde metal	France	1998	-	449
5	Ghost Brigade 2005-2020	Post-metal Alternative metal	Finland	2005	2020	448
6	Sólstafir 1995-	Atmospheric black metal Post-rock	Iceland	1995	-	431
7	Carach Angren 2003-	Symphonic black metal	The Netherlands	2003	-	422
8	Shape Of Despair 1995-	Funeral doom metal	Finland	1995	-	400
9	Gorguts 1989-	Death metal Technical death metal Avantgarde metal	Canada	1989	-	395
10	Green Carnation 1990-	Death metal Gothic metal Progressive metal	Norway	1990	-	368
11	Thy Catafalque 1998-	Avantgarde black metal	Hungary	1998	-	357
12	Beyond Creation 2005-	Technical death metal Progressive death metal	Canada	2005	-	317
13	Saor 2013-	Atmospheric black metal Folk metal	United Kingdom	2013	-	299
14	1349 1997-	Black metal	Norway	1997	-	296
15	Esoteric 1992-	Psychedelic doom metal Funeral doom metal	United Kingdom	1992	-	260
16	Hate Eternal 1996-	Brutal death metal	USA	1996	-	249
17	Benighted 1998-	Blackened death metal Brutal death metal Grindcore	France	1998	-	241
18	Darkspace 1999-	Ambient black metal	Switzerland	1999	-	205
19	Abbath 2015-	Black metal	Norway	2015	-	201
20	Archspire 2007-	Technical death metal	Canada	2007	-	194
21	Mar De Grises 2000-2013	Doom metal	Chile	2000	2013	186
22	Kylesa 2001-	Sludge metal	USA	2001	-	183
23	Vreid 2004-	Black metal	Norway	2004	-	176
24	Saint Vitus 1979-	Doom metal	USA	1979	-	173
25	Nargaroth 1996-	Black metal	Germany	1996	-	166
26	Woods Of Desolation 2005-	Atmospheric black metal	Australia	2005	-	166
27	Deströyer 666 1994-	Blackened thrash metal	Australia United Kingdom	1994	-	160
28	Alkaloid 2014-	Extreme progressive metal	Germany	2014	-	158
29	Voyager 1999-	Symphonic progressive metal	Australia	1999	-	144
30	Terrorizer 1986-	Grindcore Death metal	USA	1986	-	142
31	Tsjuder 1993-	Black metal	Norway	1993	-	137
32	Gaerea 2016-	Black metal	Portugal	2016	-	124
33	On Thorns I Lay 1992-	Gothic metal Death doom metal Doom metal Alternative rock Death doom metal	Greece	1992	-	120
34	Funeral Mist 1993-	Black metal	Sweden	1993	-	119
35	Anciients 2010-	Progressive metal	Canada	2010	-	118
36	The Great Old Ones 2009-	Atmospheric black metal Ambient	France	2009	-	118
37	Oceans Of Slumber 2011-	Extreme progressive metal Progressive metal	USA	2011	-	113
38	Der Weg Einer Freiheit 2009-	Black metal	Germany	2009	-	111
39	Enthroned 1993-	Black metal	Belgium	1993	-	111
40	Funeral 1991-	Funeral doom metal Doom metal	Norway	1991	-	104
41	Abysmal Dawn 2003-	Death metal	USA	2003	-	101
42	Hooded Menace 2007-	Death doom metal	Finland	2007	-	97
43	...And Oceans 1995-	Symphonic black metal Industrial metal Symphonic black metal	Finland	1995	-	93
44	Urgehal 1992-	Black metal	Norway	1992	-	92
45	Defeated Sanity 1994-	Brutal death metal	Germany	1994	-	91
46	Horrendous 2009-	Death metal	USA	2009	-	90
47	Kontinuum 2001-	Death doom metal Post-metal	Iceland	2001	-	84
48	Fair To Midland 1998-	Progressive metal Alternative metal	USA	1998	-	83
49	Sylvaine 2013-	Atmospheric black metal Shoegaze	Norway	2013	-	82
50	Arkan 2005-	Melodic death metal Oriental folk metal	France	2005	-	80