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NEWS: OBSCENE EXTREME AMERICA Line Up Additions: Holy Cost, Who Cares?, Purgatoire, Talk Sick, Obsolete Mankind
The Obscene Extreme America mosh pit has grown some more with its next batch of line up adds! for this year’s festival in Montreal, QC from August 20-23.
Announced this week are:
IT’S TIME TO GET ROMANTIC WITH SOME GROOVY GORE/PORNOGRIND! HOLY COST!!!
You’re planning on having a date this August? We have found a perfect gig for a passionate & sentimental evening. Put on your best dress, light those candles and let yourself go to the sweet & harmonious love anthems of HOLY COST. Originally from New Brunswick & now settled in Montreal, these handsome gentlemen will bring back the magic in your relationship in an instance while playing love songs from their albums such as Pornado or Jurassic Ass.
OH SO DEATH/GRIND MUSIC MAKES YOU BLEED FROM YOUR EARS? WHO CARES?
Not bleeding from your ears yet? Then get your ass in WHO CARES?’s pit as these death metal veterans declare war to your sweet & sensible hearing. This band from Saguenay spares no one as they throw some of the most destructive grindcore strikes over their violent & crushing death metal tunes. Be a part of this pure mayhem at Obscene Extreme America 2015.
HEAVY AS FUCK OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL FROM RIMOUSKI!!! PURGATOIRE!!!
At OEF America, you’re going to get your head crushed & your bowels pulverized as these colossal bastards hit the stage. Hailing from Bas-St-Laurent, PURGATOIRE are a newcoming band paying tribute to the art of Old school death metal. They are one of the few death metal bands in Quebec that play heavy & crushing death metal ALL in french. Don’t miss this carnage!!!
OH SO YOU NEED TO TAKE IT EASY? COME RELAX WITH THIS FAST & CHAOTIC PUNK ATTACK!!! TALK-SICK!!!
TALK-SICK deliver an energetic and aggressive punk assault with 3 lead singers who each have their own distinctive ranges, creating a completely unique vocal style. Originally formed in Halifax in 2006 and now being a part of Montreal music scene, these bastards combine the frenzied, anarchic pace of punk with the technical proficiency of metal.
YOU’RE GOING TO HIT A WALL… A WALL OF MERCILESS DEATH/GRIND!!! OBSOLETE MANKIND!!!
Put your helmet on and get ready for an absolute musical carnage. OBSOLETE MANKIND will somehow bring you back in the ’90s without falling into nostalgia with their ferocious & complex death/grind tunes. Being constituted of NEURAXIS, DESPISED ICON & PHOBOCOSM members, these guys take now a different path to torture your senses with fast rhythm changes, gutturals vocals & pitiless grind attack.
Current fest line up:
ABDICATE – Usa
AGATHOCLES – Belgium
AGGRESSION – Canada
ARCHAGATHUS – Canada
BIOLOGICAL MONSTROSITY – Canada
BROKEN HOPE – Usa
CORRUPT LEADERS – Canada
CREATIVE WASTE – Saudia Arabia
DEBONED – Canada
DECHE-CHARGE – Canada
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION – France
DROPDEAD – Usa
FATAL FLAW – Canada
FUCK THE FACTS – Canada
FULL OF HELL – Usa
G.O.D. – Canada
GOEMAGOT – Usa
HARD CHARGER – Canada
HOMEWRECKER – Usa
HOMOLKA – Canada
IMMOLATION – Usa
INHUMATE – France
JIG-AI – Czech republic
MAGRUDERGRIND – Usa
MALIGNANCY – Usa
MESRINE – Canada
M.O.D. – Usa
MORPHEUS DESCENDS – Usa
MOTHER BRAIN – Usa
NAPALM RAID – Canada
NOISEM – Usa
POWERCUP – Canada
PSYCHO – Usa
PUTRESCENCE – Canada
PUTRID PILE – Usa
RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER – Usa
SACCAGE – Canada
SCHIRENC PLAYS PUNGENT STENCH – Austria
SOIL OF IGNORANCE – Canada
SOOTHSAYER – Canada
THE DRIP – Usa
TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION – Usa
TRAP THEM – Usa
For more info, please visit the following links:
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/407078159465552/
https://www.facebook.com/ObsceneExtremeAmerica
www.youtube.com/user/ObsceneExtremeFest
OBSCENE EXTREME AMERICA 2015 Schedule
Thursday AUGUST 20 – PRE-FEST, start 7 pm, approx. 10 bands
TRH Bar
3699, Boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec
Friday AUGUST 21, start 1 pm, approx. 20 bands
Théâtre TELUS, 1280 St-Denis / coin Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Québec
Saturday AUGUST 22, start 1 pm, approx. 20 bands
Théâtre TELUS
1280 St-Denis / coin Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Québec
Sunday AUGUST 23 – AFTERSHOW, start 5 pm, approx. 5-10 bands
Katacombes
1635 Boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2X 2S9
www.facebook.com/coopkatacombes
About:
Obscene Extreme Festival comes to Canada! August 20-23, the Obscene Extreme World Tour will be stopping by Montreal, Quebec for a weekend of extreme music madness!
Get your gore grind banana suit ready, put on your gas mask or your most comfortable stage diving costume and get psyched for a wide selection of underground acts. The first Canadian edition of this DIY party will bring the best of grindcore, crust, punk, death, thrash, hardcore, and everything in-between to the stage.
The Obscene Extreme Festival began in the Czech Republic in 1999, and over the past 16 years, more than 700 bands from all over the world have rocked its stage. The Obscene Extreme World Tour was born 2 years ago out of the desire to bring the carnage to extreme music fans worldwide. After Mexico, Indonesia, Australia, and Japan, the festival is bringing the blasting madness of Obscene Extreme to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Get ready for a 4 day trip of fast, brutal, and destructive musical violence.
5 reasons the Obscene Extreme World Tour is going to blow your mind:
1. Truly underground.
Obscene Extreme is one of the few truly underground festivals to unite big, genre-defining bands, and small, cult bands.
2. Vegan-friendly.
Whatever you do or don’t do, believe or practice, you’re welcome at Obscene Extreme.
3. Fair ticket price.
No massive booking agent or energy drink mega-festival bullshit, Obscene Extreme is affordable for everyone.
4. No shitty rules, no shitty security.
Stage diving, stage invasions and more, all welcome. Obscene Extreme treats you like people and doesn’t stop you having fun.
5. Grindcore carnival.
Wear a gasmask, dress as a goregrind banana, Obscene Extreme is more than a festival – it’s a party!
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