[Gallery] of Brewicide XXV, Part I: BRUTEFEST 2026 @ Corner Hotel, Melb (AU) 25.04.26.
Stay tuned for the full [Gig Review] - Coming Soon!
Event: Brutefest 2026
Artist/s: Warbringer (US - Headliners), Destruktor, Anoxia, Ratlord, Circle of Blood, Munitions, Monoliyth, Desecrator, Harlott, MUNT, Virulent Invocation (AU)
Organiser: Your Mate Bookings/ Brutefest
Location: The Tote Hotel, Collingwood, Melbourne (AU)
Date: Saturday, 25th April 2026
Crowd-Surfers: Numerous
Photography:
Richie Black Photography
Footage:
Brady Irwin (via ISC on Youtube)
ratlord (Melbourne, AU)
Some absolutely smelly, feral idiot of a gig-reviewer (Left) and Jake (Ratlord/CHOOF/Pissrash etc) doing his manic thang. (Credit: Richie Black Photography)
Ratlord - Footage #1 (via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Slightly less VB-spitting than your average Choof set, but don’t fret - I did cop a front-row beerkakke from the bloke. Absolute nutters! For your hell-th.
Ratlord - Footage #2 (via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
‘Chicks Rock!’ - oh yeah?! Well Emily crusts, d-beats and grinds, according to Ratlord/Creep Diets.
Nothing to make a man feel claustrophobic like blastbeating whilst wedged against the entrance of The Tote. #cosy
Ratlord - Footage #3 (via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
The family that grinds together… binds together? Riffs together… spliffs together?! Okay, shutting up now.
TFW when you’re mid-way through bashing your guitarists’ leg with a weird little hammer whilst wearing black gloves and get thirsty. I know right, relatable AF!
Ratlord - Footage #4 (via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube)
((apparently, more phone battery = more footage of the openers)):
Munitions (Melbourne, AU)
Clint Williams (Munitions, Fimbul Winter etc) finds your lack of mosh disturbing, crossed-arms dudes at the back…
‘That’s more like it!’ Clint screams into the mic, happy the flock have gotten into it*
*- Note: Embellished for creative licence, naturally.
So, so many riffs being slung out. More riffs slung in one set than accusations at your average deathcore frontman. So yeah - lots of riffs, then.
Munitions Footage #1 (via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Artisanal death-thrash, hand-strummed and shredded by local provedores of extreme-metal. <3
5-string is best-strings, right Erik Ritli? I mean that bass-gurn bottom-middle says it all.
Munitions Footage #1 (via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Tim Wright realises in sudden horror that it ain’t him, it ain’t him, he ain’t no fortunate drum(mer)…
Local ‘WE LOVE YOU [X BAND HERE]’ shouter/ pit-enthusiast Paul up front early!
I know a few of these louts and they’re all incurable pit-maniacs. What a lovely family photo <3
Munitions Footage #2 - The Levi & Max Spinning-Top Electric Boogaloo
(via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Munitions Footage #3
(via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Virulent Invocation (Melbourne, AU)
Hadn’t heard these guys before Brutefest - WOW. Y’all got a new fan in me, that set ripped! (Also Featuring Jimbo, of Jim’s Sausages)
Virulent Invocation Footage #1
(via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Matt Bell (Vocals) being one heck of a hooded screamin’ demon on the upstairs stage.
Jim Luxford aka ‘Jimbo’ y’all - he’ll cook Brutefest snags for hours, thrash your face off onstage with death metal bass and, if you’re super nice to him, might even cuddle you after Virulent are done with ya.
Virulent Invocation Footage #2
(via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Deo Aguanta ignoring the swirling mass of band-mates to his left, busting out some frantic, virulent riffin’
Area Man Ben Eberhard wanted for questioning for crimes against snare and double-kicks. Last seen blastbeating at The Tote.
Virulent Invocation Footage #1
(via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Monoliyth (Melbourne, AU):
What a staunch bunch of Melburnian death-metal units! Monoliyth reclaiming the local territory early in the evening.
Monoliyth Footage #1
(via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
He gurns, he growls, he roars right up in your jowls, it’s frontman Andrew Parkinson! Now available for scaring children at parties.
Jake Mackin smashing out the thunder Down Under - loud enough to make ya chunder.
Monoliyth Footage #2
(via Inner-Strength Check on Youtube):
Tim Wright showing his own kit how dead-to-rights he’s got it, bashing that thang like it owes protection money.
Jake Barr and Mick Barr with a double-surnamed dose of shreddy, riffin’ gee-tar! Shredtastic, fam.
‘Age shall not weary them’ - it’ll just make ‘em more pissed if you’re standing up the back with a crossed-arm gurn like a dead fish. Get into it!
anoxia (sydney, nsw):
Props to these Sydney bruisers for packing Tote front-bar out so far Richie couldn’t move, and I couldnt’ even physically get in there!
Anoxia Footage #1
(A front-bar Tote mosh! via ISC on Youtube:)
Joey Scott everyone - guttural belcher, Chunder From Down Under, etc.
When you bass and croon, the ladies swoon - innit James Taylor?
Marco Alvarez finding his Zen between the curtains (and near-relentless blastbeats). Om-mane-blasty-hum.
Certified Absolute Unit™ Elias Niahos just about tickling God’s toes with that friggin’ stance (riffs sent to Satan care of: Anoxia).
Nah. Don’t know these flogs from a boar of soap. Isn’t that right Sammy, Ash, Max and Jack? Bloody mosh-gremlins, the lot of ya.
ALRIGHTY THEN.
I don’t want to drag this one on forever as there’s still half the bloody festival to come (MUNT, Harlott, Circle of Blood, Desecrator, Destruktor and Warbringer)!
Check in on our Youtube Channel prior though, as I’ll be uploading whatever doesn’t get freaking DMCA’ed, crying in my coffee after losing half my Warbringer vids a heck of a lot more there, and on our social media!
‘Gallery of Brewicide XXV, Part II’ and ‘Brutefest 2026 Gig Review’ incoming very shortly.
As Always,
Peace, Love and Grindcore, xoxo - Brady.
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