Severe Torture
Formed: 1997
From:
Netherlands
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Severe Torture News
Below is our complete Severe Torture news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
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Death Metal Added To Mystic Festival 2026
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Grave at Brutal Assault in 2025
The prime ministers of the United Kingdom may change, kings and queens can come and go, but no one’s taken the death metal throne from Benediction. And you’ll never see… heaven, but you’ll see Grave again in the Gdansk Shipyard in June. Unleashed and Severe Torture will also play at Mystic Festival in 2026. More...
Brutal Assault Unveils 23 Additional Bands
Legendary death metal act Carcass is set to make a triumphant return to the Fortress after a five-year hiatus. Joining them is Cytotoxin, promising an onslaught of toxic and brutal death metal. Death/goregrind force from Belgium Aborted will join the lineup alongside Sweden's Dark Tranquillity, renowned for their signature Gothenburg melodic death metal sound. Vltimas, the apocalypse riders, will complete this imaginary death metal circle.
American band Escuela Grind will bring chaos with their grindcore, followed by Misery Index and Rotten Sound, known for their mixes of death and grind genres. The onslaught will culminate with Pig Destroyer.
Representing the black metal genre are American act Akhlys, underground sensation Yellow Eyes, and folk psychedelic ensemble Hexvessel.
From the gothic scene, the lineup will welcome industrial favorites Deathsars and the post-punk-tinged Unto Others. Finnish melodic outfit Kalmah will arrive from the dark swamps, and heavy-rock-metal band Soil will come from overseas. Cynic, known as "tech metallers," will present a special Focus set in celebration of the re-release of their iconic debut album. Additionally, acts like Master Boot Record, with their 8-bit computer sounds, and the brutally honest post-hardcore group Svalbard will offer their unique musical perspectives.
Prepare for some hardcore action as Madball makes a comeback to Brutal Assault, after six years, promising a lively moshpit. Also making their debut at BA are established bands like Cancer Bats, Show Me The Body known for their innovative musical identity, and This Is Hell, recognized for their intense and energetic live performances in the metal punk scene.
Newly Announced Bands: More...
Brutal Assault Adds More Death Metal To Line-Up
Masters of the field Deicide will take care of the mischief, along with them the technically proficient Canadian Cryptopsy will take Brutal by storm and Obscura will add a tinge of technical melodic death. The death metal gore carnage will be taken care of by Severe Torture as befits this Dutch band.
Brutal Assault will take place in the Czech Republic at the Josefov Fortress during August 7-10, 2024.
Festival passes are available HERE! More...
Severe Torture Debut Pre-Release Full-Album Stream
Severe Torture premiere the pre-release full-album stream of the band's upcoming new EP "Fisting the Sockets", which will be out in stores this Friday June 10th, 2022 via Season of Mist.
"Fisting the Sockets" will go live on YouTube at 10:00 am (EST).
Maryland Deathfest Names 45 More Acts For 2016
Promoters for Maryland Deathfest have announced 45 more acts for the 2016 edition of the annual Memorial Day festival bash. Among the list - U.K. doom metal legends Paradise Lost, U.S. doom metal upstarts Crypt Sermon, the reformed Swedish death act Centinex, U.K. legends Discharge, U.S. thrash legends Hirax, soon to be defunct legends Nuclear Blast, U.K. classic metal legends Satan and the mighty Bay Area thrash act Testament.
Tickets for the event will be available soon. Head over to this location for more information.
The freshly named act list is:
The Afternoon Gentlemen (UK)
Buzzov*en
Centinex (Sweden)
Claudio Simonetti's Goblin (Italy)
Crypt Sermon
Dehumanized
Demonical (Sweden)
Demonic Christ
Deranged (Sweden)
Discharge (UK)
DOOM (UK)
Dopethrone (Canada)
Dragged into Sunlight (UK)
Gets Worse (UK)
Ground More...
Maryland Deathfest Confirms 30 Bands For 2016
Promoters for Maryland Deathfest have announced the first slew of thirty bands for the 15th edition of the festival to be held on May 26-29, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. Among the list includes: Samael (performing "Ceremony of Opposites" in full), Venom and Exicter.
Ticket information can be found at this location.
There are still 50 bands expected to be announced, but so far the lineup looks like this:
Auroch (Canada)
Bongripper
Bongzilla
Denouncement Pyre (Australia)
Deströyer 666
Disgorge
Exciter
Gruesome More...
Extremefest 2012 Confirmed For July
Extremefest 2012 will take place in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on July 5th through the 7th in the three cities of Hunxe, Salzburg and Pratteln. It will feature over seventy bands on two stages, with acts still confirming. Head on over to the Extremefest website and Facebook events page for more information. The event is being presented by Metal Hammer, Noizeletter, Legacy, Musix, Metalnews.de, Metal.de, Blast Corpse Promotion (DE) and Catapult Promotion (AT). Check out the list of confirmed bands below, which includes the first European performance of Guttural Secrete.
5. July 2012 – 7. July 2012 DE – Hünxe, ExtremeFest Germany
5. July 2012 – 7. July 2012 AT – Salzburg, ExtremeFest Austria
5. July 2012 – 7. July 2012 CH – Pratteln, ExtremeFest Switzerland
Cannibal Corpse
Exodus
Suicide Silence
Belphegor *the return of BELPHEGOR*
Marduk
Asphyx
Nasum
Suffocation
Eisregen
All Shall Perish
Carnifex
Arkona
Origin
Suicidal Angels
Dornenreich – exclusive Metal-Set!
Deströyer 666
Cephalic Carnage
Desaster (Germany only)
Milking The Goatmachine
Helrunar
Wormed
Trollfest
Inquisition
Excrementory Grindfuckers
Aborted
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult
Nexus Inferis
Internal Suffering *comeback shows*
Severe Torture
Hellish Crossfire
Condemned
Eis
Gama Bomb
Helheim
Disavowed
Farsot
Riger
Malignancy
Hellsaw
Forgotten Tomb *AT & DE only*
Rompeprop
Benighted
Agrypnie
Ultrawurscht *AT only*
Ingested
Wormrot
Rectal Smegma
Dawn of Disease
Spasm
Hour of Penance
Guttural Secrete More...
Cerebral Bore Gearing Up For U.K. Shows
Scottish death metal act Cerebral Bore is gearing up for a U.K. mini tour, which kicks off this Thursday, October 20th in London. The band will be joining Dutch death metallers Severe Torture for the string of shows, which finishes just two weeks before Cerebral Bore is due to perform at Damnation Festival in Leeds, U.K.
Cerebral Bore guitarist Paul McGuire comments: "Us and Severe Torture have been talking about touring together for years now, so it's great to finally make it happen. Not many CB shows left in 2011, so we hope to have as much fun as you can without being arrested this weekend."
The upcoming Cerebral Bore tour dates are as follows:
with Severe Torture
Oct. 20 - London, UK - The Purple Turtle
Oct. 21 - Manchester, UK - Satan's Hollow
Oct. 22 - Bristol, UK - The Cavern
Oct. 23 - Edinburgh, UK - Bannerman's
without Severe Torture
Nov. 05 - Leeds, UK - Damnation Festival
Mountains Of Death Running Order Revealed
The complete band lineup and running order for the Mountains of Death festival, which takes place in Switzerland from August 18th - 20th, have now been revealed. The order is as follows:
Donnerstag, 18. August
21.00 - 21.30 Oral Fistfuck (CH)
21.50 - 22.20 Absorb (DE)
22.40 - 23.20 Impure (ES)
23.45 - 00.45 Krisiun (BR)
01.05 - 01.40 Putrid Pile (US)
02.00 - 02.40 Rectal Smegma (NL)
Freitag, 19. August
13:45 - 14:15 Cremation (CH)
14:30 - 15:00 Embalming Theatre (CH)
15:15 - 15:45 Insain (FR)
16:05 - 16:35 Perverse Dependence (RU)
16:55 - 17:25 Amputated (UK)
17:45 - 18:25 Disentomb (AU)
18:45 - 19:25 Degrade (SE)
19:45 - 20:30 Defeated Sanity (DE)
20:50 - 21:35 Abysmal Torment (MT)
22:05 - 23:05 To Violently Vomit (US)
23:35 - 00:35 Decapitated (PL)
01:05 - 01:45 Viscera Trail (IL)
02:00 - 02:40 Fubar (NL) More...
Mountains Of Death Festival Lineup Announced
The organizers of the upcoming Mountains of Death festival have checked in with the following update about the band lineup:
"The following bands are completing the line-up of Mountains of Death 2011: Incinerate (US), Modus Delicti (IT), To Violently Vomit (US), and Putrid Pile (US).
"All those who are giving themselves the trouble to check out the links on the billing list might wonder about the myspace address of To Violently Vomit... behind this name stands nobody less than the singular, legendary and since 1992 acitve Disgorge from San Diego... or at least the greater part of them! All the rest about disturbances and stories about the band you can read at another place and would go beyond the scope of this note.
"Almost unavoidable, there are some line-up changes. The following bands are not able to play: Ancient Necropsy (CO) and Ingurgitating Oblivion (DE)"
The festival takes place from August 18th - 20th in Switzerland, with full details available here. The complete lineup for Mountains of Death is now as follows: More...
Mayhem To Play Eindhoven Metal Meeting
Mayhem has been confirmed tol perform at this year's edition of the Eindhoven Metal Meeting on December 17th, 2010. Other bands on the bill are Moonspell, Immortal, Rotting Christ, Severe Torture, Finntroll, Pestilence, Exodus, and many more.
The Eindhoven Metal Metting will take place on both Friday 17th and Saturday 18th, 2010 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. More information on the festival can be found through this location.
Severe Torture Reveals New Album Cover Artwork
Dutch death metallers SEVERE TORTURE's upcoming album is due next June 28th. The band's fifth full-length is entitled "Slaughtered" and features this cover artwork.
"We're stoked about the artwork for the new album", guitarist Marvin comments. "It fully captures the brutality of the title and the songs. We absolutely can't wait to release this brutal beast!"
Severe Torture Signs To Season of Mist
Dutch death metal band SEVERE TORTURE has announced their signing to Season of Mist. Bassist Patrick comments: "We are very excited about signing to Season of Mist! They have an amazing bandroster and we can't wait to release our new album on the same label as Dillinger Escape Plan, Cynic, Morbid Angel, Watain and many others. We already had our share of label experience in the past, some good, some bad, and we have the feeling that working with Season of Mist is going to be a big step up for us! Merci beaucoup, motherfuckers!"
SEVERE TORTURE is currently in Split Second Sound Studios in Amsterdam with producer Jochem Jacobs, hard at work on their upcoming fifth album. You can find some videos of the recording sessions on the band's YouTube channel.
Severe Torture Begins Work On New Album
Dutch brutal death metallers, SEVERE TORTURE, have started the writing process for their next album, the follow-up to 2007's "SWORN VENGEANCE."
SEVERE TORTURE bassist PATRICK BOLEIJ discusses the band's recent activities:
"Here's a short update to let you all know what's been going on in the Severe Torture camp over the last couple of months. We've actually been working our asses off, writing the finest death metal tunes possible. We have about 6 songs down and riffs and ideas for 4 or 5 more. We'll be finishing those in the next 2 months. Musically it's gonna be one of the fastest, sickest and most brutal Severe Torture records ever! This stuff is gonna be fuelled by the sheer disgust of all the whimpy, lame-ass, fashion-crap that's been polluting the music industry for years. And it made us realize all the more what we love most... Playing brutal fuckin' death metal. The plan is to start pre-production in July and have everything ready for recording in September." More...
Severe Torture Announce European Tour Dates
Dutch brutal death metallers, SEVERE TORTURE, have announced new upcoming European tour dates. SEVERE TORTURE will play a special set at the Neurotic Deathfest on May 30th. The set will consist purely of songs from the “FEASTING ON BLOOD” and “MISANTHROPIC CARNAGE” albums, including songs that the band haven't played live for many years.
SEVERE TORTURE tour dates are as follows:
05/30 - Tilburg, Netherlands @ Neurotic Deathfest, 013
06/07 - Wachenroth, Germany @ Suffering Life Festival, Das Gelande
06/13 - Den Haag, Netherlands @ NK Grunten, Club Bazart
09/20 - Prenzlau, Germany @ Filthrock Festival, Festival Gelande
11/08 - Blaubeuren, Germany @ Rot 'n' Slay Festival, Stadthalle
with Nile and Grave
09/25 - Haarlem, Netherlands @ Patronaat
09/26 - Vosselaar, Belgium @ Biebob
09/27 - Essen, Germany @ Turock
09/28 - Eindhoven, Netherlands @ Effenaar
09/29 - Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle
09/30 - Aalborg, Denmark @ Studenterhuset
10/01 - Orebro, Sweden @ Satin
10/02 - Oslo, Norway @ Maiden
10/03 - Goteborg, Sweden @ Musikens Hus
10/04 - Malmoe, Sweden @ KB
10/05 - Berlin, Germany @ K17
Severe Torture To Play Special Set At Festival
Dutch death metal band SEVERE TORTURE have announced that they will play a special set at the Neurotic Deathfest on May 30th. The set will consist purely of songs from the brutal "Feasting On Blood" and "Misanthropic Carnage" albums, including songs that the band haven't played live for many years.
The Neurotic Deathfest takes place on May 30-31 2008 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
For more information and to purchase tickets for the Neurotic Deathfest, visit neuroticdeathfest.com.
Dew-Scented Announce European Tour Dates
Germany's DEW-SCENTED will join forces with SEVERE TORTURE and DESTINITY for dates in Europe in February.
Confirmed dates currently include:
February
1 - Paris, France - Glaz’Art
2 - Chaulnes, France - Espace Culturel
3 - Oostende, Belgium - Hangaar 1
4 - Osnabrück, Germany - Bastard Club
5 - Dordrecht, Holland - Bibelot
6 - Hannover, Germany - Scum Club
7 - Odense, Denmark - Kansas Club
8 - Berlin, Germany - K 17
9 - Leipzig, Germany - Hellraiser
10 - Althofen, Austria - Endorphin
11 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - TBA
12 - Milano, Italy - Transilvania Club
13 - Marseille / Luynes, France - Korrigan
14 - Lyon, France - Double 6
15 - Erstfeld, Switzerland - Transilvania Club
16 - Nancy, France - Azmiut 854
17 - Notre-Dame-De-Gravenchon, France - L’Arcade
Severe Torture Pre-Release New EP On iTunes
Earache Records issue the following update:
"With just over two weeks to go until the release of the eagerly anticipated Sworn Vengeance from no-nonsense Dutch destroyers Severe Torture, an exclusive two track EP is available to download now from iTunes."
"Entitled Sworn Vengeance EP, this download-only release contains the previously unreleased, non-album track Disembowel, which is only available on this EP along with Dismal Perception, taken from the upcoming album. To download the EP from iTunes click here"
"Sworn Vengeance will be released on November 12th and will also be available in a limited edition format; containing bonus Cro-Mags and Entombed cover tracks. To find out more about the album head over to this >a href=http://www.myspace.com/severetortureswornvengeance>Myspace page."
Severe Torture To Tour Mexico
Severe Torture will tour Mexico next month. Here are the tour dates:
03/10 Laredo @ Escarabajo Bar
04/10 Tampico @ Club Golden Billar
05/10 Monterrey @ Factores Mutuos
06/10 San Luis Potosi @ Casino Stic
07/10 Queretaro @ Rush
12/10 Toluca @ Area Chica
13/10 Guadalajara @ El Oculto
14/10 Mexico City DF @ The Infernal Bar
Severe Torture Enter The Studio
Dutch death metal brutalizers SEVERE TORTURE entered Hertz studios in Poland last week on July 4th to start the mix of their forthcoming album "Sworn Vengeance."
The follow up to 2005's Fall Of The Despised is due for release by Earache on September 10th and is set to be mixed by Hertz in-house producers, Wojtek and Slawek Wieslawski.
The Wieslawski brothers have earned their reputation for high quality death metal productions with releases by DECAPITATED and VADER to their credit, increasing anticipation for Sworn Vengeance, which includes such soon-to-be death metal classics as 'Dismal Perception' and 'Buried Hatchet'.