A gig held at Strange Brew on Tuesday 14th April. The event starts at 19:00.
Strange Bruise presents
Primitive Man (USA)
Kollaps (Aus)
Sea Bastard (UK)
Primitive Man
Primitive Man is an American extreme metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2012 and specializing in a punishing blend of death-doom, sludge, and noise metal. The band, known for its themes of hatred, misanthropy, personal trauma, and societal collapse, consists of Ethan Lee McCarthy on vocals, guitar, lyrics, and artwork; Jonathan Campos on bass; and Joe Linden on drums.
Since their inception, Primitive Man has built a reputation in the underground metal scene for their raw, overwhelming sound and relentless intensity, releasing music through Relapse Records. Their debut album, Scorn, arrived in 2013, followed by the double album Caustic in 2017, Immersion in 2020, and their most recent full-length, Observance, on October 31, 2025. Alongside studio albums, the band has issued EPs such as P//M (2013) and Steel Casket (2017), as well as numerous splits and singles, including collaborations with Full of Hell and Unearthly Trance.
Primitive Man's music is characterized by its experimental edge, trance-inducing heaviness, and confrontational lyrics that challenge listeners with sadness, positivity, and brutal honesty, often recorded and produced by figures like Andy Nelson and Arthur Rizk. Over more than a decade, they have evolved their death sludge style while maintaining a core focus on extreme sonic assault, earning acclaim for albums that address contemporary ills with merciless precision.
Kollaps
Kollaps is an Australian post-industrial project whose history is inseparable from violence—both as subject matter and as physical methodology. Formed on the periphery of collapse and personal disintegration, the project has cultivated a reputation for performances that are confrontational, ascetic, and unwavering in their commitment to realism. The band has recently relocated to Iceland, a move that reflects its ongoing pursuit of isolation, severity, and a more unforgiving creative environment.
The live apparatus centres on a set of morgue-derived instruments and implements: blood- and saliva-stained headrests, knee pins, hacksaws, throat expanders, and other devices once used to manipulate, open, and restrain the human body. These objects are not symbolic. They function as percussive tools and structural components in performance, carrying the residue of their original purpose into the project’s sonic architecture.
Since its inception, Kollaps has maintained a relentless touring history across Europe and beyond, appearing at major festivals including Roskilde, Roadburn, Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Soulcrusher, and other significant institutions within the industrial, experimental, and extreme-music circuits. On stage, Kollaps operates less as a traditional band than as an apparatus of tension and rupture, constructing compositions from metal fatigue, concrete pressure, ruptured electronics, and recurring motifs of decay.
Kollaps represents a form of post-industrial music that rejects nostalgia in favour of excavation: unearthing the mechanical, the biological, and the violated. It is a documentation of harm, endurance, and the machinery of the body—ultimately, a study of disappearance and the residue left behind when civility is stripped away.
Sea Bastard
Sea Bastard are a brutal beast of heavy monolithic riffs rom Brighton. Blending Sludge, Doom and Stoner Metal to heavy and downright mean effect. Bleak, Loud and Angry.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Primitive Man (USA)
Kollaps (Aus)
Sea Bastard (UK)
Primitive Man
Primitive Man is an American extreme metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2012 and specializing in a punishing blend of death-doom, sludge, and noise metal. The band, known for its themes of hatred, misanthropy, personal trauma, and societal collapse, consists of Ethan Lee McCarthy on vocals, guitar, lyrics, and artwork; Jonathan Campos on bass; and Joe Linden on drums.
Since their inception, Primitive Man has built a reputation in the underground metal scene for their raw, overwhelming sound and relentless intensity, releasing music through Relapse Records. Their debut album, Scorn, arrived in 2013, followed by the double album Caustic in 2017, Immersion in 2020, and their most recent full-length, Observance, on October 31, 2025. Alongside studio albums, the band has issued EPs such as P//M (2013) and Steel Casket (2017), as well as numerous splits and singles, including collaborations with Full of Hell and Unearthly Trance.
Primitive Man's music is characterized by its experimental edge, trance-inducing heaviness, and confrontational lyrics that challenge listeners with sadness, positivity, and brutal honesty, often recorded and produced by figures like Andy Nelson and Arthur Rizk. Over more than a decade, they have evolved their death sludge style while maintaining a core focus on extreme sonic assault, earning acclaim for albums that address contemporary ills with merciless precision.
Kollaps
Kollaps is an Australian post-industrial project whose history is inseparable from violence—both as subject matter and as physical methodology. Formed on the periphery of collapse and personal disintegration, the project has cultivated a reputation for performances that are confrontational, ascetic, and unwavering in their commitment to realism. The band has recently relocated to Iceland, a move that reflects its ongoing pursuit of isolation, severity, and a more unforgiving creative environment.
The live apparatus centres on a set of morgue-derived instruments and implements: blood- and saliva-stained headrests, knee pins, hacksaws, throat expanders, and other devices once used to manipulate, open, and restrain the human body. These objects are not symbolic. They function as percussive tools and structural components in performance, carrying the residue of their original purpose into the project’s sonic architecture.
Since its inception, Kollaps has maintained a relentless touring history across Europe and beyond, appearing at major festivals including Roskilde, Roadburn, Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Soulcrusher, and other significant institutions within the industrial, experimental, and extreme-music circuits. On stage, Kollaps operates less as a traditional band than as an apparatus of tension and rupture, constructing compositions from metal fatigue, concrete pressure, ruptured electronics, and recurring motifs of decay.
Kollaps represents a form of post-industrial music that rejects nostalgia in favour of excavation: unearthing the mechanical, the biological, and the violated. It is a documentation of harm, endurance, and the machinery of the body—ultimately, a study of disappearance and the residue left behind when civility is stripped away.
Sea Bastard
Sea Bastard are a brutal beast of heavy monolithic riffs rom Brighton. Blending Sludge, Doom and Stoner Metal to heavy and downright mean effect. Bleak, Loud and Angry.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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