Obscene Extreme

The Obscene Extreme Festival, shortened as OEF, is an annual music festival in the Czech Republic, that focuses on extreme metal subgenres grindcore and death metal, as well as hardcore punk. It was founded in 1999 as a birthday party by Miloslav "Čurby" Urbanec.^[1] It was described by Vice as "Europe's craziest grindcore party".^[2] It is noted by the Czech Radio for its "exceptionally tolerant and friendly atmosphere".^[3] The festival offers exclusively vegetarian and vegan food within its premises^[2] since its inception.^[4]

Obscene Extreme in 2018

Obscene Extreme in 2010

Several well-known metal bands have performed at OEF over the years, such as Napalm Death, Possessed, Obituary, Sodom, Immolation, Grave, Suffocation, Vader, Incantation, Terrorizer, Exhumed, Asphyx, Morgoth, Brujeria, Sinister, Nuclear Assault, Hirax, Vital Remains, Eyehategod, Krisiun, and Municipal Waste to name a few.

Line-ups

1999

Lineup

Abortion Agathocles Appalling Spawn Bloodsuckers Brainwash Cerebral Turbulency Cripple Bastards Crusher Damnable Deflorance Desecration Dread 101 Entrails Massacre Epitome F.S.F.I. Fleshless Gorefield Gride Grind 6,4 Immured Ingrowing Isacaarum Lost Soul Malignant Tumour Mastic Scum Melancholy Pessimism Mindlock Mortura Mrtva Budoucnost Needful Things Onanizer Perversist Poseydon Reinfection Sanatorium Suffocate Tortharry Twisted Truth