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St. Louis, Missouri black/thrash metal band Bastard has been active since 2011, trafficking in Satanic, murderous, and horror-soaked subject matter in the raw tradition of the genre's most confrontational acts.
A raw black metal act hailing from Virginia Beach, Bastard Altar channels the unpolished, abrasive spirit of the genre's most primitive tradition, active since 2021.
Philadelphia's Bastard Cröss fuses blackened aggression with thrash metal riffing, centering their work on themes of blasphemy and horror since forming in 2021.
Portland's Bastard Feast is a ferocious collision of sludge, death metal, grindcore, and crust, channeling social unrest and anarchic politics; they released material on Season of Mist Underground Activists.
Buffalo's Bastard Lord occupy the hazy intersection of psychedelic and doom metal, bringing a narcotic heaviness rooted in the stoner doom tradition of the Buffalo underground.
A Colorado Springs death metal outfit, Bastard of Bethlehem has been active since 2021, building a two-piece foundation around members Lance and Dru.
Durham's Bastard Seed, originally performing as Dark August before a name change, released a pair of demos whose eight total songs were compiled and made available digitally via Bandcamp in 2018.
New Jersey act Bastard Skull plays a hard-charging blend of heavy and thrash metal out of Bayonne, active since 2022 in the tradition of classic crossover-era riffing.
Laredo, Texas death metal outfit Bastard Sons released their eight-track demo-CD Hellkiller on July 21st, 2006, representing one of the genre's deeper reaches in South Texas.
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