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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.
Mount Sterling, Kentucky's Bastard Sons of a Judas Goat operate in the slow, suffocating realm of drone and doom metal, crafting purely instrumental soundscapes built on noise and desolation.
Manchester post-black metal project formed in 2013, blending blackened crust with post-rock dynamics. Their eight-track release merges the raw intensity of crust punk with black metal's atmospheric darkness and the expansive arrangements of post-rock.
A black/death metal act from Erlanger, Kentucky active since the mid-1990s, Bastard Spawn operated in the underground as an independent act before eventually disbanding.
Pittsburgh crossover outfit Bastard Squad was a distinct act from the Cleveland band of the same name, releasing material through Psychodaisy before splitting up.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Gävle, active since 2019. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Athens-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2022, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Bastard Tongue has been active since 2017, pursuing a straightforward black metal path in the tradition of the American underground.
Savannah, Georgia's Bastardane blend the swaggering riff weight of groove metal with stoner metal atmospherics, active in the Southern underground since 2019.
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