Bastard (band)

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Bastard
Group logo used from 1996 to 2001

Group logo used from 1996 to 2001
General information
origin Nuremberg , Germany
Genre (s) Sludge
founding 1995
resolution 2005
Last occupation
bass
 Michael Seitz
Guitar, vocals
 Norbert Scherer
Drums
 Robert Reber
singing
 Marcus Giese
former members
Drums
 Dirk Friedmann

Drecksau was a German sludge band founded in 1995 and disbanded in 2005 .

history

As a bastard , the band formed in 1995 with Nobbe Scherer as guitarist and singer, Michael Seitz as bassist and Dirk Friedmann as drummer. Some of the musicians had previously played in bands together and knew each other. After the first national concerts, the self-produced demo tape Schänder and reports in fanzines, bastards were offered contracts by Nuclear Blast and GSM Records . The group decided on the offer of Nuclear Blast and developed the 1998 debut album Brecher with producer Andy Classen . The label sold the music under the term Neue Deutsche Hütze, popular at the time . A style attribution that has been recorded by various metal magazines. The debut received polarized reviews. Most of the reviewers criticized the album as "slow and tough" as well as "monotonous". Other reviews, however, praised the album as a successful mixture of American Southern Metal with an aggressive German attitude, or as New New German Hardness. In retrospect, a similar polarization in the metal scene was thematized in a review of the Rocktimes site: "Although definitely not mass-compatible, there was some enthusiasm and buyers, while others hated the band."

A year after Brecher , the second studio album was released with pain , again produced by Andy Classen. Just like Brecher, pain polarized the press and led to negative reviews describing the album as a "dull drone". Positive reviews praised the quality of the album and a greater focus on ideas from Carnivore and early Type O Negative . Tours followed as a support act for Soulfly , Richthofen , Crowbar and EyeHateGod .

In 2001 the EP Winter was recorded with Rob Reeber as the drummer. Dirk Friedmann had left the group in the meantime. After the termination of the contract with Nuclear Blast, the EP was originally intended as a promo demo of the group, but was published by the band in a self-published limited to 300 copies. Winter was rated mediocre by the critics. In various reviews, Crowbar and Carnivore were referred to as references.

The third album Kältekammer was released in 2003 via TTS Media Music . The cold chamber polarized again. Both critical and positive voices pointed out that bastard with a cold chamber hardly developed musically. The album was accordingly equated with the previous releases and rated similarly differently.

The following year Drecksau performed at the German Doom Metal Festival Doom Shall Rise . Supporters of more traditional Doom Metals rejected the group. “Others who were open-minded about Doomcore thought it should have been better to choose Dead Moon. Not only because these are more obvious than Swabians, but also because they have existed longer and more successfully. ”A new singer followed with Marcus Giese. Scherer limited himself to playing the guitar. In 2005 the band broke up. In the official statement, the musicians called it "the only logical and justifiable consequence if you take a closer look at the personal and musical developments of the individual musicians." On Rocktimes, however, it is speculated that a lack of "support from the label" is the cause of the breakup.

In 2008, the Polish label Metal Mind Productions distributed the first two albums as a re-release limited to 2000 copies. On January 29th, 2011 the band played a “unique reunion show” with Scherer as singer and guitarist, Reber as drummer and Seitz as bassist as part of a festival with Totenmond and Japanische Kampfhörspiele in Munich. The performance was filmed, released as a self-produced DVD in July 2011 and distributed on the group's website.

style

Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann describes Drecksau's style as a crossover of Doom Metal and Hardcore Punk . The band itself describes their music as Doomcore . After the group broke up, the music was usually assigned to the sludge . The music is often compared with that of Totenmond, Eisenvater , Carnivore and Crowbar.

An essential characteristic of the music is that the heavy, slow and deeply played music is interrupted by short phases, described as aggressive, as well as a monotonous roaring basic sound. The structure would remain constant. The majority of the tracks “play at a slow to medium-heavy tempo, low-pitched guitars begin to create a murderous groove. Only rarely is there a short cut ”.

The pressed vocals are located between roaring and growling . Playing the guitar is considered difficult and slow. According to Mühlmann, bastards "with their bold texts, presented in the simplest of words" offer no room for misunderstandings and interpretations. Mühlmann sometimes calls the texts " infantile ". According to the review on the Metal.de website , the lyrics “don't have a lot to offer”. Elsewhere, however, the lyrics are highlighted as "cold, harsh and rough, even when it comes to feelings". According to Terrorverlag, "the lyrics [of later albums] deserve more attention because they use intelligent rhetoric to draw attention to social coldness, loneliness and homelessness."

Discography

  • 1997: Schänder (demo, self-published)
  • 1998: Brecher (album, Nuclear Blast)
  • 1999: Pain (album, Nuclear Blast)
  • 2001: Winter (EP, self-published)
  • 2003: Cold Chamber (Album, TTS Media Music)
  • 2004: Promo 2004 (demo, self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b c d e Andrea Groh: Filthy pig: Brecher. Rocktimes, accessed July 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Last exit: Germania . Jeske / Mader, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-931624-12-9 , pp. 149 f .
  5. ↑ Blizzard: Filthy Pig: Crusher. Metalglory, accessed July 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b bastard: pain. metal.de, accessed on July 12, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Andrea Groh: Filthy pig: pain. Rocktimes, accessed July 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Andrea: Bastard: Winter. Vampster, accessed July 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ David: Bastard: Winter. Metal.de, accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  10. ↑ a b c d TK / Lord: Filthy pig: cold chamber. Terrorverlag, accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Bastard: Cold Chamber. Metal.de, accessed on July 13, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Oliver Kast: Filthy pig: cold chamber. Powermetal, accessed July 13, 2017 .
  13. ↑ bastard: bastard: dissolved. Vampster, accessed July 13, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Andrea: Drecksau: New date for the Reunion concert. Vampster, accessed July 13, 2017 .
  15. ↑ bastard. Drecksau, accessed on July 12, 2017 .
  16. ↑ bastard. Metalcallout, accessed July 12, 2017 .
  17. ↑ bastard. Spirit of Metal, accessed July 12, 2017 .
  18. ↑ tibor: bastard: crusher. metal.de, accessed on July 13, 2017 .