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Bastard are Midwest USA's answer to Swedish luminaries, Nifelheim. Coming from St. Louis, Missouri, Bastard hail the Dark Lord with a blackened blast of riff-tastic thrash and just a hint of a punk attitude. Hades Command, the band's debut full-length, is as fun as it is vicious, with a somewhat dirty but powerful (in other words, perfect) mix.

I love finding bands from my home state, and since we're located in the middle of the most uninteresting part of the country, those discoveries are few and far between. That said, Hades Command gives us Midwesterners something pretty killer to hang our hat on.