Hang The Bastard
hardcore/sludge/blues Provocative name, or bile-barked order, or musical number
Cannibal the Musical? Whichever it grabs the attention, no? I mean as names go its not as provocative as
Anal Cunt, but there arent many that are. In the case of
Hang The Bastard their nom de plume is more evocative than provocative; bringing to mind the ferocity and righteousness of a pitchfork and torch bearing mob bringing some bastard to justice when justice meant snapping a neck with a noose and letting them swing. Spawned in 2007, the five piece have since churned out songs of such a violent concoction they couldnt be called anything else. Delivering as they do a mixture of sludge, hardcore, thrash, blues and doom theyre pretty fucking heavy, and fierce; none more so than frontman
Chris who is a sight to behold live and brings to mind a particularly vicious
Phil Anselmo. Listing influences like
Slayer,
Black Sabbath,
Pantera,
Electric Wizard,
Crowbar and
Eyehategod its easy to see why they sound the way they do, but they are so much more than the sum of their influences. http://youtu.be/LnN7dOEYU9k
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