Bastard Priest album preview

Invisible Oranges is doing a full album stream of the new Bastard Priest record "Ghouls of the endless night": http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2011/10/full-album-stream-bastard-priest-ghouls-of-the-endless-night/

Victims of a Left Hand Path: Bastard Priest

A Blog in the Northern Sky interviews Matt Mendoza of Swedish death metal act Bastard Priest: http://abloginthenorthernsky.blogspot.com/2011/09/victims-of-left-hand-path-bastard.html
Note that he gives props to Swedish prog act Gösta Berglings Saga which was somewhat unexpected.

New Bastard Priest coming in time for Kill-Town Death Fest

The new Bastard Priest LP "Ghouls of the endless night" has been confirmed for release in time for Kill-Town Death Fest which is happening in Copenhagen September 2-3, which the band will not be playing. Said album will be released in two editions, one limited with a gatefold sleeve and color vinyl.

New website, new music from Bastard Priest

Swedish death metallers Bastard Priest have moved off myspace to their own blog site and are currently streaming two brand new tunes there in the sidebar: http://bastardpriest.blogspot.com/

Bastard Priest ready new album

Swedish death metallers Bastard Priest have reportedly finished mixing 8 new tracks for a new album. No more details are available beyond that, but hopefully it'll be better than the disappointing cold turd that was "Under the hammer of destruction".

Bastard Priest working on new material

Bastard Priest are reportedly working on a new album for release in early 2011 and have completed 50% of the recordings for nine new tracks. More details to come later.

Bastard Priest
Under the hammer of destruction
Blood Harvest

There has been an increase in the retro death metal style in recent years; new bands strive to create an old sound while old bands relinquish their new sound and attempt to revert back to the halcyon days of death metal. Stockholm's Bastard Priest fall under the first category and are one of the few out there who actually sound properly old-school in every manner. Some may say they emulate the Swedish output of the late-'80s, but it seems to me there's something in there that's more akin to an amalgam of the likes of "Scream bloody gore", "Consuming impulse", and "Morbid visions" with a hefty nod towards their fellow countrymen from back in the day. There's a definite attitude on here that was only ever really captured in the Swedish death metal explosion of the late-'80s and there is, without doubt, the definite punk influence that also permeated the scene back then. Definitely one of the best retro bands around today and so authentic that I almost find myself surprised to come out of the listening experience and find that it's not 1989.
- John Norby

MP3: Bastard Priest - Under the hammer of destruction

I should know by now to keep my expectations in check, but I was so looking forward to the new Bastard Priest album and have been for so long, it's such a letdown to report that it's merely okay. And the fact that it's only decent is almost enough to make me hate it. Almost. The problem isn't even that the b-side of the LP consists of an updated version of their stellar "Merciless insane death" demo, an obvious sticking point for many discriminating listeners, it's that the new songs on side A aren't that hot. They all stick to the same basic formula more or less with a chorus that repeats the title of the song and it's extremely tiresome the 3rd or 4th time around. I'm fine with cro-magnon lunk-headed metal, but this is too much, especially when the riffs aren't so hot to begin with. Thankfully, the title track "Under the hammer of destruction" sounds just as raging as when I first heard it on the demo over a year ago. The detonating bomb intro: not subtle at all, but a perfect summation of what Bastard Priest sounds like at their best. And yes, the chorus does just repeat the title.

Bastard Priest - Under the hammer of destruction

Sirius playlist week #35

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. Bastard Priest - Power of death
02. TALK 1
03. Mindy Misty - Dead pan frenzy
04. Mother of the Forest - Kingdom
05. Säkert! - Fredrik
06. TALK 2
07. Pistol Disco - Pool
08. Obstacles - Rorschach
09. Radar - Paradigm shift
10. TALK 3
11. The Bear Quartet - Fist or hand
12. Niels Nielsen - Dpend
13. Adam Tensta - Young black boy
14. TALK 4
15. I'm Kingfisher - Willing night plants
16. Joel Alme - No class
17. Dear Euphoria - Coming down
18. The Genuine Fakes - When reality hits you
19. TALK 5
20. Brick - Call Batman

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Vice talks to Bastard Priest

Vice continues their coverage of Swedish death with a new interview with Bastard Priest: http://www.viceland.com/music/2010/07/a-fist-in-the-face-of-god-bastard-priest/

Bastard Priest preorder is a go

For the death metal fiends, Bastard Priest's debut LP "Under the hammer of destruction" is now available for preorder: http://www.bloodharvest.se/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1917

Bastard Priest cover art + tracklist

Bastard Priest has unveiled the cover art and tracklist for their forthcoming album "Under the hammer of destruction": http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=306457541&blogId=532703367

Two new tracks from Bastard Priest now streaming

Swedish death metal maniacs Bastard Priest are streaming two new tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/bastardpriestsweden
Their forthcoming LP is definitely one of my most anticipated releases of 2010.

Sirius playlist week #47

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. Bastard Priest - Under the hammer of destruction
02. TALK 1
03. Monty - En till himmel
04. Superfamily - Songs of the weak will die
05. Agent Side Grinder - Black vein
06. TALK 2
07. Murmansk - Silver heel
08. Cleaning Women - Across the void
09. Pintandwefall - Jail
10. TALK 3
11. Tobias Hellkvist - Scars and stripes
12. Truckfighters - Traffic
13. Rockettothesky - Barrie for Billy MacKenzie
14. TALK 4
15. Peter Bjorn and John - I don't know what I want us to do
16. Håkan Hellström - En vån med en bil
17. Barra Head - Common ground
18. TALK 5
19. Makthaverskan - Vi var människor från början

Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.

Bastard Priest reveal debut album details

Filthy Swedish death metal upstarts Bastard Priest report that mixing is still underway on their debut full-length album, now revealed to be named "Under the hammer of destruction". It will include re-recordings of all tracks from their first 2007 demo, most of the "Merciless insane death" CS demo tracks and three new ones, something like 10-11 songs total. Blood Harvest will be releasing it on both LP + CD and you can peep the cover art here.