This is a full album stream for Bastard Priest’s Ghouls of the Endless Night, soon to be released on Pulverised Records.
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Bastard Priest – Ghouls of the Endless Night
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TRACK LIST
1. Pestilent Force
2. Ghouls Of The Endless Night
3. Enter Eternal Nightmare
4. Poison
5. Sacrilegious Ground
6. Fucking Slaughter
7. Last Scream
8. Enormous Thunder Of The End
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With their excellent 2008 demo, Merciless Insane Death, and their fucking incredible first LP, 2010’s Under the Hammer of Destruction, Sweden’s Bastard Priest set a high standard and won over a small legion of fans–a standard that is sure to be raised, and a legion that is sure to grow, with the band’s sophomore release, Ghouls of the Endless Night.
Bastard Priest is two dudes who mysteriously call themselves Inventor and Matt Mendoza (a last name which was borrowed from, of all influences, Twisted Sister’s bassist, Mark “The Animal” Mendoza). The duo’s music deftly incorporates elements of crust, punk, and death metal.
Ghouls is a more-than-worthy follow-up to Hammer. Pulverised Records will be releasing the album within the next few weeks, but until then you can stream it here.
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Mark “The Animal” Mendoza isTwisted Sister bass player.
Eek. Fixed, thanks Aldo!
This rages pretty hard but for some reason I dont really care. Maybe ive reached saturation point for entombedcore? I thought this album was going to end at 18 mins after a long outro, but now its kept going and i just want to listen to something else.
the handful of bands who are currently prominent for doing this should consider themselves lucky ’cause the ship is sailing and after that there will be a lame decline into “PLAYED OUT” status for newer bands….. it’s unfortunate ’cause it’s an objectively good sound, but yeah… the impact of these kinda riffs will decrease sadly.
T-minus how many years until this gets sniffed out and slowly lamed out by whatever the equivalent of deathcore kids is?
This is the kind of stuff I’m really looking for in metal right now. Solos, black metal, psychedelia and indie riffs are all tiring me. This is just dirty and winful.
Between this, Maim and Morbus Chron, it’s been a fucking spectacular year for old school Swedish death metal.
This shit rocks.
Found this album in the mail last week. Like it even more than their debut. On this one Mendoza even sounds more Paul Speckman than Speckman himself these days.
I’m with the yeasayers on this one. Filthy, dirty, heavy, buzzsaw fun. What’s not to love?
I heartily disagree with the growing backlash against the snobbily dismissed “Entombedcore”.
“Oh no, it’s yet another band with the Sunlight guitar tone,” they moan.
“Ok well, stop jizzing over yet another black metal outfit churning out monotonous tremolo riffs and strangled cat death-rasps,” retorts I.
Then we settle it with handbags at dawn.
don’t get me wrong. like i said, this is objectively great and rockin’ music. the other guy said that too. it’s just that after years of observing the scene, a familiar arc is being uncovered and i merely wanted to point that out, with some regret. old school death metal is one of my favorite types of music of all time, so i admit that there’s a tinge of irritation when i see it start to experience the same familiar trajectory as other styles before it.
I still think there’s a pretty major divide between the actual death metal bands that are mining this sound and newer wave of hardcore bands that use this guitar tone, but really just play brutal hardcore. But either way, it has a desensitizing effect.
Power of the Riff fest was Entombedcore overload: while I genuinely like Trap Them’s albums, when I saw them after an onslaught of 15 other bands using the same guitar tone, I found them pretty uninspiring. I see both sides of this one.
I really enjoy young bands like MORBUS CHRON and BASTARD PRIEST immensely. I’m close to my 39th birthday right now so I was there at the end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties. All I can say is if only albums like “Sleepers In The Rift” and “Ghouls Of The Endless Night” were still around by 1994 instead of “Individual Thought Patterns” and “World Demise”. I mean these young bands are bringing back something that I’ve been missing in death metal for a very long time. I never get the feeling when listening to MORBUS CHRON that they’re just stealing from AUTOPSY. They’re influenced by them sure enough, But I also hear a lot of love and respect for their heroes and the genre. Even Autopsy had their influences.Death Metal has become a classic genre like Blues, Jazz and Rockabilly. What more can you do with it? Let’s be honest we usually hate it when death metal bands try to do something new with the formula. Chances are that there are gonna be young bands around playing this style when we all are in our seventies.
Seems a little silly to set up a stream when they have a (streaming-only) Bandcamp.
Check it out
People like you need to just go away.
What have people like me done to offend you so much?
Be sure to bring the condescension with you on the way out.
Damn, cynical, anyone? I think this a great record for what it is.
@patnesheksballs I have no idea what I’ve done to piss you off or why you think I’m condescending. And I ain’t going anywhere.
I think Neshek’s reaction is a little over the top, but to reply to your original query: Why not stream the record? Bastard Priest is (IMO) a pretty great band that deserves to be better known. IO readers might not necessarily click through to a Bandcamp link as readily as they’ll listen to a stream here. Obviously this isn’t something we can do for EVERY band we love, but we were able to do it in this case. Why wouldn’t we?
I didn’t mean to imply that you shouldn’t stream the album or write about the band (the music is excellent).
I meant: Why spend time setting up your own stream, when you could simply embed the Bandcamp player for the album in your post, complete with tracklisting, album art and all.
I was going more for helpful than condescending, that didn’t turn out so well.
Ah. Well, helpful is always sincerely appreciated. We had worked out plans to stream with the label totally independent of (and prior to) the album going up on Bandcamp. Streams crossed, so to speak. Who knew?
@NecroDorf I were only jesting lad, don’t worry.
More seriously though, I think that we – as music lovers/consumers – have a much shorter attention span. We’re much quicker to dismiss bands/sounds as played-out or “trendy” and move onto the next thing.
Of course, back in the day even if there was 5,000 bands playing a broadly similar sound, the average fan only got to hear a handful. Saturation point was a much harder point to reach without the tidal wave of cheap/illegal downloads and streaming/youtube.
I personally don’t care about scenes or sounds. If a band kills it, that’s enough for me.
@Wash Jones – I agree there’s a divide in the two sounds but I love them both! So I win either way. I reckon I would have loved Power of the Riff. Don’t you think though that if you stuck 15 similar bands on any bill, whether they be trad metal or grind, it would be equally desensitising?
Anyway, great stream, thanks IO!
There’s a very small handful of bands that pick up where Entombed ‘Left Hand Path’ left off, and run with it. Not just aping the style, but taking it further. Repugnant, Verminous, Kaamos, Death Breath, and now Bastard Priest. I’m glad for that!
Love the album art ! Musics good though it does remind me of entombed , death breath and the like , but so what . I would go see them buy a shirt and cd if they came around . I try and support anybody that loves what they do and do it with passion . obviously they love that oldschool sound and they do it well more power to them . I support local /underground music so i hope others will do the same for my band Whiskey Funeral sorry cheap plug ! HAHA ! couldnt resist !!!
Predictable but well done and that’s enough for me