Necro Slaughter.tk Reviews Year Zero

http://necroslaughter.tk/2010/01/bastard-child-death-cult-year-zero/

(NOTE: Translated from German via Google Translate.)

Bastard Child Death Cult - Year Zero
If any of you know the movie "Doomsday"? I think the film is highly recommended. “ 28 Days Later “. It begins, as in "28 Days Later," Scotland is a killer disease überrant, whereupon the latter part of the island from the rest of Great Britain with a large wall is insulated. Now Sounds a little to "Escape", right? And there has yet to be smooth, that they send a few people in this separate area, in order to get something out again, right? First of contaminated area arrived in the troop deployment will take on a horde of savages that might come straight from a "Mad Max"-part! So a very turbulent film that makes a lot of fun. But where I really wanted out on it: For this very broken freaks, or the contemplative world of Mad Max is the perfect soundtrack written by BASTARD CHILD DEATH CULT been!

"Year Zero" is music for the new start in a post-apocalyptic world! Dirty rock 'n roll meets dark crust-punk, and aggressive thrash metal. The mixture is eschatological, just good rock music! Zeke, Municipal Waste, Peter Pan Speed Rock and Massmørd in a pot, stir vigorously, let boil a little and you get BASTARD CHILD DEATH CULT!

American Graveyard, "" Slave One "," Buzzki.ll "or" Black Thorn Rising "are just anthems for a fallen world. Clearly, in the limited context of the game snotty rock 'n roll is it even before the time that "Dead To Me Now" sounds almost exactly like "Buzzki.ll. But that does not matter because the songs just rock! Granted, I still can not give me the musical end, but it's me in some places too rudimentary, but I also hear so much about rock 'n roll.

But when I once had a mind is, "Year Zero" snotty, entertainment provided for post-nuclear scenarios. Rock'n Roll!

★★★★½☆

Visual evidence of aural destruction.

Live photos from the BCxDC "Year Zero" CD release partaaaaay at this link: http://ivyleah.blogspot.com/2009/11/bcdc-and-burning-love.html

Thanks Ivy!

ThePunkSite.com Reviews "Year Zero"

http://thepunksite.com/reviews.php?page=album/number_d/bastardchilddeathcult_yearzero

If you meshed together metal staple Motorhead’s ever-heavy riffs, The Video Dead’s chaotic song structure and enthusiasm, and hardcore veteran Death Before Dishonor’s unrelenting hardcore delivery, then you’d have the Toronto based Bastard Child Death Cult (BCxDC). While technically only a year old, the band is really the spiritual successor of lead vocalist Adam Sewell’s previous act, Damn 13. But this isn’t purely Sewell’s show. No, every one of the band’s five members, consisting of members of acts like The Cancer Bats and Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah, find themselves at the centre of the hectic and frenzied product. As implied by the band’s self-made GI-JOE video montage (check it out on their website), BCxDC’s debut, Year Zero, is this year’s soundtrack to destruction.

Featuring three equally active guitarists, Year Zero never slows down – and certainly never offers listeners a chance to catch their breath. Like in “Blackout,” most tracks feature the tough, guiding crunch of heavy riffs and a thunderous backing bass – the type you hear when the metalhead sitting next to you on the bus closes their eyes, and air drums their way to hearing loss. In other words, BCxDC makes loud music that should be embraced without reserve.

The album also features occasionally surfacing metal solos, serving to elevate BCxDC’s sound and cement them as more than mere noise rockers. The solos on tracks like “Halo” and “Black Thorn Rising” demonstrate unquestionable technical ambition and ability. Such moments astutely counterbalance quick and messy tracks like “Slave One” and “American Graveyard,” making the album digestible for those who don’t normally experience this much intensity in a given year.

But BCxDC’s biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. With such a dedication to raw and unhinged chaos, there isn’t a lot of room for musical growth in the current formula. Thankfully the album only runs twenty-five minutes, so repetition never really becomes an issue, but it does force the question: where does BCxDC go from here? Will they water down their product? Will they keep the formula the same? How will they expand their existing sound? According to a recent news post by Sewell, the next album will feature even heavier riffs (I’ll pose the obvious question: how?), and a “massive groovetastic whitey-twostep.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but if it ends up nearly as well done as anything on Year Zero, then Bastard Child Death Cult’s future looks bright. 4/5

Exclaim! reviews "Year Zero"

http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/latestsub.aspx?csid1=115&csid2=870&fid1=42550

Bastard Child Death Cult
Year Zero
By Brad Schmale

Toronto, ON's hardcore scene has seen an abundance of acts emerge as of late but very few of them posses the ferocity and noise-polluted aggression of Bastard Child Death Cult. Although the band have existed for a short period of time, their members are all too familiar with the underground rock scene, as most of them are affiliates of Hog Town warriors like Cancer Bats, Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah and Damn 13. Armed with a crushing style of d-beat hardcore, similar to Discharge and Tragedy, this debut release is bursting with intensity, primarily on "Coffin Dragger," "Dead to Me Now" and the sludgy "American Graveyard." Additionally, former Cursed/current Burning Love vocalist Chris Colohan lends his distinctive bellow to the onslaught of sound throughout the album. Year Zero is a powerful and rabid effort that masochistically assaults listeners before leaving them wanting more. (Stereo Dynamite)

New "Year Zero" album review!

From Ground Control Magazine: http://groundcontrolmag.com/detail/3/1710/

REVIEW BY: Bill Adams

Sometimes, as hardcore rockers get older, they find that it gets progressively more difficult to summon the fire required to pound out aggressive rock on a nightly basis. They slow down, ease up and, while the flames may not have died, they dim or at least start to burn a different color. When Damn 13 singer Adam “Doom” Sewell announced the birth of Bastard Child Death Cult last year, in spite of the ominous overtones in the new band's name, a lot of fans braced themselves for the same kind of decline; it was perceived as an unfortunate event, but one that many viewed as inevitable with the passage of time.

Those fans shouldn't have been so quick to bow to that perceived inevitability. As it turns out, Sewell and this new band that includes members of Damn 13, Cancer Bats, Monster Voodoo Machine, Soulstorm and Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah have done the exact opposite of lighten up; they've declared a brand new start with new axes to grind. Year Zero doesn't even contemplate slowing down or lightening up for one instant during the run-time of the album's ten tracks.

Year Zero really does live up to its name; it plays like a brand new band insofar as not playing it even a little bit safe at any point during the album – everyone just goes for broke. The triple threat guitar onslaught supplied by Darren Quinn, Mike “13” Charette and Junior stands up as a single jagged and imposing force that only gets run through by Davey “Riot” Smedley's monolithic bass (check out the back end of “Radio Silence” if you want your brown eyes turned blue) and chased by Joel Bath's drumming. Particularly on songs like “Buzzkill,” “Blackout” and “Halo,” the band makes the most of its unique hybrid that incorporates metal weight, punk speed and hardcore's ceaseless aggression and doesn't come off as sounding too close to any of them exactly, but doesn't collapse in on itself and spill out as an over-ambitious mess either. Rather, what listeners get is a sound akin to an unrefined (and very, very pissed off) adrenaline rush that strikes out in every available direction and floors it balls-out each time. It's actually a terrifying assault.

Who could have seen this coming? Given the long-standing “lighten up until you fade to nothing with age” tactics that hardcore has always employed, it's a safe bet that the answer to that question will be a unanimous chorus of “no one.” Something like Year Zero has never happened in punk, metal or hardcore before; it's a new beginning, and it's actually a good, satisfying one.

BrokenBeard.com writes the gospel of "Year Zero".

Killer review of our "Year Zero" album at the brand spankin' new (and completely righteous) BrokenBeard.com site: http://www.brokenbeard.com/?p=108

Bastard Child Death Cult
Year Zero
Stereo Dynamite

The whole country’s gone MAD, gripped with some kind of interminable, back-breaking FEAR. The pigs have struck. The future is BLEAK. Everyone’s afraid to get out of bed in the morning and the person next to you on the street corner will claw at your throat with unnerving FURY if you should even so much as cough in their general direction. It’s everyone for themselves and it’s HEINOUS. There’s no vaccine for that kind of lawlessness and DOOM. But there is a soundtrack.

Adam Sewell’s (ex-Damn 13, Monster Voodoo Machine) new brain bastard child is BCxDC, an anarchistic black force of Toronto punk metal that features current and former members of Damn 13, Monster Voodoo Machine, Cancer Bats, and Hell Yeah Fuck Yeah. Their debut, Year Zero, is quick and deadly, like a shot of curdled venom from a sharp syringe, and Adam’s putting this one out on his own label, so you know the fucker is serious about its plague-like efficacy.

It’s ROTTEN out there and Cursed isn’t coming back anytime soon, so KILL or be killed.