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Man Is the Bastard
12+ albums
powerviolencenoisehardcorepower violenceCrust
about
Man is the Bastard were a Powerviolence/Sludge band consisting of legendary California members Eric Wood, Joel Connell, and Aaron Kenyon - many of whom helped solidify the underground hardcore scene and paved the way for the extreme hardcore subgenre known as Powerviolence. Neanderthal being the most notable of their previous bands not only for the creation of Powerviolence, but also for the direction of Man is the Bastard in which the song "Crawl" off of Neanderthal's 1990 EP "Fighting Music " would lie the foundation for the bands sound. Based in Claremont, USA, the band existed from 1991 to 1997, releasing many vinyl records on DIY-punk labels from around the world. In stark contrast to other punk musicians, MITB made the move of displacing the electric guitar from its long reign as the primary instrument of punk aggression. In turn, they made room within their revolutionary spirit for progressive bass chords and blues scales, for industrial noise (field recordings and power electronics), and for member Henry Barnes’ “Amps for Christ” and homemade guitar reconfigurations. The bass-heavy configuration was found in earlier projects by founding members Joel Connel and Eric Wood, who recorded under such monikers as Cyclops and Neanderthal. Their thematic emphasis on the primitive and mythological would continue in MITB records such as “Sum of the Men” and the split album with Bleeding Rectum. The fullest expression of these concerns appeared with the 7” record entitled “Bac
