Bastard Child Death Cult

August 2009
Released: 2009, Stereo Dynamite Recordings
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviewer: Celtic Bob

FINALLY, we get a new disc from Adam ‘Doom’ Sewell (Monster Voodoo Machine/Damn 13). This new project reunites him with his former Damn 13 band mates Dave Smedley and Mike Charette. What you are getting here is more intense than the last Damn 13 album.

Clocking in just under 25 minutes this debut delivers more music and heaviness than most hour long releases out there. This is the most intense album you will hear this year. The vocals and drums are loud, fast and out of control. It is a full on attack to your system. Songs like “Radio Silence”, “Buzzkill” and “Halo” just confirm it. This trio of songs are just a few of the tracks that stick in your brain after hearing the album. The rest are equally as intense and heavy. If the disc sounds this energetic one can only fathom what the live show must be like.

YEAR ZERO is just the beginning………………stay tuned for more sensory overload! - metal-rules.com

Iron Giant / Bastard Child Death Cult / Dutch Oven
Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON March 21
By Keith Carman

....watching Torontonians Bastard Child Death Cult explode while coupling the likes of Discharge and the Hellacopters was equal parts enticing and frustrating; like aural blue balls. Their upbeat attack and thick low-end is awesome yet it's a constant tease. Having been around the scene for some time now, they rarely perform and have yet to issue an album so that we may become more familiar with the tunes. Sure it's fun to watch singer Adam Sewell bounce around madly but it's even better when you can sing along too, guys. - Exclaim! Magazine

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. - BrokenBeard.com

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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) - Exclaim! Magazine