{"id":105627,"date":"2025-10-31T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=105627"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T10:24:03","slug":"album-review-bastard-cross-crossripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-bastard-cross-crossripper\/","title":{"rendered":"BASTARD CR\u00d6SS – Crossripper (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BASTARD CR\u00d6SS
\nCrossripper<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMorbid And Miserable (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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After a brace of EPs and split projects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based black thrashers Bastard Cr\u00f6ss decide to spew out a nasty full-length debut album on Halloween. Armed with inverted crosses and adorned in leather, the blasphemous gang of four drags its audience through a frashy, trashy and formulaic blend of speeded up New Wave Of British Heavy Metal and hellish fury.<\/p>\n

If you dig rusty metal like Midnight then the songs here will surely appeal. Sure, one knows what\u2019s lurking around the corner with each track to an extent although the glam-tinged \u2018Demons At Midnight\u2019 also fuses thrash and U.S. power metal via the theatrical fire of Lizzy Borden. The hilariously named Blasphemous Axe (guitar and vocals), Heathen Chevalier (guitar and vocals), Beheader Of Priests (bass) and Infernal Bastard (drums) creates a sulphuric cauldron which, when stirred, produces a Mot\u00f6rhead-styled punkiness (\u2018Parasitic\u2019) alongside Toxic Holocaust.<\/p>\n

The foursome also touches upon a vicious South American style of underground bellowing and snapping, successfully courting raw and primitive designs doused in dual vocal evil that might startle a few of the local Women\u2019s Institute members. However, there\u2019s nothing here that we haven\u2019t heard before as \u2018Lycan Knights\u2019 drips with a Toxic Holocaust menace and the title cut snaps like classic Sodom.<\/p>\n

I love the tales the band coughs up though, ranging from a parasite-littered village to a mummified corpse rising from its tomb (\u2018Sarcophagus\u2019). Satanic wafts of early Slayer<\/a> fill the nostrils as the band resorts to impure savagery on closer \u2018Behead The Priest\u2019 and the venomous \u2018Phantom Pestilence\u2019.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve no doubt the intention is to shove serious unholy graveyard metal down our throats, but for all of its attempts at archaic anarchy Crossripper<\/em> is just bestial buffoonery and I like it.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BASTARD CR\u00d6SS Crossripper Morbid And Miserable (2025) Rating: 7\/10 After a brace of EPs and split projects, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based black thrashers Bastard Cr\u00f6ss decide to spew out a nasty full-length debut album on Halloween. Armed with inverted crosses and adorned in leather, the blasphemous gang of four drags its audience through a frashy, trashy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-bastard-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105628,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105627\/revisions\/105628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}