{"id":20583,"date":"2026-06-05T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=20583"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:37:18","slug":"new-music-from-freeman-promotions-u-s-bastards-ex-gwar-negligent-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=20583","title":{"rendered":"New Music From Freeman Promotions &#8211; U.S. BASTARDS (Ex-GWAR) &#8211; &#8220;Negligent Discharge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/U.S.-BASTARDS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/U.S.-BASTARDS.jpg 425w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/U.S.-BASTARDS-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/U.S.-BASTARDS-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a world full of pleasantries and kiss-assing,&nbsp;<strong>U.S. BASTARDS<\/strong>&nbsp;are neither. A four piece hardcore punk criminal enterprise from Virginia, the band has re-formed after a chance meeting in county lockup. Brent and Robby knew the four members didn\u2019t land in the same cell for no reason. It was fate calling them back to life on the road; back to sleepless trips, dungeon whips, gas station speed and canned meat. Doug agreed fate was calling them back to teach the masses what a truly bad time could be. \u2026 and Brendan just happened to be in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve been doing so much hard time lately, it&#8217;s time to be hard on the road.\u201d &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Brent<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c&#8230;[two middle fingers]&#8230;\u201d &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Doug<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ran-when-parked, the outlaws took straight to the van to get the message out. After a ten year hiatus they have agreed to utilize their new-found freedom from the state to write harder, catchier, faster, harder-er, hell-raising songs glorifying their exploits and shine a light on the gatekeeping tendencies in the music scene that has never accepted them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the rest of the world goes quiet, the Bastards get loud and angry, blazing across the country with a wall of cranked Marshall stacks. This is the way punk rock should be: loud, unapologetic, pandering to no one, and having no qualms with being the bad guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their new album&nbsp;<strong><em>Negligent Discharge<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;is set for release&nbsp;<strong>June 19<\/strong><sup><strong>th<\/strong><\/sup><strong>&nbsp;2026<\/strong>&nbsp;featuring bonus track covers of Judas Priest and Motorhead songs. 13 tracks of hard and fast music that kicks the door off its hinges. Best to listen with a shotgun in one and a 40oz duct taped to the other, these are anthems for the outcasts among the outcasts. Skip work! Give your neighbors kid a cig! This is full throttle, no brakes, speed-rocking crime metal. Full stacks and gun racks packed, these delinquents are coming to your town. Clutch your pearls!&nbsp;<strong>U.S. BASTARDS<\/strong>&nbsp;are back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"U.S. BASTARDS - KNIFE CRIME (Lyric Video and Visualizer)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NwJ4_64vETs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world full of pleasantries and kiss-assing,&nbsp;U.S. BASTARDS&nbsp;are neither. A four piece hardcore punk criminal enterprise from Virginia, the band has re-formed after a chance meeting in county lockup. Brent and Robby knew the four members didn\u2019t land in the same cell for no reason. It was fate calling them back to life on&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=20583\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Music From Freeman Promotions &#8211; U.S. BASTARDS (Ex-GWAR) &#8211; &#8220;Negligent Discharge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20585,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions\/20585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}