A German based band Bastard Nation, started its carrear in 2000 year. They work as a quartet formation, and till now released a 2 Demo issues, and also one Promo before the realization of actuelle full-length. Bastard Nation are on the field of heavy/power metal with clear epic and traditional metal elements. A strong influences comes out from the 80's period, and more from so call European then American school. "Birth Of A Nation" is a 10 track album, duration a little longer then 52 minutes, and I can say that band realistically has promoted own interesting spheres.

Historical and epic themes, and pretty coherent performings, characterize an album materials in general. One thing isn' t convinceble enough, and I think about productional work, which threathenings are little old-fashioned, and didn't communicate with nowadays standards. But, other technical and releasing details funkcionized as well, and followers of mentioned genre's form could be quite satisfied at last. Finally, I would mention in my opinion titles of 2 favourable tracks - "Kill The Lion" and "Vinland".

Traditional Heavy Metal is the métier of German BASTARD NATION and like several young bands these days they are breathing the air directly from the Eighties, with heavy influences by the likes of IRON MAIDEN, METALLICA, JUDAS PRIEST etc., which in combination with the fact that if someone played a song of the band to you, you probably will not recognize it as BASTARD NATION right away, leads to the age-old question, if we need another band that plays this sound.

If you are not a big fan of the style anyway, your answer will probably be a resounding “NO!”, but let’s not judge this book, ehm, CD, just by its cover or rather its influences. Founded in 2000, this is the first full album after two demos and while the production is not high gloss, it has the right roughness around the edges to lend authenticity to the ten songs of the album.

Opener “Point Of No Return” doesn’t leave any room for doubt as to who this quartet’s influences are, as IRON MAIDEN shine through right off the bat in the guitar melodies, even though the vocals are deeper and a bit rougher than the role models, adding a little ACCEPT in the riffing as well. Now if you think that this will relegate BASTARD NATION among the legions of copycats, you are wrong, quite wrong actually, because even though the influences are very obvious, they channel them into something entertaining and quite mature.

But that is not all the Heidelbergians have to offer, “Dark Reign” adds a brick and introduces some US-Metal into the mix, which adds a nice touch to the whole endeavour, keeping things fresh, same goes for the at times thrashy riffing of “Devil’s Daughter” or the more Teutonic sounding “Emperor’s Fate”, so the Germans definitely are not a one-trick pony. One song I definitely still have to mention is “Vinland”, with almost 8 minutes of epic Metal befitting the Viking lyrics, which works very well, too, not a single song appears to be filling material and all of them have one or more passages that really make me listen up, very nice.

So if this reads pretty positive so far, well, it is a really good album, no doubt about that. It is not the be-all end-all, as it is obvious that the guys still have a lot of work ahead of them, but as a first (full-length) step “Promo 2007” is more than remarkable and there are a lot less talented bands out there that managed to snatch a contract, lots of potential here!