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    King Bastard band story

    The first day of university orientation, we all went to Stony Brook University on Long Island, NY, Mike wore this
    Sleep shirt, pure coincidence. He was just walking around doing all the freshman bullshit, miserable. Arthur walks
    by like, “Yo dude! That’s a sick shirt!”
    Mike thought he was being fucked with
    “Shut the fuck up, name a song”
    “Dopesmoker”

    Eventually we got together to jam and learn covers before realizing — we needed a drummer. We whipped up a
    fantastic flyer featuring a baby behind a drum kit with a poorly Photoshopped Sleep logo on the kick, along with
    contact information and pictures of bands we like. We inevitably stumbled upon the man known as Spencer Flash
    who had been playing drums for a mere six months at that point. Learning Black Sabbath covers quickly turned
    into full on improvisation as we tried to work around Flash’s odd playing style. This in turn was what gave birth to
    our sound, a fusion of traditional doom riffs with experimental psychedelic jams.

    As Flash’s tenure with the then-unnamed King Bastard came to an end, Arthur realized that he actually knew a
    drummer the entire time. Thus, he called upon his former pet store coworker, Matt Ryan, who had been playing
    drums for 14 years at that point and won several drumming competitions.

    We eventually became much more focused and driven to find our sound. After a run of demo tapes including
    “Have You Seen This Man?” and “Live at the Haunted Barn,” we took to Menegroth, the Thousand Caves in
    Queens, NY to record our debut studio record,”It Came from the Void,” with the legendary Colin Marston. It was
    Mike’s uncle Darren, drummer of the esteemed Long Island sludge metal band Unearthly Trance, who pointed us
    in the direction of the Krallice commandeer. After that we started overdubbing guitar solos and all that extra
    seasoning at Mike’s place, totally DIY, an ethos which persists to this day.

    Who is King Bastard?

    Mike Verni: Guitars (also an engineer at a pharmaceutical company


    Arthur Erb: Bass, vocals and all lyrics (also a paleontologist at a children’s museum)
    Matt Ryan: Drums and percussion (also a high school history teacher)

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