Bastions

Bastions are a hardcore band from Menai Bridge, Wales, and have been active since 2008. The group forms in the UK hardcore and melodic hardcore scene, and is also associated with hardcore punk and modern hardcore.

Background and style

The band appears as a visceral and hard-edged act, with a sound that moves between blues-like despondency and moments of intense, Converge-style violence. Their work avoids fixed genre boundaries and focuses on a wide heavy style rather than a narrow label.

Releases and concepts

After the album Hospital Corners, released in 2011, Bastions issue two thematically linked EPs under the Bedfellows concept. These releases allow the band to develop a story and overall idea across multiple records, rather than only within a full-length album format.

The Bedfellows material is described as showing greater creative depth and songwriting maturity while keeping the band's ferocity intact. After completing that concept, the band stand at a new point in their development, having continued to work outside strict genre limits.

Line-up

The members named in the band are Jamie McDonald, Zachary Birchley, Jamie Burne and Kieran Brindley.