Cas Metah Enters Gotham With D.V. Alias Khryst, Jerry Brown & Bronze Nazareth On “Bruce Wayne”

Hip-Hop has always understood the power of the alter ego. From larger-than-life aliases to comic-book mythology, emcees have spent decades transforming themselves into characters capable of saying and doing things their everyday identities cannot. Cas Metah taps directly into that tradition on “Bruce Wayne,” recruiting D.V. Alias Khryst, Jerry Brown, and Bronze Nazareth for a record that turns Batman’s billionaire identity into a playground for bars, personality, and underground Hip-Hop craftsmanship.

Produced by SoulSeize, “Bruce Wayne” appears on Cas Metah’s latest album, Genuine Art I Kill, a 17-track project released June 20. The album brings together a substantial collection of collaborators while keeping Cas at the center of an unmistakably Ohio-rooted underground Hip-Hop record. “Bruce Wayne” arrives as the eighth track, with D.V. Alias Khryst, Jerry Brown, and Bronze Nazareth joining Cas over SoulSeize’s production.

The concept gives everybody involved plenty of room to work.

Rather than simply naming a song after a comic-book character, Cas Metah and company personify Bruce Wayne, borrowing the imagery, confidence, secrecy, resources, and dual-identity possibilities surrounding Batman’s alter ego. That makes the record immediately accessible to anyone familiar with the character while giving the emcees another layer on which to build their rhymes.

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There is also something naturally Hip-Hop about the idea. Batman exists through transformation. Bruce Wayne operates in one world while Batman moves through another, and emceeing has long embraced a similar concept. The microphone allows an artist to construct an amplified version of himself—more dangerous, more confident, more mysterious, or simply larger than life.

“Bruce Wayne” understands that connection without allowing the concept to overwhelm the music.

D.V. Alias Khryst handles the hook, giving the track an anchor between verses, while Cas Metah, Jerry Brown, and Bronze Nazareth approach the theme from their respective lyrical positions. Instead of sounding like artists forced into an elaborate gimmick, the collaboration works because the Batman reference becomes a framework. The real attraction remains the MC work.

Bronze Nazareth is particularly well suited for this kind of environment. His presence carries the grimy, densely written character associated with the underground tradition he has represented for years. Put that alongside Cas Metah’s veteran writing and the additional contributions from Jerry Brown and D.V. Alias Khryst, and “Bruce Wayne” becomes more than a novelty comic-book record. It sounds like veteran artists enjoying an idea while still respecting the fundamentals of lyric-driven Hip-Hop.

SoulSeize deserves equal attention.

The Zurich, Switzerland producer isn’t a random addition to Cas Metah’s world. Their creative relationship stretches back to 2009, when SoulSeize reached out to Cas online and sent him a beat. According to the history accompanying their 2020 collaborative project You Can Not Bait A King, Cas was so impressed that he wrote and recorded a song over the production in a single day. The two continued working together from there, eventually joining D1 for that full project.

That history matters on “Bruce Wayne.” There is an established musical relationship behind the record rather than a producer simply supplying an instrumental. SoulSeize knows the type of space Cas needs as an emcee, and the production provides a cinematic foundation appropriate for a song inspired by Gotham’s most famous vigilante without turning the Batman theme into parody.

It is another example of how Hip-Hop can make geographic boundaries nearly irrelevant. Cas Metah represents Dayton, Ohio, while SoulSeize works from Zurich, Switzerland. Yet their collaboration has continued for well over a decade—a reminder that underground Hip-Hop developed an international creative network long before remote collaboration became ordinary.

“Bruce Wayne” also makes more sense when placed inside Genuine Art I Kill.

Cas Metah describes himself as an emcee since 1995, with connections to Scribbling Idiots and Field Specialists among the affiliations listed on his official Bandcamp page. His catalog reflects the kind of long-term independent career where relationships, lyrical reputation, and consistency carry more weight than chasing whatever sound happens to dominate a particular moment.

That longevity comes through on the new album. Genuine Art I Kill features an extensive supporting cast across 17 songs, while production comes from Don Johnson, Rare Komm, Theory Hazit, SoulSeize, Temper, Don-P, Count Henny, VTZ, and Cooley The Curator. “Bruce Wayne” sits right in the middle of that larger collaborative ecosystem.

The project has begun receiving recognition outside Cas Metah’s immediate circle as well. Hip Hop Golden Age included Genuine Art I Kill among its best Hip-Hop albums of June 2026, specifically identifying “Bruce Wayne” as one of the album’s darker moments and praising the project for its writing, production, and commitment to core Hip-Hop values.

That assessment points toward what makes “Bruce Wayne” work.

There is no need to choose between being serious about the craft and having fun with Hip-Hop.

Cas Metah, D.V. Alias Khryst, Jerry Brown, Bronze Nazareth, and SoulSeize demonstrate that the two can coexist. The Batman mythology provides the imagery. The emcees provide the personalities. SoulSeize supplies the musical environment. And underneath the masks, references, and Gotham-inspired atmosphere sits something considerably more traditional:

Bruce Wayne may need the Batcave to become Batman. Cas Metah and company only need a beat. Genuine Art I Kill is available now through Cas Metah/Hen House Forum on Bandcamp.

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