Australian hardcore scene is great and has some really great bands to offer to the world like Deez Nuts, Toe To Toe, Clowns…In Ashes come from Gold Coast, Australia. This quartet plays modern melodic variation of hardcore with many metal influences so they sound more metalcore than classic hardcore band. The album contains 10 songs of sorrow, hope, melody, aggression and despair. The guitar riffs are melodic but also somehow downtuned and there are many atmospheric parts in the songs like “Second of April, 1988”. The vocal parts are mainly harsh, growling and tortured screams, but in a few songs there is also nice melodic clean vocals to counterpart the aggression of the growling screams. The highlight of this album is the song “Isolation” with great guest vocals by Samantha Hurst. In all, this is not a bad album, but I did not like it specially because personally I am not a fan of metalcore modern sound of hardcore.

4/10

https://inashes.bandcamp.com/album/breathe-hope-2