Sweden always had excellent melodic punk hardcore bands with Satanic Surfers, Millencolin, No Fun At All, coming to mind immediately. I discovered Bash Brothers when I reviewed their ep for this zine a while ago. Now, they released their debut album with 10 songs. Hailing from Eksjo, they play melodic hardcore punk with all lyrics in English. All of the songs on this album have a more hardcorish vibe with fast paced drumming, excellent riff and hook solutions topped with great vocal handle, courtesy of the singer Johan. There are two songs featuring guest vocals by John Harcus from Pmx. Personally, the top songs of this album are “Life Lessons” having an excellent anthemic chorus that I wish I wrote. The next favourite is “Suit Yourself” because of the great Swedish almost Gothenburgesque middle melodic metal part of the song. The third top song for me is “You Are Fading Away” with great energetic fast paced screaming vocal parts. The first ep was okay but nothing special, and this debut album is something that will make this band one of the greatest Swedish melodic hardcore bands in the future. This is an album that both hardcore kids into more harder music and both skate punk kids will love. Bash Brothers are the picture fresh, modern and energetic melodic hardcore punk should sound like.

9/10

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