Sweden, besides having plenty metal bands, was also very fertile ground for hardcore punk bands. Do you remember Bash Brothers? We already featured these melodic hardcore punks from Eksjo, Sweden in our zine when we reviewed their first record. Now, I am lucky being able to listen and review for our zine the new, second full length out on Thousand Islands Records.

The new album features 12 songs of epic, high energy fueled fast melodic hardcore punk. Compared to the firs album, it is a great progress for these guys, being more technical, even more musically tight and having great guitar hooks, even very metalic vibes in some songs but yet retaining the punk hardcore edge we all love so much. The vocals are awesome, shouted and screamed yet at the same time melodic sung with great backing vocal harmonies. I can not escape the comparison to Satanic Surfers, but Bash Brothers are more hard and brutal sounding although both bands have some similarities, I would say that Bash Brothers have more hardcore sounding vibe. There are some guest performances on this record, John Harcus from Pmx, Niklas Karlsson from Orbit Culture and Vince Fournier from Our Darkest Days deliver a little support with their voices to the awesome songs. It is so hard for me to say which songs are best to me from this energetic bomb of an album, but I will try, here it is: Dark Passenger, Twist Your Tongue and Green Street. Judging by this record, 2019.started really great.

10/10

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