The day has arrived and Swedish punks NONTHEWISER who were already featured on the pages of this webzine released new record. As you might know, Sweden has, besides all those metal bands who are great, also awesome punk hardcore scene with Misconduct, No Fun At All, Satanic Surfers, Astream, 59 Times The Pain, Intensity, Atlas Losing Grip immediately coming to mind. Well, NONTHEWISER are from Gothenburg, birthplace of melodic Swedish death metal, but on this album there are 15 songs of melodic punk hardcore and I must admit this is the one of the finest record I have listened this year so far. Besides playing old school nineties influenced melodic punk/skate punk, NONTHEWISER let us hear in their song structures they are from Sweden with THAT sound of guitar in some songs, like fast Iron Maiden like tuned guitars not unsimilar to Gothenburg’s metal bands, like in awesome fast ‘Perplexed’ or ‘Hang us high’. Vocals at times remind me a bit of Koca from Croatian Fat Prezident and I love that kind of voice, emotional yet at times angry and screaming, shouting. Melody lines are perfect, both vocal and guitar main melodies and hooks. Though I am a fan of more faster songs if possible on the album I listen to, there are also some superb mid tempo punk rock anthems on this one, hitters like ‘Grind down hope’ or ‘The good of man’ having that sweet, sweet melody. This is a lesson in melodic punk.

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