For today's review - we have a trio of badasses from Lisboa, Portugal - Bas Rotten. This is their debut album, and it’s coming out on the 20th of November! And after looking at the album cover and the band logo, my first impression was “Oh no, another macho hardcore band…”. And I was dead wrong. Blastbeats tore my face off right from the first seconds of the album. This is a great example of judging the “book by its cover”, as this album was a great surprise for me.
While listening to the album, you can hear a lot, and I mean A LOT of different influences. Every song surprises the listener with different music styles, while still not being too different from each other. While this is not a macho hardcore band, there is a strong footprint of it in the vocals and guitar riffs (but not the whole time). The drummer plays a lot of different beats throughout the album - blastbeats, d-beat, pretty much everything this album would need. The guitar riffs have a lot of variety as well, as you can hear some death metal riffs, slower badass old school thrash metal riffs and with the combination of vocals, these riffs sound like something, that would be influenced by Sodom. I guess this is something you could call thrashcore. Although, throughout the album, I could not decide if this was more of a metal album or punk. Despite that, a lot of people will find something they could like about this album.
Support the band and buy the album, which is coming out on the 20th November, 2020!
Follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/basrotten
...And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/basrottengrind/
...And Bandcamp as well: https://basrotten.bandcamp.com/
