The Bronx - V

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It's big, it's aggressive, and at any moment it could smack you in the face.

“Everyone's gonna die!” screams Matt Caughthran, and you're right in the thick of The Bronx’s new album ‘V’. The LA punks open their fifth album with two fists up, and they don't let them drop over the course of 11 pulsating rounds.

After becoming pop-rock idols with stadium-sized choruses in their last two albums, The Bronx return to the gutter with a more familiar, grittier, edge to their sound. That's not to say they haven't learnt a few lessons along the way with the rocking and rolling ‘Side Effects’ and the soaring ‘Channel Islands’ mixing it up in amongst the mayhem.

In parts, ‘V’ finds The Bronx at their violent best too. Scrappy numbers like ‘Fill The Tanks’, and the huge ‘Sore Throat’ get right in your face as they're delivered with blistering speed and those venom-spewing, razor-sharp, vocals from the band’s ringleader to match.