PENNYWISE Never Gonna Die CD (2018)

Huntington Beach. Late eighties. A bunch of guys who took the Descendants and Bad Religion template and ran it straight into the Pacific Ocean. Pennywise have been doing this for thirty years and they still sound like they have something to prove.

Released in 2018, Never Gonna Die is the band's twelfth record and it doesn't reinvent anything, which is entirely the point. This is skate punk and hardcore in its purest form, fast and direct and politically pissed off, the kind of music that got passed around on dubbed tapes in the early nineties and never really stopped mattering to the people it mattered to. Zoli Téglás handles vocals and the Pennywise engine room just does what it does. If you know, you know.

CD, full length album, 2018. US hardcore and skate punk.

Fans of: Bad Religion, NOFX, Strung Out