Santa Barbara, CA’s Versus The World will release their Cameron Webb-produced album ‘The Bastards Live Forever’ on May 26 via SBÄM Records.

“I can’t tell you how much work went into this collection of songs. I’d always been taught that if what you were working on wasn’t (what you thought) was your best… start over. Never put anything into the world that you were not absolutely sure of” says singer Donald Ashley Spence.

‘The Bastards Live Forever’ consists of 11 songs crafted to perfection. VTW‘s unique style of melodic post-punk elevates every member’s skill from their other projects including Chris Flippin of Lagwagon. Obviously Versus The World is not all about musical craft but you can hear a passion and an urge to scream out deeply rooted feelings in every syllable throughout the record. ‘Your Wedding And A Funeral’ is a complex yet extremely melodic and rememberable song, most likely in the musical context of mid-western emo and post-punk. It is about lost love”, says Spence. “This song is kind of a confession. An admittance of guilt. It’s hard to look at something that has been broken and say out loud that you’re the reason. It really was therapeutic to write and it’s one of my favorite choruses on the record. There are 2 versions of this song and when I go back and listen to the first rendition I’m really stoked on the way it turned out.”

Upcoming shows:

28.07. Berlin @ Wild At Heart

29.07. Hohenstaufen @ Vert Rock w/ Urethane

01.08. Erfurt @ Tiko w/ Urethane

03.08. Wermelskirchen @ AJZ w/ Authority Zero & Cigar

05.08. Duffel, B @ Brakrock

06.08. Düsseldorf, D @ Pitcher w/ Diesel Boy

09.08. Vienna, AUT @ Rhiz w/ Diesel Boy

10.08. Tolmin, SLO @ Punkrock Holiday

12.08. Rimini, ITA @ Bayfest

Photo: Casey Pinckard