Step Forward was a Swedish hardcore punk band founded in 1989 in Umeå, Sweden by Dennis Lyxzén and his friends, Toft Stade, Jens Nordén and Henrik Jansson.
Step Forward was one of the first hardcore punk bands in Sweden that held on to the American straight edge lifestyle.
Differences of opinion on the kind of songs they wanted to play finally reached a point of no return and Step Forward was dissolved.
In 1996, a Step Forward CD entitled It Did Make a Difference was released on the hardcore label Desperate Fight Records.
In 2008 Nordén and Lyxzén teamed up with Karl Backman, The Vectors, and David Sandström, ex-Refused, to form a new hardcore band called AC4.