"THE THINGS I'VE SEEN, THROUGH THE SHIT I'VE BEEN, FOR MY FAMILY I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE! I'LL KEEP IT REAL, VALUES YOU'LL NEVER GET! STILL UNBEATEN, WE'RE FOREVER!"

DOS DIAS DE SANGRE & GIVE 'EM BLOOD - "SPLIT"
("Beatdown Hardwear Rec."; CD):

Here it is, and damn it, but from September 2009 on I was waiting for it. Back then at the Altstadtfest in Goslar Jan of DOS DIAS DE SANGRE told me that they would be planning to do a split record as their next release. So okay, like every good boy does fine all good things do take some time, and here the announced split record finally is. And it turned out to be a monster of a record, one of the very best releases of 2010, for sure, point and fact. DOS DIAS DE SANGRE are kicking it all off, giving us at all six songs (including one Intro track and one Skit track). And what shall I say, again they've developed quite a huge 'bit', made a giant step forward. On the one side they've really grew more and more in the Death Metal direction of things, especially modern Florida Death Metal like newer MORBID ANGEL and modern grinding Death Metal like DYING FETUS seem to became major influences, just listen to the guitar work respectively the guitar riffing as well as the bonesmashing and also often blast speed drumming. What is especially great is how they work it all together, the songwriting is damn great and fucking amazingly grapping, and how they settle it all together, even dazing discordance parts and furious raging and storming Up Tempo and Blast Speed parts is really just and only one thing: Awesomly stand-alone!!! So, while they became more (Death) Metal on the one side, on the other side they became simultaneously even more Hardcore (especially the NYHC as well as also NJHC way of sound and style) than before, carrying on the torch that once was set ablaze by FURY OF FIVE, 25 TA LIFE, MERAUDER, MADBALL, and AGNOSTIC FRONT, and if ya're also into SHATTERED REALM, TOETAG, xTYRANTx (without the Straight Edge attitude), SWORN ENEMY, and UNIT 731, then you will find in DOS DIAS DE SANGRE also something very fresh and special that you will truly love. And a song, a pure through and through Hardcore anthem like "GOOD FRIENDS, GOOD TIMES" they've never written before, it's a song in the tradition of (for example) BACKFIRE!'s "STILL DEDICATED" and "WHAT HOLDS US TOGETHER", musically and lyrically. Great, I just hope that they will work more in this direction. Yes, so, DOS DIAS DE SANGRE done an incredible great job here with their songs, awesome songwriting and these guys know fucking outstanding good to play their instruments. Their songs "FRONTIERS", "ON THE WINGS OF HERSEY", "SOLID DEPRESSION", and "GOOD FRIENS, GOOD TIMES" are some of the best Hardcore (somewhere between NYHC, Beatdown HC and Metalcore) I've ever listened to especially in this current year of 2010. Fantastic!!! Guys, I hope you will get a new full length record settled together pretty soon. What is also just brilliant about DOS DIAS DE SANGRE is the fact that they do have a very own identity already, especially the rhythm work, the arrangements and the guitar sound (and the way the guitar is played) a very unique and a style of them own, if ya got what I wanted to say with this words. Outstanding!!! Point and fact!!! DOS DIAS DE SANGRE do get 10 out of 10 points, and it's also their very best work to this very day. Then are coming the to me before totally unknown GIVE 'EM BLOOD from Austria. Angelo of DOS DIAS DE SANGRE said to me before this split here came out by the end of November that they've chosen some great split record tag team partners, not that ordinary and usually-boring stuff we get to hear at any place and any time this days. And yes, he was right!!! GIVE 'EM BLOOD do give us also six songs (including one intro), and they're really some great and outstanding stuff. It's hard to describe what they are doing here. It's a mixture out of Beatdown Hardcore, metallic Hardcore and some Metal the modern way that they do deliver us here. And what now may sound not that unique to you is in reality exactly that unique like I've announced it before. Combine Beatdown Hardcore like UNIT 731 with metallic Hardcore like ALL OUT WAR and this all you do then melt together with some modern (American) Metal like LAMB OF GOD, then you finally do cultivate it all with some Tough Guy Mosh Hardcore like TOETAG, hell yeahr, and then you do have a pretty good first description of what GIVE 'EM BLOOD are doing here. All done very stand-alone and damn it, they know how to write interesting and grapping songs and how to play their instruments damn fuckig outstanding good. You really need to check them out and get known to them, because they have really a damn big load of more than 'just' grapping and interesting modern Hardcore music for you settled together, so damn it, check GIVE 'EM BLOOD out as soon as you can. My personal favorite one of them is their incredible brilliant hymn "COLD STEEL", especially when I'm pumping iron in the gym, hm, but this won't make you wonder anyhow anyway as soon as you know the lyrics, trust me. GIVE 'EM BLOOD do get also 10 out of 10 points here, and damn it, they honestly earn every single one of them. (Like also DOS DIAS DE SANGRE, by the way.) Both bands do give us also a big bunch of great lyrics that do cover a pretty wide distance of interesting topics, so check them out. The production sound of the songs of both bands is through and through just fucking great stuff, hm, and the artwork as a whole package is also really good, even the cover artwork looks like it was drawn by some retarded fuck out there, haha;-). All in all this one here is one of the best records of 2010, point and fact, and you should really get it as soon as possible, point and fact. Stand-alone Hardcore!!! Get it!!! (10 of 10 points)
(http://www.myspace.com/dosdiasdesangre)
(http://www.myspace.com/giveemblood)
(http://www.beatdownhardwear.de/)
Last or final post of the year of 2010!!!

'The Art Of Killing Poetry' by the german legends of SODOM

SODOM - "THE ART OF KILLING POETRY"
("SPV GmbH" / "Steamhammer" / "Metal Hammer Magazine"; CD):

Next blog posting, next record review, next Thrash Metal assault, next dose of Thrash Metal from Germany, and the next legendary band that I now know for about twenty years or something like this, and yes, I am talking about the legendary SODOM from Gelsenkirchen, Germany and also (like KREATOR) here they are back with a free garnish, but not of the "ROCK HARD MAGAZINE" but of the german edition of the "METAL HAMMER MAGAZINE", and again I decided to leave the complete package where it was and just grabbed the CD and left the supermarket, yeahr, you know, fighting the rules of capitalism wherever you can fight them, haha;-). (It's always good and nice if ya can hide nothing but simply 'criminal activities' behind some 'high moral aspirations', or isn't it?!? Just ask our political leaders!!!) So, okay, SODOM had released at the end of 2010 their newest record (and I will soon risk one or two ears) titled in "WAR & PIECES", and here we do get three new tracks of SODOM, as well as (pretty much) all of their so called 'German Classics' and also some live recorded songs at the giant german Metal Open Air settled in Wacken. Metal became more and more pretty unimportant to me over the last one or one-and-a-half decade, and especially SODOM had been a band that I lost totally out of my focus. They had not only been one of the harder Metal bands that I came to knew first, but they had also been one of the first Metal bands ever I used to listen to. But beside their three classicks "TAPPING THE VEIN", "BETTER OFF DEAD" and "AGENT ORANGE" and their very good late 1990's record "CODE RED" and maybe their pretty cool and very much Punk and Hardcore inspired record "GET WHAT YOU DESERVE" (with the great "SILENT IS CONSENT") and also maybe (very maybe) their very old one "PERSECUTION MANIA" (with th legendary "BOMBENHGEL") they have released so many other stuff more that, from my point of view, really nobody ever needed anyhow. And so, yes, that's why I totally lost them out of my view and focus back in 1999 or 2000 or something like this. But okay, after this one was for free, harhar;-), I thought that it would maybe be time again to give them another try. And what shall I say, damn what a suprise!!! SODOM moved pretty much far away from their more or less very 'punky' through and through Old School (German) Thrash Metal sound and style and do now-a-days sound pretty much 'New School'. It seemed like they've developed quite an impressive 'bit' to a more and more New School sound and style of Thrash Metal like it was born and bred over there in the States by bands like MACHINE HEAD and the PISSING RAZORS, just to name this two bands. (Still combined with some or even a lot of Old School Thrash Metal, trust me.) Very grapping and impressive songwriting, strong varying rhythm work and structures, cool changes of pace and exciting modifications of the mood of the songs, and a very harsh and brutal guitar playing that's really giving the songs its crown. Okay, I'm still not the biggest fan of Tom Angelripper's style of singing and of 'speaking out english', but okay, that's not doing hurt to final result here that much at all. The three new songs "IN WAR AND PIECES", "THE ART OF KILLING POETRY", and "FEIGNED DEATH THROES" are really amazing stuff that you really need to check out, even Die-Hard SODOM and Die-Hard Old School Thrash Metal maniacs will maybe somehow a little bit be dissapointed. The three songs are really awesome stuff, and of the rest of the songs you do really need (still today) "STALINORGEL", "WACHTTURM", and "BOMBENHAGEL". "DIE STUMME URSEL", "VERRECKE", and "MANTELMANN", okay, we do forget about this ones very quick, and the german version of "AUSGEBOMBT" is not half as good as the english original one. But okay, you should grab one of this CD's anyhow, and maybe make sure that you try out their current 2010 full length release titled "IN WAR AND PIECES". The production sound is very good, and the artwork looks just awesome. Also the lyrics are some good stuff. Good stuff after all that's really promising a lot when it comes to their new record and so I think I'm gonna give it a fair try pretty soon from now on. Check it out!!! (8 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/sodom)

Thrash Metal Moshpit over Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 2010

KREATOR - "TERROR PREVAILS - LIVE AT ROCK HARD FESTIVAL 2010"
("Rockpalast Mobile"/"Rock Hard Magazine"/"E.M.P. Merchandising"; CD):

Okay folks, time for a new record review up here and it's also time for some Metal music again on this very blog here. Now you get the review of the newest and current live record of the german Thrash Metal legend of the name of KREATOR. They used to play this year live on stage at the "ROCK HARD FESTIVAL" in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. There they've recorded this live recording of their comcert and this one you now get for free as a free garnish of the "ROCK HARD MAGAZINE" as a little 'Thank you!' to the fans by the band itself, hm, and I don't know if there will ever be a 'commercial version' of this record here, but I think currently not and if it will ever come, hm, maybe time will tell it to us some far away day. So okay, anyhow, I decided to not go and get the whole package of the magazine and this CD and pay the full price, nah, I decided to just get the CD and instead of paying the full price so I payed nothing for it, yes, I fight the rules of capitalism wherever I can fight them, haha;-). Even Metal in general lost a lot and also the most part of its importance it once had to me, okay, it's a thing of the personal taste in music and how it changes over time, but to some stuff, records, and bands I still use to listen to with pleasure and joy. And KREATOR had been right from the start a pretty imprortant band to me, even this whole German Thrash Metal thing wasn't ever really my first choice, but anyhow, KREATOR used to rule always. But over the last years (okay, okay, over the last decade) I really lost them totally out of sight. The last record I was really into of them was the one with "PHOBIA" (still an awesome great track) on it, hm, I think it was (and is) still titled "OUTCAST". After this KREATOR somehow used to disappear for me and out of my view. I remeber that a friend of mine once gave me their "ENEMY OF GOD" (or something like this titled) record some years ago, hm, but I can't tell ya what's my opinion to it, what my opinion was or is, but anyway and anyhow... So yes, now KREATOR are suddenly back in the field of my view, and I can tell ya, how they are back!!! Great!!! Unlike the most guys I know I normally think that live records are always a nice thing if you are a fan of the band(s). (Okay, unless the live records aren't such bullshit like the "LIVE U.S.A." records of METALLICA, okay, okay, you're right.) On this live record we do get nine tracks (don't know if this is respectively was the full set-list of their concert) at all, and I just knew four ("PHOBIA", "ENDLESS PAIN", "TERRIBLE CERTAINTY", and "PLEASURE TO KILL") and 'a half' ("ENEMY OF GOD") songs before. After an intro the Thrash Metal inferno unleashed by KREATOR breaks loose and hell's coming with it. It's really impressive how much they've developed over the time of their existence, just listen to the great guitar work of songs like "THE PESTILENCE" and "HORDES OF CHAOS" (the very best one here on this record, just awesome shit), and also to the incredible well-versed rhythm section and its very rich on variantions being work and structure, and KREATOR always also knew how to write grapping songs and fantastic chorus lines, and this all you do find here brought up to nearly perfection. Some parts also seem like very stand-alone arranged Beatdown parts melted into the very own style of KREATOR's Tharsh Metal, and not to forget that in some moments KREATOR today uses to sound like an even better and more original version of SLAYER than SLAYER itself. I just miss "WHEN THE SUN BURNS RED" (best song KREATOR have ever written, point and fact), "LOVE US OR HATE US" (great larger-than-life band anthem), "RENEWAL" and at least some of the great stuff they've done on their brilliant "CAUSE FOR CONFLICT" record back then. If that wouldn't be the case, then maybe... And the only things that are really annoying me are this stupid and silly "Rock Hard, Moshpit!" chants and screams by Mille to 'fire the crowd up', that really sucks and is damn much annoying, at least to me. Didn't know how obsessed Mille of KREATOR is with this whole Moshpit stuff... So, okay, if you like some good Thrash Metal then go and try everything to get this great live recorded piece of it by one of the very best bands ever to come out of this genre, and definitely the best one of it to come from Germany. The recording sound is brilliant, and the artwork is also a nice one. Damn it, very good stuff that you really should call your own if you're into some hard Metal stuff, so try everything to still get it anyway from somewhere, point and fact. (9 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/kreator)

A little fresh up for you, the readers!!!

Hey folks, I hope all is alright with you!?! I just thought that it could be a good thing to give ya all a little bunch of informations about what's currently going on connected to this blog here and the other projects that I've done respectively that I'd been working on for quite a while now and that I'm still working on. So, yes, okay, here we go:

Things became very silent and quite and 'slow-down' here on this very blog the last month. Not (!!!) when it comes to the interest of you, the readers, because that is reaching really new heights, and yes, guys, THANX A LOT to all of you out there for reading through my blog (and I hope you do enjoy it and you will enjoy it also in the future), that's just damn great. Feels more than 'just' good!!! So, hell yeahr, again: THANX A LOT!!! It really means a lot to me!!! But everything else was really damn 'busy' and 'nervous' in the last time respectively over the last month (to say it more precise). I was working like a dog, doing extra time repectively extra work (without getting any pay for it), working to get my second examination finally done, and I really invested nearly everything in it to get it all done. So, yes, it was really a damn hard time, hard and much, much work, and nothing else beside this at all. Beside all of this then also some really and truly big major troubles in my private life had happened (don't tell it to ya, sorry, but that's just of concern for me and the other ones being involved, so yes, that's it what there is to say about it here at this place), and then I suffered also through a little (or not so little at all...) but to all (until now) well-hidden injury (my right biceps was really terribly hurting for some weeks... but giving my best in ignoring it and then working and suffering through my sports working schedule brought me over it somehow... or at least I do hope so... time will tell...), yes, and so I was into a lot of fucked up things, much too many, but not into doing anything here on the blog or anything else like this. (Also I haven't got any real mentionable private life over five or six weeks in a row, and I can't tell ya how unsatisfying this was, I don't wish that this will happen to any of you out there.) Also my sports, very, very, very important to me, really came off short, due to all the above mentioned bullshit, and to me this was also a big loss and an even bigger problem.

So, yes, that's the reason why all the stuff here on the blog and other 'linked-to-music-side-projects' of me really became a 'fall-down' over this last past month. But okay, at least the really big New York Hardcore post here on this very blog was really a truly big project here on this blog and it really took a lot of time and effort to get it done (but I think the outcome is really, really strong and good), and it's really just amazing that it really gets so much views and reads by you, that's really just great!!! THANX for that, THANX!!!

But how-ever, things tend to change heavily all over the time, really heavily, and what seemed two weeks ago like a bright future that holds all in store you might ever thought of and struggled and worked hard for seems two weeks later like the usual damn battlefield and the normal rotten wasteland you have to get yourself worked and battled through, bloodied and desperate, all security and all plans you've gave everything and tried it all to work hard for to become true and reality suddenly disappeared due to some bullshit authorities' advice over you and your life and you suddenly find yourself standing again at point and hour zero in a fucked up mess some ego trippin' faggots and jackasses turned your life into in a minute. (You find yourself again at this point zero, again, just in another form and at another time, while you was thinking that all could become a little bit more easy to you and that your life may become a little bit less compilcated finally after 29 years already now.) So okay, that was the case last week on Wednesday, and I was really totally down and out and felt the need to bury myself in a six feet deep ditch and just wanted to see and hear nothing more and no one else anymore. It was a great Christmas time this year for me... But okay, it really turned out to be not that desperatly bad at all, because I'm so damn happy and proud of my family that was there for me and helped me out of this deep hole of an impressive depression I was falling into. And especially and first and foremost (!!!) I really have to say 'THANK YOU!!!' to my chica amante (I love you!!!), because she was (AND IS) so important to me and gave (AND GIVES) me such a giant support, that she really grabbed me and lifted me up again. THANK YOU!!! Just for being there and helping me out of this fucked up mess so much!!! So yes, this is turning out to be more and more a little 'Egotrippin'-Posting' here on this blog, but I just have to write it down and speak it out, and so you all know also why it all was so 'lazy' at all the last month here on this blog. Okay, but that was then, and this is now.

Like you all my already anticipate, my private life overcame all the problems and it all turned out stronger than before by now. Also my sports I can do now with all the heart and passion, the soul and effort I use to do it always, and this is also doing me pretty well. It really benefits me and my 'mental health'!!! When it comes to work, yes, I do own my examination with a great result and note and this nobody will ever take away from me, and all the rest still sucks heavily (and I'm not talking 'bout the good way of sucking) but anyhow, things go on, and from now on I am working on my future, to get it finally all done (again), in several other directions and interesting things can happen and do take already place, yes, and so it all will go on and this will become nothing else but my time, point and fact, and there're still some kicks with my boots to be delivered some day by me to some worthless egotrippin' bullshit authorities pieces of shit in one way or another. In Germany we do say that we all do see us twice in a lifetime, and that's the way the story will go also in this case, trust me, and again, point and fact.

So, okay, back to the blog, you can prepare yozrself for a strong comeback from January on. I have still a lot of movies ("THE RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER", "MY NAME IS BRUCE", etc. pp.), some records (DOS DIAS DE SANGRE & GIVE 'EM BLOOD, KREATOR, SODOM, etc. pp.) , and also finally some books (NORMAN PODHORETZ, ANDRE GLUCKSMANN, etc. pp.) to be reviewed here by me for you, a lot of 'Sports' postings are finally in the work (DENNIS WOLF, ROLF EVERS, JAY CUTLER, and especially also ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER), the 'American Oi! History Series' will also finally be continued again (with the YOUTH DEFENSE LEAGUE and STARS & STRIPES being the next ones to be featured, and then maybe going finally on straight into the golden years of American Oi! in the 1990's), and also some other new categories (beside the book reviews) will finally see the light of the day by the birth of the next year, be prepared for some new exciting stuff to come for ya all, and sooner or later also some new fanzine reviews and also again some new 'Videos' postings will be coming for sure. If you're asking yourself why the fuck for something like eight months no new gig report was up here to read then let me give you the simple answer to this question: I wasn't at that many concerts over this time, point and fact!!! I just didn't have the time for it, because everything else really was somehow more important to me and I also really don't felt the need to go and watch the same bands all and all over again that anyone could have seen over all the last years on any stage over here in Germany. Anyhow, but I was at four concerts during October and November, by the way all three here in Goslar Rock City. Two concerts had been taking place at the same day (the 9. of October of 2010), one was the concert of DIARY ABOUT MY NIGHTMARES (Death Metal) and HEADSHOT (Thrash Metal) in Goslar in the "B6" and the other one was the concert of ESCALATION (Thrash Metal) and CRIPPER (Thrash Metal) in Goslar in the "Tor III", then I was one or two weeks later again in the "Tor III" in Goslar Rock City to go and watch and listen to THE METEORS (Psychobilly), and then in November I was to be seen again in the "Tor III" in Goslar City to watch and listen to BUTCHER, REBORN TO CONQUER, DOS DIAS DE SANGRE and PLATOON and this one was really a phenomenal great concert evening, and yes, Hardcore still lives, Hardcore still rules!!!! I think I'm gonna give you some 'flashback-impressions' of this four concerts in one 'Gig Report' (?) post for all of ya in the next days. Time will tell. And next interviews will hopefully with THE CORPS (Streetrock & Roll from Down Under) and DOS DIAS DE SANGRE (German Beatdown Hardcore champs), and I also want to do another one with my personal favorites THE BROADSIDERS (American Oi! at its supreme best), and maybe still one with FOLSOM (Sin City Hardcore roughnecks), time will tell. What will maybe come afte this four interviews I can't tell ya by now, but some good and interesting I'm gonna come up with anyhow, you know me, so trust me. Also I'm gonna work hard to dig out some new 'News' material stuff for you, so that you will be more or less regulary be updated by reading this blog here. Next up will be some sort of "Review of 2010" or "Best of 2010" post (not a look-back at the- first- year on or of or with this blog, because this will come in February when this first year is over) here on this very blog, and then we will se what will be coming up next.

Okay, so I think that should be enough for this 'General Informations' post here for now, you now know about all the stuff that was going on while things slowed down here and what will be going on in the future of this blog here, so be prepared. Ah, by the way, a big 'THANX!' goes out to the guys (or the crew) that are (/that is) running the great "OICORE CREW" - blog for adding my blog to their blog list, THANX A LOT guys!!! I really do appreciate your support!!! THANX!!! And here's the link to their blog coming for you (if you don't find their blog on the right of your screen in the list of blogs you should check out): http://oicorecrew.blogspot.com/ and now just stay tuned for the stuff that will be coming up in the near future of the "MANSLAUGHTER THUG LIFE" blog you're reading here!!!

Cheers & Oi! and all the best greetings to you my readers,

your dear Manslaughter-Andy!!!

Oi! Oi! Oi! - it's Christmas Time again!!!

I wish all the readers of this blog a merry Christmas (and maybe a happy Hanuka;-)...), spend some great holiday time, and still Oi! Oi! Oi! to the world:-)!!!

More to come on this blog pretty soon!!!

And now, as a little Christmas gift for ya, enjoy this classical Christmas song by the great and not-forgotten THE RAMONES!!!

THE RAMONES  "MERRY CHRISTMAS (I DON'T WANNA FIGHT TONIGHT)"

*** NEW YORK HARDCORE - THE REAL DEAL!!! NOT JUST MUSIC, THIS IS THE WAY OF LIFE!!! ***

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