*** THE END OF FOREVER ***

Okay, after the review now comes a nice little 'Videos' posting to make you all known a bit more to 4 IN THA CHAMBER and you now get their (damn cool performance) video clip to their angry slasher "THE END OF FOREVER". This must be a later song of them and they've developed and improved even quite a bit more since their reviewed album and display a huge dose of influences of both genres, Beatdown Hardcore and Metalcore, integrated into their music. If you're a fan of 25 TA LIFE, FURY OF FIVE and also BIOHAZARD, as well as of SHATTERED REALM, TOETAG and also SWORN ENEMY you will be a fan of this stuff. Great shit!!! Check it out!!! Really a great band 4 IN THA CHAMBER used to be and it's a pity that they aren't anymore after I discovered them only some few years ago... Anyhow just you now enjoy this great song and band and cool clip. HARDCORE!!! FIST!!!

4 IN THA CHAMBER - "THE END OF FOREVER"

"BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND MADE IN THE DARK! - BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND OF A GUN SPARK! - BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND OF A CHILD CRYING! - BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND OF A DREAM DYING!"

4 IN THA CHAMBER - "EXISTENCE..."
("Kingfisher Records" / "SPV Distribution"; CD):

Okay, this record is now already quite a few years old, released (primarly) in the year of 2000 on the then pretty prominent "KINGFISHER RECORDS" label. To be honest then I have to admit that I have no further informations about 4 IN THA CHAMBER then that they've released this album in 2000 and that they came from the city of New York and that they had been one hell of a great Hardcore band (to say it precise: New York Hardcore) that (so my perception) had been treated totally underrated (or just had been unknown) because not really that much guys out there seem to know about them. Ah, and I also know by now that they are not around as an active proper band anymore (but don't ask me since when). I by myself more or less accidentially stumbled across this album some years ago just because of the fact that it was sold for a price of something like 3,00 Euro or so and so I just bought it due to the low price, the label and the nice describtion of what 4 IN THA CHAMBER would be doing. I got this album and it really knocked me heavily from my feet and totally convinced me because of their sheer force and great attitude and damn high level of quality of their music. 4 IN THA CHAMBER played a dark, heavy and sinister, brutal, harsh and violent, damn destructive and pretty metallic New York Hardcore with some huge Tough Guy impact in it to mark it all and some nice little pre-Beatdown Hardcore feeling to it. Especially the very dynamic and sheer forceful, astonishing hard and sheer pure impact style guitar work and the great lead vocals (between Hardcore shouting the throaty yet damn aggressive and brutal way on the one side, and some nice 'rappy' Spoken Word/-s notes on the other side) really mark the music strongly, and the rhythm section is just a pure massive (brick-) wall of sound and music. Just great!!! What's making this band and album so damn great (also still today) is the fact that the guys (beside the fact that they all used to be damn fucking good musicians) really knew how to write great grapping and damn interesting songs, full of clever arrangements, suprising twists and changes and some nice elements worked into it all that you wouldn't necessarily have expected to get to listen to from 4 IN THA CHAMBER. It's really a pleasure and also still pretty exciting to listen to this album also still today. 4 IN THA CHAMBER really managed to create something of their own and they created, occupied and ruled the alcove left open between the great 25 TA LIFE and the almighty FURY OF FIVE, and if you like both mentioned bands (how the fuck could you not?!?) then you will love 4 IN THA CHAMBER and their "EXISTENCE..." titled album here. You will love it like I do love it!!! The album comes with a big pack of really good, hard and heavy, violent and non-pc lyrics (especially a song like the larger-than-life opener anthem song "DRUG INDUCED MURDER" is the proof for this and really a statement), the production sound also stands the standards of up-to-date current Hardcore releases and (record) productions and the artwork is pretty cool at all (even I dislike the frontcovermotif, but that's just a matter of personal taste). So, if you still don't know and still don't own this band and album then you should change this circumstances promptly and damn fucking just get this great album piece of NYHC music.So get it!!! HARDCORE!!! FIST!!! (9 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/4inthechamber)
PS: I'm very sorry that I totally forgot to let 4 IN THA CHAMBER became a part of the 'New York Hardcore' tribute post that I've done back then in or over or during the last december, it was just that within all this bands I totally forgot this great band, and, yes, that's a pity and I say sorry for this mistake.

"HOPELESS NATION - NO FUTURE FOR YOU!!! HOPELESS NATION - NO FUTURE FOR ME!!!"

Puh, really damn tired day today, and damn it, I guess it's true and finally getting really pretty old, haha;-), but who cares, after I've got currently some little free time to spend and also after my addiction to WARZONE became stronger and stronger in the last time again (I damn love this band) I decided to give you again and the second time today a 'Videos' posting of them to pay this immortal legends some tribute and now you get their great 'streetpunky' anthem "HOPELESS NATION" (also again damn good lyrics) that you can find on their great "FIGHT FOR JUSTICE" titled final (album) release. So just check it now out, turn the speakers loud and enjoy it!!! Cheers & Oi! and "DANCE HARD OR DIE"!!!

WARZONE - "HOPELESS NATION"

"WAR BETWEEN RACES"

Hey folks, great saturday it truly was, just came home some minutes ago and even I'm now damn tired and really just want to go to bed and fall a-sleep I anyhow feel the need to finally bring something new (even it's only something very little) up and ready online here for you and this time it's (again) a nice little 'Videos' post and this one now finally brings again one of the best and most important and most influential and just one of the very few greatest ever bands up here for you and I talk about no-one-else than the legendary, unforgotten, immortal and just larger-than-life WARZONE and their total anthem "WAR BETWEEN RACES". This band really deserves more up here and one day it will finally come and this song also deserves more words about the message, the music, the lyrics, the release date and the releases it's featured on and much more stuff like this but currently here and now I really don't have the ressources left today (currently, at least) to do anything more up here so now just enjoy the clip and the song and then that will be all for now, even it's not anyhow enough to do justice to this band and song (I know it) but for now (I'm very sorry) that's all what's left in my tank for now, so now just enjoy it and then sleep well (or soon get up well, but I just wanna and will only sleep) and we will read us soon again!!! Cheers & Oi! and "DANCE HARD OR DIE!!!"

"WARZONE - "WAR BETWEEN RACES"

*** WORKING CLASS ***

Okay, after I can't really sleep currently I decided to give ya now a nice little 'Videos' posting and ya now get the great anthem "WORKING CLASS" of the still mighty but once (and back then) even almighty PERKELE from the country of Sverige. It's a great song, with great music and even 'greater' lyrics and full of attitude and pride. The video (as so often it's a non-official clip thing) by itself is maybe a little bit strange with all the AFA propaganda used in it when it's about PERKELE and it's pretty funny seeing this video and knowing that the german AFA nutjobs still defame and always defamed PERKELE as being some sort of at least a pro Nazi band, yehp, but so you see different people different views on life and politics and how wrong the jackasses of the german AFA also in the case of PERKELE are I think I don't need to tell anyone of you out there. And, btw, if the AFA stuff makes you feel uncomfortable (I mean if that's already enough for you) when you're watching the video you should maybe start to think one or two times about it especially when you turn around and grab a ENDSTUFE or even a SKREWDRIVER album from your shelf and proclaim that you have nothing to do and nothing in mind with politics beside this all... But okay, anyhow, now just enjoy the great song and its lyrics and message and attitude, and then I finally wish ya all a good night for today respectively tonight. If you ask me then we will read us pretty soon again if you like to. Sleep well for now!!! Cheers & Oi!

PERKELE - "WORKING CLASS"

*** German Boys *** - *** Really fighting for the benefit of their nation and people in the stadiums of this very nation...?!? ***

KATEGORIE C - "DEUTSCHE JUNGS"
("KC Music Limited"; CD):

Okay, now here's the review of the new KATEGORIE C album (released this very year, last month or so) and again I would bet that some guys outta there start to cry about a review of a record of such a band like KATEGORIE C... 'Evil' and even more 'evil' things start to become up here, haha;-). Nah, just kidding;-). We don't need to discuss the politics behind this band even over the last years they started to change that a little bit (at least in the public), maybe to catch some more success also in the mainstream music scenery and it's today self-proclaimed 'rebellious' offspring called Deutsch Rock (/German Rock), who knows... Okay, this album is much more outspoken then the last stuff by them I have had listened to, so you find a big bunch of Nationalism and Xenophobia in the lyrics. To say that "Soccer is soccer!!!" or "Politics are politics!!!" and "Music is music!!!" that's on the one side damn right, but if then on the other side a band (or at least certain members of this band) play (or sing)- for example- live on stage at a solidarity show for the benefit of the jailed singer of the german NS band of the name of LANDSER, and if you then sing in songs about (which means: Against) colored and/or not 'naturally german speaking' players of your favorite soccer team and all this stuff, yehp, if ya ask me then there's really no need to discuss here anything when it comes to the politics of the band, point and fact. Btw, to show the middle finger to the AFA via your lyrics is damn right and usually in our times pretty necessary, yes, no doubt about it, but if you're really a non- or unpolitical band that's not positioned on one specific side of the fence then you should maybe also sing about the also fucked up counterparts of the AFA on the radical/extreme right, because this bunch of stupid brainfucked nutjobs deserve it anyhow also as much as the AFA jackasses, point and fact. So, yehp, no need to discuss here anything of the maybe or maybe not politics of KATEGORIE C the band. So if you use to listen to KATEGORIE C then stand for it that you are listening to a pretty radical right wing band from the very far right. No problems with that, just listening to them don't mean(s) that you necessarily have to agree on (all) their standpoints and it's definitely not making you a Nazi or what the hell ever (like to listen to leftwing bands don't make you to Che Guevara or Mao Tsetung), just to get this straight (and this should be logical to or for anyone out there), but to put yourself into the firing line for a band like this to 'defend' them against any cutup of their (pretty much proofed) political positions, nah, come on, if you do so then you make a clown or a joke out of yourself (and maybe we should also discuss if it's really that good or if it's not far more bad that someone/anyone needs to be defended or needs to defend him- or herself for his or her- always personal- political agenda, I mean you don't have to understand or agree or just tolerate on or to anything and everything, but maybe you- which means everyone and all of us- should be at least that much free- in thinking and speaking, at least in that- to stand for all that you think needs to be your ideological and/or political weltanschauung and that no one should justify or defend him or her because of his or her weltanschauung because still everyone calls it more or less a democracy we live in and in a democracy the here mentioned freedoms should be the common ground of every 'together-living-humans-in-huge-communities', that and nothing else and especially nothing less should be the bottom line- at least if you ask me- and that's how it- which means a or the idea of democracy- once truly was meant and so it should by any means it all still be- even it's not that way today anymore for quite a long while now already-, and I mean who- for example- am I to judge- for example- KATEGORIE C because even I think the politics they express here through their music and lyrics are total bullshit- and that's exactly what I think of it- I also don't own the key to ultimate wisdom and don't what's right and correct in the end, I don't know it as much as KATEGORIE C, you or anyone else know/-s it and so why should anyone justify or defend him-/herself and his/her political agenda to anyone else... maybe you got what I mean... hopefully...). If there's any blank space left for any discussion then maybe just and only about how deep they stuck into it, but that's also not the point here. The point is this record and its review, and after this is a record review and not a debate on politics I think that it's already enough said about the politically background of this band. So, okay, now onward to the record and its review: I liked a lot of the old songs of KATEGORIE C and always stood and still stand for it (and that's also the reason why I've already posted a 'Videos' post about KATEGORIE C some months ago) anyhow and I also liked a good big bunch of their 'newer' stuff and I also didn't think that they've become bad over the years with changing and opening their music and lyrics quite a bit to some more varying different influences and topics, okay, that said I have to say that anyhow this album is some damn weak crap stuff, fucking lame and also quite a bit ridiculous (lyrically) and totally fragmented (musically), and yes, it's really pretty weak and damn boring gammy. A lot of Rock and even more Metal is mixed into the music of KATEGORIE C, and especially the guitar work as well as the drumming are very much inspired by Rock and also Metal music, no Oi! and Punkrock or Hardcore in it, nah, not a single little bit, but (like already mentioned) a lot of Rock and even some more Metal and so it's also pretty funny that KATEGORIE C sing today (after playing basically nothing else than heavy metallic German Rock music and after going pretty straight totally in the German/Deutsch Rock department to grab some of the FREI.WILD, etc. pp. fans and to catch some nice success and fame from them and there) against the German Rock music (and) scene and all the bands that tried and still try to reorganize the fan potential of the BÖHSE ONKELZ while walking in the footsteps of this german legends (like them or not, but legends they are and had been and will be, point and fact) and grab up the potential by their own and for their own benefits. Yes, that's very funny of KATEGORIE C, really damn funny after all. So, okay, we get rocking metallic guitar playing, massive riffing, long solos and some more or less marking leads, as well as a tight in time working and hard playing rhythm section, the typical throaty caterwauling lead vocals, some crew chants, and also a lot of pretty orchestral and pompous marks (with a piano and so on). All played really damn well-versed, no problems here. But the songwriting is so damn boring and lame and unattractive and also uninspired and uninspiring and also so damn fragmented that it all also don't really flow into each other, and you've heard it all already at least a thousand times before, that you won't find any real highlight on this one here (and that's not really much...) and then there are also (again) a big dose of pretty long songs on this album and latest after two or three minutes of each single one it's becoming hard and 'harder' to stop yourself from pressing skip (if not stop) promptly. And this incredible big sesquipedalian pathos (that's marking most of the songs) is just some damn terrible and fucking disgusting crap. No, guys, this is nothing anyhow necessary or just good. And the total (musically and lyrically) non-sense track "KALTES EISEN" (to be translated with "COLD STEEL" or "COLD IRON") is really the crown of this album (I hope you get the irony), KATEGORIE C sound here like RAMMSTEIN mixed with some few strange Black Metal impressions, damn, and that's done so ridiculous and 'crappy' that I don't find the right words to express it here. But, hey, it's really damn hard and evil and tough... What a bunch of garbage crap!!! Also lyrically this is so ridiculous that the guys can't mean it serious, ha, but the problem is they (seem to) mean it serious. I by myself am a guy who's pumping iron as often and as intense as I only possibly can, but this lyrics with propagating to take some steroid crap for your benefit and other almighty wisdom spreaded by the band are just nothing else than totally fucked up non-sense clichè garbage crap that is so incredible ridiculous (like already mentioned some words earlier in this sentence). Also the other lyrics aren't anything special, a bullshit cocktail out of soccer, hooliganism, emotions, true love, politics (read above), etc. pp., and nothing you really need anyhow. The artwork is the typical KATEGORIE C stuff (but looks pretty cool anyway) and the production sound is a nice job (even it could use a bit more power, also like the music, too). So, okay, after all and all in all this album is a bunch of crap songs settled together as one full length album and it's a total dissapointment and nothing else. Only at least a little bit somehow good songs so far are "ANTIFA HALT'S MAUL", "RUHM UND EHRE", "DU BIST ES" (nice lyrics, maybe a little bit a clichè of a love song in any way- also musically-, but anyhow a damn good song, lyrically as well as musically, despise all the pathos in it) and "EUER 12. MANN". But KATEGORIE C once used to do it far better than they did it here, just thinking back to legendary albums like for example their infamous classics "G-SPORT" and "SPORT FREI!" (just to name this two albums of KATEGORIE C. And compared with the (as an example) mentioned two albums I also miss here totally the enthusiasm and also the passion and something 'fresh' you might could call the 'X-Factor' or something like this. So, yehp, forget about this album and don't ya seriously think about buying it, and maybe KATEGORIE C should invest much more time again in writing good songs and compiling good albums instead of making oh so 'cool' poseur band pictures and throwing a big new merchandise assortment on the hard embattled market... A big dissapointment, but after KATEGORIE C seem to release every year at least one record maybe pretty soon they will do better again. The rating here it gets because of the mentioned songs, and that's it. I was really expecting much more... far more... Maybe you might could still somehow call it Hooligan Rock, hm, but I think that just Deutsch Rock (/German Rock) fits KATEGORIE C far better today, even KATEGORIE C by themselves regret this in their new and current songs ("RUHM & EHRE") today desperatly and 'bitterly'. Ah, btw, after KATEGORIE C never had been an Oi! (or Skinhead) band and are today lightyears away from being an Oi! (or Skinhead) band anyhow I think I don't have to say anything about the totally non-relevancy of KATEGORIE C when we're talking about Oi! (or Skinhead), just to get this straight at the closing point of this very entry/post(ing). (2 of 10 points)

(http://www.hungrige-woelfe.de/)

Latino Oi! from N.Y.C. by COMBATE 49 in 2011

COMBATE 49 - "DEMO 2011"
("D.I.Y."; MP3-Download):

Okay folks, this here is a pretty nice one, good to see that the Bootboys in and of COMBATE 49 from New York City (right, or?!?) are back again. First contact with them (respectively their music and also their message) was the D.I.Y. split CD they did last year with the mighty FIGHTING 84, and here they are back with their new release, their "DEMO 2011", and it's also a D.I.Y. affair and a lot of things have changed since the fall of 2010. Back then, for all what I know now, COMBATE 49 used to be not a proper band but just the lead singer and another guy who was doing respectively playing all the instruments (I hope I got it right) and now today they are a proper four piece band. And also they used to sing in spanish the last time around and have now today changed that so that they do sing on this one here all solely in english (what's a huge step anyhow). And what do they give us now here today after the mentioned some changes? COMBATE 49 are about to make them a name for themselves as a very promising N.Y.C. Oi! band. I labeled them back then (last fall) as a R.A.C. band (without any NS/WP/14-88 crap, just to get this straight right from the start... or from where the hell ever, it's just important to get this damn straight right now right here), hm, but I wouldn't do so still today, even things (maybe values to COMBATE 49) like Patriotism and Anti-Communism may still are damn important for them. (And why the fuck not?!?) But no, especially musically you won't find any R.A.C. reminiscences here on this very one, it's hard knocking, even harder stomping and damn brutal and aggressive, forceful and really dirty and truly angry Bootboy/Skinhead Oi! from the City that never sleeps, the city of New York by itself, and if you like the almighty OXBLOOD (how could you not do so) then also COMBATE 49 should be up on your list anyway (but they don't copy OXBLOOD in any way, just to get this also pretty straight right here and right now). Harsh and evil sawing and buzzing, angry and aggressive pushing guitar work, dominated and marked very strong by the forceful riffing and a very grounded and straight stomping rhythm (guitar) work, is marking the songs very strong and effective. The vocals are very angry and bitter, hard spitted and bitter shouted, staccato like delivered and are pretty cool stuff, but they could become much more flowing and more sung (then spoken) and with this a little bit more integrated into the songs. The rhythm work is really damn good stuff, especially the very present, marking, forceful and harsh pushing bass rules totally okay, and the drumming is some good oiled stomping rhythm machine, powerful and heavy pounding. And they also fixed quite a bit the problem of not being so tight and in time at all, I mean sometimes this problems you can still get aware of but they really improved quite a big bit and the next step is just about to come if you ask me. And to play their instruments they know also for sure, and the songwriting was also back then more than okay and is today really just very good stuff, trust me, also the pace and rhythm structures really know to convince when you are listening to this nice little gem. Also lyrically we get some cool stuff, from Skinhead Way of Life lyrics to brutal and violent Streetlifestyle issues to really great political stuff ("THIRD WORLD", damn good song and great lyrics) they give us a lot of good stuff to read. The production sound is dirty and noisy and really a great grounded affair, thumbs up for that, and the download comes with all lyrics and also the (maybe not really creative, but anyhow cool) artwork, hm, and for all what I know this pretty cool and surely damn good "DEMO 2011" of COMBATE 49 is currently just released as a (which means as this) MP3-Download (the download link I will give you as the closing line of this review). A big step forward and I'm curious to get more to listen to from COMBATE 49, so just check them out, download this demo and support them. Hopefully a good Oi! label with the guts to put them out will soon give COMBATE 49 a good and fair record deal, because I think that their time is about to come (if it's not already come along anyway). I really recommend this to anyone of you looking for some new hard American Oi! the East Coast (and especially N.Y.C.) way of style and sound, this is a very promising young band that we all should put up pretty high on our lists. Truly damn good stuff!!! Btw, it really feels damn good to get some good new (American) Oi! music to listen to finally again. And "THANX a lot!" I have to say to COMBATE 49 for sending me their "DEMO 2011" via MySpace and keeping me so 'informed' about what's going on in their camp, so again: "THANX guys!!!" and "ALL HAIL!!!" to you. Hm, maybe (if the band wants to and if I get it all finally done again) there will also come an interview with them some time in the (hopefully maybe near) future, because they are a pretty interesting and very promising band, so I really feel the need to give them some room up here to spread the word and help them making a name by their own, time will tell. Until then: Get and enjoy this one here and I'm looking forward to music from them!!! Cheers & Oi! (8 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/combate49)

(And here's the download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?4anohotbna5abfi)
Two 'final' announcements: 1.) It sucks a little bit that the Download Link doesn't work automatically, thanx to MySpace that's spoiling this 'automatic-way' somehow, but the link is correct so just copy and then set it into your browser and you will get there to download this demo; 2.) Great, I can announce that an interview with COMBATE 49 will come, it's confirmed and I will work it out the next days and then will get in contact with the band again and then it all will kick off, and that's damn fucking great and "THANX!!!" to COMBATE 49, that's great of you guys!!!

*** HARDCORE ***

Hey folks, time will tell if and when I'll be able to put here today or so the next proper thing up (you know that I'm currently work my- and yourself/-s through the big bunch of records that are still lying here around waiting to be finally reviewed by me for you) but after I've got currently some free time to spend I decided to give ya all now at least another little 'Videos' posting for ya. You now get a live video of the almighty 2 DIAS DE SANGRE in action live on stage some-time around in 2008 in the german city of Hamelin. Giving us a damn cool live performance and playing their song "NOT FOR ME" (so it's at least announced at the beginning of the clip... even this song under this title can't be found on any of their records released so far... but hey, the clip is an original 2 DIAS DE SANGRE clip and when they call it so at the beginning of their very own clip I will call it also so here and now...;-)............) and as usual this is also really a great bonecracking anthem of one of a kind. The guys have some new and pretty cool band shirts out (just take a look at the picture at the left of the beginning of this very post) but due to some (positive) 'real life issues' (Jan became a proud father, Angelo is taking the next big step up in business, etc. pp.) we all shouldn't wait for any new record of them being released all too soon. How-ever, just you enjoy this clip and this damn great band (that will hopefully be live on stage anyhow as soon as possible again) and song, and then we will read us as soon as possible again. Have a great day!!! Cheers & Oi!

2 DIAS DE SANGRE - "NOT FOR ME" (live, Hamelin, 2008)

"There's no ambiguity: if venus shows all phases like the moon the earth must revolve 'round the sun but noone will believe me: it's like nothing, like nothing I've seen was for real..."

THE OCEAN - "HELIOCENTRIC"
("Metalblade Records"; CD):

At first that's some pretty interesting and also really demanding album by a band that was totally unknown to me and that have some (at first) very intellectual approach when it comes to their music and their lyrics, but this 'at first' stuff really change with 'at second' and more will come throughout this review for you. I (more or less) 'accidentially' got this CD when I saw it standing on the shelf of the local "MediaMarkt" store and saw (also this one here) for a extra low special bonus price of something around 2,50 Euro or something around like this. My eyes were caught by the great and interesting artwork (really some 'special' stuff) with the cool 'astrological gimmick' on the frontcover and all the 'tarot cards' inside on that the lyrics are printed, and all the motifs and so on and on, yes, it just caught my eyes right from the start. The album kicks off with the atmospheric intro track "SHAMAYIM", that's also coming with some 'nice' distorting moments and that completly flows into the first song "FIRMAMENT" that starts off with a pretty 'tricky' rhythm architecture and features quite a pretty impressive amount of several different styles and also rhythms and structures melted together into one song. And that's also exactly the case when we take a good listen to the complete full length album. From Metalcore to Gothic Pop and Alternative Rock, as well as (a lot of) Metal and (even a little bit more) Progressive (Rock) and also some Ambient we do really find a lot of several different stuff here on this one compiled together in all in all ten songs and in a complete running time of something around 50 minutes or so. We find a lot of different elements of the different styles melted together and cultivated by some intense atmosphere that's especially created by some very impressive piano and also violin work. Beside that we get pretty rich on variations lead vocals, damn well-versed guitar work (that covers an impressive range of different 'playing-styles'), and a really very strong and diverse rhythm section that's precise here at work. The technical skills of the musicians are truly damn high and the songwriting is often some nicely demanding stuff, no doubt about it... BUT: This record is all in all simply too lame and gammy and it's all too strongly suffering, sometimes your ears start to bleed while you listen to it because of too much stupid pathos and a too much 'off-ticking' suffer(ing)mentality that really sucks impressively strong. Also the songwriting is just too braked, even the (anyhow very few) parts that are meant to go on forward and ahead are really nothing but blocking any real motion. The guys know how to play and they can also write songs, but they can't deal with or vary mood, pace, and structure of the songs enough to keep your interest in this album over the distance of it. It gets damn quick boring, point and fact (desoise all the technical skills of the musicians). The lyrics are some nice metaphysical stuff, even they're anyhow quite a bit some sort of some 'pseudo-intellectual' affair. This is, beside some really interesting marks (musically as well as lyrically), music for guys that think they find the key to ultimate wisdon in glass of red vine while they debate the effects of the sun on the love life of your common urban cobbles in May, if ya know what I mean, and so it's nothing for me after all. The production sound is really great and the artwork just pure gold. Okay, if ya ask me this here left a lot of its potential open and unused, what's always a pity (also here, too), and it's also really nothing that you maybe need to have anyhow, point and fact. For nerds in some 'strange alternative and also progressive' Metal/Rock with parts of Gothic in it this is maybe some 'duty-affair' as well as for above described target audience, but everyone else should (if some interest should be there) at least take a listen to this back then in 2009 (primarly) released album. (5 of 10 points)

(http://www.theoceancollective.com/)

"PRIDE IN MY WORKING CLASS HERITAGE! HONOUR FOR MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS! AND THAT'S ALL WHAT MATTERS IN THE END!"

Hey folks,

this is the closing post for tonight!!! This is a 'Videos' posting and I've decided to give ya now via a little video clip (or let us say that this is how we call it up here for now anyway) the larger-than-life great anthem "WHERE MY HEART BELONGS" by the great pro-white and nationalist American Working Class Rock & Roll band of the name of YOUNGBLOOD. Maybe 'pro-white' and 'nationalist' aren't terms some-how 'enough' to describe YOUNGBLOOD proper but who cares about it that much at all, I've posted already three record reviews of them (or reviews of records of them) and so you can read more all there. "WHERE MY HEART BELONGS" is an incredible great anthem that you can find primarly on the "OLD SCHOOL PRIDE" masterpiece of YOUNGBLOOD, and this version here you can find on their even better "PATRIOTIC FORCE" album and it's the so called 'alternative' version. How-ever, it's just awesome, lyrically and musically, so may you just enjoy it. I love this shit!!! Cheers & Oi!

(PS: Currently I don't know if I have already posted this song and clip before but I don't think so... damn it, I've posted already quite a bit and it's fucking late one more night again, haha;-)... and so even I've posted this song already before it should not be such a big problem, hehe;-), because such a great song can easily being posted two times or so, for sure, haha;-)............)

YOUNGBLOOD - "WHERE MY HEART BELONGS"

('Alternative' Version)

"BEATING AND MAIMING AND RIPPING AND CRACKING AND PRICKING, ATTACKING!"

SUCCUBITCH - "BAMARACAPA!"
("Klangkreis Thueringen"; CD):

Back in the days when I still used to be a student (it must have been some time around 2007 or so, in one of my last years as a student) a friend of mine gave me during a university-seminar this CD and in the band that recorded it, SUCCUBITCH, another student friend of mine played (the guitar/-s as well as the vocals used to be his duty). This times are now for already some years history and the contact to all the guys ended, somehow more or less with the examinations we all did more or less at the same time back then, hm, but I think that's just the way the story goes (or in this way: went...) and so how-ever, this CD remained anyhow, haha;-). Okay, SUCCUBITCH had been a three piece band (I really don't know if they are still around as a active band) from somewhere near the german town of the name of Helmstedt (for all what I know). Ah, and the guys who play in SUCCUBITCH also play in the (I would also guess) Metal band of the name of OCCVLTA (but don't know if this is really true or not and I also don't know if this band- OCCVLTA- is still active or not). If you now think, by looking at the cover artwork, this here is a Metal band and record then you're damn right, and also a Metal band and record packed up full with truckloads of your stereotypical clichès of this genre, and it all is done in a pretty 'it's-all-not-too-serious' and 'self-ironically' way, yehp, and that's some nice cool shit. And yes: Like it or not, but that's the way it used to be here. I got this CD, listened to it as soon as I could, yehp, and decided that this is some pretty funny and damn cool stuff. If you grew up or if you like anyhow the good old school of german Trash Metal (and especially DESTRUCTION and KREATOR, and I mean the early works of both bands, and then also- for sure, too- some very old, very early SODOM impressions are also to be recognized here and there) then you will truly love SUCCUBITCH, and this even more if you are also a fan of the old school Metal Satanists of the name of VENOM (and I talk about their early records 'till- including- their "POSSESSED" album, hm, I think it should be the fourth VENOM album ever released and the last one that's maybe necessary in some ways) and again also even far more if you like also some alcoholic Trash'n'Roll Metal like GEHENNAH and METAL DESECRATOR, yes, and if this all describes you and your taste in music pretty good and if you then also know about the greatness of MOTÖRHEAD and add some MOTÖRHEAD marks to it to make it all round in the end, yeahr, then make sure to check out SUCCUBITCH. Fast and dirty, noisy and a little bit 'punky' guitar riffing, weird solo work and all done pretty heavy and always fast and straight ahead forward, and all in all damn old school styled and all not too packed full with melodies (if you know what I mean). The guitar work is the most marking stuff on this one and it also dispalys already a pretty strong own identity. Then there are the vocals, nice throaty and aggressive Trash Metal screams, and the rhythm section is a permanently onward pounding Trash Metal battery, thumbs up for that. Some nice back ups and also some nice 'Metal-Bitches' influences are also here and there to be recognized. Good to see that at least some scenes seem not to think about to intense what's maybe politically correct and what not, haha;-). Two big problems I have with this one: 1.) No fault of the band, but this is really not 'my' music, nah, really not and so it's pretty hard for me to get myself into it but thank the Metal gods ;-) for the fact that SUCCUBITCH don't take it all too serious and so it's some great funny and cool party-affair-thing; 2.) The fault of the band, and this is that SUCCUBITCH really lack the ability to write some truly and really grapping and interesting songs, and so we have a load of around ten songs and it all are more or less solid and better which means good songs, but not one single really hit or hymn or anthem you'll find on this album and beside the opening song "SATANIC SAUFROCK" also not one of the other songs comes even close to be something like this, a hit or hymn or anthem, and this means that the guys for sure know how to play and so but when it comes to writing songs they really lack a bit of the abilities to do it all grapping and so on. Okay, beside this all we then get a nice load of non-sense Metal clichè lyrics that are all done damn funny and 'self-ironically' (dealing mostly with Satan, hell, demons, (heavy, heavy) boozing, fucking, Metal, the "BITCHES OF METAL", being "THE CALLBOY FROM HELL", standing on the bus stop and waiting for the bus that will take you down to hell, being the "HAREM KEEPER OF THE DEVIL", and so on and on and on, or to say it short and precise, hehe;-), being a "HEAVY METAL MACHINE"), a pretty cool artwork, and a very dirty and noisy production sound, and so you see, it all comes pretty good together anyway. If you like already above mentioned bands then you should make sure that you know SUCCUBITCH because then this very band here will really serve your needs, and this is also the case when you like the band GODDESS OF DESIRE. If you're not in the currently described target-audience you should first take one or two listening sessions before you buy it. Don't know if there are still copies floating around and/or from where the hell you can get it, and I also don't know if SUCCUBITCH are still around or have released something new since this one here back then, but how-ever it may be, this is solid good Trash Metal, hm, and if you like this stuff then test it. (7 of 10 points)

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"JOHNNY WENT TO WAR! HE HAD TO MAKE A STAND TO FIGHT FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY IN SOME GODFORSAKEN LAND!"

Hey folks,

closing time for today and tonight, and you now get a little video clip of the almighty TECH 9 via a 'Videos' posting for ya!!! TECH 9 are really a damn great band and another proof that the Netherlands when it comes to Oi!, Streetpunk, Hardcore, Punkrock, etc. pp. are one hell of a great nation!!! You now get their(which means TECH 9's) "JOHNNY WENT TO WAR" track and if ya now or latest when pressed play think that you know this song anyhow already then I would bet that you are right and more I think I don't have to say about it here and now. A damn great band, TECH 9, point and fact!!! I won't say anything more here and now, just enjoy this great song and then we will read us again pretty soon or so. Cheers & Oi!

TECH 9 - "JOHNNY WENT TO WAR"

"Violence isn't inborn, violence is provoked!"

TROOPERS - "BESTIALISCH"
("Core Tex Records" / "Bad Dog Records"; CD):

Okay, my first posting somehow connected to the almighty TROOPERS from the german capitol city of Berlin and this is also my first review of a record of them that I do up here. After the TROOPERS are a pretty lazy band (maybe we shouldn't really talk of the TROOPERS as being a proper band anymore since all what I've heard and read it seems more like the TROOPERS are Atze, the mastermind of the band, and several different musicians he chooses to record and play with under the banner of the TROOPERS) and beside the DVD they've released some-time back in 2010 (or so... hm, or wasn't it already back then in 2009...) this album here is still today their current album release, even it's from 2007, and so you see that there are still enough reasons to review it up here also today. (And even if all the reasons would be non-sense I would do the review of this very record up here anyhow, yes, but you knew it all the time, I know, I know, I know.) My first contact with the TROOPERS was back then when they released some-time during the mid to late 1990's their infamous masterpiece "GASSENHAUER" (I'm currently to lazy to reach behind me, grab the CD and take a 'proofing' look at the release date or year, sorry for that...) and from that time on I became a pretty big fan of this roughnecks from Berlin. This album here isn't a anyhow new album... Hm, okay, okay, okay, I can see your faces and read your thoughts: "It's from 2007, damn it, so how the fuck could it only be a little bit a 'new' album today...?!?" But no, I mean not the release date or year, I mean that this album here is a not a real or a proper or a regular album (a 'new' album by all means) but instead of this it's just a best of compilation record. So you get a 16 song best of comp, and on this disc you find 15 songs and one of them, their total anthem "GEWALT", also in a live version. All the songs cover a large time period from the beginning to the latest proper regular full length album, "MEIN KOPF DEM HENKER", and you just find hymns followed by anthems and then anthems followed by hymns. Here are some songs that you can find on this one here (and this are my personal favorites): "RESPEKTLOS, SCHEIßE UND JUNG", "MÄRCHENPRINZ", "GASSENHAUER", WIE ES UNS GEFÄLLT", "GEWALT", "GELIEBT, GEHASST", "TRITT, KRATZT UND BEIßT", "SCHEIßEGAL", "TAUSENDSCHÖNCHEN" and "KOMM MIT UNS". Okay, would I maybe have wished some other songs on this disc that somehow didn't make it on it? Yes! But is this something oh so bad at all? No! So... If you still don't know the almighty TROOPERS anyhow then imagine a harsh, brutal, bestial (of course also this) and damn angry and pissed off and non-p.c. mixture out of heavy BÖHSE ONKELZ influenced Deutsch Rock (/German Rock), power filled and street charmed heavy Thrash Metal, roughnecked Oi! Oi! Oi! music (especially the german style of playing Oi!) and bulky and massive (Street-) Punkrock, all melted together by Atzes pretty Hardcore styled lead vocals. Very present and marking is especially the guitar work and in particular the stoic and brutal stomping, heavy and massive guitar riffing, as well as the bulldozer pace and rhythm of the songs, not to forget the already mentioned lead vocals. The rhythm section is a devastating artillery machinery that pushes every song again and again onward into the battle zone. Above all we get damn great lyrics, street wisdom pours out of every single line of every single song. The production sound is made round for this album here, so that all songs fit perfectly together, thumbs up for this. The artwork isn't really that much 'creative', pffff, but it looks great and 'stylish' anyway. On top of it we get some pretty cool linernotes written by the mighty Bomml of the legendary "Oi! THE PRINT" fanzine. Ah, and the CD itself looks like a vinyl LP, and that's always pretty cool. Okay, after (beside the "GEWALT" live song) we get nothing new this is maybe not a totally necessary album and maybe more something for collectors or newcomers (and that's also the reason why they didn't get a single point more for this disc up here) but it's still a CD packed up full with damn good and also great songs, point and fact. So, yehp, nothing left to say here and now, but: This is Streetmusic for Streetpeople in its purest form, this is battle scarred and battle proofed reality set to music, yes, so you all should know what we get here and so you should also know that you better get it if you're into Streetmusic that gives a damn about any specific genre clichès. Get it!!! VIOLENCE!!! Cheers & Oi! (8 of 10 points)

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(PS: There are different editions of this disc out, one in a digi-pack- that's the one that I have, bought back already in 2007 when this record came out- and one in a 'normal' jewel case and I don't know if there are any differences existing when it comes to the songs featured on the disc or to the artwork or what ever and I also don't know if it are maybe only different 'release-date-editions' or something like this but so you now just know about the different editions of this album... if it's important or not...)

Now you get the great anthem "GASSENHAUER" of the almighty the TROOPERS, one of my total favorites of them (read through the review and then you maybe know the reasons why - and this song is so incredible strong and it also brings me so many loved and just great memories to my mind), via a more or less 'true' or 'real' little video clip, so just enjoy it and swell down a brew or two. Cheers & Oi!

TROOPERS - "GASSENHAUER"

Walking down that boulevard of broken dreams...

Hey folks,

after doing two 'Videos' postings for or of the legendary and just great STRAY CATS, and then today the review of the still current release of THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, yehp, now I thought that I could (or maybe should) also do a nice little 'Videos' posting for it and I found the cool video clip of the (yes, damn 'sweet-romantic' but also anyhow just damn great) "BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS" song, and, da-da-da, it's no STRAY CATS and no THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA (and no GREEN DAY...) song anyhow but a solo BRIAN SETZER song. Won't say or write now that much more, it's a great song and clip, even it's really damn close to be your typical 1980's Rock love song, haha;-), but who cares, it's a great song and a cool clip anyhow, so damn fucking just enjoy it. More will come as soon as possible up here from me for you.

(Please don't ask me why I want to write all the way BRYAN SETZER instead of BRIAN SETZER... if I've done it wrong in some of the posts before please 'overlook' this mistake/-s.)

(PS: And, btw, if you're also a fan of the STRAY CATS and all connected to this great band then make sure to check out this great blog here http://straycatscollectors.blogspot.com/ and enjoy reading through it!!!)

BRIAN SETZER - "BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS"

"DEAD MAN INCORPORATED riding on the TROUBLE TRAIN down that LONELY AVENUE and while MR. JAZZER GOES SURFIN' it's like MR. JAZZER GOES JAZZIN', feeling like the KING OF THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD and all the DIMES IN THE JAR display the PASSION OF THE NIGHT and ELENA, yes, MY BABY DON'T LOVE ME BLUES but I don't care 'cause we're LOVE PARTNERS IN CRIME."

THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA - "SONGS FROM LONELY AVENUE"
("Surfdog Inc."; CD):

Here it is, the still current release of the almighty BRIAN SETZER respectively of him and his great THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA. This one was released already back then in 2009 but for all what I know it's still the 'hot & new', the current release of him and his orchestra today and so there are more than only a few enough reasons for me to review it also at this current day here and now on and up here. That BRIAN SETZER is no-one else than the lead singer and guitar player (and maybe some sort of the mastermind of or behind) the STRAY CATS should be clear for everyone of you out there. (As well as that I'm a huge, huge fan of the STRAY CATS.) Many years ago (sounds like a fairy tale or so, doesn't it...) he formed the BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA and pretty much broke out or away of or from the world of (Neo) Rockabilly and moved onwards heavily into the world of Swing, Jazz and in general Big Band music, but without denying his roots, and that's exactly what BRIAN SETZER with his orchestra, THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, still does (or are doing) today. So, okay, I saw it and never bought it before due to the really pretty high price (something like 18,99 Euro is pretty expensive for a- also even just 'regular'- music CD anyhow everywhere anytime, and 'cheaper' the record isn't normally also today), and also because in all the oh so 'true' Rockabilly and especially Psychobilly fanzines and magazines I do know I've only read 'bad ending reviews' of or about this album. Puh, but what a bunch of stupid nutjobs this reviewers turned out to be!!! But maybe they all proofed to be really 'true' guys... Okay, how-ever: I got aware of it as soon as I bought this album. And what BRIAN SETZER and THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA are showcasing us here is a fantastic and brilliant and, yes, a sheer phenomenal display of heart and soul, emotions and passion, as well as also an incredible display of impressive and unbelievable great skills when it comes to the songwriting abilities as well as also when it comes to the technical skills of the involved and participating musicians when it's about playing their instruments on a level that high that it will truly make you hold your breath. Awesome!!! The three major (hm, let us call it:) trademarks are the following three ingredients: First and foremost the stand-alone and outshining guitar playing of BRIAN SETZER himself, one of the few very, very best stuff I've ever had the luck to listen to. It's incredible how he manages it to melt the biggest and soul- and heartful emotions and the most cool solos and cool to heavy to sweet leads into each other and how he also manages to work some Jeff "ANNIHILATOR" Waters styled damn heavy riffing into a 'floffy' and danceable as fuck Swing anthem like "DEAD MAN INCORPORATED" and how it all flows completly without any kind of 'breaks' , that's all just damn great. Also how much heart, soul, emotions and pure passion you find in his guitar playing, awesome, and that it's all done on a incredible high and great level of skills should latest by now be clear to everyone outta there reading this here and now. The second trademark are the lead vocals of BRIAN SETZER that are really just brilliant and grapping stuff, no doubt about it, and it's just amazing how he delivers so much style and coolness and also heart and soul and just pure passion for the lyrics, the songs, the music, and the topics he sings about with his voice and his style of singing. Again, there's just one word to say about it: Awesome!!! And the third major trademark is the everything outshining Big Band, from Swing to Jazz, from Soul to Surf this guys know it all and they can do it all and they do it all, you really just have to love it if you only have at least some 'few proper taste' in music. Brilliant!!! (To use another word then awesome again.) And all is backed up by a stylish, a cool, a damn well-versed and so incredible rich on variations being rhythm section that's just the hit of the highscore again and again and over and over again. Phenomenal!!! Swing and Jazz are the most prominent music genres that can be found here, but also Soul and Surf, and the Rockabilly and Rock'n'Roll roots of BRIAN SETZER are present also over and over again. From cool to romantic stuff THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA know and do it all, and also the songwriting is just larger than life (as well as the technical skills of the musicians, as already above mentioned one or two times before), and so the album is packed up full of or with grapping suprises, demanding and challenging twists and turns and overwhelming clever arrangements, so that this album is grapping you and holds this grab on you over the complete distance of the full length album. Lyrically there are a big bunch of great little stories told, all done very cool and just great and also on a damn high level, the artwork looks just damn good (even it could have been a little bit more 'creative' and less 'egocentric' after all not at least because hey we are talking here about THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA and not just about BRIAN SETZER so with a look at the cover and all the other photos shown you really start to ask yourself where's this whole orchestra anyhow), and the great clear and clean production sound is just a pure beauty that perfectly fits to the music. If you still don't call this record your own and if you have especially at least only a small faible for Swing and Jazz music (with some Rockabilly and Rock'n'Roll roots to it, and Soul and Surf impressions in it) then you really should change it and get this album here as soon as possible. I love this shit, even BRIAN SETZER also is not the new DEAN MARTIN and will probably never ever become it... so this here is no new "King of Cool" album, nah, be sure that it's not, but it's a great and a truly larger than life album that really and truly everyone with a at least good and better taste in music should call his or her own. Get it!!! And to use this word or term now here for the last time again: Awesome!!! (10 of 10 points)
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