American Oi!'n'R.A.C. - If you feel the need to get some pro-white and pro-american right wing American Oi! then make sure that you get known to this two great and legendary bands... and yes: THE EAGLE FINALLY FLIES AGAIN!!!

*** THE EAGLE FINALLY FLIES AGAIN - RED, WHITE & BLUE DISARM NEVER ***

Hey folks,

here I'm back again, and it's really about time that the 'AMERICAN Oi! HISTORY SERIES' get continued, yes, and so that's what I'm about to do right now. But first a little general information 'bout it: I know that pristine the ALMIGHTY LUMBERJACKS OF DEATH were announced to be the next group featured here in this posting series but things changed (again) a little bit. Jan, who's doing the great german print fanzine "MAGDEBURG PUNX" asked me to do an American Oi! special for his next issues and yeahr, what shall I say, I'm gonna do it, haha, what had you thought;-)!?! And beside some other stuff that's already in the making also the ALMIGHTY LUMBERJACKS OF DEATH bandhistory will be a part of this American Oi! special, so just that you're not wondering about it why this legendary and often overlooked band isn't featured here and now. First they will be featured in the announced American Oi! special, then with a little bit bigger delay (after the fanzine came out and will be around for quite a while) they will also be featured some day here, but that will take some time. Trust me;-)!!! Okay, how-ever, that's the reason why you now get the bands that had been announced to be featured after the ALMIGHTY LUMBERJACKS OF DEATH, and so now it will get a little bit shady and controversial, earlier than planned, haha, but why should we or at least I care about it at all;-)!?! So yeahr, the EAGLE FLIES AGAIN, and this time he salutes the PATRIOTIC VOICE, the SPIRIT THAT CAN'T BE KILLED!!! Now you get histories and introductions of the ARRESTING OFFICERS and of NEW GLORY, and I'll give you this truly legendary and just great if not fantastic two bands in one post because they do really pretty much fit to each other very, very well. So, yeahr, here we go!!!

THE PATRIOTIC VOICE singing about LAND & HERITAGE

*** ARRESTING OFFICERS ***

"DISORDERLY CONDUCT, GUILTY AS CHARGED!!!"

We are starting this 'AMERICAN Oi! HISTORY SERIES' post with the Philly boys of the ARRESTING OFFICERS. They were formed around back in the days of 1987 or so in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they unleashed their debut record exactly in 1988. Their debut release was (and still is... I mean, what else...) titled "PATRIOTIC VOICE" and came out via the then already pretty 'prominent' (no comment...) german record label of the name of "ROCK O RAMA RECORDS". And this record was and still is one of a kind. Really outstanding guitar playing, that really was something damn new back in the days, and it also still holds some suprises even today. Then there was a great rhythm section at work that really gave the songs  pretty unique and also pretty suprising changes in pace, structure, and mood. On top of it had been the lead vocals, really outstanding charismatic stuff, full of aggression, power and force, as well as melody, harmony and catchyness, and the great and well-versed and varying songwriting really was (and yes, still is) just awesome, exciting and also suprising, just great stuff. Yeahr, just great!!! Yeahr, just listen to songs like the incredible great "FALLING TO BITS" and you will know what I mean, trust me!!! Also this record also features their biggest hits, leaded by "DISORDERLY CONDUCT" (this song, ah, damn it, this anthem should be known by everybody, point and fact), and also their great hymn "EVIL HAS LANDED", "SLUM RIVER", "GET THE REDS OUT" and "DISARM NEVER". It was through and through Skinhead music at its best, and nothing less (or else). Okay, let us discuss it if we should call it Oi! anyhow or R.A.C., hm, but at the end of the day their debut record was and still is just brilliant and outstanding American Oi! music, not R.A.C., not anything else. And yeahr, this is a record that really needs to be a part of every good sorted music collection. Point and fact!!!

In 1990 their second and also final record saw the light of the day, it carried (and still carries) the title of "LAND & HERITAGE" and it was also released on the german label of "ROCK O RAMA RECORDS", also then better known then back in 1988... The record came with a cover artwork that's nowadays pretty much shocking and in Germany also forbidden because of the showcased Celtic Cross and the censorship paranoia over here. But you know what: FUCK THIS LOWLIFE SCUM AND THEIR PARANOID AND SCHIZOPHRENIC 'CENSORSHIP WRATH' OVER HERE!!! AND YES, THEY STILL DARE IT TO CALL THIS FARCE WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRCY!!! FUCK IT!!! FUCK THEM!!! FUCK THEM ALL!!! The record displayed a pretty heavy development of the band, and it was more of a R.A.C. sound heavily influenced by Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music of that time, pretty much away from being 'through and through Skinhead music' at all, if you take the 'traditional approach'. Hm, but it's music played by Skinheads mostly for Skinheads, so I guess that makes it to through and through Skinhead music anyhow. How-ever, but don't get me wrong, it was and still is also everything but anyway anyhow bad. Very heavy and marking guitar work, thundering drum playing, a sinister bubbling bass, and this still just incredible strong vocals, all in mood, pace and structure of the songs very 'metallic', if you know what I mean. Hm, and it's funny when you now look at this whole Metal clichè crap today, with this 'Dungeons & Draons' like singing about nordic mythology that also the ARRESTING OFFICERS back in 1990 with becoming more 'metallic' also started to sing about nordic mythology within some songs. But hey, they've done it NOT in a fuckin' gaily 'Dungeons & Dragons' style, haha;-). And even I like the debut a little bit more also this record is a great piece of music that brings us some great anthems like "VICTORY IN OUR TIME", "WORKING CLASS PATRIOT", "LONE WOLF", "ANOTHER BLACKOUT", "TERRORIST BOMBS", "YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE", "DEFND US IN A BATTLE" and "THE HAMMER AND THE RAVEN", that really should be discovered by you, point and fact, and that's it. Ah, no, that's it not at all, 'cause also this masterpiece of American Skinhead music, hm, okay, let us call it American Oi!, even this masterpiece of American Oi! needs to be a part of every good sorted records collection, and nothing else. A fantastic record!!!

What's making this band 'so shady, evil, and controversial', haha, what a fuck, haha;-), is the fact, that they were a right wing band, and one from the far right. Anti-communist, strongly critical on immigration and what's called the 'new world order' when it comes to politics and economics, nationalistic and pro-white, and on their second release becoming more radical or extreme, then singing about being White Power and about White Pride and crap like this. As far as I concern I can say that their first release, hm, I mean I don't share every point they make, but with some or a lot of the stuff they say (or were saying) they were simply right (and they still are it anyhow), so to me it's just a right wing Oi! record where I don't really have an serious problems with, and, by the way, keep in mind that they were active in a time perod that was the final and also the last heated phase of the Cold War, and that really means something. And not just something, but a lot!!! With their second record they took sadly somehow a wrong turn, lyrically respectively politically, if you ask me, showcasing some xenophobic and racist views, but okay, I don't have to agree on everything but for what I can say even this record was nothing like NS Rock faggot crap, so that's at least all fine with me even I really wouldn't have needed White Power chants, but how-ever, like I've said, I don't have to agree on everything (as well anyone else needs to aggree on everything) and as a human being you develop yourself and change over the time of your life, growing up and making your own experiences, dealing with your own real life issues, living your own life, struggling hard and working even harder to make it through, so who am I to judge anyone... but also who am I to defend anyone... I've written about the political issue of or with the ARRESTING OFFICERS already quite a bit in the 'Videos' post I've done some time ago about them (so read there) and I really don't want to repeat myself anyhow, and again: Point and fact. But, by the way, with a song like the already mentioned "TERRORIST BOMBS" they do spek really the truth, even today, and that's fucking scarry anyhow. And they also made some strong points back in the days that are today even more true than in the 1980's and/or 1990's. "EVIL HAS LANDED", just as an (very good example) is such a song, the message (if you like it or not) is today more true than ever, but the problem is that if you articulate your standpoint against (mass) immigration your directly labeled as a Nazi by the self proclaimed left, the medias, etc., and also the right things you're such kind of human waste and think they can embrace you just because you make a point and speak out that somethings totally going wrong. By the way, if the left of today (or most partsof them) would be really a political left wing force, and not some worthless political correct AFA jackasses that ran their mouth against the state the live in (okay, why not, criticism is always needed and justified, but then you shouldn't...) from which they get monetary subsidies, then they would also be more than critical against (mass) immigration and it's consequences, but that's the problem today, too many Hippy and Yuppie kids call themselves today left and having totally forgotten about the real clients of the political left, the Working Class, and so they rather demonstrate against winning electricity out of atomic powerplants but not against the import of masses of cheap and slave like workers from where ever that are stealing the Working Class its political force and pressing down the wages to or even under a minimum so that the fucking bourgeoisie scum can make even more profit and enslave the Working Class more and more, day by day. Being critical on (mass) immigration means not being against immigrants as human beings, no, never, but being against the ruling class and its policy that's selling out all and everything just to make a quick and cheap profit more out of it, out of us, out of us all. Fuck this scum!!! Left or right doesn't matter!!! Fuck them damn all!!! So, okay, enough said, but you see, so easily black and white, so fucking simple isn't the world today and wasn't the world also not back in 1988 or 1990 and probably never before and never will be, so just shut up, open your eyes and maybe you see this shithole called society in a whole new light!!! Ah, and by the way, being against what's often called the 'New World Order' (when it comes to politics and economics) is always something with what you will never go wrong anyway, at least if ya ask me!!!

So yes, like it or not, but they had been a very important band when it comes to American Oi! music, at least their debut from 1988 (not because their second release wasn't worse or so, but just a little bit away from being 'true' Skinhead music), just take a listen to a lot of the bands from the 1990's golden era of American Oi! and you will get it, recognizing all the influences of this right wing Philly Boys. After their second record they departed and some members went on to form new bands that were and are away from this White Power shit and this bands carry the names of the SONS OF LIBERTY and LIMECELL, and especially the first mentioned are one of the very, very best American Oi! bands of the last decade, so check them out. Also the band STORMOFFICERS is today around, a combination of guys from STORMWATCH and the ARRESTING OFFICERS teaming up together to do live shows, and yes, with guys from both of this bands this can only be great. So you see, the story goes on and on, and at least if you ask me that's more than just a good thing. Yes, and don't get anything wrong, this is maybe nothing for the weak-hearted, but if you're into American Oi! music this band is necessary, like it or not. Hm, and I think even if you're into Skinhead, Bootboy or at least Oi! music in general, then also the ARRESTING OFFICERS are more than just necessary. One of the very best bands ever!!! Point and fact!!!

By the way, the SONS OF LIBERTY and LIMECELL also released a very cool split 7" single to pay tribute to the ARRESTING OFFICERS, relased some years ago via the damn good working german record label "DIM RECORDS". You need to have this nice little vinyl gem!!! Better sooner than later!!! Beside the two above mentioned and introduced records the ARRESTING OFFICERS were also featured on the two compilation records of the pretty cool "THE SPIRIT OF Oi! - AMERICAN SYTLE" series, hm, and I think also on a very, hm, let us call it radical sampler CD with SKREWDRIVER, BRUTAL ATTACK, and some more bands of this kind. Whooaa, that's enough for ya, right, haha;-)?!? If so, okay, what shall I say: "You pussy!!!" Haha;-)!!! It's funny how guys can think that music is making Adolf Hitler out of ya, even when bands have nothing in mind with this austrian-german guy with that well fostered moustache, and also it's funny that even I haven't met a STAGE BOTTLES fan that became Che Guevara anyhow, but maybe it's just that right wing music makes you transform into something else,  oh, oh, oh, but anyway, ah, and back to Che Guevara: Now beside the left also the right is wearing proud Che Guevara shirts... How-ever, things are strange these days, and here goes my reputation, but damn, fuck it;-). So it is, okay, then on to the next band, haha, and there goes my reputation, haha;-)!!!

THE SPIRIT CAN'T BE KILLED!!!

*** NEW GLORY ***

"HEAR THE BACKSTREET BATTLE CRY, U.S. SKINHEADS WILL NEVER DIE!!!"



For what I know this is the censored verion of
the cover artwork of this record, 'cause the
Celtic Cross behind the U.S. Skinhead is
missing here on this one.

 And here are coming the next at least pro-white, conservative and anti-communist guys playing in an American Oi! band, and this are (or were) the great and just damn incredible good and brilliant NEW GLORY. The band also came from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was also a right wing band from the far right of the political spectrum. But more to this a little bit later. The precursor band of NEW GLORY had been the great THE UPRISE that are also already a part of this posting series here on this very blog. After their precursor band departed Matt Andrews and Rob Daly choosed to do a new one, and that had been no other band than NEW GLORY. Hm, and when I think about it, then some members of NEW GLORY were also members of ELITE TERROR, active from 1989 on to when ever, an through and through American R.A.C. band from, ha, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ha, you wouldn't or haven't expected this, right;-)?!? But after ELITE TERROR had nothing in common with being Oi! and had also been nothing more than ya pretty boring usual common R.A.C. band, playing nothing but some old farts guitar dominated gammy Rock music with some anti-communist and racist lyrics, having nothing done and also no meaning for American Oi! music, and having alo nothing special to offer, yeahr, and so they probably will never become or be a part of this series here. How-ever, back to NEW GLORY, right on, yeahr. By the way, damn it, but I really love this band!!! Just accept it, haha;-)!!!

The band was only around for something like circa two years and they just have one proper release brought out, their brilliant "BACKLASH" record, released in 1988 on the german label of "ROCK O RAMA RECORDS", also, like the records of th ARRESTING OFFICERS. And like them, also NEW GLORY really had something special to offer, and that even today, even they really throw all the Hardcore elements of their precursor band THE UPRISE totally over board. Fantastic guitar work, great grapping and sharp as hard guitar riffing, combined with a just breath-taking guitar lead playing, and especially the guitar work is really marking the music incredible strong, trust me. It was (and still is) really just stand-alone, I mean, just for an example, just listen to their larger than life anthem "RED, WHITE & BLUE", how they combine this pure aggressive but yet still melodic, hard hitting and pretty fast paced Oi! music with this 'goosepimples-giving' guitar lead that could have also be done by THE CURE is just phenomenal and incredible great and truly brilliant, and yes, it's just and only one example for how sheer phenomenal great this band was (and their music still is). Then there's also a hard and rich on variations being rhythm section, more than just and only well-versed, trust me. And the lead vocals, grim and mean, aggressive and yet still harmonic-meldoic and so damn charismatic, just giving the songs and the music it's crown. It's really something that wasn't heard in that way in Oi! music in general, and it's to say that it's still prett unique, something not many bands had managed to do, no matter what kind of musical genre you chooe. But for all what I know after NEW GLORY some members went on to play in the experimental, progressive avant-garde Hardcore/Metal band STARKWEATHER, so you won't be wondering about it anyhow. Ah, and by the way, their abilities in playing their instruments was very high, but there songwriting was even far better. They just released their fantastic record "BACKLASH" as a proper release and had been also featured on some compilations like "GODS OF WAR III" (I don't know it, but it shall be a very, hm, 'tendencious affair', to say it that way...) and also on the "THE SPIRIT OF Oi! - AMERICAN STYLE" compilation records they were featured. But for what I know that's all what they've released at all in general, hm, and that's not that many, what's a pity, but okay, who may knows for what it was good at the end of the day... Hm, but what day ever?!?

Also NEW GLORY had been a very far right wing band of the final but still heated phase of the Cold War, and that you can hear in nearly every song. Patriotic and proud, pro-american and pro-white (but for what I can say there're no White Power messages or NS homages in their songs, so that's all okay, even they do greet this "BLOOD & HONOUR" lowlife scum, what at least I wouldn't have needed at all, to say it that way...), Working Class and also very militant, anti-communist and anti-liberal and also against the whole capitalists scum that's selling out their own nation and culture to make a quick buck out of it, and yes, against the already above mentioned 'New World Order' (now-a-days we all use to talk usually as the Globalization if we do talk about it all), singing about social injustice (especially when it comes to how the U.S. politics and society had treated their (Vietnam) War Veterans), and that you should not gonna wait for a 'new Robin Hood' but that you have to do something by your own if you want something to change anyhow some day, and yes, we do also get some great Skinhead and Bootboy fighting anthems and Way of Life hymns, and like their music also their lyrics had been really great (if you like tehir message or not) and basically free of any stupid clichè garbage, what's always a damn cool thing at all anyhow, at least if you ask me. Also like the ARRESTING OFFICERS there are (or were) NEW GLORY a pretty if not damn good example for the fact that the world isn't always black and white, left and right, and that there are sometimes bands that speak the truth on both sides of the political spectrum, no matter if ya like it or not.

But I won't tell ya now again where I think they are totally right, today even more than maybe back in the days. Just take it as it is, if you like it or not, lyrically and musially NEW GLORY had been (and still are) a just amazing band, stand-alone and outshining, not just great, but brilliant and phenomenal, so just get known to this fantastic band, point and fact (yes, I've said it again, haha;-)...)!!! Just check out immortal anthems like "NEW GLORY", "SARGE", "RED, WHITE & BLUE", "ROBIN HOOD", "BACKLASH", "THE SPIRIT CAN'T BE KILLED" and "WE THE PEOPLE (FLY OUR FLAG)" and you will damn know what I mean!!! If not, hm, then you're deaf, or you have no taste when it comes to good music, hm, or you are just scared of some 'evil' pro-white music (oh, oh, oh, watch it, the PC police could be watching ya like the good ol' Big  Brother;-)...), hm, or it's a combination of some or all elements of the named ones, but how-ever, then it's your fault and it's something great that you are missing. Check this fantastic band out, and best do it NOW!!! One of the best American Oi! you can possibly get!!!

So, yeahr, after my reputation is now complety gone away time will tell what will be coming up next here in this series, we will see, haha;-). Trust me, the bands will be worth it, no matter what the weak-hearted P.C. guys may say, ah, yes, and no matter if they are from the left or from the right, 'cause yes, like I've said, fuck them all now and ever!!! Cheers & Oi!

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

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



ARRESTING OFFICERS
-
"LAND & HERITAGE"
(Censored cover of the 2009 LP
rerelease version.)

From where you can get over here in Germany the NEW GLORY record I can't tell ya, maybe just try your luck in some second hand records shops or so. Some years back I've had the luck to get it from the "ADLER VERSAND", but I think they've sold out the records some time ago or so. Hm, so maybe just seek a little bit more intense, but anyway, trust me, this great record is worth your time and money, yes, more than just worth it. The ARRESTING OFFICERS records you can (for what I know) still and only get at "ROCK O RAMA RECORDS". Hm, you now must decide if you want to support this jackasses of the extreme right selling White Power stuff and more worse crap like this, support them with giving them your money. But okay, after "ROCK O RAMA RECORDS" is selling the CD's only as burned CD's with copied covers and without any proper artwork this question is not a question with any kind of relevance for ya, 'cause you may should rather seek for some good download opportunities, yes, 'cause then you can burn your own copy and don't have to pay ten bucks or so to some total business bastards that are just stealing your hard earned money with selling copied CD's as regular proper full length records... it should be enough that they've stolen my money. And if you are searching for some good downloads opportunities you maybe go to http://usofoiofsweden.blogspot.com/ and find what you're searching for there. Hm, but let us keep this as a little secret between us, alright?!? Ah, but by the way, just to let you know it, "ROCK O RAMA RECORDS" did the last year a re-release of "LAND & HERITAGE" by the ARRESTING OFFICERS as a new LP version on many different kinds of clored and transparent vinyl with a censored cover artwork due to the fact of the above already mentioned german censorship paranoia. So maybe this one is something for ya, if there are still some copies of it floating around to be bought by you, at least if ya decide to give ya money to the jackasses of "ROCK O RAMA RECORDS", decide for yourself...

Anyway, if it all is now working like it should then you will now get two video clips to close this post, one of NEW GLORY and one of the ARRESTING OFFICERS. Of the ARRESTING OFFICERS you get the pretty nice clip to "CELTIC CROSS" from their second release "LAND & HERITAGE", and of NEW GLORY you get the great title track of their only release titled "BACKLASH", and so you know now the song title. Enjoy them!!! Cheers & Oi! Oi! Oi!

ARRESTING OFFICERS - "CELTIC CROSS"

NEW GLORY - "BACKLASH"