*** FIST CITY HOOLIGANS, THE BULLDOG BREED ON THE ATTACK!!! ***

YOUNGBLOOD - "OLD SCHOOL PRIDE"
("Rebel Records"; CD):

Here's the new one one of one of the maybe most long running radical if not extreme right wing Skinhead bands coming from the United States of America. And yes, I know, I know, I know, a lot of guys will now maybe (again) run mentally (and virtiual) complete amok because I do (again) a review of a record of such a band... Damn it, I'm evil so fuck you, haha;-)!!! No, I got this record (I think it's from 2009 or so) after a friend send me some "YouTube" links of videos of songs of that record, hm, and then I thought: "Andy, you need to call this one your own!!!" But even this album is basically really and truly complete free of any mentally degenerated and intellectual incestuous extreme right wing politicial bullshit, yehp, I really had a hard time of thinking back and forth about the decisison if I should get it or not, about the decision who I should support with giving them my money. How-ever... Okay, they don't sing about their lowlife weltanschauung and musically I was pretty convinced by them, but they are still a damn WP band anyhow and the WP/NS bullshit record label I also don't felt the need to give my hard earned money anyway. But okay, how-ever, sometimes you have to do things you maybe don't want to do respectively things that you normally would not do, but okay, I mean that's life and with that few bucks of me they won't start their White Revolution tomorrow or so, haha;-), and so I bought this CD anyway asap some time back (no, I don't have this CD since a too long time period or so), yehp, and here it is. (Okay, to be honest it's also already a little bit longer here, but like I've said not for too long, haha;-)...) So, btw, I know that YOUNGBLOOD do already have a new record out called "PATRIOTIC FORCE" (...) or something like this... YOUNGBLOOD had been formed in 1989 out of the ashes of the great old patriotic American Oi! band THE BOOTBOYS (and you should really at least know about their larger-than-life anthem "AMERICAN HERITAGE") and they waved the flags of racism and fascism, of White Power and the 14 Words pretty soon right from the start as YOUNGBLOOD. What a bunch of subhuman lowlife scumbag bullshit!!! Just that you know about it, and now decide for yourself if you want to read on and further or not... Like I've already said, this one here is (at least basically) free of any political weltanschauungsstuff, they rather sing about the Old School, about Skinhead and the Way of Life, about Hooligans and brawling all over the place, about being Working Class and proud of it, about their American Working Class Heritage, about violence, gang violence and bloody fights, friendship and loyalty and comradeship, about Unity, about drunken violence and "Boots & Aggro!!!" again, etc. pp., and they also do a pretty cool BLITZ cover of "NEW AGE", and they do really pay tribute and give honor to this great and immortal anthem. So, that should be enough about the issues they deal with in their lyrics, at least here on this one!!! Musically this YOUNGBLOOD record is just a nearly phenomenal great affair. It's no Oi! music (but that shouldn't make you wonder about it only for a second, because after all YOUNGBLOOD isn't an Oi! band anyhow anyway, and they never had been one, just to point that out), but it's also no R.A.C. what they do play here. It's dirty and mostly in elated mid pace played, dustdry and bonecracking American Working Class Rock & Roll (or maybe RAC'n'Roll...) with a huge Skinhead background to it, and all is also really and truly very, very dirty and it's totally stripped down to the core played, just phenomenal stuff!!! All marked strongly by the very harsh and dry and dirty hammering guitar work, and especially the rhythm and riff structure really knocks hard, pounding rhythms and stomping grooves, and also the leads (that will rush your brain and won't leave you again) and the solos (cool stuff, and totally no exorbitant and so no annoying bullshit) are really great stuff. The rhythm section is thundering and jangling as fuck and is really a mighty forward into war pushing force, and then there are also the lead vocals, very hard and dirty creaking stuff. And yes, they know how to play their instruments, as well as they know how to write songs. (Keep in mind, as YOUNGBLOOD they've started back in 1989, and also before that they already used to play and make music, so they are already around for quite a while and should know how to do their things, even this one is or was or still is only their third record at all, for what I know.) Damn fucking good job, no doubt about it, but they would also be far better if they would vary the drumming quite a bit, and also the lead vocals (even it's cool stuff) could from time to time be a little bit loosen up by some variations of the lead singing voice or better the style of the lead singing. Okay, but it's also all not so dramatically at all, but anyhow, because if they would have done also this even better then they would get also an even better rating here and now by me. The production sound is really good, dirty and earthy, fits perfect, and the artwork looks just great (especially the cover artwork rulez and rockz). So, okay, you now know all about it, decide for yourself what you now do with all this informations that I have given to ya here via this record review of this album. Best songs are "OLD SCHOOL PRIDE", "FAN THE FLAMES", "HOOLIGAN", "WHERE MY HEART BELONGS", and "BLOOD DEEP". Check at least this anthems out, really great, great stuff and also all the other tracks are really damn fucking good stuff, even the whole rest about YOUNGBLOOD we don't need to discuss here anyhow. Decide for yourself, but if I could decide, hm, then I would at least make sure that I know this record, yehp, so check it at least out, do yorself this little favour. Cheers & Oi! (9 of 10 points)
(Sorry folks, but I somehow just couldn't find a MySpace site of them, so yo have to stay with the review of this record and with the now coming video of YOUNGBLOOD, that must be enough for now, sorry.)
And now you get a video clip of YOUNGBLOOD, and if I'm now not totally wrong then it should be the video clip of their fantastic "OLD SCHOOL PRIDE" anthem of YOUNGBLOOD. Enjoy it!!!

YOUNGBLOOD - "OLD SCHOOL PRIDE"