*** PRO PATRIA FINLANDIA ***

THE WRONGDOERS - "HELSINKI"
("Crowbar Records"; CD):

Here's a new Oi! band from the country of Finland. Don't know much acts that are coming down from there to us. The Cyber Tharsh Core Metal band of IMPALED NAZARENE (had once been pretty important to me with their releases "TOL KORMPT NORZ NORZ NORZ" and "UGRA KARMA", damn extreme stuff, even if I can't tell ya today what the fuck I liked so much about it back then being 15 years old, haha;-)... ah, and I know, the headline of this post is the title of the 2006 full length release of IMPALED NAZARENE, but I thought it would pretty good fit here as a headline anyhow...) and the Black Metal band BEHEXEN (are they still active?) and the Gothic Rock band THE 69 EYES, also the Punkrock band UNBORN SOVIET FINLAND, the VIKINGROCK band KALEVALAN VIIKINGIT, the Oi! band THE HOIST, as well as the two NS/WP Fascist Rock bands SNIPER and MISTREAT. That's it. And now THE WRONGDOERS. And if I remember it correctly, then one or some guy(s) of MISTREAT do also play here in THE WRONGDOERS, so decide for yourself how you handle this. Hm, and this is maybe also giving the partly at first only patriotic lyrics another direction, and maybe someone could get the idea that we could also discuss how-far THE WRONGDOERS are truly an Oi! band... But anyhow, maybe we shouldn't interpret in it too much, and maybe this personal link to MISTREAT is wrong anyhow, but even if not, hm, I think let us handle both bands as different and single bands and, yes, let us forget about too much interpretations at all, and now onward to this review here... THE WRONGDOERS play a pretty hard kind of Oi! Oi! Oi! music, very direct and energetic, forceful forward pushing, but yet also damn melodic and catchy and anthemic. The guitars are really forward pushing, hard and direct hitting stuff, and marking the songs really quite a bit, the rhythm section works as precise as a clock out of Switzerland and is fucking tight and also very beefy and bulky working, and the vocals are pretty hard but yet no stupid roaring stuff. The guys in the band really know how to play their instruments and they can also write songs in a pretty good and grapping way. All good, all fine, this is truly a good release, even it's lacking somehow something special that would lift it even much higher. If you like good old England Oi! with some brutal Brickwall style to it, yes, that one here is exactly yours, and by the way, that's no 'lo-fi' stuff and that's also a pretty melodic and hymnal thing what's giving it all some nice variability to the two-fisted Oi! Oi! Oi! dynamite music, also when it comes to the mood and attitude of the songs. If THE WRONGDOERS work more in that direction of combinating this U.K. Brickwall Oi! with this catchy and melodic hymns-character, then they should keep up their quality level and maybe lift it even up on their future releases. Ahrg, but can someone please tell me of whom the singer of THE WRONDOERS reminds me?!? It's ticking me off, since the first listening session I'm thinking about it, but damn it, it just refuses to come to my mind, fuck!!! So, lyrically we get patriotic (...) stuff, critical (...) stuff, Way of Life lyrics and also some other stuff, and all in all not bad even that all are topics that are well known to us the listeners, also well-known is the way how it's sang about it all. But, okay, anyway... The production sound sounds really good, and the artwork is pretty nice (even nothing special). For all of you who are into Oi! Oi! Oi! music, yehp, check this guys out. Cheers & Oi! (8 of 10 points)

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