HARDCORE COLLECTIVE - "BUMMER SUMMER MMXI" (Digital Compilation Album + Download Link)

VARIOUS ARTISTS /// HARDCORE COLLECTIVE - "BUMMER SUMMER MMXI"
("Hardcore Collective"; Digital Compilation Album):

Here's a compilation album released the digital way of MP3-Downloads totally authorized for free by the California based cliqué and blog of the name of "HARDCORE COLLECTIVE", doing a damn god job with running their blog and (not at least) compiling and doing this compilation. I've stumbled upon them when I discovered the great and mighty TRUTH and their "DEMO 2011" and their back then brandnew song "JUST UNDERSTAND" by fall of last year. I discovered then this compilation that's packed up full with great and some if not much of the very best Hardcore I've listened to for quite a while. While all (especially over here in Germany it seems so) is tending to go more and more in the direction of "bands-that-proclaim-to-be-and-play-Hardcore-at-the-end-of-the-day-play-and-fucking-be--nothing-else-but-lousy-Death-Metal-with-far-too-many-Beatdown-and-Down-Pace-parts-and-an-ape-on-the-mic-burping-his-expressioless-dull-grunts-and-even-far-more-stupid-and-dull-lyrical-abysmal-wisdom-into-it-and-preaching-about-how-great-it-all-is-to-slap-the-one-next-to-you-in-the-face-and-to-kick-the-guy-behind-you-into-a-bloody-pulp-but-never-stood-his-ground-in-a-battle-one-by-one-out-on-the-cold-concrete-at-night-in-the-streets-of-the-city-he-declares-and-occupies-to-be-his-hood" it's damn great to see that here are guys at work with a different approach, let us call it more or less through and through Straight Edge Hardcore with a style between Old School, New School, Posi Core and Youth Crew without any overly too far stretched Metal crap in it, no Beatdown stuff and no cliché "violence-is-oh-so-cool-and-masculine-and-I-need-this-to-hide-that-I'm-nothing-but-a-little-faggot-.underneath-my-whole-tattoos-and-piercings" self proclaimed ''Tough Guy'' bullshit sung by some guy(s) looking like little Emo faggots or like oh so cool Hip'n'Hop Skate'n'Rap dudes or like stupid little white middle class Heavy Metal guys trying to look "cool" and "hard", no, here's all real and authentic and with this damn sympathic, Hardcore like it was meant to be, as a attitude and a way of life and not as fashion and a trend and a cheap excuse for your own fucked up life and personality, here the compiled bands know the roots, know what it's all about, know their heritage as well as the present state and what's about to become of it. Amazing!!! 35 bands and 35 songs and so you see, far too much to go through it all one by one. This is for fans of acts like YOUTH OF TODAY, GORILLA BISCUITS, PROJECT X, (old) SHELTER to JUDGE as well as STRIFE, EARTH CRISIS, MORNING AGAIN and not to forget about UNCONQUERED, KRUTCH, LENGTH OF TIME, and TYRANT as well as SICK OF IT ALL, MADBALL, WARZONE, AGNOSTIC FRONT, CRO-MAGS, SLAPSHOT, and also some HATEBREED, too, and the distance covered by the here featured and compiled bands is so like you see a pretty wide and big one. The quality is always and through out the whole comp really and truly pure gold if not platinum and you need to have this album if you are into Hardcore not at least because this album showcases that Hardcore is still alive and healthy and well and did not completly turned into a circus of recycled Death and Thrash Metal stuff played by stupid assholes in ugly but trendy clothes with too much ''bling-bling'' in their face and around their neck. Featured bands on this comp are for example TRUTH, SUBURBAN SCUM, WAR HOUND, DIRECT EFFECT, CRUMB CULT, WOLF CITY, STEP ASIDE, CONSTANT STRUGGLE, GHOST X SHIP, YOUNG TURKS, WOLRDS BELOW, PLAGUES, OLD WOUNDS, RUINED TONGUE, STILL ALIVE, OBLIVION, COWARDICE, DISAPPROVAL, CONCRETE, and many more. And what's even more great is the fact that this album is a total Bad Ass album, and this is also showcased in the brilliant Old School Hardcore artwork, pure ''bad assery'' if ya ask me. Great!!! Thumbs up!!! The production sound is always varying more or less but also always more than just good. Don't think twice, this here is HARDCORE, the REAL DEAL, so if you're anyhow into it go and get it, it's brilliant!!! HARDCORE!!! FIST!!! (10 of 10 points)

(Blog: http://hccollective.com/)
(Contact I: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hardcore-Collective/109971389088850?ref=ts)
(Contact II: http://twitter.com/hc_collective)
(Download - for free: http://hardcorecollective.bandcamp.com/)

"77 - SIEG HEIL! - SUBLIME!" /// DEATH IN JUNE - "ALL PIGS MUST DIE" ; "DEATH OF THE WEST" ; "ROSE CLOUDS OF HOLOCAUST" ; "BREAK THE BLACK ICE" (***Videos***)

Okay folks, next one up here, and a 'Videos' posting again for you. This time again some (I would bet so) pretty controversial stuff: Neo-Folk by the godfathers of this genre, the awesome, brilliant, groundbreaking, phenomenal, amazing, already legendary, phantastic, incredible great and just pure and simply larger than life DEATH IN JUNE!!! You now may think that this ''superlative-words'' are too much, ha, nah, go and fuck yourself you miserable stupid son/daughter/''saughter'' of artless and gustoless folk(s)!!! I'm not all too heavily into Neo-Folk and comparable stuff like Martial-Industrial and so on and on. I know about a lot of rumours going on when the talking comes to talk about acts like DEATH IN JUNE, ABOVE THE RUINS, SOL INVICTUS, BLOOD AXIS, VON THRONSTAHL, STAHLFRONT, WEHRMACHT, PREUSSAK, etc. pp. but, to be honest, the only ''serious discussions'' I know about this stuff, genres and bands take place in AFA PC circles or in NS WP WPWW camps and the more or less well-known internet sites of the likes of them, or in the comment sections of posted YouTube videos or in some blogs, first and foremost the "WHO MAKES THE NAZIS?" blog (http://www.whomakesthenazis.com/). So, yes, all very ''serious'', right... Ah, and when it's about the mentioned blog... To keep it short, two things: (01.) Bands like DEATH IN JUNE, ABOVE THE RUINS, SOL INVICTUS, BLOOD AXIS, etc. pp. and the artists behind them seem to be somewhat something like personal and favorite enemies of the guys running this blog and the entries and post dealing with this bands and artists (the majority of the posts up there) are pretty often written down personally offending and defaming on a bitter and poor level of critizism; (02.) That said I anyhow anyway think that the blog pretty often does more or less a good job and that in a more or less profund way of doing this job (and that's why the mentioned blog is up here in the blogs you have to read list), even the totally AFA perspective and PC attitude is hurting a lot and taking a lot of potential away and when I've read the utter garbage and totally dull crap that they've written and/or posted about Black metal and NSBM and defaming acts like EMPEROR as being or once had been NSBM with ''arguments'' that had already been 15 years or so ago being proofed wrong but they still post it like it would be the truth... And so, okay, with all this said I don't give a damn about all the talking and writing about for example in this case DEATH IN JUNE and instead of this I rather enjoy the music and the lyrics as well, too, and that's totally the fact in the case of DEATH IN JUNE, damn it, I love this band, hm, and, btw, somehow I really first came to know about them due to the mentioned blog where reading about them made me curious and so I became a fan of DEATH IN JUNE. Even maybe this wasn't the intention of the mentioned blog and the guys running it... You now get some songs via video clips of them, and right the first one of them is their infernal anthem "ALL PIGS MUST DIE", my total favorite of them featuring the almighty lyrical line "77 Sieg Heil Sublime". Then comes one of their maybe best known and also definitely one of their best songs ever, "DEATH OF THE WEST", that should be also a song you love, musically as well as lyrically, if you're a fan of the NEW MODEL ARMY and the great stuff that they've did many years ago on their awesome "THE GHOST OF CAIN" masterpiece album. Followed up then is it all by the controversial hymn "ROSE CLOUDS OF HOLOCAUST", a mighty and intense pure beauty of a song. Then comes their goosepimples track "BREAK THE BLACK ICE" that's just incredible strong and intense and tight, brilliant and beautiful, period. Anyhow anyway, enjoy the songs and clips and make sure that you also check out "KAMERADSCHAFT" by DEATH IN JUNE, another legendary anthem of them. If you now want to start puking and bitching around because of me posting DEATH IN JUNE up here then maybe you just  feel free to spit your venom into the comment section of this post but don't expect any answer. And now, just you enjoy it, and always remember: "ALL PIGS MUST DIE"!!! Cheers & Oi!

DEATH IN JUNE - "ALL PIGS MUST DIE"

DEATH IN JUNE - "DEATH OF THE WEST"

DEATH IN JUNE - "ROSE CLOUDS OF HOLOCAUST"

DEATH IN JUNE - "BREAK THE BLACK ICE"

SKINFATHER - "ATHEOS" (Metallic Hardcore from California, U.S.A. - D.I.Y. Digital EP released in 2011)

SKINFATHER - "ATHEOS"
(D.I.Y.; Digital EP):

Whoa, another monster by another young and promising band, this time out of the department of metallic Hardcore (and NOT fucking Metalcore) music, released by the end of 2011. Thanks to a friend I used to stumble upon them and today I saw that they are with a review of this bomber also featured on the as usual pretty brilliant "THANKS, IT CAME AS A SET" blog (http://thanksitcameasaset.blogspot.com/ or directly via http://thanksitcameasaset.blogspot.com/2012/01/skinfather-atheos-2011.html). This EP is for all what I know currently just released as a digital EP for downloading it at the Bandcamp site of SKINFATHER for just paying around 2,00 U.S. $ (or if you like and want to for the price you want more to pay for it) and the link will follow closing this review post. I would love to see them or a proper label release this as well on a proper physical format. Okay, what are SKINFATHER giving here to us?!? A great and very unique and stand-alone mixture out of INTEGRITY and ROT IN HELL and PULLING TEETH on the one side, and old ENTOMBED as well as DISMEMBER and some few short notes of old and early UNLEASHED as well as EDGE OF SANITY on the other side, blended with some SLAYER reminiscences and cultivated by some few old WOLFPACK marks, so metallic Hardcore mixed with Old School Sverige Death Metal, some SLAYER-esque Thrash Metal vibes and few well developed Crustcore notes in it we do get here by SKINFATHER. All dominated by the giant guitar work, no matter if you take the awesome riffing work or the amazing leads and solos, just damn fucking great, the damn charismatic vocals that sound like a hatefilled mixture out of the lead vocal work you can listen to on the larger than life DISMEMBER classic "MASSIVE KILLING CAPACITY", the ENTOMBED milestone and groundbreaker "WOLVERINE BLUES", the charismatic throaty spitted grunts of the "ACROSS THE OPEN SEA" masterpiece of UNLEASHED and the total hate inferno we get aware of on the WOLFPACK debut "A NEW DAWN FADES", and the bass is just phenomenal great distorted heavy cost, and the drumming is tight as fuck and just sheer intensity. I fucking love this shit and I would really love to see SKINFATHER coming off with far more of their noise of this quality very soon. The lyrics are some mean and nasty anti-christian occult stuff like you may get by the titles of the in total five songs we do get here ("CHRIST DISEASE", "UNBURIAL RITES", "SLAVE TO FAITH", "DEAD DEITY" and "ATHEOS"), and the production sound is a dirty and raw yet heavy and "fat" bastard, and the artwork (/logo) got a decent and also a very cool look. Even it now may seems that the Metal influneces totally take the lead here on this one that's not correct because the Hardcore really is the dominant key factor here and that's why I write about metallic Hardcore and NOT some Metalcore stuff or so, nah, don't get anything wrong here and now, ah, and in the title track SKINFATHER also shine with some few short SLUDGE CORE a la EYE HATE GOD notes through, great, more of this, please. Get this digital EP and support this awesome band, that's truly what you now should do, point and fact!!! Great!!! (9 of 10 points)

(http://skinfather.bandcamp.com/album/atheos)

(http://www.facebook.com/skinfatherofficial)

SUFFER THE PAIN - ''THE DEATH'' (Swedish D.I.Y. Crustcore between Old School Death Metal and punky-hardcorish Crustcore in 2012)

SUFFER THE PAIN - "THE DEATH"
("D.I.Y."; Tape & MP3-Download):

Also upon this I've stumbled while surfing through the web and once again checking in at the "CRUST DEMOS" blog (http://crust-demos.blogspot.com/). SUFFER THE PAIN are from Sweden and a young band playing in the department  of Punk meets Metal, which means Hardcore as well as first and foremost Crustcore meets Death Metal. This release here, titled "THE DEATH", is a brandnew 2012 release and is currently up to listen to for free on their Bandcamp site and also up for free downloading on the Soundcloud site of SUFFER THE PAIN, both links I will give you at the end of this very review here, and it will be pretty soon released as a (I guess) D.I.Y. (?) tape, so it means that if you like what you are listen to then get the download and when the tape is out write to the band or something like this and damn fucking bloody buy it. Okay, a mixture out of Crustcore and Death Metal from Sweden... ah, I can hear your head start to tick and ring, spitting out one name: WOLFPACK!!! Okay, and then also a second name: WOLFBRIGADE!!! And you're pretty much right with this, even SUFFER THE PAN are in NO way a sort of a rip off or so, playing it even more Death Metal and also more dirty and rough'n'tough and raw than the legends of WOLFPACK/WOLFBRIGADE, even they go more or less at least a little bit in the direction of the legendary and still awesome debut of them. Blend furious Crustcore madness, with D-Beat kamikaze attacks, incredible strong grooving Mosh segments and an uncontrolable anthemic fist in the air sing (or: scream) a long with them attempt with Old School savage swedish Death Metal violence born and bred by the likes of ENTOMBED, DISMEMBER and early UNLEASHED, add some few sick Black Metal impressions like very old DARK THRONE to it and you've arrived in the camp of SUFFER THE PAIN. The aggressive and brutal ''grunty'' and throaty roared vocals and the great fast metallic guitar riffing work, full of aggression yet also melodies, are truly the backbone of the music of SUFFER THE PAIN, the well-versed rhythm section is making it all round, and the tight and well thought through songwriting is really just a great job done by them. There's also a larger than life cover of "BLOODY HAMMER" by ROCKY ERICKSON and even I don't know the original one (honestly not, shame on me) the version of SUFFER THE PAIN is incredible. Amazing!!! To the lyrics I can't really say anything profund but barbarism, blood, hell, pain and death seem to be pretty important ingredients of them;-). The artwork really got a great and cool look (even it's not a official part of the Soundcloud download but then just get it on there Bandcamp site) and the production sound of this five songs in something around ten minutes is aggessive and brutal, dirty and raw (in a positive sense), and so his here is a complete package. If SUFFER THE PAIN will keep on working like this they will become a really great thing, so let us keep an eye on them, an eye and two ears. Great!!! I want a tape:-)!!! Cheers!!! (9 of 10 points)

(Contact: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suffer-The-Pain/230066817076044?sk=wall)

(Watch: http://www.youtube.com/user/SufferThePain666)

(Listen: http://sufferthepain.bandcamp.com/album/the-death)

(Download: http://soundcloud.com/suffer-the-pain-666/)

DISTASTROPHY - "DISTORT THE FUTURE, DISTORT THE PAST" (New Hampshire, U.S.A. D.I.Y. Crustcore in 2012)

DISTASTROPHY - "DISTORT THE FUTURE, DISTORT THE PAST"
("D.I.Y."; MP3-Download):

This is a Noise induced Crust Core inferno by a two piece band from New Hampshire, U.S.A. of the great name of DISTASTROPHY, the two guys in the band also play in a band of the name of RAMLORD (but I have not a single clou about them, so don't ask me anything about them). This demo here is up for downloading for free on their Bandcamp site and I stumbled upon them while surfing through the web and reading through the great "CRUST DEMOS" blog (http://crust-demos.blogspot.com/). I decided to dowload the stuff after by the end of the last year some pretty cool Crust Core and D-Beat releases finally crossed my way again. Anyhow, I will give you the link for the download of this demo at the end of this record review. We get six songs by DISASTROPHY in nearly eight to nine minutes and the black/white cover artwork you can see on the left at the beginning of this review is the cover included in the download, but more of an art you won't find. The production or recording sound is very raw and reduced and when I say raw and reduced then I mean in this case here über-raw and über-reduced, it reminds me somehow of totally Underground Black Metal so that you can only hardly figure out what is exactly going on there. This may be pretty true and stuff like this, but, to be honest, it pretty much sucks because I rather want to enjoy the music I listen to and get what all the guys are doing there instead of feeling how my ears start to bleed and melt away. And that the songs seem to be taken from different recording sessions isn't helping anyway. Due to this sound the songs/music very often tend far more to be some sort of slightly Black Metal inspired Noise Core than Crust Core. You may already get it, that from my point of view the terrible recording sound is really destroying a lot here, what's a big pity, because this two piece group owns a lot of potential. Okay, basically we get very heavy Noise induced misantrophic and depressive, by the world we see incredible terrible suffering Crust Core with a somehow suicidal approach. All based on highly suffering throaty and suffocating screamed vocals, loud and heavy pounding fast drumming from Speed Punk to D-Beat to Blast Speed style, sawing and shredding guitars and a incredible strong distorted bass (compared with this Lemmy of MOTÖRHEAD is playing an acoustic guitar). It's very evil, sick, twisted and morbid and I desperately would wish that these guys would have a far better recording sound, a by very far better one, period. Add to it a lot of Noise Core influence (far more that are healthy), some old school underground (Black) Metal feeling and spirit and you're pretty much in the camp of DISASTROPHY. To the lyrics I can't say anything, you don't understand a word and the lyrics aren't part of the download, and/but just judging by the songtitles I would say that it seems to be pretty much the usual P.C. Crusty stuff that we're all more or less used to, no matter what we think of it by our own. Best songs are "DISTORT THE FUTURE, DISTORT THE PAST", "GOD IS THE BASTARD" and "HATING MYSELF MORE EVERY DAY", the rest is due to the already with one or two words mentioned recording sound nothing else but utter garbage (just try "SAME CLOTHES AS YESTERDAY" while you're sitting infront of a mirror and watch your ears bleed and then rot away). A lot of potential being not used if not totally violated here, hopefully next time around more will be to come by them. (4 of 10 points)

(http://distastrophy.bandcamp.com/album/distort-the-future-distort-the-past)

(http://distastrophy.bandcamp.com/)

BROILERS - ''SANTA MUERTE'' (released via "People Like You Records" back then in the summer of 2011)

BROILERS - "SANTA MUERTE"
("People Like You Records"; CD):

One of the more or less many or at least not so less/few albums released in 2011 that I didn't manage to write down as an review and post it up here since then and beside some already pretty new stuff I will finally get myself worked through it all. First up will be the BROILERS from Düsseldorf, Germany that came a long way from rough'n'tough German Brickwall Oi! over melodic SKA and Offbeat as well as Rock'n'Roll influenced (Street-) Punkrock to diverse more or less ''punky'' and ''reggae-ish'' inspired German Rock music to what they finally came to do with this album up here, ''poppy'' as well as ''punky'' and SKA/Reggae/Offbeat inspired, Folk influenced and Rock & Roll/Rockabilly styled German Rock music that's very diverse, multi-layered, well-versed, grapping, exciting, emotional and, yes, very ''mainstream-compatibel'' (what-ever this now may anyhow mean). That the BROILERS of today aren't anyhow comparable to the BROILERS of yesterday should be clear for anyone and I won't go into it here and now anymore. The BROILERS today sound like a mixture out of THE CLASH (think about much "COMBAT ROCK" and few "LONDON CALLING" marks), THE DEAD 60'S and BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN melted together with the pretty if not very own style they developed since the masterpiece "LO.FI" over the by far overrated "VANITAS RECORDINGS" to this their current release. The music is focussed around the great developed clean and clear, melodic and emotional, rich on variations and expressions being vocals, the exciting multi-layered guitar work, and suprising twists and turns, not to forget about the very compact and incredible tight and great flowing songwriting and just brilliant lyrics. It comes up close to "LO.FI" and is by lightyears ahead of the "VANITAS RECORDINGS", or maybe... just to say it short and precise... maybe the best BROILERS album to date and a monster of an album that you simply have to discover, lyrically (all done in german) as well as musically. Awesome lyrics, a great production sound and a pure beauty of an artwork. This was for me one of the best top ten albums of 2011 and a huge and positive and exciting suprise, so much shall be already said and written down here and now. Amazing!!! Also an LP as well as an limited CD version had also been released of this album, and the album was (just in case you may find it interesting) also pretty high up in the german record charts. (10 of 10 points)

(http://www.broilers.de/)

BROILERS - "HARTER WEG"(the giant opener of the album)

THELL BARRIO - "MI VERDADERA FAMILIA" & STATE MURDERS - "ES LA HORA" (Latinamerican Gangland Style Hardcore) (***Video/-s***)

Hey folks, 'Videos' posting time these days around but calm down more stuff with more value will be coming soon finally again as well. For now the last post of today, you get two really pretty cool video clips by two great Hardcore bands from, hm, even I don't really know about it, I would say Mexico or somewhere else in Latin-America. Ganglandstyle Hardcore with tons of Mosh, Beatdowns, Groove, energy, attitude, Tough Guy style, etc. pp. and this all done damn great and really fresh and alive with some very own and also very good flavour to round it all up. I need to finally know more about the two bands that now come for ya. Which are these bands? First up are THELL BARRIO with their mighty slasher "MI VERDADERA FAMILIA", followed up by the STATE MURDERS with the evil bouncer "ES LA HORA". Check them both out and enjoy them, if you're into Hardcore you will definitely like if not love them, period!!! If you know more about the two bands just please drop a line or two here. Great stuff!!! HARDCORE!!! FIST!!!

THELL BARRIO - "MI VERDADERA FAMILIA"

STATE MURDERS - "ES LA HORA"

RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR - "PHOENIX" & "PROTECT YA CHEST" (Hardcore 4 life!!!) (***Video/-s***)

Whoooaaaa chummers, that's a monster band, awesome straight in your face Hardcore played the Tough Guy and Beatdown way by some pissed off angry and mean roughnecks that got together under the banner of RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR. Discovered them the last days at YouTube and they really took me by storm. BIOHAZARD meets SHATTERED REALM, TOETAG meets MADBALL, CREEPOUT meets FOR MY ENEMY or so I would say, yehp, and if ya're into that stuff then also RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR will totally rock yar socks off!!! The typical Gangstyle Videos also rule totally and anyhow anyway I love stuff like this absolutely. Amazing shit, awsome stuff, and I desperately really and truly have to get my hands on an album or so of them. Okay, so far for now just check the songs and the clips out and just fucking enjoy this stuff. Currently I know nothing more about RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR (maybe just that they are maybe from Japan, guess so), but I'm about to change these facts. And if ya know something else or more about 'em just stop by and drop a line. Thanks!!! Great, great band, just check them out!!! HARDCORE!!! FIST!!!

RISE OF THE NOTHSTAR - "PHOENX"

RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR - "PROTECT YA CHEST"

BLUE COLLAR CRIMINALS - "WALK OF LIFE" (DIRE STRAITS - Cover) (***Video***)

Hey folks, next clip and song up here!!! And: That's a great one!!! I mean, I really love this band, the BLUE COLLAR CRIMINALS, one hell of an awesome American Oi! band of the more or less "new" generation (even run by battle-scarred veterans and longrunners on/of the scene), Arizona based, and here is their infamous and just brilliant cover version of the larger than life DIRE STRAITS classic "WALK OF LIFE". I've grown up with the music of the DIRE STRAITS, thanks to my parents, and I still hold this Rock music legends dear and close to my heart, I love their stuff. And now: What the BLUE COLLAR CRIMINALS did out of this masterpiece is just a perfect sing a long friendly, stomping as well as anthemic, Oi!/Streetpunk styled cover that totally gives honour and respect to the original song, another masterpiece of their own. So, yeahr, now hopefully just you enjoy it, and maybe if the time is right knock down some brews or so. Amazing shit!!! Cheers & Oi! Oi! Oi!

BLUE COLLAR CRIMINALS - "WALK OF LIFE"

(DIRE SRAITS - Cover)

STRONG ISLAND BOOTBOYS - "PIT BULL BREED" (American Oi! from the New York City) (***Video***)

Hey folks, another great American Oi! band from the NY and C, the city that never sleeps, the big apple, and again like the FRONTLINE SOLDIERS this here is a damn great and incredible heavy stomping fist in the air Old School styled slightly NYHC inspired gladiatorial and militaristic stomping Skinhead Rock & Roll band with the great NYHC Bootboy Thug Rock style. You like OXBLOOD, SKIN DISORDER and the likes of that, than you will definitely love the STRONG ISLAND BOOTBOYS, trust me. Check out this clip and song and enjoy it. If anyone of you out there knows more about this band then please just drop me a line via a comment or a mail, thanks for that. Great band so far!!! Cheers & Oi!

STRONG ISLAND BOOTBOYS - "PIT BULL BREED"

FRONTLINE SOLDIERS - "AMERICAN BOOT SQUAD" (***Video***)

So folks, for now just a little 'Videos' post for you, of an great NYC based American Oi! band of the name of FRONTLINE SOLDIERS, and if I'm now not going totally wrong than the band is currently not active anymore and the the "OATH OF LOYALTY" titled 7'' that was released by the end of 2011 via (I guess) "UNITED RIOT RECORDS" was primarly recorded in 2004 or so and the members of FRONTLINE SOLDIERS also played in great acts like SKIN DISORDER, FED UP! and so on, so you see what you now get: Militaristic and angry, pissed off and aggressive stomping, brutal and heavy, hard and fast paced, patriotic and gladiatorial, proud and unbroken American Oi! with some slight Old School (NYC) Hardcore impressions in it that you will truly love if you like masterpiece acts like OXBLOOD, OFFENSIVE WEAPON and SKIN DISORDER. I need to have to buy their 7'' (hopefully I still can get a copy) and maybe some day even (much) more of them will come (would be damn great). For now just enjoy the clip respectively the song and then that's it for now. Cheers & Oi! Oi! Oi!

(PS: If anyone owns more informations about them feel free to leave a comment or so!!!)

FRONTLINE SOLDIERS - "AMERICAN BOOT SQUAD"

NOT DEAD YET, despise two months of absolutely nothing up here!!!

Hey folks, sorry for the now nearly two months of nothing up here!!! I'm very sorry for this!!! But for more than a month or so I was waiting to finally get my new own internet access at home and then I was stuck up to my chin in work and stress and trouble and lawsuits and drastically changes in life and so yes, fuck, and so it was not really possible for me to get something done up here. I'll be back in the walk of things in the next days again, maybe already from tomorrow or even today/tonight on or so, I won't promise anything but we will see. I know that there are still a lot of things missing that were originally supposed to come up in the last month of 2011 like for exmple tributes to STARS & STRIPES, as well as KAI GREENE and PHIL HEATH, not to mentioned the reviews that are still waiting to be finally released and posted up here, and also not to forget about the Manslaughter retrospection of 2011. All of this and truly new stuff will be up asap the next few days one after another.

A very big THANX to all of you who stood true to it and read through the blog, left comments (I will get worked through them all and try to answerthem all in one way or another) and joined the ranks as regular readers. The blog will be very soon up and active again. The direction will remain the same, even I'm currently think about some certain changes, but I won't announce anyhing, life's a bitch and before I would be taken out for a while and again nothing happens up here I will keep it all for now to myself and you can be suprised when it's done. The only thing: I'M DESPERATLEY LOOKING FOR A NEW LOGO FOR THE BLOG THAT FEATURES THE COMPLETE NAME WHICH IS NOWADAYS NOW FOR QUITE A WHILE ALREDAY MANSLAUGHTER THUG LIFE AND IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEA AND ARE GIFTED ENOUGH TO DO SO THEN PLEASE CONTACT ME!!! (I THINK ABOUT ANY KIND OF "PAYMENT" OR SO WE COULD TALK AND SHOULD COME TO A GOOD RESULT!!!)

That's all for now, I just want to name some blogs I've stumbled upon due to their kind words and support via the comment section up here, check this blogs out, great work behind it and thanks for the support, and now here are the links: 1.) http://aswedeonamericanculture.blogspot.com/ (one of the very best damn fucking blogs I've ever read, check it out); 2.) http://christian-with-a-view.blogspot.com/ (very interesting shit, good thoughtful stuff, so damn check it out); 3.) http://christian-with-a-view.blogspot.com/ (great Metal music blog that you have to check out if you're at least a little bit into it).

We'll read us pretty soon again folks, always keep the faith!!! Cheers & Oi!

BRIAN SETZER - "AMERICANO!" (***Video***)

So folks, the last post for today or maybe bettr tonight, and after I recently just reviewed the current album of BRIAN SETZER (the post directly before this post), hm, and then so I thought (more or less...) to myself (more or less...) that it would be a great and nice and also pretty clever and especially logical if not- to sum it all up- a (at least nearly) perfect move to finish this day (and with it also this very month) also with no one else than the immortal and legendary BRIAN SETZER with giving you now a great live clip of him with his (?) big band live on stage infront of a pretty huge audience playing this through and through real classic, titled "AMERICANO!", to and also for us. Not much left to say here and now, just enjoy it and then for today/tonight (tomorrow and with it work always comes a day too soon, and the 'moving-actions' of me also cost a lot of time and energy and effort so that I really need and just want to fall in my bed and forget about the world and let god be a good man, or so they we say over here in Germoney) I wish you all a good night and then that's it for today. Cheers!!!

BRIAN SETZER - "AMERICANO!"

BRIAN SETZER - "SETZER GOES INSTRUMENTAL" (The king of Rockabilly is back, and this mental as well as instrumental, on "SURFDOG" in 2011)

BRIAN SETZER - "SETZER GOES INSTRUMENTAL"
("Surfdog Records"; CD):

As a huge, huge fan of BRIAN SETZER as well as THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA and of course the STRAY CATS it was pretty clear right from the start that I would need to have this one here which means and is his new album, and thanks to a good friend of mine today I have it (since quite a while now already). As you may all have already anticipated by reading the title and judging by it this is a through and through instrumental album (and I think the first move of BRIAN SETZER in this direction). And with 'just' instruemntal albums and music it's always- at least for me- a, hm, let us say: a 'critical' affair, with me thinking that instrumental albums are more or less all uninteresting stuff because I'm normally desperately waiting and waiting and waiting for the lead vocals and stuff like this so on to finally kick off at some moments. So, hm, would BRIAN SETZER fail where at least 95% of 'the others' normally use to fail? Or will he succeed and conquer in the end (like he normally if not nearly always does) where so many others before him only knew how to fail? Ha, damn it, the answer is simple: He's coming off big as the triumphator, nothing else, nothing less, maybe even more, period!!! He knows like no one else to play guitar in so many rich variations and on a incredible high and truly giftedlevel of skills and also to write and arrange incredible interesting and more than 'only' grapping songs, and to give them to us in a hugely impressive and incredible fantastic way. He's working loads of Rock & Roll and Rockabilly, Country and (good old) Rhyhm'n'Blues, Surf music and also Blues in general, old time Worker's songs and Redneck-Hillbilly sounds, some influences of morbid mexican or maybe better 'iberoamerican' music and also a good healthy dose of 1960's nicely sick Garage Rock & Roll music, as well as nice Swing marks and Dixie music all together (also some Hard Rock and maybe also Heavy Metal notes are to be noticed, just listen to the solo guitar of "HOT LOVE"), with a lot of phenomenal and just sheer awesome varying arrangements and all on a far, far up high and away level of gifted skills, brilliant. A intense and tight 'goosepimples-atmosphere' is created all the way, all the time and all the way. The songwriting is interesting and grapping like nothing else, and, yes, and this is now meant totally serious, this is a pretty 'grown up' in a damn cool and positive way album, it makes you dance (just listen to "GO! GO! GODZILLA" and try to tell and also try to convince me that your feet aren't starting organically to move in the rhythm of the song), drink, swing heavy (hm, what-ever this now may mean), and party hard, but at the same time this is an album that needs and wants to be disovered by you with intense and focussed listening sessions, to sit back, relax, enjoy, drink a smooth round of Bourbon to and sink into the cosmos this album creates right from the start, directly from the beginning of it all. Phenomenal guitar work, and the guitars are really the focus of it all, they really do the talking respectively the singing on this one here, just listen to them and discover what they have to tell you, what BRIAN SETZER is telling to us through them. Brilliant, phenomenal and 'just' sheer fantastic. I love it!!! But, just to get this straight, 'only' that the guitars are totally the focuss-point of this one here this not means that all the other instruments are 'forget-about-things', nah, that's incredible big bullshit, all and everything on this one here is grapping, interesting and incredible damn strong, point and fact. This albums has so much to offer, you absoutely need to discover it all by yourself!!! And you better do it soon and damn quick!!! Ad tis means best: Now!!! What shall I say more, the artwork is a great done one and the production sound is amazing clear and transparent, yet warm and earthy at the same time, thumbs up. That's it for now, and now after this just go and get it all via buying this album. To point it ou: Outstanding!!! (10 of 10 points)

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

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

THE SILVER SHINE - "SAINT OR SINNER" (***Video***)

Hey folks today or better tonight just a very little 'Videos' post, it's all just a matter of time or so, you maybe know. You now get a nice clip of the band THE SILVER SHINE, pretty cool and surely damn good Punkabilly or so, and I reviewed their current album "SAINT OR SINNER" some days or so ago and now here's the official video clip of the title song of this album, and yes, you may already anticipated it, this song is named "SAINT OR SINNER". The video clip is a really cool performance clip and the band is showcasing quite an impessive amount of sympathic coolness, thumbs up for that somehow. Okay, now that's it already again for here and now, enjoy it and then we will read us maybe tomorrow again or so, we will see, time will tell as it goes by like we all do know. Now just you enjoy this clip and check this band out, they have really something more to offer than your ordinary generic What-so-fucking-ever-Billy band out there. For now today or tonight just good night or so and that's it. Cheers!!!

THE SILVER SHINE - "SAINT OR SINNER"