These are four brand new songs from Razorblade after ten years. This time the line-up is five-piece (four of which are original members) and Wouter just sings (but he is written on the insert as well as on guitar). A video clip has been released for the title song, which you can watch here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGU1GD_5kQQ. Of all the songs on the album, this is the only one in English. The other songs are in Dutch: Anti-Artistiek (Anti-artists), Yuppies and Wij Zijn Terug? (We Are Back?). The EP is limited to 500 copies (250 black and 250 silver) and the CD to 300 copies. The first two albums from Razorblade (Spreading Fear and Skinheads are Back) were ass-kicking and it totally ripped off everyone around me years ago. Hardness, rough singing and no compromises. The band gradually added melodies and tried to sing also in German. Both come together in the new songs... The Old Guard is an anthem for aging skins/punks, who still know how to do it and go out with their friends to the city and party and remember the old times, but also hail those who are no longer with us. The second song Anti-Artistiek and the third song Yuppies are probably most in the spirit of the early Razorblade, both musically and lyrically (simple hard music or contempt for yuppies). In almost every song you will hear a nice guitar solo (especially in the first and last). Inside is a paper with photos from the reunion concert and from the recording + lyrics on the other side. The record is released physically on November 14th, so if you like this old guard, check it out, because it's worth it.

Thirteen Turn is a new English/Dutch band (they have been playing since 2023) and this is their debut album, whose name means something like “Goat Rider”, which are witches from Dutch legends. They also caused a few witch hunts in the 18th century. The band is a five-piece, with Dutch singer Jilles on vocals and second guitar played by Rat, who you know from Close Shave, Wasted Life, Section 5 or The Rough Cuts. The album contains a total of 12 songs in English and the playing time is about 38 minutes. Musically it's faster and more aggressive, the vocals are more screamed and two guitars can be heard right from the first song Not Enough Punches, which is about how humanity is infested with envy and generally bad qualities and wants to slap everything in a heap, especially the internet pest, to the last song Ungodly Oath (which is a kind of outro with recitative). The band is not afraid of singalongs (for example Close the Door, Speed ​​with an absolutely great guitar at the beginning of the song or The Streets Where I Belong). There are also touches of HC (for example Feed Me, where the band simultaneously roars wonderfully in the chorus, but also complements it or Last Rights). Otherwise, the band has great merch and T-shirts with three different motifs are available. The LP will be accompanied by a paper with lyrics and a large photo of the band on the other side + a thank you note. The album will be physically released on November 28, but you can pre-order it now. You can listen to the teaser single Wasn´t Born to Lose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKyQiEe2Uw4), which will give you an idea of ​​what the band sounds like. For me, it's great, harder stuff, but not afraid of catchy melodies.

Here is a band from Magdeburg whose members hang around Anti-Clockwise. They have one album, a split EP with Anti-Clockwise and this brand new EP, which contains 4 songs in German (which were recorded in 2023). The record with a large hole is limited to 300 pieces on black vinyl and the songs are called Holodomor, Dawei, Dawei, Tach Angst (Hello Fear) and Das War's. To the record was added a 78 (!!!!) page fanzine, which contains several short stories from different times and places of the 20th century and a whole series of photos that thematically correspond to the songs (for which you can find the lyrics) and which have a common denominator, which is communism, socialism and their whole fucking paradise on the Earth, where everything is for everyone and which everyone in Eastern Europe has experienced firsthand. The story is then illustrated with historical facts. The first song starts off really chilling and it is chilling musically and lyrically too, because it deals with Stalin's targeted famine in Ukraine, it has an excellent chorus that says that we are "in a time when the party book is more than your mother". The second song Dawei, dawei (or also Einen Augenblick frei - Free For a Moment) tells about the revolts against those bastards that took place in 1952 in East Germany, in 1956 in Budapest and in 1968 in Prague. Tach Angst and Das War's (the songs seamlessly transition into each other) are then about the everyday fear that anyone can report you for the slightest little thing and about the secret police that follows you at every step. Musically it's mid-tempo, with plenty of guitar solos and the whole thing sounds absolutely great, although it's not exactly easy to listen to and it's not music you'd take a break from, but I think that's exactly what the band wanted to achieve - to make you start THINK, so all you fucking communists and especially you who support them, join hands and finally get the hell out of here! On the other side of the cover you'll find photos of the members and a short thank you note to the friends. Excellent stuff from a modest band that has something to say. Perfect!

13 years after the last work of this Australian sensation, their material comes out from a lost recording session that took place during 2000. The album is released on LP (250 black and 250 in bone color), but also on CD (300 pieces). You will find eight songs in total here. The band once cut me into pieces with their sound, which is mainly due to two guitars which combine elements of (not only) the Australian rnr school with slide guitar and aggressive, forward driven street rock. Bevvyn has devilish control of the lead guitar and puts a perfect solo into each song (a crazy solo at the beginning of Golden Age, the second half of the title song Watch it Burn or Don't Stop). The band will hit you right from the first note of the first song Burning the Candle, through hits like Don't Stop, Making Enemies, Show me the Rope, Feel the Darkness, the aforementioned Golden Age, A Thousand Cuts and the last one Watch it Burn. It's hard to find a song that would somehow stand out above the others, but Feel the Darkness is definitely absolutely great or the last one Watch it Burn, which probably has the most melodic chorus from the album. If you remember their last album Know the Code, there is one chorus “Angry young men play dirty old music” and it fits the band like a glove. Inside you will find lyrics, photos and a thankslist. The singer Alex, who is a tattoo artist, is probably responsible for the cover and all the graphics. If you like the albums before, and I believe you do, then this is an absolute must. I just don't know how the band is doing, if it's just a memory of a lost record or if they're going to start rehersaling and playing again.

Maloio is Portuguese band with Miguel from Mata Ratos on vocals. On LP release on Combate Brutal (100 with silver cover and 100 with white one) are 13 songs together. In last review I spoke about Lazy Class and the fact that they sing in three languages and I don´t know about Maloio at that time. They have songs in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, English and Japaneese. Cool! Five songs (Alateia - Package, Tous les Morts – All the Dead, Guadalupe, Horizonte Alobadado and Der Tod Klopft an die Tür – Death is Knocking on the Door) were released two years agon on the tape called Animae vivae et frigidae corde, Anima mortua et calidum cor (Living Soul with Cold Heart, Dead Soul with Hot Heart). The band plays in five with girl on bass and they are using syths also (just check O Sangue na tua Saliva – Blood in your Saliva, Where Have all the Dead Boys Gone or Time is Nobody´s Side). Musically it is different from song to song for example Der Tod Klopft an die Tür is fast German Oi! Or shouted song Tous Les Morts really sounds like French bands from 80´s. Sound is dark, gloomy and raw but there is time for solos ((Os perdedores ganham sempre – Loosers Always Win or Overodse de Paraíso (Paradise Overdose). I really like somgs in their native language like Alateia or slower Horizonte Alobadado (Inclined Horizont) or O Sangue na tua Saliva. Graphis is into horror topics and lyrics with thankslist are in coffin-shaped booklet. It took some time for me to get into them but finally I like them!