BAKERS DOZEN & SKINFULL 'Looking for trouble vol.2' First up you get 6 tracks from Bakers Dozen, bringing the band into a new era with more aggression in their sound and lyrics. This is followed by Skinfull, the young boys of the English scene. They carry on where their debut CD left off, bringing you 6 more tracks, however also a little different from their album, a little less punky, a bit more skinhead, and they sure know how write good music, with catchy lyrics and choruses. This is Oi! as it should be. Complete with a 16 page full colour booklet, it's everything you need!        BATTLESCARRED 'Gevalia' After a couple years break, here's the comeback album of the kings of Swedish streetpunk. 13 new songs about football, beer and the pride for their homeland. All sung in English and played in their unique style with singalong melodies and angry vocals.       CRIMINAL CLASS '25 to life' 14 tracks including 2 recorded with the late Gus Chambers (one time vocalist) as a bonus tribute. The album includes re-recordings of 'Soldier' and 'Antisocial'. After an unimpressive performance at the Rebellion festival a couple of years ago, expectations weren't very high, but this turns out to be a surprisingly good album. It's punky Oi, powerful, very tight and with a great beat and rhythm to it. Their sound is much more developed and fuller than before. The band obviously is made up of experienced musicians and they have managed to deliver a solid album which will appeal to all fans of British Oi!        DAILY BROKEN DREAM 'Freedom' This band is composed of members of the well-known hatecore bands Fear Rains Down and Race Riot among others. They have teamed up to create some of the most professional new school NS hardcore our scene has yet to hear. Aggressive, heavy yet melodic sound, very professional recording, mastering and a great booklet layout. Fans of hatecore / hardcore and metal will not be disappointed in this release. Can easily compare to the big professional bands.       DRAMATIC BATTLE 'Pogo en el parlamento' 8-song album of the Madrid band, featuring 4 new songs and 4 taken from the impossible to find 'La vida en un pacífico mundo' MCD. The new songs are just excellent, catchy old-school Spanish Oi! / RAC à la Klan, with impressive gruff vocals. This takes you right back to the best bands of the 90's. The production on the new songs is perfect too, the 4 older songs are good too, but could have done with some remastering to bring them to the level of the new songs. Limited edition of 500 copies.       HOBBIT 'L'impero contrattacca' OK, this is not a skinhead band, but one of the leading bands of the Italian nationalist rock scene. Somewhat poppy, melancholic rock to more upbeat rock, in general a style that can appeal to a wider audience. A band well worth checking out if you're in for something different and some songs are real damn catchy.       LEMOVICE 'Skinheads living dead' Second - and very hard to get - album of the French RAC band. An eclectic mix of rac'n'roll, melodic rock and some more upbeat tracks. Not your typical French sound, more varied, more influences from skinhead music from around the world.        LONDON DIEHARDS & T.M.F 'Looking for trouble vol.1' The London Diehards are made up of the remnants of Retaliator (Ciaran and Steve) and Tel, singer of the East End Badoes. So you got 2 musicians of one of the very best British skinbands of the last decade teaming up with Tel who's been singing for the Badoes since the early 80's, and that's exactly what they sound like: a very classic, early 80's Oi! sound but better sounding. Would have fit in perfectly with releases like the 4-Skins and such back in the day. Brilliant stuff, and definitely the band to watch out for in the near future. And T.M.F.? As good as always, true to their sound, you know what to expect. Nice 16-page booklet with lots of photos and all lyrics.       LOYALTY 'Roaring three lions on to victory' 4 brand new Loyalty songs for the football world cup, 3 of the songs are only available on this MCD. Pure English, though somewhat basic Oi!       loyalty - roaring 3 lions The album's title 'Old school bootboys' covers part of the band's sound where their style perfectly fits the 90's German Oi! / RAC sound somewhat like Endstufe, catchy songs with a good dose of melody and singalong choruses. The other half of the album is more varied with heavier influences, but also some ballads. One thing's for sure though, these guys know how to play. Good album!       RAMPAGE 'On attack' Debut album of the German band. 11 tracks about the way of life with 100% skinhead lyrics and 0% mainstream Oi!. Sounds like the good German bands of old!       TIMEBOMBS 'Viva la muerte' First full-length of the band from Rome, and so much better than their debut MCD. Faster, powerful skinhead rock, very tightly played, a very full sound with crunchy guitars and pounding drums. Excellent catchy vocals, sometimes pissed off sounding and hardcore-influenced, sometimes more melodic, lots of rhythm changes. It would be hard to compare them with any other Italian band, but this has got to be the best Italian release in years. This rocks from start to finish. Very impressive! The CD features 9 originals and 1 Intolleranza cover. Big booklet with lyrics and photos.        VINLANDIC GERMAN CROATIAN STRIKEFORCE A 3-way split with KG 23 (side project of Big Ed of Bound For Glory), Blue Max (Germany) and Strong Survive (Croatia). The CD starts with an intro from KG 23 and three songs of perfectly played metal by Ed on guitar. The lyrics of the songs are dedicated to Croatian history (Ed has Croatian origins). The 3 Blue Max tracks are old school skinhead rock. Strong Survive finally plays basic RAC but they are the first Croatian band to get a proper release. 12-page booklet with lyrics and some photos. All available through… www.pure-impact.com/store       AIRES AND GRACES AIRES AND GRACES' debut CD EP is out now! You can get it at http://airesandgraces.deadendsocialclub.com or http://interpunk.com. The band will be touring the West Coast of the USA in November 2008 with Patriot and The Antagonizers. The band will be recording their follow up EP/LP in the near future.        THE BRIDGEBURNERS' debut album "War, conquest, pestilence, death" is out now and will be available through Pure Impact next month. There is also a vinyl edition of which the first 100 records are on clear yellow vinyl. Listen to 6 of the 13 tracks at http://www.myspace.com/AngleOfOurKind       COMUNIDADE CARANDIRU Brazilians COMUNIDADE CARANDIRU have been practising hard and plan to record some new songs before the end of the year. Check their MySpace for song updates. In the meantime you can also download a bunch of their songs for free from http://www.4shared.com/dir/8319756/78553785/sharing.html.       SINNERS SINCE BIRTH SINNERS SINCE BIRTH (http://www.myspace.com/sinnerssince) will release their debut album the 24th of October, 14 songs with a fat 20 pages booklet. Available through the band's MySpace page, possibly later through Pure Impact as well.       ALTERNATE ACTION The master of the forthcoming "Thin line" CD by Canadian band ALTERNATE ACTION is on route to Czech Republic for pressing. This is an anthology of all of Alternate Action's previous vinyl releases plus 3 killer bonus tracks. It is coming out on Bords De Seine and Longshot.       new blog / webzine A new French blog / webzine can be found http://werwolf.hautetfort.com/ and there's also the Brazilian Oi / punk blog Alternar, which you can find at http://www.alternarzine.blogspot.com/       Möhle Möhle has just put out the last edition of his German VIOLENCE fanzine, one of the best and most informative fanzines around, but he won't disappear completely off the face of the earth and will instead do a blog, which you can find at http://violence.gratis-blog.de/       NO ALIBI Jack Owen of Cannibal Corpse / Deicide and Adrift has officially joined forces with NO ALIBI to support their 4th studio release in the roll of lead guitarist. All songs are written by No Alibi; Jack will simply be in the roll of producer and leads on all new and to-be-outlawed songs, bringing a new and fresh angle to America's most hated act!       KALEVALAN VIIKINGIT The KALEVALAN VIIKINGIT "Working class vikings" has just been released by the Hungarian label Living Dead Records. It features the first 2 EP`s and 2 new tracks in a DVD case with new artwork, lyrics etc. Total 11 tracks of original "hakkapeliitta rock", mixing viking rock and Oi! Copies are on their way to Pure Impact...       Concerts: 03 Oct 2008: Razorblade, Discharger and The Pagans at The Flame in Amersfoort, Netherlands 03 Oct 2008: Tommy & The Terrors, Ultimo Asalto, Glory Boys and Hammer & The Nails in Brighton, MA, USA 04 Oct 2008: Templars, Ultimo Asalto, First Strike, Step2Far, Glory Boys and Offensive Weapon in New York City, NY 04 Oct 2008: The Pagans in Vyskov, Czech Republic 05 Oct 2008: Mata-Ratos, The Business, Stigma, Steal Your Crown and Step Out at Man's Ruin in Cacilhas, Portugal. Info available through http://www.myspace.com/hellxis 07 Oct 2008: Glory Boys in Detroit, MI, USA 09 Oct 2008: Glory Boys, Ignoranci and Wellington Arms in Chicago, USA 11 Oct 2008: Haggis and Glory Boys in Monterrey, Mexico 11 Oct 2008: Kill Baby Kill, Guido & Die Fanfare and Rampage at the Moloko Bar, Maalsesteenweg 126, 8310 Bruges, Belgium. Starts at 20.30h. Contact: moloko_bar@hotmail.fr, http://www.myspace.com/molokobruges 11 Oct 2008: Condemned 84 at the House Of Oi! in Crawley, West Sussex, UK. Ticket only gig! Tickets cost £8, write condemned84hq@hotmail.co.uk for more info 11 Oct 2008: Tattoed Mother Fuckers (TMF), The Nags, Urban Scum and Dead Jeff at The Shed, 5 Yeoman Street, Leicester (City Centre). See http://www.wegottickets.com for admission. £8 advance, more on the door. 11 Oct 2008: Haggis and Glory Boys in Mexico City, Mexico 11 Oct 2008: S.S.S.P., NRSV, The Fighting 405, BackTrack and Youthviolence at Deuces Wild in Bethpage, NY. Starts at 19.00h 18 Oct 2008: Rat City Riot and Far From Finished at De Nartist in Temse, Belgium 18 Oct 2008: Fear Rains Down at the Skinhouse in Greece. For info write to skinhousehellas@yahoo.gr 18 Oct 2008: The Pagans at the Wijkhuis in Wijk near Duurstede, netherlands 25 Oct 2008: Condemned 84 at the North Bar in Blacburn, UK. Ticket only gig, £10 from info@north-bar.org.uk or http://www.myspace.com/thenorthbar, also available from the following shops: Record Exchange (Blackburn), Action Records (Preston) and Astonishing (Burnley) 31 Oct 2008: The Pagans at Open Minded in Den Bosch, Netherlands 08 Nov 2008: Mata-Ratos at the Live Caffé in Moita, Portugal. Info through – c/ DJ BILLY (entrada: 5 eur; mais info em: http://www.myspace.com/rocklabprod For more details, check out the shows on the Pure Impact MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/pureimpactrecords Till next month!       B&H HELLAS #21 (A4, 28 pages, printed, Greek & English, RAC) Interviews with Quinta Columna (Colombia), Indiziert (Switzerland), British Standard (Scotland) and Vengeance (England), plus historical and political articles, music reviews, news, photos and more. Available for 5 Euro (including postage) from bh_hellas@yahoo.gr. Also see http://28hellas.blogspot.com       BREW & HONOUR #3 (A5, photocopied, English, streetrock) Brew and Honour features interviews with Alleged Bricks, R.U.S.T., skingirls of today and The Glory boys. Band focus with Ignoranci, Wellington Arms, Never Surrender, Aggressive Combat and The Bridgeburners. Chicago and worldwide news, record reviews, gig report with Vicious Sex and contacts. Pick up yourself a copy of this American original because zines are worth supporting. Brew and Honour website at http://www.northsiderevival.net. For the zine, make money orders or send cash out to Brew and Honour, 2211 W, Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647. $5 USA, $7 ROW. If you wish to use PayPal, the address is Cmseric2007@yahoo.com. If you are sending cash or money order, send an email with your name and address in the content.