Fighting 84 - Never give in DEMOCD (2011)

Tracklist:
01. Never give in
02. The tide will turn
03. Vengence tonight

Their latest demo sent in to me by one of the members (wont wait half a year to put it up this time). Wasnt that long since they recorded their last demo but a lot of things has happened during these months. The band was under the influence of Templars while writing the first song but its a bit to noisy and offbeat for me to be honest.
Their second song called The tide will turn is probably the best one yet from the band and they all seem a lot tighter on this track than their older stuff. More of this please.
Vengence tonight is their attempt to make a slower rac'n'roll song but it falls flat mainly because of the drummer sounding like he is asleep at certain points. One positive thing with the song though is that it has clear vocals so its easy to hear the lyrics, dont know if it's cause im a Swede but i had a lot of trouble hearing the lyrics on the other tracks.

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Fighting 84 & Combate 49 - WC to EC RAC (2010)

Tracklist:
01. Combate 49 - Somos patriotas
02. Combate 49 - Enemigos
03. Combate 49 - Somos patriotas (studio live)
04. Fighting 84 - Red dawn
05. Fighting 84 - On parade
06. Fighting 84 - Class rage

Selfreleased by the bands as a free internet split in 2010.

Wierd how both bands sounded way better on their demos. This release is far, far, far from good with Combate 49 starting it of with singing patriotic anthems in Spanish.
Fighting 84 then takes of with 2 new songs and a re-recording of On parade or more of a de-recording of the original track. It sounds as if the band had some problems while recording since the instruments sound like a flatt pancake in the background and on top of that they have added the vocals without any regard of the tempo of the instruments.
If it wasnt for free i would have told you to stick with the bands demo's or wait untill they release something new.
4/10

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Fighting 84 - Demo (2010)

Tracklist:
01. On parade
02. Fuck the reds
03. Love handles

A young band from California playing a modern approach to classic non-racial RAC. Only being a bystander and not involved in the westcoast scene it is quite obvious even for me that the SoCal needs every non-leftwinged punkband they can get. The SoCal scene has some really good bands but the stuff i have heard about their scene is far from good (people being beaten up and bands being blacklisted cause they dont conform to the rest of the peoples views). This can have something to do with the really violent White Power gangs that used to frequent the areas back in the days but secluding people and incorporating leftwing facism to a scene and then at the same time make songs about unity just doesnt sitt well with me.
Taking a stand...sure. But take a stand for youself and dont group together against smaller groups like you do today. Hiding among friends and fighting in groups is a cowards move.

Anyway witht hat off my chest (sorry for yet another crusade).
The band consists of Brandon on guitar and vocals, Bridget on bass, Jeff on drums and Joseph on eh.... drunken slamdancing and backup vocals or something like that.
If you ever have heard the expression "A diamond in the rough" it speaks well for this demo. I really liked it when a bandmemmber sent it in last year and when i heard that they where releasing a split record with their fellow RAC and latino brothers in NJ band Combate 49 i was really psyched. The end result of that release was far from good though and i really wish they could have kept the songs un-edited and in this raw state.

Both On parade and Fuck the reds are militant anti-pc, anti-trad and anti-communist and my guess is with the current SoCal scene both these songs point a whole lot of fingers at certain persons unknown for us not involved.
Sure the drummer skips a beat here and there and Brandon sounds a bit off at some parts but with a song with lyrics such as "They talk about the days of 69/Dont give a fuck about our present time/Red laces, red braces, political correctness/They say they're skinheads but they're just dirty reds" i cant do nothing but like this strange little band.

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