Stormwatch gets ready to release their new album.

Old song, new recording. Even though i havnt heard anything else from their upcomming album the "Best American release" of 2012 seems to be set already.

Stormwatch playing their "reunion" show 2006.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1595270927155658251
From a show they did in Delavare 2006. The quality of the vid aint that good and the
soundquality is even worse but if its quality you want go buy some Green Day dvd or something. Some celebrities can be seen in the audience (Reverend Sinister from Hub City stompers taking the mic and mumbling something about PCP and chicks at one point).
Well fights break out and PC-punks shake their heads... nothing new since their old sets.

The songs in the set are:
Bring the violence
Night comes down
Teenage slag
Back to our roots
Wanna be
Will work for beer
The first time
Alcohol
and the alltime great Bootles are flying.

Stormwatch live 2007

A clip of Stormwatch reuniting for a show in their hometown.

Gotta love the second song called Alcohol (a coversong originally by Gang Green).

Much respect to http://www.gentlejones.com/ for taping the show.

Stormwatch - Right to remain violent (1997)

Tracklist:
01. It's in our blood
02. Bring the violence
03. Nothing but trouble
04. Back to our roots
05. Tabloid society
06. Wanna be
07. Will work for beer
08. The pride i feel
09. Right to remain violent
10. An absence felt
11. I had a love
12. Born to booze
13. The first time
14. Tear down the fence
15. Bootles flying

Big lineup change since the first album Matt was replaced by Don D.K on drums. Also one of the guitarists left leaving Tim as solo guitarist.
Even if i miss Matt on drums its a solid lineup and sounds a bit more polished now (also way faster).
Lot of great tracks with less chocking value then on the first album.
Best track is the one that was featured on the first Backstreets of American Oi! compilation called Bottles are flying. A song that describes their liveshows pretty good.
The first time is about a girl having sex for the first time, the chorus goes "Oh, oh, oh, oh its my first time" by a female backup vocalist. Pure genious (in a white trash way).
Other great tracks are Bring the violence, Will work for beer & It's in our blood.
After this album Jeff went on to create Oi!-band Combat ready.
Tim went on to create the HC band Bad luck 13 (actually quite the succes) known for its intense knucklefighting on stage and live "Jackass" stunts always leaving someone bloody and bruised.
8/10

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Stormwatch - At war with peace (1993)

Tracklist:
01. Forever young
02. The next generation
03. Night comes down
04. Stay in the closet
05. Im a survivor
06. Awaken the sleeper
07. This feeling
08. At war with peace
09. Reginald denny
10. Someones gonna die (Blitz cover)
11. The seventh power
12. When no one walks in fear
13. We still stand
14. Theme song
15. Night comes down (live at the 1993 United Front show in DC)

Stormwatch was called Moral outrage at first but changed the lineup and name to Stormwatch in late 1991.
They come out of Delaware and this was the first real cd by the band. Released by Under Siege records in 1993
They where homophobic, ignorant, politically incorrect, violent and one of the greatest punkbands to ever bless the US scene.
But no matter what you have heard they where NOT racist. Even if they would have been they didnt promote it in the songs so why should you care.
Jeff (vocalist) said it himself "From day one we have stated that we are not a racistband. Bottom line is, we just plain don't give a fuck about racism. For it or against it. What Stormwatch is about and has always been about is the SKINHEAD movement. Period!"
So is it really worth the homophobia and facist tendencies you may ask yourself? Damn right it is!
Except for a few songs (Stay in the closet, Reginald Denny & Forever young) its all great songs in that typical mid-tempo US sound. Best song is Theme song. A violent and heavy song about streetfighting (not my favourite subject) and drinking.
Matt on the drums does a great job and takes the druming to that military stage where it almost sounds like siegedrums. To bad he left the band after this record.
Should you download it? Yes. Should you buy it? If it wasnt already sold out.. Yes!
9/10

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Moral outrage - Demo (1991)

Tracklist:
01. The seventh power
02. The next generation
03. Stay in the closet
04. When no one walks in fear
05. We still stand
06. Nothing is for free
07. Theme song

This is the band that would later become Stormwatch and even later on Combat ready.
Since this band was only in effect for about a year and all of their songs later became known as Stormwatch songs i will skip the band introduction on this one.
The demo is just that. A demo. Bad quality and songs that would later be released in better versions. Only 1 track (Nothing is for free) that didnt make it for the 1993 Stormwatch release.
Nothing for PC-punks.

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