Warzone - Live at CBGB 7'' (1993)

Tracklist:
01. Face up to it
02. Feels like one thousand years
03. Judgement day
04. In the mirror
05. As one

Released by Victory Records in 1993.

As far as live albums goes i am not a big fan but when a band like Warzone that was known for their great performances released it i have to include it in my discography.
Even if the A side is a bit weak the B side really shows what a great band it was. The song Judgement day in this live version is just awesome.
Long gone is the overproduced glammetal from the 90's.
7/10

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Warzone - Selftitled (1990)

Tracklist:
01. No regrets
02. Judgement day II (you're time will come)
03. Young and unaware
04. No- i don't want to
05. Wound up
06. Mission
07. Hold on
08. Out of control
09. On the run
10. Jay takes a break
11. Under 18

Released by Caroline Records in 1989 or 1990 (i have no idea).

I know Warzone is a drugfree band but someone had been smoking a lot of crack when they came up with this album. It hurts me everytime i listen to it. Think the most cheesiest softmetal band and add one of the best live HC vocalists to try some sort of rap over the the music. Not as great as it might sound.
I often love when bands go outside the frames and try to reinvent themselfs (i am one of those people that loved Blitz's new wave era) but this new style they tried to adopt isnt good anywhere.
I like some metalbands like Witchfinder general (ever since i first saw that cover with the naked women when i was a kid), Bedemon and even some Black Sabbath but the style that Warzone adopted is the bad side of metal and believe me they made it even worse.
I know a lot of people actually liked this album and if you do i am sorry but you are either retarded or a sado masochistic cunt.

Lets atleast try some sort of a review on the album.
Lets start with the drums or should i say the lack of them. They dont even sound real but more of a drummachine and even if the guitarplay is really advanced on this record (not in a good way) the drums are as simple as they can get.
Some songs are ok at some points like the song On the run that is a really good song until some sort of a church choir comes in after 2 minutes and destroys the whole song over yet another flaming guitarsolo.
Bottom line this is bullshit music for bullshit people and head my warning and stear clear of this album.
2/10

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Raybeez is guest at The morning show.

In the 80's it was a big media drama about the skinhead scene with Oprah, Regis and Geraldo all taking up the subject. They care about numbers and since it had been a whole lot of killings and beating by nazi skins some skinheads thought it was a great idea to get on tv and defend the culture. All it ended in was making sharps, trads and non-political skins lock like middleclass rebelious kids and Geraldos nose being broken.

This show was one of the few that didnt really make it into a circus and they had Raybeez and Todd of Warzone talking and actually let them make their point without interupting them every second. Raybeez comes of as the down to earth and peacefull guy i trully believe he was but the one running the show is Natalie (the blond) that at the time was dating Gestapo of Murphys law.

Warzone - Demo (1990)

Tracklist:
01. Out of control
02. Judgement day II
03. Young and unaware
04. Hold on a little longer
05. On the run
06. Under 18
07. Wound up
08. Only the strong survive
09. Untitled
10. Untitled II

Have no idea if this demo was released in 1989 or 1990 but who gives a toss.
This is the demo that would result in their third album that is known as the insane metal experiment that most of their fans have learned to forgett about. Good that i am here to remind you.

Unlike the selftitled album this demo resulted in the demo still leans more towards the hardcore sound but somewhere here and there the guitarists gets a bit to much room and goes mad with some guitarsolo that is totally uncalled for if you ask me.
Also missing from this demo is the hiphop influences that appeared on the later album. Cant say i am sad about this neither.

The first song on the demo is really good and i wish they could have just pollished these songs in the studio and released them instead.
5/10

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Bleach battalion doing 2 shows this month.

Warzone - Open your eyes (1989)

Tracklist:
01. Open your eyes
02. Dance hard or die
03. Face up to it
04. Always - a friend of mine
05. Racism: World history part I
06. Back to the school again
07. The American movement
08. Fight the oppressor
09. Decieve us no more
10. Striving higher for a better life

Released on LP and cassette by Caroline Records in 1989.

Have been busy for the last days with work and whatnot and also found a new addiction in a site called Tradera (sort of like Ebay but for us Swede's) where i have cleaned out my cellar of old videogames, comics and other bullshit that i didnt know i could get a lot of money for. Found myself posting auction's that would last a week but went in and checked it every 15 minutes anyway. But now i will focus my freetime to this site again.

This was their second record and it is very simulair to their first one both in sound and lyrical content. A lot of the songs are from their early days but now re-recorded for a much better soundquality.
99% of you who read my blogg already has the record so i wont waste my time on writing to much about it.
All in all a good and classic record with some intresting lyrics and picking favorites i have to choose the song Dance hard or die.
7/10

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Warzone - Don't forget the struggle, don't forget the streets (1987)

Tracklist:
01. Intro bust
02. It's your choice
03. Crazy but not insane
04. Fuck your attitude
05. As one
06. We're the crew
07. Don't forget the struggle, don't forget the streets
08. In the mirror
09. Skinhead youth
10. Growing up, the next step
11. Judgement day
12. Fighting for our country

Released by Fist Records in 1987.

This album is a classic in so many ways. Not only is the name of the album one of the most recycled hardcore phrases still used today by top bands but the cover-art is just perfect in so many ways that my nonartsyfartsy skinheadbrain cant understand but try hard to do for the sake of looking like an intellectual (did i spell that right haha).

Even if i think many of the tracks sound to much HC for my taste it sure has some classic and great songs. My favourite one being It's your choice (just love the way Raybeez sings the chorus).
Most NYHC diehards would give this one the top score but i am not one of them.
8/10

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