Reviews:

OK, as much as I dislike the 'sentimental' Oi! thing ('Shadows In The Night'?), I really enjoy this one. English bands like the 4 Skins or even Combat 84 are kinda boring to me, and their scary right-wing lyrics don't really help out much. Iron Cross seemed to embrace this kind of thing (check out 'Psycho Skin': 'I just beat up my third queer'. Mmm...), but their approach is much more intense and noisy, and therefore 'more hardcore'. I also like the fact that they don't sound anything like their D.C. contemporaries, even though I really love that Dischord scene. It's just really cool that these guys did their own thing and raised all hell while doing it. They stayed away from the fast-faster-fastest thing and focused on intensity and agression instead. After this release they spoke out against violence, and stated that it was former bass player Wendel Blow who wrote the fighting songs. Whatever the truth may be, Sab Grey musta been a great, intimidating frontman. 'Crucified For Our Sins' later became an Agnostic Front standard.
-PETER

This slice of American Oi drags a lot but the drill press guitar sound is hot. The lyrics are about fighting and at face value seem confused if not downright reactionary. Vocalist Sab told me that aside from ex-bassist Wendel's "Psycho Skin" - a retarded homophobic diatribe - most of the other songs are based on specific incidents and advocate self defence not mindless violence. Unfortunately that isn't at all clear from the enclosed lyric sheet. When dealing with sensitive subject matter, it would be helpful if bands included more information on what it is they're trying to say. After all isn't the object of music to communicate feelings and ideas?
-Tim Yohannon, from MRR #5