“We Are All Reapers Here”, Concrete’s debut 12” EP that came out last year blew me away! It was one of the rawest Oi! records I had heard in a while and I realized right from the start I had something unique laying on my recordplayer. Not only because only 250 copies of this old school 12” maxi EP were pressed, but also the band’s sound was something I hadn’t heard in a while! I ended with my review of “We Are All Reapers Here” with the sentence; “I wouldn’t be surprised that this record got a 2nd pressing or gets picked up by one of the bigger European labels out there for a European / worldwide deal, because this release is fuckin’ killer!!!”

 

And well, I was right in some way. When I heard the band was looking for a recordlabel to release their new 7” EP “Subculture Street Trooper” I contacted Wouter from Rebellion Records straight away and asked if he was interested in putting it out, he was and he was also interested in doing a limited pressing of the “We Are All Reapers Here” 12” on CD, so to make this story short, the 7” “Subculture Street Trooper” and the CD “We Are All Subculture Street Troopers” (can you guess what’s on it?) are about to be released! At first I had my doubts if I should review this because these Rebellion Releases are a co-production between Rebel Sound (the 7”) and American Oi! Records (yeah that’s us, for both the 7” and CD), but I consider myself more of a fan before anything else, so fuck it, here I am writing this review!

 

As said the “Subculture Street Trooper” 7” contains two brand new tracks by Concrete and again these guys are rippin’ up the piece of wax it’s pressed on. Both the title track and the B-side “Born To Never Lose” sound harder than any nail out there and are an explosive mix of brickwall Oi! music streetrock. Bands like Battle Ruins and Hammer And The Nails come to mind while listening to Concrete with the only exception these guys have a more of a hardcore edge to it. “Subculture Street Trooper” starts of slow and vicious, it explodes into a straight up street fight in the middle of the song while “Born To Never Lose” takes no prisoners and is violent from the start! Love it!

 

“We Are All Subculture Street Troopers” contains both the out of print 12” and 7” EP’s with a combined title, and the artwork of the 12” being done in the style of the 7”. The total ammount of tracks on this CD is seven, but since I just wrote about the two new songs and already reviewed the 12” HERE I’ll just leave it at that this release is still ‘fuckin’ killer!!!’, but it just got better with the addition of the two new songs. Must-have for anyone who loves their Oi! music raw, tough and violent!