If you like music that kicks you in the bollocks with a pair of ten hole cherry reds and proceeds to serenade your reeling brain with masterful skinhead proficiency then Sweden’s Perkele are for you. If anybody was in doubt as to the strength and durability of the Oi! scene, these Blue and Yellow devils smash this misconception to pieces from opening track “Here To Stay” which re-acquaints the listener with the clean cut guitars, tight drumming, gallant bass lines and roar-a-long choruses that have made the Skinhead wing of Oi! so irresistible across the globe.
"No Shame" is less an ushering in of this particular outfit’s sound and more an expulsion of bile from the mouth onto the face of the listener; this racket is a calculated and instructed assault of militaristic proportions. Probably the most famous and celebrated track off this no- bullshit blues explosion is “Heart Full Of Pride” (which has since been covered by the Darlington Street Punk band, Gimp Fist) and, truth be told, it’s hard to not well up when listening to the lyrics “I’ve got a flame in my heart that never dies, I’ve got a heart full of pride” soar uncharted altitudes. It’s enough to make the scruffiest Iron Maiden enthusiast shave his head and polish a pair of Docs before strolling down the road to stomp the floor out of the nearest pub.
Other prominent songs are found in the form of “Liar”, “A Song For You” and “Voice of Anger”. Perkele on “No Shame” have done the unthinkable and homogenised each and every of the finest components that make up the worldwide Oi! scene and to top it off, they can actually fucking play their instruments.
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