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June 19th, 2008

ANOTHER SINKING SHIP posted two amazing songs from their upcoming album "Legacy" on their MySpace profile - go check them out now! ANOTHER SINKING SHIP will be opening for VOODOO GLOW SKULLS in Turku and THE UNSEEN in Helsinki next month!

KARANTEENI's new song Rantarokki has now been posted on their MySpace profile - check out this punk rock feel good anthem of this summer! It will be available on 7" vinyl with another kick ass track called ADHD on the flipside!

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT have a new website based on the layout of their upcoming 7"+DVD set "Misathropic Humanist", check it out here : www.lighthouseproject.net

ROTTEN SOUND will play at the HELLFEST in France next weekend - they will also be appearing at the mighty ROSKILDE FESTIVAL in the beginning of June. Their latest album "Cycles" will finally be available on vinyl later in July!

June 11th, 2008

Lots of time has pased since the last update.. and we have lots of exciting news as well!

We will release ROTTEN SOUND's latest album "Cycles" on vinyl next month! It will be a gategold package, with limited edition clear vinyl for direct mail-order! Pre-orders will be available soon.
If you are into extreme music at all, you should be familiar with this band already.. if not, check them out now - it's a most explosive combination of grindcore/metal and punk/hardcore! ROTTEN SOUND are always touring all around the place, check out their homepage for the latest news and music!

We will also release a new 7" from legendary finnish punk rockers KARANTEENI in July! The title track Rantarokki is the perfect anthem for this summer, you will be able to check it out soon!

Check out a new LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT song from the upcoming 7"+DVD set "Misathropic Humanist" now on the band's MySpace profile .

May 14th, 2008

ABDUKTIO and LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT will play with STRIKE ANYWHERE in Helsinki next Tuesday! LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT have also just recorded the music for the upcoming "Misantropic Humanist" 7"+DVD set.

ANOTHER SINKING SHIP's debut album "Legacy" has now been mixed and sounds just great!! The album will be released on in June on LP/CD on CRI and on CD for Eastern Europe on OSK Records who have also been co-operating with us on I WALK THE LINE, ABDUKTIO and MANIFESTO JUKEBOX albums. ANOTHER SINKING SHIP will tour mainland Europe for the first time in September!

I WALK THE LINE are leaving for the first European tour after the release of "Black Wave Rising" next week. Maukka of THE HEARTBURNS will be filling in on drums because IWTL drummer Jussi at the moment suffering from serious health problems, needs to have a surgery and can't do anything for a while now.. he should be OK in a couple of weeks though!

In other I WALK THE LINE news, "Black Wave Rising" is out now also in the UK and has received positive attention in the music press already - it got 7/10 in the current issue of NME and 3/5 in Kerrang!

May 7th, 2008

Combat Rock Shop has been robbed last night through the back door! Along with cash-sales of the last few days we lost a Dell laptop and random stuff like a bunch of DVDs, all 7" from the letter S on, loads of Draven shoes.. fuck!! So if your local junk pusher offers you stuff like Severed Head Of State 7"s you know something might be wrong..

April 23rd, 2008

ANOTHER SINKING SHIP will open for NO USE FOR A NAME in Helsinki next Sunday - in fact they're doing a tour of Helsinki this weekend as they are playing small shows also on Friday and Saturday! So go check them out and get a preview of the kick-ass songs from their upcoming debut album "Legacy"!

KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 have finally recorded a bunch of new songs!!! Stay tuned for news about the release(s) soon..

Here's what Finnish critics have had to say about current releases..
ABDUKTIO : SOUNDI 4/5, RUMBA 4/5, NOISE.FI 5/5, ROKKIZINE 4,5/5...
THE HEARTBURNS : RUMBA 4/5, SUE 8/10, HANG UP 95/100..
I WALK THE LINE : SUE 8/10, SOUNDI 4/5, ROKKIZINE 4,5/5, HANG UP 89/100..

April 16th, 2008

VICTIMS will leave for their tour of the US/Canada next week, check out the dates and make sure to catch them live if you are around, the band is in killer shape!! We are down to the very last copies of the limited red vinyl of their amazing new album. The CD was sold out for a while but we just got the re-press, it's still packaged in a cool 8-panel digipak!

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT have posted a blog on their homepage about their future plans.. in June we will release a 7"+DVD set called "Misanthropic Humanist" - this will be the first LHP recoding with new drummer Lauri. More about this and a lot of other stuff here : lighthouseproject.net

ANOTHER SINKING SHIP have finished recording their much anticipated debut album "The Legacy" - already the raw mixes sound really good! You can check out a song called Inches on their MySpace profile right HERE.

Then a bunch of I WALK THE LINE news - Black Wave Rising entered the national charts at #20 the week it was released - and this was a really hard week with lots of big new releases, the only ”alternative” bands ahead of IWTL were In Flames and REM, the others are really big finnish mainsteam bands/artists..

IWTL will play at the Columbia Club in Berlin on Friday April 25th with Disco Ensemble etc and will also do a short tour in Germany in May, check out the dates now!

Those who understand finnish can check out IWTL interviews in DESIBELI.NET , STALKERMUSIC.COM and tonigt 18:00 at RADIO NOISE .

April 8th, 2008

I WALK THE LINE's Black Wave Rising! has been our fastest selling release ever, thank you so much people.. we are only releasing it in Finland so writing this in English is kind of pointless, but for the sake og avoiding confusion.. anyways, IWTL is the band of the week in both of the biggest punk rock webzines, CHAMBERS and ROKKIZINE . There are also reviews and interwiews in all major music magazines, check out for example the current issues of RUMBA and SUE. Check out one recent interview here : KAISTA

April 4th, 2008

Welcome to the I WALK THE LINE Black Wave Rising! release show at Tavastia tonight! And one thing.. even though the newpapers today might say the tickets are 27 euros, they still are 8 euros (advance) and 10 euros (door) - so don't worry we haven't sold out that bad just yet! ;)

ABDUKTIO are still on the national sales charts - on the third week they are #29, their highest ranking yet.. looks like they turned quite a few new heads of their recent tour with Raised Fist! Check out the new ABDUKTIO website here : kapina.org/abduktio

April 2nd, 2008

I WALK THE LINE "Black Wave Rising!" LP/CD/download is out now in Finland - pick it up from any decent store! Jani and Ville will visit Radio Helsinki at 17:00 and YleX at 19:10 today. IWTL's Black Wave music video is also ready, you can check it out on their homepage : www.iwalktheline.org

Sorry to everybody who has had to wait for for their orders to be delivered, mails to be answered and so on.. two of us three daily shitworkers got ill and/or had other kinds of bad luck at the worst possible time but now we have almost been able to catch up with things.

Those who have been able to work at the office, have also been extremely busy with getting things done here in Finland - luckily there is a good amount of interest for what we do here at the moment and this has been our first priority during the last few weeks.. it may be hard for people in other countries to picture this but the weeks they were released, THE HEARTBURNS entered the national sales charts at #17, ABDUKTIO at #30, I WALK THE LINE single at #12.. let's see how the IWTL album does :) Thanks for your countinued support, people!

March 19th, 2008

I WALK THE LINE "Black Wave" 7"/CDS/download is out now! You can pick it up from COMBAT ROCK SHOP, COMBAT ROCK eBay STORE or any decent finnish record store.. for download go to RECORD OFFICE

VICTIMS will kick off their tour of Europe with ROTTEN SOUND, TRAP THEM and THE OCEAN today! The official Victims homepage is also back online with a new layout and loads of cool stuff : www.victimsinblood.com

March 10th, 2008

The Finnish store release date of the I WALK THE LINE "Black Wave" 7"/CDS has been moved to Wed March 19th in order to make sure the record is in all cool stores across the country by that day.
Black Wave is the power play song ("Viikon Teho" in finnish) of the week on the indie/rock program X-RYHMÄ on national radio!

March 8th, 2008

The VICTIMS "Killer" LP is finally available!!! We have limited red vinyl available for COMBAT ROCK SHOP and direct mailorder. We will ship these out to stores and distros next week. VICTIMS will also have the LPs and CDs on their upcoming tour of Europe with ROTTEN SOUND, TRAP THEM and THE OCEAN.

March 6th, 2008

THE HEARTBURNS' Fixin' To Die LP/CD is out now! Pick your copy now at COMBAT ROCK SHOP or COMBAT ROCK eBay STORE

March 3rd, 2008

The VICTIMS "Killer" LPs have finally been shipped to us from the plant, so they will finally be available in a couple of days! There will be limited red vinyl for mailorder.

ANOTHER SINKING SHIP have started recording their debut album "Legacy", due out in May. Their debut 7" made it to the Best Of 2007 picks in the current issue of Maximumrocknroll along with many other Finnish bands, including Kieltolaki etc..

I WALK THE LINE were among the first bands to be confirmed for this year's RUISROCK festival - it's the oldest ourdoor festival here and other bands include Interpol, Flogging Molly and so on..

February 20th, 2008

I WALK THE LINE's long-awaited third album "Black Wave Rising!" is finally ready! You can check out the song Stigmatized on the IWTL MySpace profile . It combines the three main elements of IWTL - catchy as hell melodies, the punk energy and fresh synth sounds!

Black Wave Rising will be released in Finland on Wed April 2nd on both LP and CD on COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY.

Here are the plans for the rest of the world:
LP/CD in Northern & Southern America : GEARHEAD in August
LP/CD in the UK, Japan & Australia : BOSS TUNEAGE in May
LP/CD in western mainland Europe & Scandinavia : ROOKIE RECORDS in May
CD in eastern mainland Europe & Russia : OSK RECORDS in April

COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY will release the title track Black Wave on 7"/CDS on Wed March 12th. This is a Finland-only release and the vinyl is limited to 500 copies on transparent vinyl - so, if you want to get hold of this thing, ask us. On the B-side there's a song called Lost Chapter- the song is more in the vein of When I'm Gone and The Man Without A Name off the second IWTL album Desolation Street.

February 19th, 2008

After a couple of years of being out of print, I WALK THE LINE's debut album "Badlands" is now available again on vinyl! Get your copy now :
COMBAT ROCK eBay STORE

February 11th, 2008

VICTIMS' new album "Killer" is finally out on CD!! Get your copy now :
COMBAT ROCK eBay STORE
The vinyl will be here in a couple of weeks.

February 10th, 2008

THE HEARTBURNS have posted 3 songs from their upcoming album "Fixin' To Die" on their MySpace profile! The LP/CD is due out on March 5th. 10 songs in less than 20 minutes, 'nuff said?! Oh, on vinyl are there are 11 songs! Go check out the sample tracks here :
THE HEARTBURNS MySpace

February 4th, 2008

VICTIMS' Scandanavian tour with RAGING SPEEDHORN kicks off today in Uppsala, Sweden! You can now pre-order the "Killer" LP/CD from COMBAT ROCK SHOP, we'll send the records out as soon as we get them! Please email kauppa@fireinsidemusic.com for shipping and payment info!

ABDUKTIO's "Thermidor" is also up for pre-orders in COMBAT ROCK SHOP now. The release date is March 12th.

We've also launched a winter sale on COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY CD releases. You can choose 3 CDs from the following list for 20 euros!

BOMBSHELL ROCKS : The Conclusion
DOWN MY THROAT : Through The River Of Denial
ENDSTAND: Fire Inside
ENDSTAND : The Time Is Now
HERO DISHONEST : When The Shit Hits The Man
I WALK THE LINE : Badlands
I WALK THE LINE : Desolation Street
KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 : Totaalinen Kakkahätä CD
LAMA : Tavastia
LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT : Navigate By Heart
LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT : Gift
MANIFESTO JUKEBOX : Desire
MANIFESTO JUKEBOX : Strain
MANIFESTO JUKEBOX / DEATH IN THE FAMILY : split
OI POLLOI - Fuaim Catha
ON A SOLID ROCK : Steal It Back
THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION : Falling
UNKIND : Ei Mitään
UNKIND : Hangen Syliin
UNKIND : Mieliemme Tuhkasta
WASTED : Down And Out
WASTED : Heroes Amongst Thieves

January 31st, 2008

ABDUKTIO just posted two new songs on their MySpace , go check them out! Here's what the band has to say about them:
We have two new songs online for you guys now. The other one is a bit softer and not so fast one, almost "poppy", one might say. It is called "Rosa Parks", a song about not giving up when shit hits the fan. Hopefully you like it! The other song is more of an hardcore punk song, a fast one, called "Äärimmäisyyksien aika". It is a song about the fact that even though we use terms like "Dark Ages" to describe our past, the most violent and bloody age in the history of mankind is the one we are currently living - the age of genocides, the time of extremities.

I WALK THE LINE's debut album "Badlands" has not been available on vinyl since 2004 but this unfortunate matter is about to be corrected! We have ordered a re-press of 500 copies and it will be available in a couple of weeks!

January 25th, 2008

ABDUKTIO will play with RAISED FIST on their upcoming tour of Finland, the dates are online now! They will also do a short tour in the Baltic States in May. The "Thermidor" album is now ready, artwork and sample songs will be posted soon!

You can check out an I WALK THE LINE interview in the February issue of MAXIMUMROCKNROLL!

HERO DISHONEST will open for ROTTEN SOUND on a few Finnish shows in February

January 20th, 2008

Somehow i had the feeling that the year 2008 will bring a lot of changes for us here at Combat Rock and boy was i right.. first ENDSTAND, now here is a message from MANIFESTO JUKEBOX :

"We have decided that the benefit concert for our German friends Stachel & Bombenalarm at Vastavirta, Tampere, will be our last. No drama, no fights. We just felt it's time to call it a day before things would fizz out altogether. Thanks."

This leaves me with a weird feeling - by no means was it a surprise and i definitely think it was the right decision that does justice to the amazing things the band did during these years. But this feeling.. it is about more than Manifesto Jukebox - MJ, ENDSTAND and WASTED were the three first Combat Rock bands and it was impossible to separate the bands and the label, they were so connected and those three bands pretty much set the path and made us who we are, they paved new ways and took Combat Rock and Finnish punk rock generally to new places we could not even have dreamed about. And now all of them are gone - well, maybe some of them will still take the stage some day but gone as the crazy touring hard working innovative life-defining bands that they used to be.

But COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY is still very much here, even though it feels different now. We will continue to do our best for the talented hard working bands that move us - 2008 will be a great year for us : VICTIMS, THE HEARTBURNS, ABDUKTIO, I WALK THE LINE, ANOTHER SINKING SHIP and who knows what else.. OK maybe we do but we're not telling just yet :)

January 19th, 2008

NINE had to cancel their tour of Finland due to family reasons. They are trying to come back before the summer though!

The VICTIMS "Killer" album has been further delayed because of the artwork thing but will be available in February on both vinyl and cool 8-panel digipak CD!

We now have the 4th pressing of the KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 "WTC Räjähtää" 7", this time it's on clear vinyl.

I WALK THE LINE have been working on their upcoming album "Black Wave Rising" since late December and it's turning out great! There's raw fast punk songs that could almost be old WASTED stuff, as well as really melodic moments.. all in all there is just more energy and better songs than before so "Black Wave Rising" will definitely be one of the highlights of the year 2008!

January 10th, 2008

ABDUKTIO, who have just completed the recording of their upcoming album "Thermidor", will be replacing Endstand at the R'n'P festivals in Helsinki and Turku on Friday and Saturday!

The master of THE HEARTBURNS' "Fixin' To Die" album is finally ready and as expected, it's amazing! One of the best Finnish punk rock albums ever in our opinion, it is THAT good!! Just waiting for the artwork now..

UNKIND will play with VICTIMS in Tampere next Sunday and leave for a tour of Germany the next day!

January 8th, 2008

Here's a message from ENDSTAND:
Last week we decided to take a break with the band. We canceled all the booked shows and will let the band be for a while. After 12 years of existence we came to a point where other things in life take so much time that there's no chance to concentrate on the band as much as we've used to. Well, Pekka is so busy with his theatre-studies and acting in theatres so he doesn't really have the time for the band. Guess that's the main reason that rest of us also got frustrated not being able to do anything for the band and that led to lack of motivation to even try for now. We really don't feel like finding a replacement for him since he's so damn good drummer, great on stage and an awesome person. And overall it's not so much of fun to start everything again by teaching the new guy old songs instead of doing something new. Pekka is not the only reason for us to take this break – we talked about this all already on tour we did in October-November and it seemed that we all need to do something else in life, too. We always said that as long as it's fun, we'll keep on going and keeping on now would feel a bit forced. The tour was a lot of fun, but after that we all felt that we didn't have much to give for the band at the moment. So instead of destroying it all by trying to do it even though we really want to, we decided to take a break and see what will happen. Hopefully there's going to be a day again when we all have the burning desire to rock together again, but for now we'll do something else. As I wrote before, Pekka will be concentrating on theatre, Mika still has got his other band Deathbed (www.myspace.com/killedbybed) and Joel plays upright bass in a great country/rock band called Cold Call (www.myspace.com/coldcallband) and i will keep working on my label and recordstore Combat Rock Industry (www.fireinsidemusic.com / www.myspace.com/combatrockindustry) . We'll see what the future will bring to us. For now, i want to thank every each of you for your support and interest for us. This band has brought so much to our lives – guess we don't even realise how big part of our lives it has been until we take a bit of distance to it... Hope we've brought some joy to your lives too. Don't know what else to say – I just want you to remember as a band that did what ever we wanted to. It's not about fashion, it's not to try to make us look cool, it's not about business or whatever... It's about passion, honesty and sincerity we feel for the music and shows we did and maybe, maybe we'll do it all again some day. Till that, take a good care of yourselves and your surroundings. Peace out, much love.

January 2nd, 2008

Happy new year! Thanks to everybody who supported us in 2007, it was a great year! Here are some of the highlights.. we got to release an amazing live album from our favorite band ever, LAMA. Also doing stuff by the best finnish punk rock band since the end of the 70s, KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 was a lot fun. I WALK THE LINE's "Desolation Street" was licensed by the legendary Gearhead in the US after which the band toured in Japan and the US. ENDSTAND released "Spark", their best album so far, after an amazing 11 years of action. LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT turned a lot of heads with their second album "Gift" and did a succesful tour all over Europe with ENDSTAND. There was a ton of other stuff going on too, we have now released over 50 records we can still say we are proud of every one of them!

2008 is going to be a killer too, we already have so many plans lined up! Here's a small update.

The release of the VICTIMS' amazing album "Killer" is unfortunately a bit delayed because of problems with the artwork. So the band will not have records with them on their tour of Finland, but of course you can easily pick it up from us as soon as we receive them. The CD version, in a super cool 8-panel digipak, will be available in late January and vinyl in February

THE HEARTBURNS' second album "Fixin' To Die" (named after blues legend Bukka White's song) has also been delayed because of the same reason. More info about the release, as well as sample songs, coming soon!

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT have a new drummer - his name is Lauri and he has previously played in Satura Lanx. LHP are currently already working on new songs and will release a crazy 7"+DVD set this spring!

We just re-released ON A SOLID ROCK's classic "Steal It Back" album on CD. This band made a huge impact on the local scene during their short existence and their legacy lives on..

I WALK THE LINE are currently working in the studio on their much anticipated third album "Black Wave Rising". The album will be out in Finland in the beginning of April on Combat Rock Industry, elsewhere in the world on a bunch of great labels (to be announced soon) a bit later!

December 14th, 2007

People in Finland, check out the cover of the new "Winners of 2007" issue of Rumba Magazine, you might see a familiar face.. the interview inside is pretty amusing as well!

In other finnish media news, check out an ENDSTAND interview and competition in Rokkizine!

December 13th, 2007

ABDUKTIO have been busy in the studio recording their upcoming album "Thermidor" and are playing a surprise show in Helsinki next week!

UNKIND will tour Germany in January, for the first time with their new guitar player Juuso! The dates are online now.

December 3rd, 2007

VICTIMS have posted the "Killer" LP/CD artwork, a new song and their european tour dates with Rotten Sound on their MySpace profile, go check it out! -> VICTIMS MySpace

November 30th, 2007

DOWN MY THROAT are calling it quits. Here is a statement from the band. RIP!
Due to lack of time and interest we have come to the conclusion that there's no reason to continue this band in this form. We're just too busy with other projects at the moment (and have been for a while now) and this band hasn't been going anywhere for a long time now since we really haven't had the energy to concentrate on it anymore. I'm too busy making St.Hood sound bad with my sloppy playing and pretending to be a record producer/audio engineer and making other bands' records sound bad. Kristian is too busy tattooing his ugly drawings on local kids & lowlifes and living his wannabe "biker/rockabilly rebel" life. Born to be wild.... yeah right... you'll just make an ass out of yourself and fall down with that bike... again. Visse is just busy ruining Bolt. That band actually used to be quite good before this monkey started writing for them. Good luck to Bolt... you'll need it! Arttu is busy farting all day and playing drums for Cutdown. He's actually quite good at one of those things... guess which one? Jukka is busy giving people Diarrhea with his "delicious" cookings. Have a good time flipping burgers for the rest of your life mate!
So as you can see we're still very much around and will be making bad music etc.
Huge thanks to all the people who helped us out during these years of our existence, bought our records and came to our shows. We all had a blast and enjoyed every single moment of it!

November 29th, 2007

Finally we have managed to make shopping a bit easier for people outside Finland.. from now on you'll find Combat Rock Industry vinyl, CDs and merchandise in the COMBAT ROCK eBay STORE. All of our available releases are there now and we are adding more band and label merch soon. Check out some crazy offers.. for example BOMBSHELL ROCKS, MANIFESTO JUKEBOX and UNKIND albums for $4.99!

November 27th, 2007

The ON A SOLID ROCK "Steal It Back" 12" is sold out - but we have ordered a re-press of the CD version that has been sold out for like two years now! The CD also includes OASR's debut 7" "Where Kids Don't Play". The CD should be here before X-mas..

The third pressing of KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77's "WTC Räjähtää" 7" is also sold out. The 4th pressing will be here soon, this time you'll get clear vinyl!

Janne Combat Rock/Endstand will be the guest DJ on the finnish national radio program "Kitarama" tomorrow 21:00 on the Yle X channel..

November 24th, 2007

VICTIMS announce more touring plans.. in February they will tour Scandinavia with english drunks RAGING SPEEDHORN! Those dates are online now. In March/April it's time for mainland Europe with ROTTEN SOUND and THE OCEAN, more about that soon..

November 23th, 2007

Whoa, this is starting to feel almost like running a real record label ha ha- we are releasing a compilation from our most popular artist before X-mas.. yeah, the long-awaited ENDSTAND 2xCD is finally here! This thing includes loads of stuff that has been out of print for years now, including their great debut album "To Whom It May Concern", originally released on Impression Recordings in 1999 and only 1000 pressed!

The VICTIMS' new album "Killer" will be released on January 9th 2008 and as it happens, their tour of Finland starts that day! The dates are online now.

November 14th, 2007

The LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT "Gift" album is finally available on vinyl as well!

November 12th, 2007

NINE will return to Finland in January 2008!!! The dates are online now. As a special offer, you can now pick up the latest NINE album "It's Your Funeral" on nice gatefold LP for 10 euros!!

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT's "Gift" is the album of the week in both of the most important finnish online zines, CHAMBERS and ROKKIZINE!

November 7th, 2007

Here's what the latest MAXIMUMROCKNROLL had to say about KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 : "..I knew it was gonna be good judging by the cover of a mohawked punk cross-country skiing! This shit is real party music; it takes the gang sing-alongs of bands like Hard Skin to a new level with the whole song being a gang chorus.. epic."

The upcoming VICTIMS album "Killer" is on constant rotation here at the office.. Ryan / Coliseum is working on the cover art as i type this, so it will be a killer package all in all!

THE HEARTBURNS album is almost done as well, rumors from the studio tell us it's hit stuff!

A bunch of new tourdates are online now. VICTIMS, THE HEARTBURNS, ABDUKTIO and I WALK THE LINE are all working on upcoming tours as well as their new records so expect more news about winter/spring 2008 tours soon..

October 30th, 2007

TV party - not tonight but on Thursday!! ;) In Finland that is. I WALK THE LINE are playing two songs live on the national TV program Station T on the FST5 channel on Thu Nov 1st at 18:30. The subject of the program is the (do it yourself) punk culture and Combat Rock Industry will be interviewed there as well..

ENDSTAND's double compilation CD is (finally!) ready to be sent to the plant.. so it will be available by the end of November! It includes, among other things, the band's debut album "To Whom It May Concern" that was originally released on Impression Records in 1999 and only 1000 copies were pressed - it's still great stuff! There are also many even earlier releases that still kick ass..

THE HEARTBURNS will start recording their second album here in Helsinki this week, you can expect a mid-January release and loads of gigs all around Finland after that! With the lifestyle choices of this band, a longer tour might be lethal..

October 26th, 2007

Also the second week of the Combat Rock Attacks! tour was great, you can check out some more stupid pictures here -> COMBAT ROCK WEEK 2

ENDSTAND and LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT are already on tour in mainland Europe!

ABDUKTIO have most of the stuff written for their upcoming album "Thermidor" and are playing this weekend in Russia!

VICTIMS have completed the recording of their new album "Killer", so you can expect sample songs soon!

October 17th, 2007

Don't know if this counts as news but.. well now it does! We have a new MySpace layout, check it out here -> CRI MySpace

ENDSTAND, MANIFESTO JUKEBOX and LIGHTHOUSE PEOJECT = The COMBAT ROCK ATTACKS! tour will be in Turku, Tampere, Jyväskylä and Kuopio this week!

October 15th, 2007

The first week of the Combat Rock Attacks! tour was a success, and an overall blast as well! You can check out a bunch of pics here -> COMBAT ROCK WEEK 1

October 10th, 2007

We are happy to tell you that the Tampere-based melodic hardcore/punk band ANOTHER SINKING SHIP has joined the Combat Rock family!! If we must compare them to something we would say it's somewhere between WASTED and MANIFESTO JUKEBOX - fast old school-ish hardcore/punk but with old DC style guitar playing at times.. check the guys out yourselves, we have added their band page here! Their debut album "Legacy" will be released during spring 2008 and followed by lots of touring in Finland and also mainland Europe - if you want ANOTHER SINKING SHIP to rock your town in May 2008 drop us or the band a line!

The COMBAT ROCK ATTACKS! tour with ENDSTAND, MANIFESTO JUKEBOX and LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT here in Finland starts today in Helsinki and spans 8 towns all across the country - don't miss if you are around!!

October 4th, 2007

VICTIMS are hard at work on their upcoming album "Killer" - check out their STUDIO DIARY

HERO DISHONEST will play with DEATH BREATH in Helsinki on Halloween, 31st this month!

BOMBSHELL ROCKS and ABDUKTIO will play in Russia this month!

September 28th, 2007

The ENDSTAND and MANIFESTO JUKEBOX / ADITF albums are now available on vinyl as well, limited color vinyl for direct orders..

September 27th, 2007

The MANIFESTO JUKEBOX / A DEATH IN THE FAMILY CD is available now!! You can expect vinyl any day now, and the same goes for the new ENDSTAND album as well..

September 25th, 2007

The ENDSTAND "Spark" and LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT "Gift" CDs are available from good record stores in Finland and COMBAT ROCK SHOP worldwide - Interpunk also already has them for internaltional orders..

September 24th, 2007 - EMERGENCY BROADCAST!

I will post this here cos these people are our old friends, have helped us out countless times.. this is the worst nightmare for any touring band..

On Saturday 22.09. the Punk band BOMBENALARM was involved in a heavy Car accident when one front wheel blown off and the Van rolled over several times. Two persons got heavently injured and are still on intensiv care in the Hospital while the rest of the band is more or less in a better state with more lighter injuries and some of them are already out of the Hospital. One of the person still on intensiv care is Stachel who runs UNSOCIABLE / HATE RECORDS. Due the fact that we don't know yet for how long Stachel will be in the Hospital and for how long he will be limited with his Label actions, we, Franz (Sabotage Rec.) and Stevie (Ruin Nation Rec) will take care of all his Distribution, Label, Book-keeping issues as far as we can.
If you have any questions, wait for orders, restocks, tour van etc, etc... get in touch with us at:
info@ruinnation.org oder info@sabotagerecords.net
Subject : STACHEL
if you have outstanding debts, invoices etc. please pay as fast as you can. if you need a bank connection, get in touch.
The other person on intensiv care is "Sara" who also suffers diverse fractures.
If you want to write any of both we let you know their postal "Hospital" address upon request.
The Tour van is fully damaged as well as most parts of their Equipment. additional to this there will be huge amounts of money needed to pay for Transports, Hospital as we don't know yet how far the insurance will cover all the costs.
If you can show any solidarity, organise benefit shows / partys, all help is needed here. thank you very much and please contact us for any further infos at:
info@ruinnation.org oder info@sabotagerecords.net
Subject: BOMBENALARM

September 24th, 2007

COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY and our bands did pretty well in (the biggest finnish hardcorepunkrock-fanzine/webzine) CHAMBERS MAGAZINE's readers' poll - thanks!! You can check out the results here -> LAMMAS 2006

KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 were featured in the prime time main TV news broadcast here yesterday because of their recent "success".. this shit gets more weird every day! ;)

September 21th, 2007

The next VICTIMS album will literally be a killer.. cos it's called "Killer"! The guys will start recording next week in an old church(!) in Gävle, Sweden and Ryan from the mighty Coliseum is working on the cover art already so you can expect killer quality all around! The album will be released in the beginning of January and crazy touring in mainland Europe and the US at least will follow!!

September 20th, 2007

Here's what the October MAXIMUMROCKNROLL had to say about the LAMA "Tavastia" album:
Lama are no strangers to fans of distinctive Finnish hardcore, and this live LP benefits from especially strong production values; songs like "Nimetön" have surprisingly varied textures. More the most part, this release owes its success to the amazing mix of rock hard drumming and exceptional clarity. This is the first time i've heard a Finnish live release where the sound approaches live excitement; in some cases, it even surpasses some studio releases! Can't afford the round trip to Finland? There are moments where this smokin' live record comes very close!

September 19th, 2007

ENDSTAND and LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT are playing all-ages shows at Oranssi-Klubi, Helsinki this weekend! These are all to rare around here at the moment.. ENDSTAND plays on Friday with Turn The Tide and Heads Down, LIGHTHOUse PROJECT on Saturday with Satura Lanx - at this show you will be able to pick up LHP's new CD before it hits the stores here in Finland on Wednesday 26th!!

Actually it's a super Combat Rock weekend in Helsinki - if you are in the mood for more punk than hardcore, KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 are opening for UK SUBS at Tavastia on Sat 22nd, and at the same time Anna & Antti of I WALK THE LINE are having their combined 30th birthday bash at the Fun Bowling Hall - it's open for everybody, free and Combat Rock & IWTL DJs are taking care of the music!

September 18th, 2007

I WALK THE LINE have posted a new song on their MySpace profile! They have one show left before taking a break and focusing on their upcoming third album, to be released in spring 2008! IWTL will record at Seawolf Studios in Helsinki with engineer Mikko Poikolainen who has lately been working with a wide variety of artists, from jazz to the latest Hanoi Rocks album. The new song was supposed to be just a test recording to try out the new place, it was done just in a day, but things worked out so well that we want to share this with you as well.. so here it is, the new IWTL track called Monster! IWTL MySpace

NINE will tour mainland Europe with Path Of No Return in October, the dates are online now!

September 12th, 2007

VICTIMS and DOWN MY THROAT will be playing at the DEADFEST in Linköping, Sweden next weekend with Bane, Have Heart, Rise And Fall etc.. stay tuned for news about the upcoming VICTIMS album, they will start recording this month! DOWN MY THROAT's latest album "Through The River Of Denial" is still hot..

September 11th, 2007

ENDSTAND will be interviewed live from Portugal on finnish national radio's Ryhmä X show next friday at 20:15

KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77's "Totaalinen Kakkahätä" CD is the album of the week at Chambers Magazine

September 6th, 2007

I WALK THE LINE just got back from Russia and will start the Amnesty-sponsored NO TORTURE HERE! tour in Finland today with THE VALKYRIANS and SISTER FLO

ENDSTAND will start their tour with DAY OF THE DEAD in Spain and Portugal this weekend! ENDSTAND's upcoming album "Spark" is the album of the month on the Finnish national radio program "Kitarama".

KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 will play with UK SUBS at Tavastia, Helsinki on Saturday Sep 22nd.

THE HEARTBURNS wil play at Tavastia, Helsinki with THE BEATSTEAKS on Thursday Sep 27th

August 28th, 2007

The new UNKIND LP/CD "Hangen Syliin" is available NOW from Combat Rock Shop! The amazing third album from these crust'n'roll monsters, this is their most brutal album yet still catchy as well - these guys know how to write songs! Crushing Entombed/Disfear style riffing on top of a solid classic scandinavian hardcore foundation! The title of the record translates as "Into The Arms Of The Snow", so the fastest ones to order get limited snow colored vinyl!!

Melbourne, Australia's A DEATH IN THE FAMILY have posted a new track from the upcoming split LP/CD with MANIFESTO JUKEBOX on the MySpace profile, check it out here : ADITF MySpace
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY will tour in the USA after the release, including a bunch of shows with THE DRAFT and a show at THE FEST 6 in Gainesville with Against Me!, Youth Brigade, Naked Raygun etc etc..

August 27th, 2007

Welcome to the new and improved COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY online HQ! From now on this thing will be only, or at least mostly,in English. It was too much for us to keep both English and Finnish sections updated and we had to choose. We hope also the finnish people will understand..

The KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 hype here in Finland just keeps getting crazier! It seems we never mentioned this on the old English page but the "Totaalinen Kakkahätä" CD debuted at #15 on the national charts and at the moment everybody seems to want a piece of the band - if you follow the media here, you will see the name in the strangest places.. oh well, can't complain if good music is trendy for once! KH77 are playing two shows here In Helsinki this week, check them out if you are around!

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT will leave for a short tour in central Europe this week, I WALK THE LINE are going to Russia, ENDSTAND will tour Spain and Portugal soon.. go check these amazing bands out!

August 18th, 2007

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT just put couple of songs online from their upcoming album "Gift". Listen HERE.

August 9th, 2007

Snotty punk rockers THE HEARTBURNS have joined the Combat Rock family! So far they have released a bunch of 7"s and a CD on various Finnish labels and you can expect the upcoming yet untitled LP/CD by the end of 2007. They have been one of the most popular bands in the finnish scene for a long time now and we have already released stuff by the members' other bands (HERO DISHONEST and KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77) so it feels really good to do also this with them.. more about the band here:
Official Homepage
MySpace

August 2nd, 2007

The ENDSTAND+LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT european tour dates for October/November are online now..

August 1st, 2007

ENDSTAND have posted 3 new songs from their upcoming "Spark" LP/CD.. check them out here --> ENDSTAND MySpace
HERO DISHONEST will be playing with LOCUST at the Tavastia in Helsinki on August 14th.

July 24th, 2007

MANIFESTO JUKEBOX has posted a new song called "Footprints In The Sand" on their My Space profile - it is from the upcoming split with Australia's A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, to be released in September by us and our friends POISON CITY RECORDS over in Australia! You can check the song out here - > MJ MySpace

June 28th, 2007

The LAMA "Tavastia" LP/CD and KAKKA-HÄTÄ 77 "Totaalinen Kakkahätä" CD are available now! Limited red vinyl of LAMA available for the fast ones..

June 19th, 2007

UNKIND have posted a new song called Kiire Sisällämme from the upcoming LP/CD titled "Hangen Syliin" - check it out here -> UNKIND MySpace

Now available - the third pressing of KAKKAHÄTÄ 77's "WTC Räjähtää" 7". Pink covers, green vinyl. Yuck! ;)

June 13th, 2007

Here's some info about our upcoming releases..
UNKIND are currently in the studio recording their yet untitled new album.. the release date will be posted soon!
ENDSTAND will hit the studio next week. The album will be called "Spark" and it's going to be released in September.
LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT's upcoming album is titled "Gift" and will be released at the same time with Endstand.

May 30th, 2007

We will release KAKKAHÄTÄ-77's both 7"s on a CD called "Totaalinen Kakkahätä" at the same time with the LAMA live album.. so you will be able to pick up the best of old and current finnish punk rock at the same time!! Also the second press of KH77's "WTC Räjähtää" EP is almost sold out but the third one is already on the way.

LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT will tour Finland this week with GO IT ALONE from Canada, here are the dates:

31.5. Helsinki, Semifinal (+Worth The Pain)
1.6. Jyväskylä, Lutakko (+Delta Force 2)
2.6. Lappeenranta, Monari (+ Endstand, Heads Down)
3.6. Tampere, Vastavirta (+Heads Down)

May 24th, 2007

Sometimes the simplest things can get very hard.. especially in punk rock. But whatever, we finally have the material together for the live album by THE greatest finnish punk band of all time, LAMA!!! It will be released in July on LP/CD and features all the songs that got most of us here at Combat Rock into punk rock as teenagers so you can imagine how excited we are about this release, and we can promise you will be too when you get to hear it!

MANIFESTO JUKEBOX and A DEATH IN THE FAMILY are getting ready to record for their split LP/CD, to be released in September. Meanwhile ADITF is also playing shows over in their homeland Australia with AGAINST ME, THE DRAFT etc.. hopefully they will be back in Europe next year and MANIFESTO JUKEBOX will also tour down under sooner or later!

Swedish hardcore punk rockers VICTIMS have joined the Combat Rock family and you can expect the next album in a couple of months or so.. they just completed yet another crazy tour around Europe and from what we've heard the new songs are their strongest ever so get ready for a punishing album then!

April 30th, 2007

I WALK THE LINE and ABDUKTIO will be in mainland Europe soon, check out the dates and go support these amazing bands! Both will also have a Combat Rock distro with them so you can pick up some kick ass punk rock / hardcore at a good price!

NINE unfortunately had to cancel their tour because of vocalist Johan's shoulder injury that requires surgery.. they hope to re-schedule the tour for August/September.

April 20th, 2007

I WALK THE LINE and MANIFESTO JUKEBOX have posted pictures and diaries of their recont tours, go check them out from their homepages...

We're happy to see the new Combat Rock bands CONFUSA and KAKKAHÄTÄ-77 get great feedback.. Confusa will tour Europe in June, a bunch of dates are online now but especially if you are from Germany and want them to rock your town please drop them a line!

The CONFUSA and KAKKAHÄTÄ-77 records are now available in the US from FERAL WARD so pick them up!

April 3rd, 2007

Oops, been too busy with other stuff to remember to update this english site.. but here we go again!

We have 3 new releases out.

The new NINE album comes in a nice gatefold package, the fastest ones to order get limited clear vinyl! NINE just toured Finland and next time it's time for mainland Europe, the dates are posted now!

CONFUSA's self titled album comes on transparent red vinyl for the early birds.. this is a new band you should check out, i'd say for fans of La Fraction, Gorilla Angreb etc. powerful female fronted punk rock! CONFUSA will tour Europe in June, the dates will be posted soon. There are still a few open dates so if you want to help ot please get in touch with the band directly : confusa@confusa.net

And last but definitely not the least.. currently the most talked about band in Finland, KAKKAHÄTÄ-77!!! The first press of their second EP "WTC Räjähtää" sold out in about a week, now you can get the second press on yellow vinyl, with a button you can only get with this release. KAKKAHÄTÄ 77's snotty, catchy old school punk rock has won pretty much everybody around here over and in fact the EP is in Top 10 at the national charts at the moment! Strange but true!!

After three weeks of good times in the US, I WALK THE LINE is now back from tour.. but not for long, in the beginning of May they are leaving for 3 weeks in mainland Europe.

ENDSTAND are now a 4-piece band again as second guitarist Tapsa left the band because of personal reasons. So original members Janne, Joel, Mika and drummer Pekka decided to keep it simple and continue with one guitar - the same way the band started to begin with, and did fine for many years. Also label-wise it's back to where they came from, after one album with the metal label Lifeforce ENDSTAND are now back on COMBAT ROCK INDUSTRY!!! They will record a new album during the summer and tour Europe after the releases with friends and labelmates LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT, who are also coming up with a new album around the same time. More news about this soon!

ABDUKTIO will tour Europe again in May, most of the dates are posted now!!

March 1st, 2007

MANIFESTO JUKEBOX are on tour in Europe now, go check them out!

February 21st, 2007

I WALK THE LINE's US tour dates are online now! "Desolation Street" has now been re-released outside Finland on GEARHEAD RECORDS so most of you are able to get it cheaper & faster.. so, pick it up, no excuses :)

BOMBSHELL ROCKS are going to Japan in June! The dates are online now. "The Conclusion" will be released over there before the tour.

KIELTOLAKI was one of MAXIMUMROCKNROLL's staff favorites in the recent "best of 2006" issue - both 7"s are out in the US on Moo Cow Records but of course you all need the original Finnish edition of the amazing "Totaalisen Tuhon Huominen" 7", out now!

The test pressings of the CONFUSA LP and KAKKAHÄTÄ 77 7" sound totally ripping, and both records will be available in around two weeks. The NINE LP is a bit delayed but will be out in around a month.

February 8th, 2007

UNKIND have a new second guitar player - Jamppa (ex-The Phoenix Foundation) has joined the band and they are playing the first show with the new line-up already this month!

I WALK THE LINE have posted a japanese tour diary on their HOMEPAGE ->

February 1st, 2007

Check out NINE's new video "Nothing Left For The Vultures" off the upcoming album "It's Your Funeral" on their MySpace ->

In the beginning of this year we told you about CONFUSA.. fresh new finnish punk rock on CRI won't stop there, the next new band is KAKKAHÄTÄ 77 with their second EP called "WTC Räjähtää" - you get the picture ;) Check out some songs on their MySpace ->

HERO DISHONEST will open for SICK OF IT ALL here in Helsinki on April 5th and leave for a tour of Germany after that, the dates will be posted soon..

January 15th, 2007

I WALK THE LINE will start their first tour of Japan this week, check them out if you can!!

ABDUKTIO will be doing a tour of Finland with Sweden's THE HAUNTED and BURST in February.

January 3rd, 2007

We'll orgazine the second COMBAT ROCK BOWL-O-RAMA at Fun Bowling in Helsinki (www.funbowling.fi) on Saturday February 10th!! Entry is free, bowling is cheap, drinks are served from the bar, Combat Rock DJs will be spinning 45s... don't miss out on this if you are around!!!

MANIFESTO JUKEBOX will be touring Europe in March, a bunch of dates have been posted now.

January 2nd, 2007

Let's start the year with some great news... the new Helsinki-based band CONFUSA has joined the CRI family and their debut vinyl album will be released some time this spring! The CD will be on the new finnish label Seiskahai. CONFUSA plays straightforward, some would say early 80s influenced, punk rock with catchy/hysteric dual female vocals and put on a great live show - they will start booking their third euro tour for June soon, please get in touch with us or the band if you want them to rock your town!

Here's a yet unmastered sample song from the album : -> VIISAAMMAT

More about Confusa here:
www.confusa.net
www.myspace.com/confusaband

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