Bruised Knuckles

Bruised Knuckles continues to support true underground Street Punk scene & promote music which comes straight out of the basement, music that has some of that extra, the extra that all those copycats are trying to track down, but miserably fail. Bruised Knuckles as a label grows into a voice of underground, refusing to give up in these days that have less and less room for music with a heart. Sad reality is that more and more underground labels worldwide call it a day & have lost the faith to fight back. But we here at Bruised Knuckles know that there are some true music fans left showing much needed support. And for those who have, we have a few treats in stock. So, we gathered a list of news to keep things updated. Feel free to pass it on & keep your mates informed, will ya? Latest Releases: BKPUNX012 Mister X " Ne ostupai nikogda" EP * Some of our releases go to history, leaving a legacy behind for generations to come. Street Influence became a partner of ours, partner which helps their local young scene. In some parts of the world Oi!/Street Punk is just new born and bands like Belorussian Mister X are one of the first that started playing what we call Street Punk. Having one demo & album, Mister X is getting ready for their brand new EP. In their local scene & near abroad Mister X is close to somewhat of a cult status, a pioneer, a band with strong local fan base. Music is somewhat street wise Oi! with loads of bollocks, energy of the music is like a hit in your face. EP will be released in few months once again as a co-release with our Russian friends. Check out: www.myspace.com/mx69 Co-Release: Street Influence (Russia); Street Beat Records (Belarussia) Price: 6 euros post paid or trade BKPUNX011 Shaved Heads Vs. Robin Hood " Nasi Vremena" Digipack CD Alright, yet another product of our partnership with Moscows Street Influence Records. Here we have two young Russian skinhead bands with fresh material for you to listen. Shaved Heads is more into modern type of Oi sound, has great EU touch in it, Robin Hood on other hand is more of 80's type of thing, a bit more raw than their brothers in arms. Needless to say, both bands are full on working class, aggressive & street wise. 12 song Digipack includes Opprerssed & Last Resorts covers. Check out: www.myspace.com/shavedheadsspb; www.myspace.com/robinhoodskins Co-Release: Street Influence (Russia); Price: 10 euros post paid or trade

Kids of the Streets "Get Off!" EP 5,5 Euro post paid (3,50 Euro wholesale or trade) Moscow's region Skinheads from Kids of The Streets have agreed to do an EP with us. 4 tracks of pure & angry Skinhead Street Rock sound. Kids of The Streets is an answer to German's Oxymoron mixed with haunted melodies of Perkele, however refusing to be yet another boring copy and gives us a matter of a taste on their own. EP that has just arrived from pressing plant is ready to find a place in your record collection. To get some view what is on offer click here: www.myspace.com/kidsofthestreets EP is a result of partnership with Moscow's finest street label Street Influence. Vinyl is limited to 500 copies and a bit over 20% of them are in various colors. Other News: * Probably most exiting news here is Tim's (Boss of Bruised Knuckles and editor-in-chief of Anti-Hippie Fanzine) trip to record studio few weeks ago. After several of failed attempts to start a band, finally with help from the right musicians, solo album was born. 12 songs were recorded with out any previous practice, result was better than any of us could expect. Project named The Prestupniks which is a mix of Cockney and Russian inspired by Clockwork Orange. The music is not your regular Oi! at all, it's a mix between Old School HC, up beat Street Punk, angry acoustic set with light touch of Black Metal's blast.Songs are short, angry and raw with lyrics that slap you in the face. At this stage artwork & layout for upcoming album is made. After getting it done it will be released on Digipack with thick booklet. Few songs are attached for you, the examples just to let you know what to wait for. * Some of our releases go to history, leaving a legacy behind for generations to come. Street Influence became a partner of ours, partner which helps their local young scene. In some parts of the world Oi!/Street Punk is just new born and bands like Belorussian Mister X are one of the first that started playing what we call Street Punk. Having one demo & album, Mister X is getting ready for their brand new EP. In their local scene & near abroad Mister X is close to somewhat of a cult status, a pioneer, a band with strong local fan base. Music is somewhat street wise Oi! with loads of bollocks, energy of the music is like a hit in your face. EP will be released in few months once again as a co-release with our Russian friends. Check out: www.myspace.com/mx69 * Our Brazilian Street Punk compilation project is finally getting the artwork ready. This LP will show true friendship of underground, we took few labels along to get best possible promotion. Most likely LP will be co-released with Zeroworks Records and Can I say (Portugal), Subwix & Oi!Shop (Germany), these are the labels that agreed to take part. Compilation holds of great bunch of current local punk bands, leaving the extremely motivated bands behind. Hard thing to do, but we refuse to give our support to brainwashing bands. Before Xmas is planned release date. * Aussie's lean & mean street rock machine, RUST, has done several UK shows this summer. Originally it was planned to release a CD for tour support, but the sad reality is that sales dropped, giving hard time to gather the budget. CD will hits the street anyway, but slightly late. * 7Th issue of notorious Anti-Hippie Fanzine is on it's way. All English zine will include strong modern day acts,some columns, scene reports and tons of reviews. To have a CD compilation with zine is somewhat usual, but this time instead of home label printed CD r, zine will have proper factory made CD. Originally it was meant to be a split issue with Negative Reaction from UK, but we ended up doing a split CD. The CD is done, zine will follow shortly after. * We are here to show our support to our local acts. Young Street-Core band from the streets of Helsinki, Open Finger is a Broken Finger, has recorded their debut. That leaves us only with the matter of time when it would hit the streets. You can check out few tunes here: www.myspace.com/openfingerisabrokenfinger * Bruised Knuckles still has in plans to release a split 7" between North-east England's Keyside Strike (www.myspace.com/keysidehc) and Sydney's Rust (www.myspace.com/rustpunk). The EP was expected before Rebellion this year, but since cover artwork is late, our hands are tight up. * Our friends from 7er Jungs work on the artwork for their EP that will be released by us. Material on the EP will be some rare recordings that the band has made.		Still hot: bkpunx010: "Russian Anti-Racist Skinheads" DVD (Few copies left) As a result of close friendship with Russian lads, Bruised Knuckles ended up supporting this film. It was filmed for two years period showing the other side of the coin. This 100% DIY product that gives a chance to have the inside view on things which was never done before. We're all aware of the cold reality of the Russian scene. Documentary is two hours long that covers interviews with kids, has rare footage of gigs, covers football, local bands talk about how they see things, violence ... This is documentary that was filmed in the backstreets of Russian cities, in the basements, at practice space which adds personal touch on the things.This is not another lousy copy of your "Skinhead Attitude" or any fancy film that has been made for that matter, no famous faces here, just pure underground. Made by skinheads for skins in it's pure form, how it's meant to be. DVD runs out pretty damn fast. bkpunx008: The Pauki "The ship won't go to Port" CD/LP Digipack CD 10 Euro/ Gatefold LP 12 Euro (p&p) or trade. Drunken Pirate stuff out of Russia! The Pauki, est. 1991, give us 15 wild Folk/punk anthems with Russian lyrics and a big passion for Booze & good old Piracy! That Russian Beer-Core legends have been around for almost for 20 years now & and still they are active as hell, giving us a new record each year; how many of you could do the same? Band's style is fast HC influenced with beer, pirates and Russian mentality. Visit www.the-pauki.ru for some promo music. bkpunx006 Aries & Graces "Damage Done" 7" (EU only release. Limited to 300 copies) 5(!!) last copies Give your support to the true underground street punk scene www.facebook.com/bkpunx ( argh, Bruised Knuckles is so cool, it has profile on Facebook, every decent punk label has it, innit?) * As usual, bands are wanted for our future releases. If your band is rather unknown, it is good to have some promo sheet with some bio and perhaps photo of the band won't do any harm either. We feel alien to all those MP3's and download links. Just to let know that by sending music via email is a waste of your time. By sending actual record (CD, Vinyl ..) you can be 100% sure that at least your music we listened. We reply usually to those bands that we feel close to and do our offer. All bands would be reviewed in next issue of the zine. For labels around the globe we can try to promote your music around Finland and near abroad.

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