ALLEGIANCE "Whose Border, Whose Fight" CD

Overview : New release containing the best tracks from their two albums "Here Today..." and "Heroes In The Making" released so far + 2 new, previously unreleased songs by these outlaws from Kyoto City fronted by a Canadian singer. A total of 15 classic anthems of great venomous and in-your-face Streetpunk with tons of 80's U.K. Punk & Oi! flavour like Anti-Heros meets Blitz. Believe the hype!!
Comes complete with 8 page booklet, lyrics and lots of pictures.

Tracklisting : Eight Years / Die On The New Cross / Secondhand Stance / Life On Your Own / Integrity / New Allegiance / Outlaws / Havoc / Hero In The Making / Street To Heaven / Nothing Left / We Don't Give A Fuck / Some Things Never Change / Unknown / New Dawn

MP3's : Eight Years / New Allegiance

Line-up : Bill (bass/vocals) - Morisaki (guitar) - Tokumitsu (drums). Bill is originally from Toronto (Canada). The other members are from Kyoto (Japan) where the band is based.

Biography : Allegiance was formed in Kyoto (Japan) in September 1996. Our influences are Blitz, The Business, The 4-Skins, The Samples and Chron Gen to name a few. In the summer of 1997 we supported One Way System on their Japan tour together with Japanese Oi! band The Creed. In autumn of 1997 we recorded the songs "Eight Years" and "Over Now" for our first single on Real Deal Records but scrapped the single because a plan materialised for us to do a split album with Red Alert and we didn't have enough songs! We recorded 7 more songs in the summer of 1998 for the split, but it never happened. After about a year, things still hadn't come together, so we abandoned the idea and signed with GMM Records in late 1999 to release these 9 songs as our first album, called "Here Today...". Unfortunately, because of general lateness and a few problems at GMM, the "Here Today..." album wasn't released until almost 3 years later. Our actual vinyl debut was the song "Outlaws" on the compilation "Sorted" (Real Deal Records, November 1999), a 4-song EP which included Allegiance, Sandiest, Rust and Clampdown. In May 2000 we released the songs "Hero In The Making" and "We Don't Give A Fuck" on the compilation "True As Steel" (Bricks Records), a 12-song CD which included 2 songs each by Allegiance, LRF, The Creed, Clampdown, Rust and Sandiest. In June 2000 we appeared on the video "Tremor On The Western Front" (Sick Records) which introduces 12 bands in a variety of styles from the Kansai area (Kyoto, Osaka, Shiga and Kobe) of Japan. The Allegiance song on this is "Die On The New Cross" from the "Here Today..." album.
In November 2000 we released the 11-song album "Heroes In The Making" which is actually our second album but ended up being released before the first.
In early 2002 we finally scrapped our contract with GMM and took our songs elsewhere. "Here Today..." was finally released by MCR in July 2002. A tour of Japan followed and the beginning of 2003 promises to be a busy one with the release of the new 3-song CD "King Of The City" on the band's own label, Panther Records. At about the same time, the band's first overseas release "Whose Border, Whose Fight" is due to be out on Belgium's Ghetto Rock, a collection of 15 songs compiled from our Japanese releases.

Reviews : don't just take our word for it, read what the critics are saying about Allegiance...
»»» "These three guys (one from Canada and two from Japan) crank out some great abrasive punk rock that has the rumbling guitars of the 4-Skins spliced with some melodic sensibilities that sometimes reminds me of Those Unknown. Yet they don’t sound hung up on affiliations with a certain school of punk rock. Rather they craft songs informed by the past but that conjure their own alchemy of aggression. Fifteen tracks here culled from the best of their first two albums, and all of them blare with vitriolic energy. They’ve been whittling their sound since 1996, and it’s time you got stabbed by it."  (Rock'n'Roll Purgatory)
»»» "Based solely on the sound of this, one might mistakenly take these guys for some long-lost British Oi! band from 1982 or so, but no, this is comprised of fifteen tunes recorded within the last six years in Japan by what appears to be two Japanese dudes and a white guy. True to the style they’re obviously influenced by, the arrangements are spare, yet oddly melodic, and the lyrics are often political in nature, resulting in an overall well executed package. I dog a lot of the newer Oi! stuff, primarily because so much of it sucks so bad, but this is a nice example of a band managing to keep things “traditional” without resorting to wallowing in a cesspool of drunken, violent stereotypes. Thumbs up!"  (Razorcake)
»»» "Those punks from Japan, Allegiance, have an entertaining new CD out for you! The title of the new product is Whose Border, Whose Fight and this shit fucking rocks! These guys manage to infuse melodic, hook driven Punk Rock with a raw venom that holds your attention throughout the entire fifteen song CD. There is plenty of punk to sink your teeth into here! Punks who lean towards the UK Subs or Cockney Rejects school of punk will like this!"  (Maximum Rock'n'Roll)

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