Sick of it All

Call to Arms

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Editor's Review:

Sick Of It All is just the fuckin’ best. Pardonnez moi Francais, but for real, Sick Of It All is just the best. In case you are stupid, they’ve been the cornerstone of the mighty New York Hardcore scene for a thunderous 13 years.

Sick Of It All has built their career on keeping it real (this is the band that signed to an indie label after leaving a major) and supporting the scene that brought them up. These guys are as much fans as they are performers and their love shows on every single track they have ever recorded. Punk and Hardcore bands come and go; it’s a wonder that Sick Of It All maintains essentially the same line up they started off with. Comprised of the brothers Koller (Lou and Pete), Armand Majidi, and hardcore luminary Craig Setari (ex Agnostic Front, Straight Ahead, Youth Of Today), Sick Of It All is band that commands respect.

When Fat Wreck Chords sent us a promo of their new album Call To Arms I knew my room was going to get wrecked, because SOIA prompts me to start going off. Call To Arms proves SOIA to be the most hard hitting, consistent band there is in music today. Lou’s vocals are so crazy fucking hard, Armand beats the shit out of the skins with the finesse of few, Pete destroys everything with his Gibson SG, and Craig thunders out the bass lines of Hardcore revolution.

As an album, Call To Arms walks the line. It isn’t disappointing by any definition, but it doesn’t quite go off like, say, Scratch The Surface. Sick Of It All isn’t slippin’, but they do stick to their familiar lyrical surroundings with songs about revolution, unity, back-stabbing, and personal improvement. Musically, Call to Arms is much more straight forward than the slightly obscure Built To Last from ’97.

– Pete Geniella

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Record Label Fat Wreck Chords

Released February 1999

Tracks

1 Let Go
2 Call To Arms
3 Potential For A Fall
4 Falter
5 The Future Is Mine
6 Guilty
7 Falling Apart
8 Sanctuary
9 Morally Confused
10 Hindsight
11 Martin
12 Pass the Buck
13 Quiet Man
14 Drastic
15 Patsy

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Long-standing proponents of the New York City hardcore scene, Sick of It All have seen the ups and downs of fringe-stardom firsthand. Throughout violent acts committed by their fans (and denounced by the band members) to accusations of selling out, the group has continued to write relentless and powerful music and tour the world endlessly. Formed in the early-‘80s in New York by brothers Lou and Pete Koller (vocals and guitar, respectively), the group released a self-titled EP in 1987 on Revelation, following it up with Blood, Sweat & No Tears on the Combat indie label. Sick Of It All has bounced from label to label, using both independents and majors to release their aggressive music. Their latest stint, Live in a Dive, was released on Fat Wreck Chords in 2002.

– Maurice S. Teilmann (September, 2002)