Year: 2024Label: Rebellion Records Rebellion Records are really ushering into a new era of crossover as of late – or maybe label owner Wouter is, more like. His band Live By The Sword has been pushing the envelope of how … Continue reading HEATHEN PEACE: Civilisation Ends Here…
Year: 2025Label: Rebellion Records With their third album, US-Dutch Live By The Sword keep on consolidating their sound, and staying away from anything easy to pigeonhole. At this stage, the band exist in a liminal zone between metal and oi!, … Continue reading LIVE BY THE SWORD: The Pagan Pantheon
BURDEN: Scorched Earth Release year: 2023Label: Rock ‘n’ Roll Disgrace/Rebellion Records Tough guy hardcore is a term familiar to anyone into the harder edge of punk music. You know, bands from New York or some such singing about the reality … Continue reading Scorched earth burden
V/A: Oi! Ain’t Dead Vol. 8 – Chaos In Nederland Release year: 2023Label: Rebellion Records Long running oi! label Rebellion Records’ latest compilation ties together many strings. First of all, it’s the eight entry in their Oi! Ain’t Dead series, … Continue reading Oi! ain’t dead in The Netherlands
CARDINALS FOLLY: Live By The Sword Release year: 2023Label: Soulseller Records A good name is a good name, right? And Live By The Sword is a good name. When Count Karnstein, band leader, vocalist and bass player of Finnish true … Continue reading Of doom, folly and life by the sword
LIVE BY THE SWORD: Cernunnos Release year: 2023Label: Rebellion Records If you’ve been following our site, you may have noticed we’ve heaped praise on US-Dutch Live By The Sword in the past, in our reviews of both their debut full-length … Continue reading Ages of Sword and the Horned God
LIVE BY THE SWORD: The Glorious Dead E.P. Release year: 2022Label: Rebellion Records As I wrote in my review (read here) of US-Dutch Live By The Sword’s debut full-length, Exploring Soldiers Rise, they represent an oi! band of a new … Continue reading Remembering the glorious dead
LIVE BY THE SWORD: Exploring Soldiers Rise Release year: 2021Label: Rebellion Records US-Dutch Live By The Sword have been at it for a few years already, releasing a few 7″‘s and one 12″ MLP as well as partaking on a … Continue reading Living by the sword
Only Death Is Real 