THE CHISEL: Retaliation CD

London's The Chisel arrived fully formed and immediately started embarrassing bands who'd been at it for decades. "Retaliation" is the record that made everyone sit up straight.

This is street punk and Oi! dragged through a hardcore filter, angry and precise in equal measure, the kind of album that sounds like it was written on a night bus and recorded before anyone could talk them out of it. The Chisel don't mess around with atmosphere or build, they just come straight at you, which in 2021 felt genuinely necessary. If you've got Blitz and Discharge in your collection alongside your modern hardcore, this fits right in. A proper document of where UK street punk is right now, which is meaner and more alive than it's been in years.

Format: CD (Album). Origin: United Kingdom (London). Genre: Hardcore Punk / Oi! / Street Punk.

Fans of: Blitz, Discharge, Turnstile.