worldofskinhead:

Battalion 86 - S.T.A.C.

The title of this song stands for “Steel Toe Alarm Clock” - which I have always loved!  Sometimes that is about the only way to give someone a wake-up call!

Anyway, this band is from my hometown - Richmond, VA!  They were definitely one of the first outright Oi! bands I was ever exposed to, locally or otherwise.  They formed sometime in the late ’90s (probably ‘98 or so - not 100% sure) and played shows until about 2003, doing occasional reunion gigs after.

They had an extremely patriotic and nationalist attitude, and were at times accused of racism - but that simply was not true!  One of the things that really turned me onto this band as a kid was that there were always punks AND skinheads in the band.  In the later years, they also had a hardcore kid (and also one of my friends), Greg,  playing bass.  So, kinda like Blitz and other bands like that in the ’80s in the UK, Battalion 86 really tried to bring the different factions together - which has not always been the case here, for sure!

This is from their album And the Spirit Survives… from 2002.  13 hard-hitting Oi! tracks with a definite hardcore influence, including their take on the Last Resort classic “Violence In Our Minds”.  Click HERE to download the whole album.  Oi!

Check it out!