Everything I've heard from Holland so far, which can be counted on one hand (Bambix!!!), has been absolutely recommendable, but I'm not so sure about Razorblade. "Against the Mass" is the 5th album of the band founded in 2001, which here indulges in 10 tracks in the style of "Street Rock", celebrating alcohol, women, and friends without any verbal acrobatics or mental gymnastics, just straightforward. At times, the choruses or even entire verses are repeated too often, artificially stretching the songs, and upon repeated listening, it quickly becomes monotonous.
Here are some more facts:
'Hard as Stone' was already released in 2010 on the 'We Are the Boys' 7', only with the difference that the title was 'Hard as Steel' and this was also changed in the chorus.
As the second-to-last track, there is a cover version of Vogelfrei's 'Stiefeljungs'.
It should also be mentioned that the bonus track initially left me unsure of what to make of it, so I inspected the CD more closely and came across the following comment: "The sample at the end of this album is a rather unknown Dutch song that originated in the time immediately after World War II. The Dutch residents had made contact with the British soldiers of the Allies, who liberated the Netherlands from the Nazis in 1945. The Dutch were greeted by the British soldiers with a typical phrase: "Oi", and thus it became a word that the Dutch musicians associate with liberation and freedom in this song." ... Got it, you never stop learning.
The disc is released as a digipack with a fold-out cover that contains the lyrics and features some band photos. The cover is adorned with the band logo in a special silver print and a photo from the 1920s, which reportedly shows the singer Walter's great-grandfather, according to the promo sheet. The whole thing is also available for fans of colored vinyl as a limited LP version of 500 copies in orange vinyl.
