Iron Cross

Before Iron Cross, Oi! punk was made almost exclusively by and for working-class England; it drew from specifically British influences (the Sex Pistols, the Clash, Sham 69), and was colored by its own local scene politics (skinheads, frustrated Cockneys, neo-Nazis, the racist National Front party). Iron Cross absorbed the sound and style of Oi! and transplanted it to Washington, D.C., then the epicenter of the burgeoning straight-edge hardcore movement. Removed from its natural habitat, Oi! in the hands of Iron Cross proved even more controversial than in the U.K.; just the va...