Gebretter are from Kolle (a.k.a Cologne / Koln), Germany, and apparently play hardcore punk. Pint Peddla is their second album, and follows their debut Trendshitter (verily). I’ve never heard of this band before, and it’s always fun to check out something that’s new to me.
First off, I initially misread the band name as Get Better. Nope, Gebretter is the name, and it translates roughly into “boards” in English. Skateboards? Snowboards? Surfboards? Sheets of wood from your local timber merchant? No fucking clue, mate. the packaging feels pretty decent quality from a tactile perspective, with the sleeve being of a decent weight of card, with a really nice finish to it. It’s got a drawing of a skeleton riding a BMX or something on the front, whilst necking what I assume is a bottle of beer, or it could easily be Ratzenputz (I suppose like the German equivalent of Buckfast; it tastes like herby medicine) for all I know. Inside, the record is classic black vinyl of a decent weight, and a handscreened flip featuring what I assume is a tyre track and the band logo.
I’ll backtrack a bit at this point – prior to putting it on the turntable, I’d not even looked these guys up. My initial thought was “I bet they’re German”. Fast forward in time slightly, or go back to the start of the review if you prefer, and lo and behold, they are indeed. I’ll be straight with you, my knowledge of German music doesn’t stretch that far beyond thrash titans Kreator and Destruction, and, er… that 90s hardcore band Ryker’s. Joking asides, i did see a band called Die Toten Hosen (The Dead Trousers) supporting Batley’s one and only Terrorvision in the early 1990s. Apparently they are massive in Germany, but so are Saxon and David Hasselhoff, as well as the general concept of being very efficient.
I’m forced to describe this as generic “Deutschpunk”; a term introduced to me by my good friends Knolle (that’s Spud in German) and Izzy, who come from around the wider Hamburg region. In short, it’s meat n’ spuds, bobby-basic, no frills punk played with little finesse or concerns for production values, aspects which can often be a good thing. In this case The singing is in a mixture of German and English, sung in what I can only guess is meant to be a generic Cockney accent. Although this is interspersed with breaks of indecipherable hardcore grunting ala early Blood for Blood, although I would hesitate to associate Blood for Blood with anything this bad.
Having listened to this several times (against my better judgement), as I’m nothing if not thorough, this is pretty terrible, and doesn’t improve with repeated listens. In fact I’d rather go out in the garden and light myself on fire than ever have to suffer through this turgid dross again. On the plus side, it looks kinda cool, though. And I’m told they lap up this type of thing with gusto in provincial Germany
Pint Peddla is out on 23rd January 2026, and you can get it on single-sided 12in, with a handscreened flip from the Gebretter bandcamp page or from Engineer Records in the UK
