Blitzkrieg (punk band)

Blitzkrieg played a vast number of gigs, primarily in the North of England, both as headliners and as a support act to bands including UK Decay, Chron Gen, The Not Sensibles and Anti-Pasti.

The Animals in Lipstick EP featured an aggressively anti-vivisection theme, and their most popular recorded song to date, "Conscience Prayer", an anti-society polemic, it reached No.

Another re-formation in 1989 combined Gaz Sumner and Martin "Ales" Walker on guitars, Freddy Doyle on drums, Mal on bass, while Spike returned to vocals.

The line up then changed again to Chris Hind (founder member of Blitzkrieg/ ex Mayhem), Jax Chambers (Girlschool/Syteria), Gaz Johnson (ex The Nags), and Gus Goulsborough (Popegustav).

In 2019 the band released the album Blind Faith which featured guest vocalist Jeff Janiak of punk legends Discharge on the track "Conspiracy".

as ever there is a guest artist, this time John Cooke from Napalm Death, featuring on the track Taking back Control A reworked version of New World Order written by Jax Chambers, is also on the album.

In July 2022 the band added a new member, guitarist Steve"Fish"Brookes taking them back to a 4 piece, a new EP and album is presently being recorded for release 2023.