OBLIGACIONES – Iwo-jima Party [LP, 2026]

Not every great record got the audience it deserved.

Originally released on CD in 2005, Iwô-Jima Party was the fourth album by OBLIGACIONES, a band from Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country) operating in the dangerous ground between punk, garage, ’70s hard rock and raw rock’n’roll.

But Iwô-Jima Party is much more than sheer force.

These are ten carefully constructed songs driven by serrated guitars, a crushing rhythm section, hard-hitting Spanish lyrics and melodies that stay with you long after the initial blast. It has the urgency of punk and the weight of classic hard rock, but also something far less common: genuinely accomplished songwriting buried beneath all that noise and aggression.

The band’s musical DNA has links to Motörhead, Rory Gallagher, Cicatriz, The New Christs…, yet OBLIGACIONES never sound like an imitation. They turned those influences into something distinctly their own: dark, abrasive, melodic and emotionally uncompromising.

The original sessions featured musicians connected to Señor No, MaCarraDa, Los Padrinos, Látex, Vagón de Cola and Sindicato de Músicos. Produced by Peio Riotegi, the album also includes a ferocious version of Otis Redding’s “Love Man”.

More than twenty years later, Iwô-Jima Party has lost none of its impact. It still sounds urgent, dangerous and remarkably alive.

BANG! RECORDS now presents this overlooked Basque punk-rock powerhouse on vinyl for the very first time, newly remastered and strictly limited to 300 copies.

We are not reissuing it because it was famous.

We are reissuing it because it should have been.

FIRST-EVER VINYL EDITION – REMASTERED – LIMITED TO 300 COPIES

For fans of Motörhead, Cicatriz, Señor No, The Beasts Of Bourbon and the darkest, hardest edge of punk’n’roll.