and Listen Vol. IV with a sixty seconds long track, "Oi generation". Released by PIG Records, the disc contains artists including GG Allin and MDC. Following another appearance with a song on the Zombie Pit compilation in 2012, the band released a three-way split 3 of a Kind with Los Angeles punk rockers The Generators and C.A.F.B. The album also served as retrospective take on the band's deeper millennial roots through C.A.F.B., which was credited as the fundamental starting point of Sledgeback, upon Hun's official departure following their 2004 album. In May 2012, New Music Distribution and the German SN-Punx record label issued the first ever retrospective compilation of Sledgeback with 16 songs. The album, 7 Years Like a Broken Record covered the band's career between 2004 and 2011, including re-mastered and re-recorded versions of some of their previously released songs. Trotter left Sledgeback in mid 2013. He was replaced by Justin McCawley who is also a member of the Seattle punk group The Insurgence. Style and sound The sound of Sledgeback originates in the Hungarian front man's vocal style that defines the whole structure of the group with lyrics that often describe painful moments of life taken from Hun's personal experiences. Sledgeback may sound close to its influences but still is easily recognizable, creating a unique mixture of the so-called street punk and Oi! styles with the timeless sound of 1990s west coast punk, and successfully incorporating the vocals of Gábor Szakácsi that sets them aside from other similar bands. Possibly because of the frontman's Central European heritage, Sledgeback's musical style is comparable with bands like the German Böhse Onkelz, The Freeze as well as Pegboy and Gábor Szakácsi's previous group from Hungary, C.A.F.B. Roots The roots of Sledgeback can be traced back to Gábor Szakácsi's previous group, C.A.F.B. which was an important part of the 1990s Hungarian punk and alternative music revival. (As it mentioned in the most comprehensive Hungarian music encyclopedia Hun left Hungary and with that his band C.A.F.B. to start a new life in Seattle where he later formed Sledgeback. The musical structure of both bands are the same, with the driving stripped down raw guitar chords. The only difference between the two groups is the keyboard, which was also an essential element of C.A.F.B. in the latter albums, particularly their most successful work, Zanza, which launched the band into the Hungarian mainstream in 1997.