It’s Friday night in Somerville, and Blood for Blood guitarist/singer/songwriter Rob Lind (a/k/a White Trash Rob) has just arrived home from work. He’s got a few beers in him, and he’s primed to talk about his semi-defunct band’s third (and reportedly final) full-length studio effort, Outlaw Anthems (Victory). But first things first: seems he got a little attitude from the bus driver on the way home, and he has a few things to say about the MBTA.

"One of my good buddies works for the MBTA. I heard they get this schizo write-off if a patron attacks them or verbally assaults them. They can take post-traumatic-stress leave and shit like that. So my friend was like, ‘I’m gonna antagonize customers until one of them takes a swing at me, and then I’m gonna go on leave for six months saying that I’m too scared to go back to work.’ It’s like, what a fuckin’ world we live in. They’re making like 25 dollars an hour. That’s like state-mandated welfare, for Christ’s sake!"

Lind may be straying from the subject at hand, but the passion in his tirade should be familiar to Blood for Blood fans. Formed by Lind and singer Erick Medina (a/k/a Buddha) in the mid ’90s, the Boston hardcore band built a rabid street following with their unapologetically anti-societal lyrics and reputation for hooliganism — both of which also earned them their share of scorn from the more PC sectors of the punk/hardcore community. They broke up amicably after the release of the definitive EP Livin’ in Exile (Victory) and a successful fall ’99 tour with Dropkick Murphys, then reconvened early last year for a raucous show at the Middle East that was later released on Victory as part of the Wasted Youth Brew anthology. The band have played a couple New England dates since then, and they’re celebrating the release of their new disc with a show this Saturday at the McDonough American Legion Hall in South Boston.

Since the break-up, Lind has resurfaced in the local rock supergroup Sinners & Saints, who he says will be heard from more often in the coming year. But he’s clearly had a hard time letting go of Blood for Blood. "After the Dropkick Murphys tour, some of the other band members had to make life choices. It was tough, because at that point we were getting two tour offers a day. They weren’t great tours, but they were stepping stones to bringing it to more people that would have been receptive. The only thing I can say is, I would have done Blood for Blood till the end of time. Everything happened rather suddenly, and it left me a little empty."

There’s emptiness in spades on Outlaw Anthems, which Lind says he wrote as an epitaph for the band. As usual, he pushes all kinds of buttons on tracks like "White Trash Anthem" ("I never had enough money or enough privilege to be white/I’m white trash/And society better learn to recognize the difference") and the vicious break-up anthem "So Common, So Cheap," the over-the-top misogyny of which recalls Fear’s homophobic concert tirades. "The only thing I can say about that is there’s no fuckin’ way on earth I’m gonna apologize for it," says Lind. "Because that was my experience. If you speak the English language with any degree of acumen, you’ll realize that’s about a specific experience. I’m not trying to brand a class of woman or a type of person. And if people can’t take the joke, well, trust me, the break-up was a lot harder to deal with than the song is to listen to, so I still had it worse."

"Love Song" is the band’s tribute to the infamous New England hardcore gang FSU (an acronym for Friends Standing United or, more colloquially, Fuck Shit Up), who often come under fire for causing violence at shows. "For most people, FSU is kind of like this urban legend that you can ascribe all things evil in Boston to," Lind explains. "We never wrote a song like that before, because I associate it with a lot of the mindlessness that I see in hardcore. I wanted to treat that song with the dignity it deserves, because there’s a significant commitment among some of the people that I’ve grown up with within the scene. They find each other after years of suffering, and yeah, maybe they’re not the most well-adjusted people. But I’ve seen the phenomenon touring the country time and time again, and it’s not without roots."

Still, Lind admits he occasionally enjoys a good brawl as much as anyone else. "Buddha’s girlfriend got in a really bad car accident and we played a benefit show for her in Portland, Maine. The whole thing just turned into a fuckin’ soccer riot. I got the video, and it’s like, ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Every time you watch it, a new fight that you didn’t notice the last time leaps to your attention."

Blood for Blood, the Ducky Boys, the Unseen, Kicked in the Head, and Cannae perform this Saturday, January 19, at the McDonough American Legion Hall, 339 West Broadway in South Boston. Call (617) 269-8394.