Description

Pink vinyl with gatefold cover and the complete album on cd as bonus

Living fossils are generally defined as organisms that have remained essentially unchanged since the beginning of time. Examples include the horseshoe crab, the ginkgo tree and, of course, Tankard. For 40 years, the Frankfurt-based beer-metal crew has been praising alcohol and the simple life with their powerful gospel, a highly unlikely success story that began four decades ago and culminated in a fossil of an extinct starfish species being officially named after them: Ophiura tankardi. This is a story of close camaraderie, of eternal thirst, of four heavy metal vanguards dipping their toes into an ocean of alcohol and testing how far they can go. This is the story of Tankard. It begins many years ago. The year is 1982, and the setting is the Goethe High School in Frankfurt. Heavy metal is still a relatively young thing. Just a few years ago, classes were torn apart by the music. In one corner of the ring: Smokie fans. In the other: ABBA. Years later, childhood friends Andreas “Gerre” Geremia and Frank Thorwarth would coin the bon mot “From Frankfurt to Frisco we destroy every disco” to make it clear which side they were on. Even after 40 steamrolling, liver wrecking, gut stretching years in the name of heavy metal, the Tankard beer train isn’t slowing down. Their 18th overall record, Pavlovs Dawgs, was recorded once again at the Gernhard Studio Troisdorf with Martin Buchwalter. The taps are polished, the Freibier is flowing and Tankard deliver an album with energetic and unrelenting catchy choruses with comical lyrics and themes that are beer related. In other words; Tankard delivers what they do best a thrash metal album with lots of charm.

Track list:
1. Pavlovs Dawg
2. Ex-Fluencer
3. Beerbarians
4. Diary Of A Nihilist
5. Lockdown Forever
6. Memento
7. Metal Cash Machine
8. Veins Of Terra
9. On The Day I Die

Cd track list:
1. Pavlovs Dawg
2. Ex-Fluencer
3. Beerbarians
4. Diary Of A Nihilist
5. Veins Of Terra
6. Memento
7. Metal Cash Machine
8. Dark Self Intruder
9. Lockdown Forever
10. On The Day I Die