Jag tanks

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Jag tanks
General information
origin Colorado Springs , United States
Genre (s) Power metal
founding 1981, 2013
resolution 2011
Website www.jagpanzer.com
Current occupation
Harry "The Tyrant" Conklin
Christian Lesague
guitar
 Mark Briody
John Tetley
Rikard Stjernquist
former members
singing
 Daniel J. Conca
guitar
 Joey Tafolla
guitar
 Chris Kostka
guitar
 Chris Broderick
Drums
 Rick Hilyard
singing
 Bob Parduba (1987)

Jag Panzer is an American power metal band from Colorado Springs .

Surname

The band was named after the German word Jagdpanzer . Allegedly, the power metal band, which started as a school band under the name Tyrants , borrowed the name of an old VW Beetle that was standing around in their neighborhood and the German word “Jagdpanzer” was written on the back window. The band members themselves, according to their own account, found their inspiration in a book from the local library, in which a large, aggressive-looking tank with the title "a Jagdpanzer" was depicted. While they liked the name, they were concerned that it might be difficult to pronounce the name in English, so they removed the 'd' from the name.

history

The band gained a certain fame in 1984 with their debut album Ample Destruction , which is still considered one of the best US power metal albums of the 1980s.

In the following years, the band had to struggle with changing line-ups and changes in style ( groove metal in the style of Pantera on the 1995 album Dissident Alliance ), which is why they did not succeed until the 1990s. In 1997 the Ample Destruction line-up reunited, and since then the band has enjoyed increasing popularity, especially in the European heavy metal underground.

After more than ten years with a constant line-up, Chris Broderick left the band in January 2008. Jag Panzer quickly found a replacement in Chris Lasegue, who could already be heard on the 1987 demo Chain of Command .

In mid-2011, the group's breakup was announced on the band's website, but a reunion took place in 2013. In 2017 the studio album The Deviant Chord was released , on which Joey Tafolla can be heard on electric guitar.

Discography

  • 1983: Tyrants (EP)
  • 1984: Ample Destruction (album)
  • 1986: Shadow Thief (demo, released as CD bootleg on Reborn Classics in 1992 , never regularly released)
  • 1987: Chain of Command (demo, released as CD bootleg on Reborn Classics in 1992 , regularly released in 2004)
  • 1995: Dissident Alliance (album)
  • 1997: The Fourth Judgment (album)
  • 1998: Age of Mastery (album)
  • 2000: Thane to the Throne (concept album about Shakespeare's Macbeth )
  • 2001: Mechanized Warfare (album)
  • 2003: Decade of the Nail Spiked Bat (new recordings of old songs)
  • 2004: Chain of Command (official release)
  • 2004: Casting the Stones (album)
  • 2011: The Scourge of Light (album)
  • 2017: The Deviant Chord (Album)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jagpanzer.com/html/history.html ( Memento from May 21, 2010)
  2. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Jag Panzer - The Return . In: Rock Hard . No. 332 , January 2015, p. 86 .