Tank (band)
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | New Wave of British Heavy Metal |
| founding | 1980, 1998 |
| resolution | 1989 |
| Website | http://www.tankfilthhounds.net/ |
| Founding members | |
| Alasdair "Algy" Mackie Ward (1980-2008) | |
| Peter James Brabbs (1980-1983) | |
| Mark Arthur Brabbs (1980-1983, 2009) | |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
ZP Theart (since 2013) |
guitar |
Michael "Mick" John Tucker (since 1983) |
guitar |
Cliff John Evans (since 1984) |
bass |
Barend Courbois (since 2014) |
Drums |
Bobby Schottkowski (since 2014) |
| former members | |
singing |
Doogie White (2008-2013) |
bass |
Chris Dale (2008-2014) |
Drums |
Graeme Crallan (1984) |
Drums |
Michael Bettel (1985) |
Drums |
Gary Taylor (1985-1989) |
Drums |
Steve Hopgood (1998-2001, 2008-2009, 2009-2011) |
Drums |
Bruce Bisland (2001-2008) |
Drums |
Mark Cross (2011-2014) |
Tank is an English new wave of British heavy metal band from London .
history
Tank was founded in 1980 in the London Borough of Croydon by Algy Ward, Peter Brabbs and Mark Brabbs. The former had previously played with the punk bands The Saints and The Damned . They quickly made a name for themselves as an intensely touring band with bands like Motörhead , Girlschool , Diamond Head and Angel Witch . Motörhead's then guitarist Fast Eddie Clarke produced Tank's first single Don't Walk Away in 1981 , after which the band went on tour again with Motörhead. Her debut album Filth Hounds of Hades , released in 1982, was also produced by Fast Eddie. The successor Power of the Hunter was also released in 1982 . In 1983 Tank signed a recording deal with Music for Nations . They recruited a second guitarist named Michael "Mick" John Tucker and recorded the album This Means War in this constellation .
In 1984 the Brabbs brothers left Tank; Mark Brabbs then played with Dumpy Rusty Nutz and The Blood , and later with Paul Samsons Empire. They were replaced by drummer Graeme Crallan (ex- White Spirit ) and guitarist Cliff Evans (ex-Chicken Snack). The band switched to Roadrunner Records and released Honor & Blood there . Ward also produced the band Warfare's debut album Pure Filth . In the same year Tank went on tour with Metallica and received a response in the supplement to the album Master of Puppets in the acknowledgments and crew.
In January 1985, Gary Taylor replaced Graham Crallan on drums.
After a long period of inactivity, the band released their last album, Tank , in 1987 and disbanded in 1988. Ward became a member of the band Atomgod.
From mid-1993 there were repeated rumors that the band would reunite. Algy was a guest musician on the 1995 released album Warhead of Warhead to hear. After a nine-year hiatus, Tank reunited with Algy Ward, Cliff Evans, Mick Tucker and Steve Hopgood in 1997. They played at Wacken Open Air in 1997 and went on tour in Germany with Hammerfall and Raven in 1997 .
In late 2008, Algy Ward announced that he was leaving the band after 28 years to work on his autobiography . For him, Doogie White took over the role of the singer and Chris Dale, a former member of Bruce Dickinson's band, the bass. Furthermore, Mark Brabbs returned to the drums.
On April 8, 2011 it was announced that Mark Cross had joined the band as the new drummer.
In 2012 the album War Nation was released and the DVD War Machine Live was announced for November 2012 .
But there were also changes in the period that followed. From 2013 the band performed with ZP Theart (ex- Dragonforce ) and in 2014 introduced Bobby Schottkowski (ex- Sodom ) as the new drummer and Barend Courbois ( Blind Guardian ) as the new bass player. In addition, ex-singer Algy Ward released the album Breath To The Pit in 2013 under the name Tank, although only he can be heard as a musician on this album.
Music genre
According to Manfred Kerschke, Tank has a “Motörhead not dissimilar but much more raw style”, and Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic called Motörhead the lion's share of her musical inspiration. On the second album Power of the Hunter , he saw parallels to Kiss and Ritchie Blackmore in places , his colleague Ralph Heibutzki described This Means War as exemplary for Thrash Metal of the 1980s. Thomas Kupfer from Rock Hard described a "rumbling, charming musical direction" and Algy Ward's vocals as characteristic of the band, but with the second album without Ward, they show "that a return to the stylistic roots in this line-up is completely out of the question". Doogie White is “a gifted rock singer who has a dreamlike, sure instinct for the perfect hookline and the no less perfect chorus and whose collaboration with the two guitarists Cliff Evans and Mick Tucker works perfectly. 'War Nation' is a tad more melodious than the previous album and is relatively lonely in the genre of commercial heavy rock. ”The guitar playing of the theme song War Nation has been compared to Randy Rhoads and White's vocals to Ronnie James Dio .
Discography
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Albums
- 1982: Filth Hounds of Hades (Kamaflage)
- 1982: Power of the Hunter (Kamaflage)
- 1983: This Means War ( Music for Nations )
- 1984: Honor and Blood (Music for Nations)
- 1987: Tank (GWR)
- 2002: Still at War (Zoom Club)
- 2010: War Machine Evans / Tucker Tank (Metal Mind)
- 2012: War Nation Evans / Tucker Tank (Metal Mind)
- 2013: Breath of the Pit (Southworld)
- 2015: Valley of Tears (Metal Mind / Soulfood)
Singles
- 1981: Don't Walk Away (Kamaflage)
- 1982: Stormtrooper (Kamaflage)
- 1982: Turn Your Head Around (Kamaflage)
- 1982: Crazy Horses (Kamaflage)
- 1983: Echos of a Distant Battle (Music for Nations)
Others
- 1998: The Return of the Filth Hounds: Live ( Live album ) (Rising Sun Productions)
- 2006: War of Attrition Live 1981 (Live album) (Maniacal Records)
- 2008: The Filth Hounds of Hades: Dogs of War 1981-2002 ( compilation ) (Metal Mind Productions)
Web links
- Official website
- Tank at Allmusic (English)
- Tank on MusicBrainz (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Manfred Kerschke: Tank . In: Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWOBHM: New Wave of British Heavy Metal . The Glory Days . Berlin: Iron Pages 1995, p. 143.
- ^ A b c History of Tank , accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ Warhead at Allmusic (English)
- ^ News , accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ Tank - New Drummer ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 8, 2011, accessed February 25, 2013.
- ↑ Tank to release War Machine Live DVD , September 11, 2012, accessed October 21, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/tank-to-enter-studio-in-november/
- ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Filth Hounds of Hades - Tank , accessed March 3, 2013.
- ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Power of the Hunter - Tank , accessed March 3, 2013.
- ↑ Ralph Heibutzki: This Means War - Tank , accessed March 3, 2013.
- ↑ Thomas Kupfer: TANK . Was nation . In: Rock Hard , No. 303, August 2012, p. 100.
- ^ William Clark: Tank Return To Dominate With War Nation , February 19, 2013, accessed March 3, 2013.
- ↑ Chart sources: UK
