The Big Teutonic 4
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| Music album by Kreator , Sodom , Destruction , Tankard |
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Publication |
2012 |
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Title (number) |
4th |
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running time |
15 min 55 s |
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The Big Teutonic 4 is a split - EP of German thrash metal -Bands Kreator , Sodom , Destruction and Tankard .
Origin and background
From May 30th to June 1st 2013 the first edition of the music festival Beastival took place in Geiselwind . The organizers invited the four largest and most successful German Thrash Metal bands with Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard. Based on the so-called Big Four of Thrash Metal , the US bands Metallica , Slayer , Megadeth and Anthrax , the four German bands were called The Big Teutonic 4 . Until then, however, it was common for Sodom, Kreator and Destruction to be referred to as the "Trinity of Teutonic Thrash" or "Trinity of Thrash". To this race the promotion , the four bands played one each cover one.
Kreator and Tankard chose songs by Iron Maiden , while Sodom and Destruction chose a song by Motörhead . Sodom, who were currently working on a new album at the time of release, were the only band to not release a new cover version, but their Iron Fist cover, which was already known from the album Persecution Mania (1987) . In The Prisoner of Tankard is an abbreviated Edit version.
Initially, the split was released on CD on December 22nd, 2012 as a supplement to the German music magazine Legacy , as a Christmas supplement . On February 15, 2013 published Nuclear Blast split as 10 " - record on red, yellow, blue and transparent vinyl . Each version is limited to 250 pieces. In contrast to the CD version, Sodom released a version of Ace of Spades there .
Playlists
Tracks 1 and 4 are original from Iron Maiden, tracks 2 and 3 are original from Motörhead.
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reception
Reinhold Reither from the Austrian online magazine Stormbringer recommended that readers “put the split on their shelves just for nostalgic reasons”. He added that he liked the contributions of Kreator and Sodom better than the other two. For the reviewer Chrischi of the online magazine Burn Your Ears , the split is "really rough fun". However, he asks why Tankard and not Holy Moses, for example , should belong to the big four German Thrash bands. Frank Albrecht from Rock Hard described the release as a "nice 10" for collectors and friends of the four most famous German Thrash bands "with" more or less legendary classics ". The Hammer is "nice snotty and punky ". Mille Petrozza in particular does "surprisingly well" with The Number of the Beast , whereas " Gerre's vocally definitely reaches its limits".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Fleckhaus, Christof Leim: The origin of hardness . In: Metal Hammer . March 2008, p. 34 .
- ↑ fp: Cuatro X - Hatefront. Bloodchamber.de, July 8, 2006, accessed February 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Tobias Jagusch: TERRORBLADE - Of Malice And Evil. Dearly Demented, accessed February 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: Let's rejoice and cheer ... In: Legacy . No. 82 , January 2013, p. 4 .
- ↑ Reinhold Reither: The Big Teutonic 4 - The Big Teutonic 4 (EP). Stormbringer.at, accessed on February 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Chrischi: Various Artists - The Big Teutonic 4. Burn Your Ears, accessed on 23 February 2013 .
- ^ Frank Albrecht: The Big Teutonic 4 . The Big Teutonic 4. In: Rock Hard . No. 311 , April 2013, p. 112 .