The Morning After
| The Morning After | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tankard studio album | ||||
|
Publication |
September 1988 |
|||
|
admission |
August to September 1988 |
|||
| Label (s) | Noise Records | |||
|
Format (s) |
||||
|
Title (number) |
12 |
|||
|
running time |
39:39 minutes |
|||
| occupation |
|
|||
|
Studio (s) |
Musiclab Studio |
|||
|
||||
The Morning After ( English for 'The morning after') is the third studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard from 1988. The music magazine Rock Hard counted the album in June 2009 among the 250 thrash metal albums that one should know .
Recording and publication
The album The Morning After is the band's third official studio album. Like its predecessors, this album was recorded in the Musiclab Studio in Berlin, the recordings date from August to September 1988. It was again produced and mixed by Harris Johns , who also worked for numerous national and international metal bands. It was first published in September 1988.
The cover design came from Sebastian Krüger . It shows in comic-like representation a young person in a T-shirt from the Frankfurt fun metal band AOK lying on the floor of a room next to the bed, surrounded by beer cans and bottles, wine and whiskey bottles, records, including the previous album Chemical Invasion , laundry and a teddy bear with a pocket knife in its stomach. The booklet contains photographs by Martin Becker.
Track list
The album consists of 10 tracks as well as an intro and an outro with a total length of 39:39 minutes. The individual titles are:
- Intro - 00:28
- Commandments - 02:52
- Shit-Faced - 04:03
- TV Hero - 06:01
- FUN - 03:12
- Try Again (cover version of a song by The Spermbirds ) - 03:42
- The Morning After - 04:26
- Desperation - 04:36
- Feed the Lohocla - 03:59
- Help Yourself - 05:03
- Mon Cheri - 00:48
- Outro - 00:29
Reviews and reception
The album The Morning After was praised just like its two predecessors after its release. In the evaluation of the magazine Rock Hard (issue # 29, 1988) Frank Trojan got 8.5 out of a possible 10 points. In his review he already wrote about Chemical Invasion : “« Chemical Invasion »was probably one of the big surprises from Germany last year, and for our five fight drinkers that meant the breakthrough in the German Thrash scene” was based on the high expectations of the fans, which in his opinion were not disappointed: ““ The Morning After ”certainly won't disappoint any Thrasher either. The guys have added more wood, everything is a bit harder and more brutal than on the previous one. ”At the same time, however, he points out that“ sometimes the ideas are a little missing ”and“ The Morning After ”is [..] not that Revelation that some might have expected, but is a solid and potent follow-up album.
Oliver Klemm from Metal Hammer was also convinced and, like his predecessor, awarded 6 out of 7 possible points for the album. He certified the band “Tankard are heavier than ever!” And relates this in his review to the weight of the musicians as well as to the songs on the album. His conclusion was: "Anyone who has noticed the technical improvement and can remember my last Tankard review not only goes straight to the record store, but also says: Better than Thrash has to be!"
The Morning After was reissued in 2005 along with the songs from the 1989 EP Alien . Another new edition followed in 2011, 25 years after the first release of the debut album, together with all studio albums that were recorded up to 1995.
supporting documents
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund : 250 Thrash albums that you should know . In: Rock Hard . No. 265 , June 2009, p. 75 .
- ↑ a b c Frank Trojan: Album review for The Morning After . In: Rock Hard . 29, 1988.
- ↑ a b Oliver Klemm: Review of Tankard - The Morning After. In: Metal Hammer. 11/1988.