This Means War (Tank album)

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This Means War
Tank studio album

Publication
(s)

1983

admission

June 1983

Label (s) Music for Nations , Roadrunner Records

Format (s)

LP, Picture Disc

Genre (s)

New Wave of British Heavy Metal

Title (number)

7th

running time

39:59

occupation
  • Bass, vocals: Algy Ward
  • Drums: Mark Brabbs
  • Guitar: Peter Brabbs
  • Guitar: Mick John Tucker
  • Background vocals: Denise Dufort
  • Backing vocals: Jody Turner
  • Backing vocals: Julie Turner

production

John Verity

chronology
Power of the Hunter
(1982) 		This Means War Honor & Blood
(1984)
Single release
1983 Echoes of a Distant Battle

This Means War is the third studio album by the new wave of British heavy metal band Tank . It was released in 1983.

Emergence

After the second album Power of the Hunter , the band had taken on as second guitarist Mick John Tucker, who had previously played with Axis and White Spirit . This Means War was recorded in June 1983 with producer John Verity, who had previously worked with Saxon and Argent . Denise Dufort from Girlschool and Jody Turner and Julie Turner from Rock Goddess contributed background vocals as guest musicians . Echoes of a Distant Battle was released as a 7 ”and 12” single .

Track list

All songs were written by Ward, Tucker and the Brabbs brothers.

  1. Just Like Something from Hell - 8:30
  2. Hot Lead, Cold Steel - 5:46
  3. This Means War - 5:18
  4. Laughing in the Face of Death - 5:16
  5. (If We Go) We Go Down Fighting - 5:26
  6. I (Won't Ever Let You Down) - 4:40
  7. Echoes of a Distant Battle - 5:03

Music style and lyrics

According to Malc Macmillan, the album represented a “rather radical departure” from the heavily motorhead- influenced style and a “self-confident development towards longer and more ambitious compositions”. In places the album is more accessible, with occasional keyboard use . The guitar work showed that the often-mocked band "could indeed be a much more formidable and forward-looking group than many casual observers had originally assumed." The lyrics deal with the war again, although the "explicit texts leave little to the imagination of the listener".

Reviews

Manfred Kerschke wrote about This Means War : “Even the opener 'Just like something from Hell' says it all. Somehow all the LPs after the debut are overshadowed by the same thing, which is not really true, but the debut comes at just the right time, and the clap of thunder it caused is unrepeatable. "According to Macmillan, the album indicated an" undeniable return too old form ”and showed a“ significant development in much more accomplished regions ”.

Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia described the album as an "unqualified return to heavy metal " after the "slump" with the second album, Power of the Hunter . His colleague Ralph Heibutzki described "heirs" of the "rudimentary debut" Filth Hounds of Hades as a "direct hit" with "memorable riffs , lively lyrics and razor-sharp production". The album is a textbook example of Thrash Metal of the 1980s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HISTORY of TANK-legendary of the NWOBHM band , accessed April 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d tank . In: Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . Berlin: IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR 2012, p. 610.
  3. ↑ tank . In: Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . Berlin: IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR 2012, p. 609.
  4. ↑ a b c Ralph Heibutzki: This Means War - Tank , accessed April 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Power of the Hunter - Tank , accessed April 16, 2013.