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Bassist Algy Ward's mob scored a bull's eye with this successor to its more rudimentary debut, Filth Hounds of Hades. This Means War hits the mark with memorable riffs, vivid lyrics, and razor-sharp production that brightens the sound without sacrificing the bare-knuckled rock approach. Tank epitomized the fuzzier, faster 'n' louder pack aching for a place in the British heavy rock scene -- as its 1977 punk peers had only done several years earlier. "Just Like Something from Hell," "Hot Lead and Cold Steel," and "If We Go (We Go Down Fighting)" remain some of the most evocative looks at the hell of war, a quality that helped Tank stand above its more velocity-oriented peers. Indeed, the subject hangs over much of the album (except "I Won't Ever You Let Down"). The band's graphic lyrics leave little to the listener's imagination (as Metallica and Motörhead did on similar tunes like "Disposable Heroes" and "1916," respectively). Much of the band's lyrical authority stems from a gritty production driven by Ward's grungy bass and liberal use of the bass drum that so aptly defined the style of this era. Guitarists Mick Tucker and Pete Brabbs make an unholy racket that aims to leave the listener breathless and flattened; on this score, the band succeeded, creating a textbook example of '80s thrash metal. ~ Ralph Heibutzki
Re-release of Tank's third studio album from 1983. The album to this day is considered one of Tank's best releases. It showed a definitely heavier side of the band, revealing also some more ambitious compositions. A good example of Tank's progress is the use of keyboards, something that would be fairly impossible on the previous album. With 'This Means War' the group proved that they were a far more serious act that they might have been perceived - songs like 'Just Like Something From Hell', 'Hot Lead Cold Steel' and '(If We Go) We Go Down Fighting' were masterfully written and showcased some very impressive skills of all of the band members. New edition includes 3 bonus tracks and is limited to 2000 copies. Digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc. Tank This Means War Songs This Means War Review
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Purchase This Means War CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Riot Restless Breed CD (1982) Reissue
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Riot bandleader/guitarist Mark Reale's frequent lineup shifts finally caught up with him on 1982's Restless Breed. Longtime vocalist Guy Speranza's exit after the group's seminal release, Fire Down Under, wasn't just another member change. Replacement Rhett Forrester demonstrates nice range and intensity on Restless Breed, but Speranza's performance and writing abilities are sorely missed. While Riot always suffered ...
| | Riot Fire Down Under CD (1981) Reissue
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Unquestionably the best offering from New York's Riot, Fire Down Under is considered by many to be an early-'80s metal classic. After two marginally successful LPs, 1977's Rock City and 1979's Narita, bandleader Mark Reale worked ...
| | Riot Privilege Of Power CD (1990)
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Like Queensr˙che's 1988 prog metal masterpiece Operation: Mindcrime, Riot's Privilege of Power works off of fear, paranoia, and conspiracy, employing ten complex tracks that work as a single unit. Where Mindcrime stuck to a straight narrative, working every Pink Floyd-ism it could into its disillusioned protagonist, Power takes a broader, less specific approach to its subject. The atmospheric snippets that tuck-point each song into place help maintain a general air of unease, eventually giving way to an ambiguous but entertaining revolution that lacks Queensr˙che's self-importance. Lyrically, the group does little to deviate from obvious metaphor and "Viking" simplicity -- in "metalspeak" something as mundane as an airplane ride ("Metal Soldiers") is described by shouting "We climb aboard the eagle made of steel" followed by a four-octave scream -- but "true blue" fans of heavy metal know the genre's scholarly limitations, and revel in its face-value descriptions of rebellion and honor. ...
| | Tank Honour & Blood CD (1984) Bonus Track; Gold; 24 Bit Remastered; Limited Edition
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On this album, Tank strains to match This Means War's critically lauded raunch, right down to aping its predecessor's blueprint: three songs on side one, four songs on side two. That's not to say the group's single-minded chugalug has gotten tamer: "The War Drags Ever On" shudders with a ferocity that would make Motörhead proud, but is also a ringer for the last album's "Just Like Something from Hell." The first side remains a seamless display of what made Tank comers in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal sweepstakes: blunderbuss guitars, cymbal-soaked drums, and vocals that sound like they're being phoned in from the bottom of a gravel pit. Tank shone brightest on these lengthy ruminations about the horrors of war; it's hard to imagine how Metallica could have stepped down a similar path without hearing these guys first. Side two is a more inconsistent exercise plagued by an insistence on riffing for its own sake. The gleeful dismantling of Aretha Franklin's standard "Chain of Fools" is the standout -- if only because it's so unusual in this context -- while "Too Tired to Wait for Love" and "Kill" pull off the old riotous majesty, but could stand some ...
| | Tank Power Of The Hunter CD (1982) Bonus Tracks; Gold; 24 Bit Remastered; Limited Edition
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Although they had spent much of the previous year supporting a famously devastating debut, Filth Hounds of Hades, while touring in tandem with some of Britain's heaviest bands (Girlschool, Diamond Head and their inspirational rabbis Motörhead), Tank inexplicably delivered an astonishingly restrained and civilized sounding sophomore effort in Power of the Hunter, their second album of 1982. To be fair, the until-recently sharp-fanged power trio almost recalled their recklessly irrepressible former selves on the hard-hitting title track, the refreshingly frantic "Red Skull Rock," and the instrumental "T.A.N.K."; but it was really rather telling that so much of the their suddenly scarce allowances of high-speed adrenalin were squandered on an instrumental, with two songs shoved all the way to the back of the album. Meanwhile, repetitive opener "Walking Backwards over Glass" (whatever the hell that means) seriously overstayed its welcome, a cover of the Osmonds' "Crazy Horses" was curious to say the least, the ridiculously named, bass guitar heavy "Set Your ...
| | Tank Filth Hounds Of Hades CD (1982) (Import) Bonus Tracks; 24 Bit Remastered; Limited Edition
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The very notion seems preposterous today (too good to be true, more like), but in 1981, underground legends Motörhead -- the band who once correctly boasted that if they moved in next door, your lawn would die -- saw their landmark No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith live album enter the U.K. Charts at number one! The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was also in full swing that year, with early champions like Saxon, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard already building from strength to strength, ...
| | John Elwart Infrared CD (2003)
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| | Seasonal Greetings CD (2002) (Import)
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| | Isaac De Heer CD (2008) (Import) Import
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| | Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup CD (2007) Import; Reissued
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Finntroll certainly aren't the only Scandinavian black metal/death metal band that has been greatly influenced by Nordic folk music, but they have managed to set themselves apart from many of their peers because of their emphasis on Finnish humppa (as opposed to Swedish or Norwegian folk) and because of all the humor and irony they bring to the table. By their own admission, Finntroll were created for a good laugh -- and yet, Finntroll became more than a novelty. Their fusion of extreme metal and humppa turned out to have serious backbone -- enough backbone for them to celebrate their tenth anniversary ...
| | Louise Watson Simply Me CD (2009)
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| | Henrik Schwarz The Grandfather Paradox CDs (2009) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Arqum Iqbal Polished CD (2009)
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