Living fossils are generally defined as organisms that have remained essentially unchanged since the beginning of time. Examples include the horseshoe crab, the ginkgo tree and, of course, Tankard. For 40 years, the Frankfurt-based beer-metal crew has been praising alcohol and the simple life with their powerful gospel, a highly unlikely success story that began four decades ago and culminated in a fossil of an extinct starfish species being officially named after them: Ophiura tankardi. This is a story of close camaraderie, of eternal thirst, of four heavy metal vanguards dipping their toes into an ocean of alcohol and testing how far they can go. This is the story of Tankard. It begins many years ago. The year is 1982, and the setting is the Goethe High School in Frankfurt. Heavy metal is still a relatively young thing. Just a few years ago, classes were torn apart by the music. In one corner of the ring: Smokie fans. In the other: ABBA. Years later, childhood friends Andreas "Gerre" Geremia and Frank Thorwarth would coin the bon mot "From Frankfurt to Frisco we destroy every disco" to make it clear which side they were on. Even after 40 steamrolling, liver wrecking, gut stretching years in the name of heavy metal, the Tankard beer train isn’t slowing down. Right in time for the festivities surrounding their 40th birthday, our most favourite Frankfurters let “Pawlow’s Dawgs” off the leash, their 18th overall record and debut for new label amigos Reaper Entertainment. Produced and recorded at Gernhard Studio Troisdorf again together with Martin Buchwalter. The taps are polished, the Freibier is flowing and Tankard are finally back to what they do best five long years after their last studio album: Thrashing madly, drinking thirstily and ever so cleverly intertwining metal, humour and sarcastic social commentary into one big raucous ball of entertainment. Just like they did all these years ago in a classroom where they drank beer out of emptied milk cartons. All hail Tankard. All hail the dawgs. The world is a better place with capital guys like them waiting at the bar.
1. Pavlov's Dawg
2. Ex-fluencer
3. Beerbarians
4. Diary of a Nihilist
5. Veins of Terra
6. Momento
7. Metal Cash Machine
8. Dark Self Intruder
9. Lockdown Forever
10. On the Day I Die
