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Last Updated on 03:59 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Genre: Heavy Metal
Country: Germany
Label: Nuclear Blast
Year: 2014
The German Panzer, obviously not to be confused with Jag Panzer and to bear their ancestry, is yet an all-star band consisting of Schmier (Vocals & Bass), Herman Frank (Guitars) Stefan Schwarzmann (Drums), known from Destruction and Accept. The two former Accept members said one day, while they were loafing about, it’s about time in Switzerland (Schwarzmann the concerned) to find a bassist/vocalist and as a trio to make an album. They found, after a third person’s prompt, Schmier, who accepted with great pleasure the position, whom along with Herman Frank composed the songs on the disc.
The paradox is that they made a very good album, truth be told, which Schmier hasn’t made so long with his Mk II in Destruction, much less with Headhunter (an overrated mediocrity). Teutonic melodic heavy metal a straight jaggernaut ala Accept, Judas Priest and Grave Digger with riffs mainly reminiscent to Accept, plucked from the 80s and this because of Frank, but not copying them coz they’re more into speed metal, offering abundant headbanging, makes you want to smash all in your path and send them all to hell like panzer.
The performance of the whole band in the record is more than satisfactory, offering some hymns like ‘Death Knell’, ‘Temple Of Doom’, ‘Why?’, ‘Panzer’, ‘Roll The Dice’ whether you like it or not, you’ll wanna bang your head, you will go mad, you will say that these “wrinkled old men” still got it with the result being more than enthusiastic.
4/6
