Metal Tank Records signs PANIKK!

The Slovenian Bay-area thrash metal maniacs hearing under the name of Panikk inked a deal with Metal Tank Records that will release their upcoming album entitled Unbearable Conditions. Panikk as the name suggests for something fast, mind-blowing and erratically blood-pumping metal put simply as THRASH!

Band comment about the upcoming release: “We went into DYZ Sonic Temple Studio in March to record a debut album Unbearable Conditions under the surveillance of producer Dyz. We’re pumped with thrash that is energetic and tight sounding and so is our music which doesn’t give a fuck of todays trends. We wrote 6 songs anew and took 2 songs off of demo rearranged them and made them even better. We invited along two friends Domen Justin (Dyz) and Tim Draksler who contributed a few solos.”






http://www.metaltankrecords.com/

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VOLKSMETAL - VOLKSMETAL (CD Review)

Horror has a new name: VOLKSMETAL! And this name has turned into a program: If metal crashes into folk music,

you will have a mix of infernal Bavarians on accordion and tuba, son of a bitches flailing on guitars, bass and drums.

When the six cheeky devils of VOLKSMETAL get together, nothing is holy

anymore: Time to sway to metal and to head‐bang to folk music.

Mäddelbänger is an insane mixture of double bass, metal guitars and 3/4 rhythm refrain. With this mixture they

show how it's done and with their cover version of the cult classic "Fürstenfeld" they demonstrate what a real folk

heavy metal band understands with being brutally homesick. Together with 7 other own songs and 2 other cover

versions these two tracks will suitably be released during the beer garden season. The album "VOLKSMETAL" has

been produced by Achim Lindermeir (Die Happy, Itchy Poopzkid, Benzin...) and will be released on Premium Records

(Soulfood Music). Naturally Volksmetal will show themselves at all important festivals and they will also show

everyone what the proper meaning of music is ( incl. Wacken Open Air, Queens Of Metal...). There's booze for

everyone and no one will be left out...

How did you get to the infernal summit of metal and folk music? This is the way it happened....

Marco and Patrick coincidentally met one morning, during a forest walk near the the island Mainau while picking

flowers. The live preparations of the summer festival of the folk musicians were running at their fullest. The show is

presented by an unknown talent Florian Goldstahl who still remains an unknown talent. He invited both full blooded

metal heads without further ado to the evening. Two metal heads meet four traditional folk musicians, Botze,

Martin, Christian and Christian. Immediately they recognize the tender soul relationship between metal and folk

music which is not least based on the common admiration of holy beer.

Voilà: The birth of VOLKSMETAL, the most natural connection to the world! Are you surprised that the six fellows

are expelled after a little while because of common denigration of the Bavarian customs and traditions by the dress

rehearsal. What a successful recipe! Four Ruppaner‐Urweisse later they arrange Marco's songs for the first

Longplayer "VOLKSMETAL". The rest is history, according to the purity requirement. Reaching the magnificent third

spot at the promising competition "Open See2011" and five appearances on the Summer Breeze Festival

2011 where Soulfood Music is inspired by the likeable freak's show from leather trousers and metal fun right away.

And now the buzz goes off properly! This is for sure: we are volatile but only the cows tail remains long. We've remained the same and VOLKSMETAL needs beer!

Basically replace rammsteins industrial driven metal and replace with an accordian!!!!
Its in German but that dont really matter as the music stands up and im guessing most of the lyrics are funny????

STU

RATING 8/10
For fans Of : Rammstein, Metasoll, Turisas, German Beer Keller Music

Metal Tank Records signs VIGILANCE!

The Slovenian occult heavy metal act Vigilance inked a deal with Metal Tank Records that will release their upcoming album. The successor of "Steeds of Time" from 2011 will crush everything in front of with its excellent mixture of genuine traditional speed heavy metal filled with profound devotion for primordial and ritualistic occultism.

The band comments:
"We are thrilled to announce that we are returning to Zalokar studios. The time is at hand to record the successor of our debut album 'Steeds of Time'. We have been working harder than ever before so you can expect nothing but fast, dark and untamed heavy metal!





http://www.metaltankrecords.com

A bunch of flyers for upcoming gigs

Casino 13 - Casino 13 (CD Review)

 1.Good Friends & Alcohol
2.Dragging It All To The Grave
3.Breakdown
4.Boneshaker
5.Nowhere
6.Blessing In Disguise
7.Without you
8.The Mojo Hand
9.Whiskey & Gasoline


Dave McEvoy (Guitar/Vocals)
Thomas Agar (Drums)
Pardeep Bhachu (Guitar)
Drake Kelly (Bass)

Casino13 was formed in February 2011 by founding members Drummer -Thomas Agar (ex-Feral) & Vocalist/Guitarist Dave McEvoy (ex-Social Head Removal) & later joined by second guitarist Pardeep Bhachu & bass player Drake Kelly (ex-Social Head Removal)

The bands members had all served their time in various metal bands previously & the idea with Casino13 was to blend elements of Punk Rock, Country, Rock N Roll & Metal & other styles into the mix to create an original sound.

Kicking off with some heavy rock n roll 'Good Friends & Alcohol' has a superb beat that gets you jumping up and down straight away, great vocal delivery and some awesome drumming drive this one home!

'Dragging It All To The Grave' and 'Breakdown' are a bit more restrained but still good.

That bouncy feel returns for the bass heavy rocker 'Boneshaker' some cool guitarwork in this one as well, nice to actually hear some riffing with soul.

Next up is 'Nowhere' a dark and heavy monster again featuring some great guitarwork.

"To live a lie, see through your eyes & now you're gone, a blessing in disguise" a bittersweet doom laden classic, punctuated by some heavy as hell drumming, beautiful vocals, easily my favourite song on this album.

Back to the 1950's for 'without out', coming over like Iggy pop doing Frankie Avalon, it is "grande fromage" but fucking great at the same time!!!

'The Mojo Hand' is a sing a long mid tempo rocker.

Finally ending the album the same way it started 'Whiskey & Gasoline' brings that jumping up and down, bang yer head, drink a bottle of jack and have a fucking great time vibe!

Rating 9/10
For Fans Of : Viking Skull, Rocket From The Crypt, Supersuckers, Zodiac Mindwarp

The Grim Sweeper - Blood Of Odin (CD Review)

01.Time Of Ancient Gods
02.Odin Awakens
03.Flight Of The Valkyries
04.The Spectral Hunt
05.Spirits Of Dead Warrior's Jig
06.Valhalla's Feast

Marcus Matusiak (All Instruments)



The Grim Sweeper is the solo project of Marcus Matusiak, guitarist of power metal band Powermajus and formerly keyboard player of melodic death metal band Matron. Originally started as a largely improvised busking project in London.

Marcus decided to put down some of his better ideas on record and take some time to write some more structured lead parts and solos.
The result is this debut release "Blood of Odin".

Here we have six epic instrumental pieces, think Steve Vai performing Turisas!
In all honesty i think that some vocals would have made this more intresting, but you cannot fault the guitarwork or amazing keyboard playing.

Marcus has created "danceable" viking folk power metal and made a great debut.

Rating 8/10
For Fans Of: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Turisas.