The Morning After (Tankard album)

Occupation

• Andreas " Gerre " Geremia: Voice
• Frank Thorwarth: Bass
• Axel Katzmann: Guitar
• Andy Boulgaropoulos: Guitar
• Oliver Werner: Drums

The Morning After (English for, The Morning After ') is the third studio album by the German thrash metal band Tankard from the year 1988., The music magazine Rock Hard counted the album in June 2009 to 250 Thrash Metal albums you should know.

Recording and publication

The album The Morning After is the third official studio album of the band. Like its predecessors, was also recorded this album in Musiclab Studio in Berlin, the recordings date from the period from August to September 1988., It was produced and mixed once again by Harris Johns, who also worked for numerous national and international metal bands. The first publication was made in September 1988.

The cover design was by Sebastian Krüger. It shows in comic -like illustration of a teenage girl in a T -shirt of the Frankfurt Fun Metal band AOK lying on the floor of a room next to the bed, surrounded by beer cans and bottles, wine and whiskey bottles, records, including the previous album Chemical Invasion, clothes and a teddy bear with a pocket knife in my stomach. In the booklet to photographs are by Martin Becker.

Title list

The album consists of 10 tracks and an intro and an outro with a total length of 39:39 minutes. The individual titles are:

Reviews and reception

The album The Morning After was praised after the publication as well as its two predecessors. When the magazine Rock Hard rating (issue # 29, 1988) got it from Frank Trojan 8.5 out of 10 possible points. He already wrote in his review for Chemical Invasion " Chemical Invasion" was probably one of the big surprises of last year from Germany, and for our five Kampftrinker meant a breakthrough in the German thrash scene " was based on a large expectations from the fans, which was in his opinion not disappointed, " " the Morning After " will disappoint certainly also no Thrasher the boys have added fresh logs, everything is ' ne corner harder and more brutal than the previous album " at the same time represents. . but he out that " sometimes the ideas a little lacking " and "" the Morning After " is [ ..] not the revelation that some might have expected, but a solid and potent follow-up album " is.

Even Oliver terminal from Metal Hammer was convinced and awarded as the previous 6 of 7 possible points for the album. He credited the band " Tankard are heavier than ever! " And includes this in his review both on the weight of the musicians as well as on the songs of the album. His conclusion was: " Who has noticed the increase in playing technique and can not remember my last Tankard - criticism does not only equal to the record store, but also says: Better, must be as Thrash "

Together with countries Songs EP Alien from 1989 The Morning After was relaunched in 2005. Another new edition in 2011, 25 years after the original release of their debut Albumss, together with all the studio albums that were recorded until 1995.

Documents

• Album 1988
• Album ( Thrash Metal)