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TANKARD
CURRENT NAME	Tankard
FORMER NAMES	-
ORIGIN	Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
STATUS	Active
FORMED IN	1982
LABEL	AFM Records
GENRE	Thrash metal
STYLE	-
LYRICAL THEME	-
BAND ADDED	2006-02-11, 00:00
LAST UPDATE	2008-10-15, 08:20

Band biography

Tankard was one of the first German thrash / heavy metal bands and was formed in April of 1982 when the members were around the age of 15. Since then they have gone through several line-up changes and released a large numbers of records. At first they were known under the names Avenger and Vortex before settling with Tankard in 1983.

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Olaf Zissel	1993-	Drums
Frank Thorwarth	1982-	Bass
Andreas Gutjahr	1998-	Guitars
Andreas Geremia	1982-	Vocals

Former members Add - Fetch
Arnulf Tunn	1989-1993	Drums
Oliver Werner	1982-1989	Drums
Axel Katzmann	1982-1995	Guitars
Andy Bulgaropulos	1982-1997	Guitars
Bernhard Rapprich	1982-1982	Guitars

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Unknown / none

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1984	Heavy Metal Vanguard	No label
1985	Alcoholic Metal	No label
1986	Zombie Attack	Noise
1987	Chemical Invasion	Noise
1988	The Morning After	Noise
1989	Alien	Noise
1990	The Meaning Of Life	Noise
1991	Fat, Ugly And Live (live)	Noise
1992	Stone Cold Sober	Noise
1994	Two-Faced	Noise
1995	The Tankard	Noise
1998	Disco Destroyer	Century Media
2000	Kings Of Beer	Century Media
2002	B-Day	AFM Records
2004	Beast Of Bourbon 8.5 / 10 Read our review here	AFM Records
2005	Fat, Ugly And Still (A)Live (2DVD)	AFM Records
2006	The Beauty And The Beer 8 / 10 Read our review here	AFM Records
2008	Thirst	AFM Records

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