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(1982 – present)

Tankard is a german Thrash Metal band founded in 1982. Inventors of the “Alcoholic Metal”-genre. The band chose their name after looking through a dictonary and seeing a word defined as “beer mug”.

Tankard were formed by three classmates, Andreas “Gerre” Geremia, Axel Katzmann and Frank Thorwarth. At the time, the band was known as Vortex and Avenger until the current name of Tankard was discovered by the band in a dictionary. Their first song written was called “Ray Death”, a song about nuclear war and their first gig was played in a local classroom in 1983. As the band were not permitted to drink alcohol in the school, they smuggled their beer in with milk cartons. Soon after, band member Bernhard Rapprich left the band as his conservative father did not want him “hanging around with a bunch of drunks” and was replaced by Andy Bulgaropulos.

In 1984, Tankard signed to Noise Records after narrowly missing out on signing with Steamhammer during a gig where guitarist Andy Bulgaropulous made the mistake of wearing a blue sweatshirt with a deer on the front creating the wrong image and causing Steamhammer to retract their offer of a contract.

Now, they have just released their new album “
“Thirst” which is in stores now.

Members:
* Andreas “Gerre” Geremia (1982)- Vocals
* Frank Thorwarth (1982) - Bass
* Olaf Zissel (1994)- Drums
* Andy Gutjahr (1998)- Guitars

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  • Sharp-Ton

    Every beer must be tasted with Tankard.

    Sunday evening
  • Luciferus_91

    Stay thirsty!

    Wednesday evening
  • VerbalRazors

    were into pure stuff!

    last week
  • Oferthrash

    Great beer thrash

    15 days ago
  • Teun666

    Thanks for the info Thrashbt, they've plenty of material I didn't listen to yet, but I would love another album!

    21 days ago
  • Fallen666Angel

    Ich hör Tankard nur wegen der SGE!

    25 days ago
  • aginggirl

    Awesome collection!

    26 days ago
  • eltldntk

    Funny

    29 days ago
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NEW ALBUM

12 Dec 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/Tankard

Hi friends,our new album "Vol(l)ume 14" will be released on december 17th 2010 via AFM Records. The limited edition of the cd contains a bonus dvd with our 60 minute appearance at the …

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