Tankard Pavlov's Dawgs (Earbook)

Living fossils are generally defined as organisms that have remained essentially unchanged since the beginning of time. Examples include the horseshoe crab, the ginkgo tree and, of course, Tankard.

Even after 40 steamy, liver-destroying, gut-stretching years in the name of heavy metal, there's no stopping the Tankard beer train. Just in time for the festivities surrounding their 40th birthday, our favorite Frankfurters let "Pavlov's Dawgs" off the leash, their 18th album overall and debut for new label Reaper Entertainment. Produced and recorded at Gernhard Studio Troisdorf, again together with Martin Buchwalter. The taps are polished, the free beer is flowing and Tankard, five long years after their last studio album, are finally back to what they do best: thrashing, drinking beer and cleverly turning metal, humor and sarcastic social criticism into a big, raucous party. Just like all those years ago in a classroom where they drank beer out of empty milk cartons. Long live Tankard. Long live the Dawgs. The world is a better place when guys like them are waiting at the bar.