{"id":14232,"date":"2015-01-16T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:51:24","slug":"album-review-tank-filth-hounds-of-hades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=14232","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Tank &#8211; Filth Hounds of Hades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tank \u2013 Filth Hounds of Hades<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date: March, 1982<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Label: Kamaflage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may not know it but Tank just may be one of the most important bands to Heavy Metal and yet you never even heard of them. Formed by former Damned member Algy Ward, Tank is a part of the legendary New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement and they are a band that I just stumbled upon on my never ending quest to find new (to me) music. I had never heard one note from Tank but when I heard their song \u201cFilth Hounds Of Hades\u201d on a NWOBHM playlist I just had to hear more.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bi8fXiXCfcI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>After tracking down a very hard to find copy of their debut album Filth Hounds of Hades, I just couldn\u2019t wait to dive head first into it. The minute the first track \u201cShellshock\u201d kicked in I thought to myself, \u201cThese guys sound like Paul Dianno fronting Motorhead.\u201d \u201cBlood Guts and Beer\u201d is such a great fucking song and how this song didn\u2019t become a timeless metal anthem is beyond me. \u201cThat\u2019s What Dreams are Made Of\u201d sounds like something Def Leppard would\u2019ve done on \u201cOn Through the Night\u201d while the title track sounds like it pretty much single handedly could\u2019ve launched the thrash metal movement.<\/p>\n<p>Filth Hounds of Hades is a heaping helping of classic NWOBHM that is a true piece of buried treasure. It\u2019s a sonic piece of history that totally deserves to be listened to and respected and a truly important piece of Heavy Metal history. I can\u2019t say much for the other albums that Tank released after this one because I haven\u2019t heard them but I can say this much. Tank\u2019s Filth Hounds of Hades quickly became one of my favorite NWOBHM albums and it blows me away to hear such a relevant yet forgotten album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tank \u2013 Filth Hounds of Hades Release Date: March, 1982 Label: Kamaflage You may not know it but Tank just may be one of the most important bands to Heavy Metal and yet you never even heard of them. Formed by former Damned member Algy Ward, Tank is a part of the legendary New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement and they are a band that I just stumbled upon on my never ending quest to find new (to me) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1251,1250],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-nwobhm","tag-tank"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19742,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions\/19742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}