Tygers Of Pan Tang

01. Tygers Of Pan Tang - First Kill, 1979/1980 CD Compilation Reissue      Castle Classics - CLACD 258      Reissue from 1992 02. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Wild Cat, 1980 CD Album Reissue      Edgy Records - EDGY101      Reissue from 1997 - includes 8 bonus tracks 03. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Wild Cat, 1980 Vinyl LP Album      MCA Records, MCA Records - 202 966-320, 202 966 04. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Live At Nottingham Rock City, 1981 CD Album      Edgy Records - EDGY112      Reissue from 2001 05. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Crazy Nights, 1981 CD Album      Edgy Records - EDGY103      Reissue from 1997 06. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound, 1981 Vinyl LP Album      MCA Records - MCA-5235 07. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound, 1981 CD Album Reissue      Edgy Records - EDGY 102      Reissue from 1997 - includes 5 bonus tracks 08. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Live At Wacken, 2001 CD Album      Spitfire Records, Edgy Records - 6-72011-5149-2, 6-72011-5149-2 09. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Animal Instinct X 2, 2009 CD Album, DVD DVD-Video, All Media Special Edition      Angel Air - SJPCD300 10. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Ambush, 2012 CD Album      Rocksector Records - RSRCD1223 11. Tygers Of Pan Tang - Tygers Of Pan Tang, 2016 CD Album      Bickee Music - BKMY-1035 Rock til you drop! As soon as I put the needle on Wild Cat for the first time, I was in awe. The (very) young me had just found another gem of the magnitude of Iron Maiden, Bomber and Wheels Of Steel and it was a great day. The rough, non-melodic vocals of Jess Cox (that earned them some awful reviews from the press, but were gold to a fan of punk rock) and the killer riffs made my day. Wild Cat is a terrific headbanger classic! The next two albums are almost equally great in rocking energy, you just had to adapt to the new singer, a true heavy metallist this time. After Spellbound (of which my LP is rather worn out with two massive bumps that I had to edit out and you can hear it - I strongly advise to settle for the CD version), things deteriorated very strongly, by 1984 they seemed to have chased the elusive radio success and become some ugly Def Leppard wannabees. I may be wrong, I never listened to these albums again, but my memory of their mid/late 80s albums makes me very reluctant to try again. Pointers to any good stuff not present in this post are welcome. Then they retired. Then they came back - do not miss the formidable Live At Wacken - and the last three albums are just heavy metal gold (pun semi-intended). Absolutely classic hard rocking stuff! Except for the occasional ballad. NB: as a rule, on all albums you can just skip the awful ballad. No ballad on Wild Cat! Tygers of eternal Top Ten Hard Rock City! Fist in the air! Remove brackets and unzip: [NWOBHM will never die] !ZER Tygers Of Pan Tang ZER!