{"id":55092,"date":"2016-10-21T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=55092"},"modified":"2017-05-05T03:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T03:04:37","slug":"album-review-tygers-of-pan-tang-tygers-of-pan-tang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-tygers-of-pan-tang-tygers-of-pan-tang\/","title":{"rendered":"TYGERS OF PAN TANG – Tygers Of Pan Tang (2016) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TYGERS OF PAN TANG
Tygers Of Pan Tang<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMighty Music (2016)<\/span>
Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I miss the days of Spellbound <\/em>(1981) and Crazy Nights<\/em> (1981), my two favourite Tygers Of Pan Tang records. That was a cross section of sound, style and music that included bands like UFO, Thin Lizzy, and even April Wine. The Tygers, like a lot of bands, began to shift and change in terms of that classic New Wave Of British Heavy Metal sound to a more MTV viable, commercial metal during the mid-to-late 80s, which in and of itself isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing if it\u2019s executed right.<\/p>\n

The Tygers did it well. And that leads me to their latest, self-titled disc which unfortunately isn\u2019t a return to Spellbound<\/em> and Crazy Nights<\/em>, but rather an extension of that commercial metal sound I mentioned above. Is it good? Yeah, it gets the job done. Is it great? I\u2019m afraid it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So, why just good? As far as commercial rock goes, it\u2019s not bad, they\u2019ve got that sound down to a tee and seem quite adept at doing it. This record in general rings heavy of the LA Sunset Strip days, and track two, \u2018Dust\u2019, really brings it home, sounding highly reminiscent of the band Wildside. It just isn\u2019t, say, \u2018Gangland\u2019 from Spellbound<\/em> or \u2018Do It Good\u2019 from Crazy Nights<\/em>. Same holds true for \u2018Glad Rags\u2019, which seems to be a better fit for a stripper pole dance than a Tygers Of Pan Tang record. Again, good beat, very catchy, lots of hooks, and really nothing to not<\/em> like about it. In fact, I\u2019m sure Warrant wishes they had written that song as well.<\/p>\n

\u2018Never Give In\u2019 also a rocker. It\u2019s a good party song; fast paced, energetic, and no complaints from a straight ahead metal standpoint. I don\u2019t even have an issue with the ballads; \u2018The Reason Why\u2019 in particular sounds great. If you gleaned anything what I\u2019ve written so far, this is a good commercial metal record. But if you\u2019re looking for any hints of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal past, you\u2019re not going to find it here. Their past and their present are literally worlds apart, which, by the way, would make a great song title for their next record. Obviously, I\u2019m being flippant, but it may not be too far from the truth. And in their defence, another band I mentioned above, April Wine, kind of went down a similar path as well. Check out April Wine\u2019s 1993 Attitude<\/em> album and you\u2019ll see what I mean. <\/p>\n

About the best I can say about this self-titled record, the band\u2019s 11th full-length, is I like it as commercial metal, but if you\u2019re a looking for anything resembling the sorely missed New Wave Of British Heavy Metal sound, you\u2019re not going to find it here. Stick to their early records for that. But if you can appreciate the Tygers Of Pan Tang for who they are and the music they\u2019re making now, you\u2019ll connect with this record.<\/p>\n

Theron Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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