The Tygers are roaring again,
with a new EP titled "A New
Heartbeat" released on February
25, 2022 for Mighty Music,
Tygers Of Pan Tang accompany us
along the road that leads to the
new album of the British band
that is still in working phase.
Not only pioneers but among the
greatest exponents of that
fantastic movement that goes by
the name of NWOBHM, in the last
two years the band has not only
had to face, like everyone else,
a world pandemic but also to
face training problems. This new
work in fact marks the recording
debut for the new guitarist
Francesco Marras and although
these four tracks has Gav Gray
on bass, currently with Tank,
his place is permanently
occupied by the new bassist Huw
Holding from Blitzkrieg.
New lifeblood, therefore that
runs in the veins of the band
whose beating heart has now seen
Robb Weir and Craig Ellis since
2001 (year of reformation) and
since 2008 Jacopo Meille, these
three musicians have been joined
over the years by real talents
with which the Tygers have
managed to build a new
credibility, recapture the old
audience and create new ones
with a series of convincing and
never repetitive albums,
together with a constant live
activity that obviously remains
the main focus around which life
takes place of a rock band of
this genre.
Among the four tracks proposed
we find the energetic and
exquisitely melodic "A New
Heartbeat", where the dances are
led by an incisive and
contagious vocal track, and the
powerful and dynamic "Red Mist",
a piece that shows us a band
always in shooting, hungry,
capable of an inspired song
writing and accompanied by a
surgically precise production.
The work of revising the
historical catalogue of the band
also continues in this record,
which has re-recorded and
released many tracks included in
their first three albums over
the last few years. In this case
"Fireclown" and "Killers", from
the debut album "Wild Cats",
enjoy this treatment and here an
applause goes to the singer Jack
Meille who does a remarkable job
in shaping and making proper of
the vocal lines that , it must
be said, they are not really
examples of vocal technique and
intonation, without detracting
from the legendary Jess Cox who
certainly contributed with his
style and timbre to the success
of that rough diamond that is
"Wild Cats".
These are the Tygers Of Pan Tang
of 2022, a band that bites the
brake waiting to be able to
return to tread the stages in
absolute tranquillity but that
at least does not give up and
reacts with new ideas and a
never dormant desire to be
present and protagonist doing
what he does best, playing
Rock'n'Roll.
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