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High Roller Records, black/ orange splatter vinyl, ltd 400, reissue 2022, 425gsm high gloss cardboard cover, lyric sheet, poster, A5 photo, bonus track, remix version, remastered & restored
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The Tyrant - vocals Mark Briody - guitars, vocals (backing), keyboards Joe Tafolla - guitars, vocals (backing) John Tetley - bass Rick Hilyard - drums
- Licensed to Kill - Warfare - Symphony of Terror - Harder than Steel - Generally Hostile - The Watching - Reign of the Tyrants - Cardiac Arrest - The Crucifix - Interlude - Black Sunday (bonustrack)
Recorded at Startsong Studio Colorado. Engineered by Tom Gregor.
Produced by JAG PANZER & Tom Gregor. Remastered from digital transfers of the original studio tapes by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY, December 2012.
Following Jag Panzer's debut EP »Tyrants« from 1983, Azra/Iron Works quickly issued the first full-length album entitled »Ample Destruction« a year later. With its iconic artwork, »Ample Destruction« surely rates as one of the Top 10 US Metal album of all time. Just in time for »Ample Destruction« guitar wizard Joey Tafolla had joined the original line up of Mark Briody (guitars), John Tetley (bass), Rick Hilyard (drums) and Harry Conklin (vocals). Mark Briody welcomed the arrival of the then new 'guitar god' with open arms: “We found Joey in the classified section of musicians looking for bands in Orange County, California. While we were living in California at the time, we were looking for a second guitarist and Joey drove up from Orange County and auditioned. Things took off from there. Joey was a really talented guitarist. Once we moved back to Colorado and played out and Joey was showing his skilled guitar playing, he was already being dubbed a guitar god. Joey's song writing skills also came in handy bringing expanded ideas to the table. He was heavily influenced by Rainbow and especially Ritchie Blackmore, so we were able to do guitar harmonies live.” Comparing »Ample Destruction« with »Tyrants«, it quickly becomes evident that the sound on the album was far superior to that of the debut EP. Mark Briody explains: “Well, the budget for »Ample Destruction« was way bigger than what John and I had spent on the EP. We were also spending more time on »Ample Destruction« in the studio as far as recording and mixing was concerned. The song writing on the album was also more mature in a lot of ways compared to that on the EP. There were some great melodies on there for sure.” According to Mark, however, the pool of songs to choose from was not as big as one could have imagined: “Basically just the amount of songs that were on »Ample Destruction«, songs we were already working on while we were living in California and before Joey was in the band. I am talking of numbers such as 'License To Kill', 'Symphony Of Terror' and 'Generally Hostile'. And once Joey got in the band I remember at the house we were living at in California, we were working on songs like 'Warfare' and 'Harder Than Steel'. Everything else was written at John's parents house back in Colorado. All songs were brand new compositions except 'The Crucifix' which we had been working on before with the demos.” With "Black Sunday" the High Roller edition of »Ample Destruction« contains a bonus track, which was written by Harry 'The Tyrant' Conklin (and added to the album at a later time). Mark comments: “Harry had written 'Black Sunday' while we were still living in California. There was not enough room on the record to physically put that song on the original issue of »Ample Destruction«. So we kept it off until we thought we could maybe use it as a B-side or something.” The »Ample Destruction« album was originally released in 1984 on Azra/Iron Works, the same label which had been responsible for the »Tyrants« EP as well. Mark: “Dave Richards said we should just go ahead and put out a full-length album of songs, so we just ended up staying with Dave. He was also going to pay for the recording this time, so we just stayed with Azra/Iron Works.” The cover artwork for »Ample Destruction« was once again absolutely brilliant, showing an indirect connection to that of »Tyrants«. “The artwork for »Ample Destruction« had already been completed way before the cover for the EP was conceived and painted,” explains Mark Briody. “When we were trying to think of something for »Ample Destruction«, Keith showed us the artwork that he had done a year or two before and we thought it would be perfect since it was the same character concept. So we went with it.” Matthias Mader

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ample Destruction Ample Destruction.JPG Studio album by Jag Panzer ReleasedAugust 1984 RecordedRecorded and mixed at Startsong Studio, Colorado Springs, Colorado Genre Heavy metalpower metal Length39:09 LabelAzra (original U.S.) Metalcore (1990 reissue) Metal Blade (1991 reissue) ProducerAndrew Banks and Tom Gregor Jag Panzer chronology Ample Destruction (1984)Dissident Alliance (1994)   Professional ratings Review scores SourceRating AllMusic[1] Ample Destruction is the first studio album released by American power metal band Jag Panzer, released in 1984. Originally released on Azra Records, a small independent label, it received poor marketing from the label, and thus became only an underground hit amongst the metal community, and was bootlegged repeatedly.
Songs No.TitleLength 1."Licensed to Kill"3:02 2."Warfare"5:11 3."Symphony of Terror"4:24 4."Harder than Steel"4:54 5."Generally Hostile"3:20 6."The Watching"4:10 7."Reign of the Tyrants"3:33 8."Cardiac Arrest"3:12 9."The Crucifix"7:19 Re-release No.TitleLength 1."Battlezones"3:38 2."Death Row"2:56 3."Metal Melts with Ice"4:10 4."Iron Shadows"5:54 5."Tower of Darkness"2:20 6."Licence to Kill"3:02 7."Warfare"5:11 8."Symphony of Terror"4:24 9."Harder than Steel"4:54 10."Generally Hostile"3:20 11."The Watching"4:10 12."Reign of the Tyrants"3:33 13."Cardiac Arrest"3:12 14."The Crucifix"7:19 15."Instrumental"0:59 16."Black Sunday"2:51 17."Eyes of the Night"6:06 18."Fallen Angel"3:13 Album line-up Harry Conklin – vocals Mark Briody – guitar Joey Tafolla – guitar John Tetley – bass guitar Rick Hilyard – drums Re-issues The album was re-issued officially twice by two different companies, though the track listings were the same, with three bonus tracks: "Black Sunday", "Eyes of the Night" and "Lying Deceiver".
There is also one other version of the album which includes four tracks from the Tyrants EP ("Battlezones", "Death Row", "Metal Melts with Ice" and "Iron Shadows"), one track from the Tyrants era ("Tower of Darkness") and four unreleased tracks from the Ample Destruction era ("Instrumental", "Black Sunday", "Eyes of the Night" and "Fallen Angel"). This version was marketed by Azra International and includes lyrics for all 18 tracks.

Jag Panzer came together in late 1981, being inspired by the onslaught of the new wave of British heavy metal. The original line-up consisted of Harry Conklin on vocals (later nicknamed the "Tyrant"), Mark Briody, the sole guitarist of the group in its first incarnation, John Tetley (bassist) and Rick Hilyard (drummer).[1] The band was known as Tyrant in its first incarnation, but they soon had to change the name, because another band already existed in California with that name.
They saw a poster featuring a German World War II tank, named Jagdpanzer literally "hunting tank" in German, but actually referring to what in English would be called a tank destroyer, which they decided to name their band after. They were, however, unable to pronounce the name correctly and as a result, dropped the letter "D" from the name and simply called it Jag Panzer.[2] The band, who were all in their late teens at the time, played at local venues in the Denver club circuit, and recorded an EP in 1983,[1] later known as Tyrants. In early 1984, the band recruited Joey Tafolla, a native of California, and promptly recorded their first album, Ample Destruction.[1]
After the release of the album, the band relocated to Southern California. Tafolla quit the band in 1986,[1] releasing a solo album, Out of the Sun, in 1987, while Conklin played with Riot for a brief period in the late 1980s, before forming his own band, Titan Force.[1] Without the two key members of the Ample Destruction line-up, Jag Panzer, or more accurately Briody and Tetley, as Hilyard had also been replaced by Reynold 'Butch' Carlson (who also left in 1986 along with Tafolla), revamped the band by recruiting vocalist Bob Parduba, and guitarist Christian Lasegue.[1]
The Swedish born drummer, Rikard Stjernquist, was added to the line-up and the band proceeded to record the follow-up to their debut LP. The album was recorded in late 1987,[1] but never got an official release.
By 1994, the band had reunited, this time with vocalist Daniel J. Conca, with Tetley and Briody on bass and guitar. Guitarist Chris Hostka and drummer Rikard Stjernquist were employed on their first official album in almost 10 years, Dissident Alliance.[1] It was released by the German indie label Rising Sun.
By 2014, Jag Panzer had commenced working on their tenth album for a near future release, also featuring lead guitarist Joey Tafolla for the first time since 1997's The Fourth Judgement.[3] Jag Panzer announced in August 2014 that it was looking for a new vocalist. However, it now appears that Harry Conklin has rejoined the group as of March 2015.[4] In October 2015 the band announced their new album title would be The Deviant Chord and would be released sometime in 2017. The album, which was released by SPV/Steamhammer on September 29, 2017, included a cover version of the Irish folk song "Foggy Dew".[5]
Jag Panzer's eleventh studio album, The Hallowed, is due for release in June 2023.[6]

Discography Studio albums Ample Destruction (1984) Dissident Alliance (1994) The Fourth Judgement (1997) The Age of Mastery (1998) Thane to the Throne (2000) Mechanized Warfare (2001) Chain of Command (2004, inedits in 1987) Casting the Stones (2004) The Scourge of the Light (2011) The Deviant Chord (2017) The Hallowed (2023) Other releases Tyrants (EP, 1983) Death Row (single, 1983) Demo 85 (1985) Demo 86 (1986) Shadow Thief (demo, 1986) Jeffrey Behind the Gate (single, 1994) The Return (demo, 1996) The Era of Kings and Conflict (DVD, 2002) Decade of the Nail Spiked Bat (best of/compilation, 2003) The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (single, 2005) Historical Battles – The Early Years (LP box set, 2013)[7]