2008 Woodie Awards
Send in The Tanks
John C. Schlotfelt - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 6/15/06 Section: 80 Hours
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Today's the day. The members of Iowa City's treacherous trio The Tanks - after a year-and-a-half of drenching front rows with fake blood and wielding various incendiary devices onstage - are set to release their first full-length.
With Summon Creature, the band is looking forward to spreading its unique brand of drum-and-bass-fueled doom and gloom, using record stores to do so further and faster than ever before. Until now, Pull The Trigger, Bear, a five-song EP released last year, has been the band's sole recorded output.
Over the first two days of April, The Tanks barreled into Des Moines' Smoking Guns Studio and laid down the 10 tracks that would become the new record.
This is just the first step in the group's dastardly plan to take over the world, one 15- to 25- year-old white male at a time.
The Tanks, for a band so loud and abrasive, had a rather benign beginning, almost forming by accident.
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Dubuque natives Adam Luksetich and Steve Bennet have been friends since second grade, but they did not meet Kevin Koppes until high school during heated sessions of the fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering. In November 2004, when they had all moved to Iowa City, they finally rolled out The Tanks.
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