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Unhuman

by Tankist

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1.
Just Another Union You weren't born to be a slave yet one you were and still remain. Dancing between east and west - being low is what you do best. Think, think! Not if you're able or rich. Drink, drink! Celebrate your weakness, bitch. Free speech! Until your mouth shut we'll stitch. In reach! The hole where you'll be ditched. Soviet terror and its iron fist reign - idol of unions for the squeeze remains. Synonymous USSR and EU felt comfortable at mastering you. Don't talk back, it's a liberty you lack. Our power, our way, you shut up and obey! Double think! Jail is freedom's substitute. Rights shrink! Supremacy is absolute!!! Hate speech! When your tongue cuts too sharp. Brain leech! They suck under your scalp. Don't talk back 'cause our rules prohibit that. Our power, our way, you shut up and obey! Oh, you said it just for fun? We laugh and hang you by the tongue. Our power, our way, you shut up and obey!
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Choose Death 04:03
Choose death Step in to be told the truth, Quran will make you smarter. Death for Islam can be smooth, the mosque makes martyrs. Allahu akbar! Sacred killers dealing peace, armed religion-surgeons. Red carpet - body pieces pave the way for ISIS' truck of Nice to virgins. Put on your bomb belt... Boom! Airway to heaven. Allah knows best! He does! And he commands death! Choose death! Choose death! Choose death! Choose death! Put on your bomb belt... Boom!
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Miserytomb 04:39
Miserytomb Please go away, escape concern this is advice, now it's your turn: seize the chance, save your sanity, leave me to me, myself and agony. I'm not here, for sympathy is scoff, to a stroll with corpse in me I'm off. Another evening, yet another spin, dry fire and another wrenching win. I've dug this hole myself for me, Misery! A dreary tomb, a tempting mystery. I don't live life, I die death, I wait the final breath, if I could I would die a megadeath. Don't weep, it won't help me go, euthanasia would end woe. Like a rabid dog deranged utmost that bites the hand that pets it most, like a drug addict without a dose I cut off those who ever get close. No one to kill me, no one to kill, I fill the cup with poison to spill. The reaper even says to me with wrath: you're a failure in both life and death.
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Suffo6ion 04:45
Suffo6ion Feel my hand around your neck, lurking fingers of death bring you pleasure. Oh I bet - a murky coffin makes you wet. Suffo6ion! Feel me deep! See the snake slithering. Suffo6ion! Bloody creek. Thighs with want quivering. Suffo6ion! The great affliction. A luscious sin. Suffo6ion! A crucifixion, ex Christian's only thrill. I see the cuts profound, relish in the knife. So you wanna die, why not suicide? Oh, you want to kill? It ain't gonna be me! The fun is done, I fuck and run!
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Waste of Bones You again – a pointless joke, I would, but void I cannot choke. You're a waste of skin and bones, we share blood, I'd rather stones. Wanna know what would help me best to get rid of you, fucking pest! Booze and drugs spur ideas... sure! Scurvy lies to get a cure. Your reasoning's disintegration will end in your humiliation. Don't you fucking smirk at me, I'm better than you'll ever be. Mental midget, empty skulled, unworthy, dubious and dull. Wanna know what would help me best to get rid of you, fucking pest! I don't need a bloody knife, it's fun to watch your meager life.
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Godspear 04:36
Godspear Across the sea and in your land, on fertile hills and in the sand I've lived thousands of years, killed thousands every year, I am godspear! Prehistoric mind disease infecting infidels with ease. World will face my will in tears, hurled to kill with no frontiers. I am godspear! Throw away all your ways. You will crave a mental grave. I am not seen but felt. I do not deal but my will is dealt. You must adhere and love the fear, trust me, dear, thrust the godspear! I've outlived thousands of men yet I ain't god nor spear, but man.
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Conveyor Care Strapped to a mattress and ready to go, the motor shines with a blood red glow. Ominous needle descends from up high, initial insertion is aimed at the eye. Vital retinas sucked to a test tube, meaning of cycle of life renewed. The lids come off with a CNC cut, eyes forever open and shut. Grade A medicine industrialized trades immortality in disguise. In bags go experimental defects. Flesh trash flow. Conveyor care corrects. Phase two: the buzzsaw section, titan blades produce perfection. Largest one heads for the knees while the horror trims my pleas. Clever pills evoke castration, courage crushing crucial ration. Shut the need for feels and sex, the paleomammalian cortex. For every problem there's a trick: prosthetic bones and limbs and dick. Features skinned, strangers twinned. Blood blocked and lungs locked. Knotted, dried all intestine. Vacant stare, conveyor care. Motor functions must prevail with the nerves and processed brain. What we can we will retail, the rest can go down the drain. Start the process recombine! Cumulative transmutation. Start the process redefine! Cell-level cyborgification. Stand up straight, activate! Useful socioneutral system. Back to crate, deactivate! I have become one of them. I think, therefore I am but is it me or something other? I think I don't know who I am, do I descend from my mother?
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I Know What You Are! You were sleeping, babe, at another man's place. „It was nothing” you claimed to me in grace. Just constant lies with no shame in your face. Love concept died, I came here to erase, too! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! A stream of dismay in your gaze, extreme disgust set me ablaze. What was is now a hateful stigma, you to me a vile enigma. I know WHAT you are, deceitful snake! You crawled to me, a dear mistake. Ahahahaa! I feel like going a bit psycho! Me, my trusty knife & co will make in death you be my wife if fake and whore you were in life. Some incisions here and there, let's salt 'em up with some despair. Let's see how your new boy-toy enjoys you now. Does he know which slice is best, the one with pussy or two breasts? Shut the fuck up, he won't come, close your mouth, it stinks of cum. Blah-he loves you-blah-he'll save you... With a hammer in the cranium?!?? I ain't done with you yet... Bitch! Enough lies, give up your tongue let's carve out those screaming lungs! Oh! What a nice surgical precision, you look exactly like I visioned. I know what you are, deceitful snake! You crawled to me, a dear mistake. You let me down, it comes around, I'll let you down, into the ground. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

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Featured by Grizzlybutts in the list of 20 underground thrash metal albums you missed in 2017: "Tankist's style is a combination of traditional heavy metal and thrash riffing that uses more of a stream of consciousness approach rather than pure thrash ‘riff salad’ (...) and the result is what more rigid thrashers would call a progressive thrash record. If you love thrash metal for its guitar focused runs above all else there is a mild level of interesting hard rock and speed metal tropes tossed into the mix that make ‘Unhuman’ a captivating listen." Check the full list here: bit.ly/3qhR0rh

„Impactful Prog Thrash with mind blowing rhythm changes and many special ideas! A natural sound reminiscent of Juggernaut, Voivod, Kreator/Exodus etc, I think Thrash fans will love this style!“ – Masaki „Gezol“ Tachi (Sabbat, Metalucifer)

"I am looking forwards to future content from Tankist, given how generally good Unhuman turned out. My previous experience with modern thrash metal has often lead me to expect simpler, more direct fare (the occasional Vektor aside), so when you get something more ambitious like this album, it's always a pleasure." - 85/100 by Jessica Kagan. Full review: bit.ly/3obgjJP

"Definitely best of what I heard from Estonia in recent years. Unexpected and provoking. Diverse, technical, yet organic, recalling the mighty 90's. For the freaks of Destruction, Heathen and Mekong Delta." - Dainius "Stabmeldys" Žičkus from Dissimulation.

"Most impressive is the fact none of the tracks are repetitive – not an easy feat when it comes to thrash. The twin guitars and polymorphic battery eschew cookie cut patterns while allowing for repeated listens thanks to all the little nuances and derivative tangents within." - 83/100 by Eric Moreau. Full review: bit.ly/3qfJQEc

"There’s this rampant stream-of-consciousness-like creative flow at play the guys not willing to put bridles on their imagination regardless of where it may take them." - 81/100 by Ivan Muhov. Full review: bit.ly/2Vl96uo

"Eighties Coming Back! Nice nostalgic stuff in one way. On the other hand I'm very happy that Tankist doesn't pick the easy road and doesn't shamelessly put the record together of Slayer's, Sodom's and Kreator's riffs like most of the new wave of thrash bands do. Delightfully technical and in some parts even avant-garde. I can't help but get reminded of groups like Nasty Savage, Watchtower, Coroner etc. Exactly the more progressive kind of thrash bands eclipsed by big names." - Ahto-Lembit "Lembetu" Lehtmets from Loits.

"This record deserves a sit in every thrash metal fans' collection shelf, and I recommend that you guys should keep your radar on this band in the future years to come." - 85/100 by Felix Headbanger. Full review: bit.ly/2JpZlJ1

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released November 9, 2017

Recording line-up
Kevin Marks – guitar, bass, vocals
Ivo Laanelind – guitar
Simo Atso – drums

All music – Kevin Marks
Synthesizer – Kevin Marks
All lyrics – Kevin Marks and Fengarm (Rainer Parijõgi)
Cover art & "Godspear" illustration – Fengarm
"The Plastic Age" illustration - Iiris Tisler
Recording & engineering – Henry Torm
Mix & 2022 remaster – Margus Traumann

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Estonian extreme metal since 2013. Tankist sculpts their style around old school thrash, often boldly exploring new facets of the genre. After their first raw years, Tankist already redefined themselves by the audaciously eccentric debut LP “Unhuman”. With the sophomore album "Forced Equal" released in 2023, Tankist set off to conquer the darkest corners of blackened thrash akin to avant-garde. ... more

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