Spellbound (Tygers of Pan Tang album) explained

Spellbound
Type:studio
Artist:Tygers of Pan Tang
Cover:Tygers of Pan Tang - Spellbound.jpg
Released:10 April 1981 [1]
Recorded:January 1981
Studio:Morgan Studios, London
Genre:Heavy metal
Length:34:27
Label:MCA
Producer:Chris Tsangarides
Prev Title:Wild Cat
Prev Year:1980
Next Title:Crazy Nights
Next Year:1981

Spellbound is the second album by British heavy metal band Tygers of Pan Tang, produced in 1981 on MCA. Spellbound is the first of two full length Tygers of Pan Tang albums to feature John Sykes as second guitarist, who later joined Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake. It is also the first album with vocalist Jon Deverill.The album was re-issued in 1989 in a double-LP package with Wild Cat and on CD in 1997 with bonus tracks.[2]

"Hellbound" was covered by American thrash metal band Heathen as a bonus track for the album Victims of Deception as well as German NWOBHM tribute act Roxxcalibur on their 2011 sophomore release, Lords of the NWOBHM, while "Gangland" was covered by German thrash metal band Kreator in 1987 on their "Behind the Mirror" single and on 1988 EP Out of the Dark... Into the Light.

Track listing

Personnel

Band members
Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tygers of Pan Tang albums.
  2. Web site: Tygers of Pan Tang - Spellbound . 2011-03-17 . Encyclopaedia Metallum.