PANZERCHRIST - DENMARK

Six Seconds Kill – 1996 - Serious
Outpost - Fort Europa – 1999 - Serious
Soul Collector – 2000 – Mighty
Room Service – 2003 – Mighty
Battalion Beast – 2006 – Neurotic
Regiment Ragnarok – 2011 – Listenable
7th Offensive – 2013 - Listenable
Last Of A Kind - 2023 - Emanzipation
Maleficium Part 1 - 2024 - Emanzipation

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Members
Vocals
Angel Accelerator Death>>Lasse Hoile>>Angel Accelerator Death – Slasher, Mortor Rahm, Illdisposed>>Bo Summer>>Illdisposed, At The Grave – Adversary, Crocell>>Magnus Jørgensen>>Crocell – Modor, Exmortem>>Søren Lønne - Arsenic Addict>>SONJA ROSENLUND AHL

Guitar
Finn Henriksen>>Incipit, Allfader - Jes Christensen - Rasmus Normand>>The Burning - Kim Jensen – Frozen Sun, Angel Accelerator Death>>Michael Kopietz>>Angel Accelerator Death – Ofring, Die, Slow Death Factory>>Rasmus Henriksen>>Die, Slow Death Factory, At The Grave, Crocell, Illdisposed - Nidhug, Mordulv>>Frederik O'Carroll>>Mordulv – Goat, Mortor Rahm, Illdisposed, Slow Death Factory>>Lasse Bak>>Slow Death Factory, World War 5, TrenchRipper – Within Hate>>Nils Petersen>>Within Hate - Nidhug, Mordulv>>FREDERIK 'CARROLL - Texas, Cakewalk, Defilementory, Arsenic Addict>>DANNY BO PEDERSEN

Bass
Nicolej Brink - Karina Bundgaard - MICHAEL ‘PANZERGENERAL’ ENEVOLDSEN

Drum
Illdisposed, Angel Accelerator Death>>Michael Enevoldsen>>Angel Accelerator Death – Frozen Sun, Exmortem>>Reno Kiilerich>>Dimmu Borgir, Dew-Scented, Vile - Frozen Sun, Exmortem, Dimmu Borgir, Dew-Scented, Vile>>Reno Kiilerich – Konkhra, The Cleansing, Dreadlord>>Mads Lauridsen>>Dreadlord, Eldjudnir, Gestapolis, Warscum – Streams Of Blood, Paragon Belial, At The Grave, Belphegor, Marduk>>Simon "Bloodhammer" Schilling>>At The Grave, Belphegor, Marduk, Eucharist, Impalement - Indoctrination, Svartstot, Illnath, Ravishing, Satanic Assault Division, Akoma, Fairytale Abuse, Vanir, Poisoned Leaves, Sylvatica, Blackhorned, Heidra, Eldjudnir, Dreadlord, Caustic, Fjorsvartnir, Fall Of Pantheon, Crown The Beast, Vansind, Shadowspawn, Lotan, Trold, Thor Sejersen Riis, Detest>>DANNI JELSGAARD>>Vansind, Thor Sejersen Riis, Detest

Keyboard
Karina Bundgaard




History & Biography
This war metal act was founded in Aarhus in 1993 as Mr. Panzergeneral was leaving his post with Illdisposed. Several demos left to 1996’s Six Seconds Kill on domestic label Serious Entertainment. A couple of Frozen Sun members joined and brought material intended for a new record of that band with them. They moved to another Danish label for the third album. Karina Bundgaard joined on keyboards circa 1999. Bo Summer joined for Soul Collector whose titles were in German. He left and returned. According to the fourth album, tourists staying at hotels in Denmark should expect a tank ramming their rooms. Kiilerich left and returned. Michael Enevoldsen switched to bass for this album. Forever Panzer was a 2007 7” EP that re-issued the band’s 1995 demo. The band was on a hiatus at this point. Himmelfartskommando was a 2008 compilation of the band’s first two albums. Magnus Jørgensen became the singer for Regiment Ragnarok. This album was recorded independently before the group had a label. Morten Løwe Sørensen was supposed to drum, but Mads recorded with the band instead. The band was confined to the studio for years, but was booked for the Metal Magic Festival - Part IV at UngdommensHus in Fredericia, Denmark in 2011. The group had opted to play shows beginning in 2008. Bloodhammer became the drummer for Marduk in 2019.

A new album emerged from the band in 2023, but four out of five members were new in the line-up. The group was fronted by Ms. Sonja now. Guitarist O'Carroll had left in 2020 and returned in 2023. Drummer Jelsgaard was in every band possible. Having released a new album called Last Of A Kind, Panzerchrist was issuing a new four-track EP called All Witches Shall Burn through Emanzipation in January 2024. It was recorded at the same session as the Last Of A Kind album at Antfarm Studio with Tue Madsen. Further productivity came in late 2024 when Panzerchrist had an album called Maleficium Part 1 through Emanzipation on 06.12.2024. A single called Sister Death was available first.

The band’s full-length albums feature a tank on their covers as ‘panzer’ is German for ‘tank.’ Panzerchrist and Illdisposed are engaged in long-term wife-swapping. The band consistently used the same words as the last lines for its songs on its early albums.




Reviews

PANZERCHRIST - SOUL COLLECTOR - MIGHTY
Denmark's Panzerchrist have made the switch here from Serious to Mighty for album number three and executed a good album of Danish death metal. Featuring a revamped line up, and two former Illdisposed members, the band delivers titles and lyrics in German and so the label is quick to point out that the band is not fascist, right wing, etc. I personally don't care should the band be NAZI, right wing or whatever; but the appearance of the German lyrics just adds to song names like Our Highest Pride, Black is Our Tank (these are translated titles) or the name of the debut album which was Outpost Fort - Europa! The band blazes through pure death metal tunes here with lots of gusto and speed, and especially with the recent addition of Bo of Illdisposed behind the microphone the band has scored a formidable growler up front - even if the man is utilizing less effects than previously. Not much to fault here - I wish the band photo wouldn't have them all laughing silly though - and so fans of Danish death can surely pick this up without much hesitation. - Ali "The Metallian"

PANZERCHRIST - MALEFICIUM PART 1 - EMANZIPATION  
Panzerchrist’s 2024 album is interesting because, like 2023’s Last Of A Kind, it forgoes the tanks on the cover and points at an occult/anti-Christian theme that was first seen on the band’s debut. That debut was released in 1996, which is good to recall seeing that Panzerchrist is as brutal as ever - with a caveat.
First, Maleficium Part 1 features the full-length debut of guitarist Danny Bo Pedersen and drummer Ove Lungskov. Female singer Sonja Rosenlund Ahl has only been with Panzerchrist for two years. In short, no surprise if things have changed either a little or a whole lot. Except, Panzerchrist is still as brutal as anybody else ignoring the grade reducing keyboards that is. Why have them? Spooky effects are best created through guitars not keys. Perhaps it is not ironic that the keyboards are emphasised on the song Weak Is The Flesh. Still, aside from that, the song has a ripping riff. The bigger picture here is a brutal and sonically intrepid band that is singing of occult themes of witches and evil. The band, therefore, deviates from pure brutality, but the label is still correct when comparing the boys and girl to Vader and Belphegor, except Vader may be swapped out for Marduk in the description. The female vocals hiss and growl yet can be made out to some extent. The drum sound is not the heaviest, which is a pity, but all of us have heard more triggered drumming over the years so this isn’t exactly bad.
Blood Leeches is harsh and would have been harsher without the intro and keyboards. The song fades out for whatever reason. Sister Death lets the bass shine. Savage Daughter appropriately stands out for its wildness as much as anything can stand out in this melee of extremeness. Movie dubs are cliched by now, but one has to make an exception for the voice of Vincent Price sampled from 1968’s Witchfinder General. Additionally, the band’s overarching concept for this album and its presumably forthcoming follow-up is also relevant.
This album will first wipe the smile off faces before also stripping the paint off the walls. - Anna Tergel


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