The release date of the of the new album "The Last Convoy" by the Polish Heavy Metal Band KAT on CD via PURE STEEL RECORDS is September 25th, 2020. The pre-order phase will start on September 11th, 2020 in Pure Steel Webshop.
KAT has always been an institution in Heavy and Thrash Metal, particularly since the days of “Metal And Hell”. This album, released in 1985 will still be in the hearts of traditional metal fans.
Now, with "The Last Convoy", KAT shows a new face, both to their own songs and to the sources from which they took their inspiration. For the first time we will hear KAT's covers of classics such as "Highway Star" by Deep Purple, "Blackout" by the Scorpions or "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC. Acoustic tracks like "Dark Hole - The Habitat Of Gods" also show a completely different side of KAT.
This 40th anniversary album, featuring a very special guest, is Great Metal, made for anyone who enjoys a surprise!
TRACKLIST:
1. Satan´s Nights
2. The Last Convoy
3. Mind Cannibals
4. Highway Star
5. Dark Hole - The Habitat Of Gods
6. Flying Fire 2020
7. Blackout
8. You Shook Me All Night Long
9. Hidden Track
Total Playing Time: 41:41 min
special guest:
on vocals:
Tim RIPPER Owens (song 6)
Henry Beck (song 3)
Maciej Lipina (song 5)
Paweł Steczek (song 5) - piano
ONLINE
LINEUP
Qbek Weigel – vocals
Piotr Luczyk – guitars
Adam „Harris" Jasiński – bass
Mariusz Prętkiewicz – drums
BIOGRAPHY/LOGO
The metal legend and trash trailblazer from behind the Iron Curtain was established as an instrumental group by Piort Luczyk, the band’s guitarist in 1979. Two years later, on the eve of the introduction of the Martial Law in communist Poland the band is joined by a vocalist.
Following several successful gigs and festivals and a win at the most renowned Eastern Europe rock festival in Jarocin in 1984, KAT was noticed by Western experts and records its first album “Metal and Hell” under the Belgian “Ambush Records” label.
The planned European tour does not come to fruition due to political turmoil behind the Iron Curtain - the band members are denied passports to travel.
At home KAT supports a number of bands including Hanoi Rock and Pretty Maids and joins Metallica on their Polish leg of the Master of Puppets tour.
The band spends next years focusing on studio albums.
In 1998 KAT is honoured with the only tribute album ever for a Polish band. “Czarne zastepy” features such heavy-weights as Vader and Behemoth and their renditions of KAT’s tracks.
The band tours with Motorhead, Killer and Iron Maiden.
In 2005 as part of the „Mind Cannibals” promo tour KAT joins Six Feet Under for their European tour. The band then joins Helloween for a tour together.
In 2006 the band suspends activity.
Piotr Luczyk organises music festivals in Europe: Metallica ZLOT in Poland and Germany and the biggest European Cover Festival.
In 2014 KAT unexpectedly returns with the acoustic-symphonic record “Acoustic - Osiem filmow”
In 2016 the band enters the studio where it records their latest material, mysteriously named “Without Looking Back”.
A new chapter begins...
DISCOGRAPHY
Metal and Hell - 1986
666 - 1986
Oddech wymarłych światów - 1988
Bastard - 1992
Ballady - 1993
...Róże miłości najchętniej przyjmują się na grobach - 1996
Szydercze zwierciadło - 1997
Mind Cannibals - 2005
Acoustic - 8 filmów - 2014
Without Looking Back - 2019
The Last Convoy - 2020
GENRE/COUNTRY
Thrash Metal
Poland