Wehrmacht "biermacht"

In 1989 I remember seeing ads for this record in magazines like "Rip" and "Metal Mania". The thrash metal and crossover scenes were in full swing and I was really caught up in the movement.  This record looked really cool to me, the album art featured a Mad Magazine style illustration of the denim clad longhairs riding a tank made out of a beer keg. Totally appealed to a seventeen year old version of myself.  My friends and I spent a lot of energy searching out illicit means to obtain beer. An essential part of headbanger culture was "partying" which translated to a handful of dudes chugging warm beer on a garbage picked couch in a vacant lot.  This album cover promised a soundtrack for this endeavour.  I never found the album.  It's promising purpose haunted me though for years.  As the world would have it the record label that produced the album went belly up in the early nineties.  The record went out of print and thrash metal ran it's course and evolved into a prefix for other subgenres of metal.  About ten years ago thrash metal had a resurgence and new bands began paying homage to the sound and aesthetic of the thrash metal heyday.  I was poking around the new bands and enjoying the nostalgic appeal which led me to reexamine the discs of my youth. This in turn led me to study what critics believed to be the essential releases of thrash.  In those article I rediscovered this album's art and hunted down a reissue online.  I would have loved chugging warm Genny pounders to this as a teenager, but as a 44 year old I'll crack open a micro-brew IPA from Vermont and sip while nodding in approval on headphones as not to wake the kids. It's blurry fast and all mid-range production washing over me (through headphones) like a siren song to a simpler time. Well, this is what I'd be doing if I hadn't written this at 8am after walking my kids to the school bus stop.  The next beer I drink is for you #wehrmacht , it took us a while to hook up and both of our hangovers probably last a great deal longer now, but I'm glad I followed through and gave this album a chance three decades after it's release.