Trike's Trax

UNDER THE OAK started out as an 80’s Speed and Thrash Metal cover band playing songs from Exodus, Testament, Flotsam & Jetsam, Candlemass etc, until they had enough songs to do a full set of covers. The more they played and practiced, the more the  original thrash-riffs started turning up. While still playing covers they started putting a few UNDER THE OAK-originals into the shows. The result of this is the WICKED album RIPPED UP BY THE ROOTS, consisting of 10 original songs and 2 cover songs. As the band states : “Make no mistake, WE ARE STILL A TRIBUTE BAND and will continue paying homage to the eighties, but we will do so both through our own material and through cover songs”. A regular UNDER THE OAK show will be a mixture of this, but still weighing heavily on the cover material. So far, they’ve concentrated on American stuff, for some reason, but now  focused a bit on Germany and there will be many surprises in the upcoming UNDER THE OAK-shows !! This album is what any speed/thrash metal fan would want : LOUD, FAST, HEAVY \m/\m/ Personally, I think these originals can go toe to toe with anything that’s out there today !! Max volume !!