REBUILDING ANTI-TANK GUITAR
created by Matt Shultz (Lab Report, Pigface)
Some of you may remember when Matt Shultz first created the Anti Tank Guitar in 1990. In Matt’s own words, “The ATG was not a novelty or a prop. It was a purpose-built instrument designed to generate extreme textures, low-frequency mass, and mechanical resonance that traditional guitars could not produce. That sound became a core sonic element of Lab Report and was used with Pigface. It shaped the dark ambient, industrial, and gothic landscapes. The ATG appeared on more than nine albums and helped define a very specific era of experimental music.”
“This project is about rebuilding the ATG from the ground up, matching the original design, materials, and intent as closely as possible. It is about preservation, reconstruction, and honoring a lost instrument that helped shape a genre. This project is not about nostalgia. It is about restoring a missing piece of industrial music history and letting that sound exist again, in the place where its story belongs.”
If the Kickstarter goal is achieved, we will be having an intimate event at PPIM featuring the ATG and special visuals presented by Tristan Rudat! One of the tiers on the Kickstarter gets you a free admission to the event – check out the full details on the ATG and donate to it’s recreation below!
UPCOMING EVENTS AT PPIM
There are still some tickets available for a tour this weekend, Saturday at 2pm. Next week, Martin is in Chicago on Spring Break from Millikin, so we’re hosting a week-day tour Wednesday, March 18! You can find all the upcoming event details on our event page, linked below!
Stay tuned for updates on a very special Founders-Only Listening Event with specially designed engineering monitors, Flowers of Romance Revisited in April, special guest Curse Mackey in May, the return of the Anti-Tank Guitar in June, and so much more!
Don’t forget, you can always book a Private VIP Tour HERE, or the Ultra VIP Tour HERE.
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Video: Martin Atkins sharing Albini Demos and Live Beginnings Vinyl – now shipping!
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NOW SHIPPING!
The Albini Demos and Live Beginnings Vinyl have finally arrived and are ready to ship!
MORE ABOUT THE RELEASE:
We’ve merged forces with Overdrive Recordings in Italy to bring you a special vinyl edition of “The Albini Demos and Live Beginnings ’88”, a raw, essential and indispensable testimony of an era that defined Killing Joke’s history. On one side you will find the ‘origins’ with the demo sessions, mixed by Steve Albini, where essential ideas of Killing Joke‘s sound were born. The legendary ‘Black Cassette’ contained these demos!
On the other side there’s a true rarity Excerpts from Martin Atkin’s very first show with the band at Burberries in Birmingham on Dec 20th 1988! That night saw the live debut of Extremities, The Fanatic, Intravenous, Beautiful Dead. A piece of history that would have defined a new era for the band. Pressed on red vinyl. Please limit your vinyl order to 2 copies!
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