Ernstv wrote:
Actually, I despise those first two Sodom records.
You must be kidding! "In the sign of evil" is my favorite thrash album of all times! Motorhead meets Tank meets Discharge blackness all the way! 100 / 10 !!!!
Sodom's In the Sign of evil is one of the highlights of thrash metal music.I don't understand why someone wrote bad production(?) the production is far more better than obsessed by cruelty.Second it contains only killer songs the ones that a thrash metal band should write.Third it is the debut album of one of the best drummers ever Witchhunter(when you come back?).Fourth it contains also the most VIOLENT of its time song ever performed BURST COMMAND TIL WARRRR!!!And last TA SPAEI OLA!
Ever noticed how the lead riff in "Outbreak Of Evil" is a total rip-off of MC5's classic "Kick Out The Jams"? Not that it make it any less a classic, quite the opposite...
"Obsessed.." was indeed a letdown. With even a half-decent production it could have been legendary, but as it is now... No.
there is still something I don't get... a lot of people don't like Obsessed By Cruelty for wrong reasons. a lot of them state the album is sloppy and rather simple, repetitive, that kind of shit. still, Obsessed By Cruelty is way more varied, has way more riffs, more tempochanges than anything Frank Godzik did write. listen to "Deathlike Silence" and then to "Conjuration"...
Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction...
Vicious Rumors new one seems to be pretty kick ass, although their only original member is Geoff Thorpe they have the old school great James Rivera on vocals on this album.