Sodom discography explained

Artist:Sodom
Studio:16
Live:3
Compilation:3
Video:3
Ep:7
Singles:3
Option:2
Option Name:Demos

The following is a comprehensive discography of Sodom, a German thrash metal band. Formed in 1982, they have so far released sixteen studio albums, three live albums, two compilations, a DVD, two EPs, three singles, and two demos.

The band are considered one of the three biggest Teutonic thrash metal acts, the other two being Kreator and Destruction. While the other two bands developed a sound that has influenced death metal, Sodom created a sound that has influenced many black metal bands that formed in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Albums

Studio albums

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Notes
1986Obsessed by Cruelty Two versions of Obsessed by Cruelty were issued in a short space of time. The original mix was pressed up, but then not found to be satisfactory and so the entire album was remixed.[1]
1987Persecution Mania
  • Released: December 1987
  • Label: Steamhammer
"A virtual tour de force of blinding speed and blunt force, it is also arguably the best album of Sodom's checkered career."[2]
1989Agent Orange
  • Released: June 1989
  • Label: Steamhammer
1990Better Off Dead
  • Released: October 1990
  • Label: Steamhammer
1992Tapping the Vein
  • Released: August 1992
  • Label: Steamhammer
"... Sodom attempted to make the transition from thrash to death themselves with 1992's Tapping the Vein."[3]
1994Get What You Deserve
  • Released: January 1994
  • Label: Steamhammer
1995Masquerade in Blood
  • Released: June 1995
  • Label: Steamhammer
1997'Til Death Do Us Unite
  • Released: 24 February 1997
  • Label: Steamhammer
1999Code Red
  • Released: 31 May 1999
  • Label: Drakkar
2001M-16
  • Released: 22 October 2001
  • Label: Steamhammer
2006Sodom
  • Released: 21 April 2006
  • Label: Steamhammer
"Following the best 3 albums of their career and a five-year hiatus, their self-titled umpteenth album rekindles all the elemental power that won them so many denim-clad followers in the eighties."[4]
2007The Final Sign of Evil
  • Released: 28 September 2007
  • Label: Steamhammer
The Final Sign of Evil contains a complete re-recording of their 1984 EP In the Sign of Evil and previously unreleased material not included on the EP.
2010In War and Pieces
  • Released: 19 November 2010 (Germany), 22 November 2010 (Europe), 11 January 2011 (USA)
  • Label: Steamhammer
2013Epitome of Torture
  • Released: 26 April 2013 (Germany), 7 May 2013 (USA)
  • Label: Steamhammer
2016Decision Day
  • Released: 26 August 2016 (Germany)
  • Label: Steamhammer
2020Genesis XIX
  • Released: 27 November 2020
  • Label: Steamhammer

Live albums

YearAlbum detailsclass=unsortableNotes
1988Mortal Way of Live
  • Released: October 1988
  • Label: Steamhammer
Sodom toured Europe in 1988 with Whiplash and recorded Mortal Way of Life, the "first ever double live thrash [metal] album".[5]
1994Marooned Live
  • Released: September 1994
  • Label: Steamhammer
2003One Night in Bangkok
  • Released: 28 July 2003
  • Label: Steamhammer

Compilation albums

YearAlbum detailsNotes
1996Ten Black Years
  • Released: 2 December 1996
  • Label: Steamhammer
"As was the case with their very uneven career, Sodom's two-disc 'greatest-hits' set, Ten Black Years, is not the sort of collection one can easily appreciate when heard from start to finish."[6]
2012
  • Released: 25 June 2012
  • Label: Steamhammer
202240 Years at War – The Greatest Hell of Sodom
  • Released: 28 October 2022
  • Label: Steamhammer

Extended plays

YearEP detailsNotes
1985In the Sign of Evil
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Steamhammer
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
Line-up:
  • Angelripper – vocals, bass
  • Grave Violator – guitars
  • Witchhunter – drums

Re-released in 1988 (and in 2001) with Obsessed by Cruelty on same disc by SPV.

1987Expurse of Sodomy
  • Released: March 1987
  • Label: Steamhammer
  • Formats: LP, cassette
Was also released as a picture disc.

Line-up:

  • Frank Godsdzik (aka Blackfire) – guitar
  • Christian Dudeck (aka Witchhunter) – drums
  • Thomas Such (aka Tom Angelripper) – bass, vocals
1989Ausgebombt
  • Released: 11 September 1989
  • Label: Steamhammer
1991The Saw Is the Law
  • Released: January 1991
  • Label: Steamhammer
1993Aber bitte mit Sahne
  • Released: October 1993
  • Label: Steamhammer
2014Sacred Warpath
  • Released: 28 November 2014
  • Label: Steamhammer
2018Partisan
  • Released: 23 November 2018
  • Label: Napalm Records
2019Chosen by the Grace of God
  • Released: 30 October 2019
  • Label: Legacy Magazine
2019Out of the Frontline Trench
  • Released: 22 November 2019[7]
  • Label: SPV/Steamhammer
2020A Handful of Bullets
20231982
  • Released: 10 November 2023[9]
  • Label: SPV/Steamhammer

Singles

YearSong detailsNotes
1989"Ausgebombt"
  • Released: 11 September 1989
  • Label: Steamhammer
1991"The Saw Is the Law"
  • Released: January 1991
  • Label: Steamhammer
1993"Aber bitte mit Sahne"
  • Released: October 1993
  • Label: Steamhammer
2022"1982"
  • Released: 12 August 2022
  • Label: Steamhammer

Video albums

YearVideo detailsNotes
1988Mortal Way of Live
  • Label: Sound & Vision
  • Format: VHS
1994Live in der Zeche Carl
  • Released: December 1994
  • Label: Steamhammer
  • Format: VHS
2005Lords of Depravity, Pt. 1
  • Released: 18 November 2005
  • Label: Steamhammer
  • Format: DVD
"A mix of biography and live onslaught, Lords of Depravity documents Sodom's career from 1982 to 1995."[10]
2010Lords of Depravity II
  • Released: 28 June 2010
  • Label: Steamhammer
  • Format: DVD
"Disc 1 features a band documentary, focusing from 1995–2009. Disc 2 includes live footage, video clips and deleted scenes 3 hours in length."[11]

Demo albums

YearAlbum detailsNotes
1982Witching Metal (fi) (pt)
  • Released: 1982
  • Label: self-released
  • Formats: cassette
Line-up:
  • Aggressor – guitar, vocals
  • Witchhunter – drums
  • Angelripper – bass, vocals
1984Victims of Death (fi) (pt)
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: self-released
  • Formats: cassette
"Satan's Conjuration" is an early version of the song "Conjuration" off Persecution Mania.

The main riff on the song "Witching Metal" on this demo is a bit different from the version of In the Sign of Evil.

Line-up:

  • Frank Testegen (aka Aggressor) – guitar, vocals
  • Christian Dudeck (aka Witchhunter) – drums
  • Thomas Such (aka Tom Angelripper) – bass, vocals

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography of Sodom. MusicMight. 2 August 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100504072653/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/germany/gelsenkirchen/sodom. 4 May 2010. dmy-all.
  2. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=persecution-mania-mw0000518765|pure_url=yes}} Review of ''Persecution Mania'']. Rivadavia. Eduardo. Allmusic. Macrovision. 2 August 2009.
  3. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=tapping-the-vein-mw0000621076|pure_url=yes}} Review of ''Tapping the Vein'']. Rivadavia. Eduardo. Allmusic. Macrovision. 2 August 2009.
  4. O'Connor. Rob. February 2007. In the Rear, Reviews. Revolver. Future US. 53. 108. 1527-408X. 2 August 2009.
  5. Book: Larkin, Colin. Colin Larkin (writer)

    . Colin Larkin (writer). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Guinness Publishing. 1995. 3864. 1-56159-176-9. registration.

  6. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=ten-black-years-the-best-of-sodom-mw0000520302|pure_url=yes}} Review of ''Ten Black Years: The Best of Sodom'']. Rivadavia. Eduardo. Allmusic. Macrovision. 2 August 2009.
  7. Web site: Sodom to Release 'Out of the Frontline Trench' EP In November. Blabbermouth.net. 4 September 2019. 13 November 2019.
  8. Web site: SODOM - Rock Hard Vol. 402 with exclusive "A Handful Of Bullets" CD available for pre-order now. Alexandra Michels. 6 November 2020. 5 January 2023.
  9. Web site: SODOM To Release '1982' EP In November . BLABBERMOUTH.NET . 12 November 2023 . en . 25 August 2023.
  10. Web site: Music DVD Reviews. https://archive.today/20120710152640/http://exclaim.ca/motionreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid1=105&csid2=801&fid1=4929. dead. 2012-07-10. Wiebe Taylor. Laura. March 2006. Exclaim!. 2 August 2009.
  11. Web site: Sodom Announces New DVD. Metal Underground. 21 May 2010. 11 January 2011.

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