Been thinking about doing it yeah. Top 4 Sodom personally, at times it gets more brutal than Tapping The Vein, and that brutality and savagery haven't been matched by any other album after M-16, which makes it more special imo.

Their 3rd best album by a long shot, after Persecution Mania and Agent Orange. However this review is lackluster. For one thing, the reviewer recommended 3 of the weakest tracks, namely Addicted to Abstinence, Liquidation and Book Burning while ignoring the real gems, the title track, Tombstone, Cowardice and the majestic What Hell Can Create. Secondly, the successor of this album is inferior, but it is more popular because this album paved the way for its success, same as Persecution Mania paved the way for the success of Agent Orange, an inferior album compared to its predecessor.

Also, you need to be really tone-deaf to claim that Kreator was more influential and more technical than Destruction. The only album Kreator made that does fit this criteria is Terrible Certainty, but in terms of technicality Destruction were far and above them. Release from Agony is by far the most technical record out of all the records released by any of the Teutonic Thrash Trio.

Kreator's early phase was more clumsy (Endless Pain, Pleasure to Kill), uneven (Extreme Aggression) or diluted (Come of Souls). They were way too atonal while Sodom were more on the primitive side. Destruction was the superior band at least in the early phase as they made a well-rounded influential debut LP (neither of Kreator's and Sodom's debut LP's were superior quality wise), an even better successor and even when they became more technical, they did not fail.

Album Rating: 2.5

dunno its enjoyable but nothing remarkable

Album Rating: 4.0

park you disappoint me

Album Rating: 2.5

what can i say, it doesnt do much for me



was a 3.5 before but i listened to it for the first time in like 6-7 years

Album Rating: 2.5

its not easy being an elitist you know



i want to enjoy more stuff but its gotta be interesting

Album Rating: 4.0

I get it. I mean it's pretty obvious these guys just ripped off Winds of Plague, but if you take this at face value it's not awful.

Album Rating: 2.5

yea if i never hear another winds of plague song in my life it'll be too soon...

Album Rating: 3.5

Enjoyable, imo.

I do prefer M-16 a little bit more.

Album Rating: 2.5

enjoyable indeed !



a 2.5 is not a bad rating

Album Rating: 3.5

True, average is like saying, it is ok.

Album Rating: 2.5

i think im taking it one step further now that im changing my ratings



2.5 is like, this is enjoyable but not enough to want to revisit it



3 is something i recommend



2 is like... respectable but boring

Album Rating: 3.5

In a sense your right about the rating system.

A similar way to see it is upping Average to 3 instead of 2.5

Average right in the middle of the rating spectrum. Better equilibrium.

1-1.5-2-2.5. —-3— 3.5-4-4.5-5

Four choice on each side of a reasonable-average 3.0

(hihihi, of course i cannot change that 3 is good in sputnick )Was fun to think about.

Album Rating: 2.5

you cannot change what it means on the site, but you can change what it means for you personally, and thus how you use it! which is basically what im looking to do, and why im relistening to a lot of things



i think its more useful to have more gradations on the positive, to quantify how good the good stuff is, than on the bad side. so its like: 2 is ok-ish but boring, 1.5 is bad, 1 is really bad thats all i need.

Album Rating: 3.5

~~i think its more useful to have more gradations on the positive, to quantify how good the good stuff ~~ ya, got your point m8

I think that visually we are accustom to judge the 2.5 really too harshly. ( mentally associate with 2-poor)

When, like you said, in fact 2.5 is average, it is ok, it is not bad.

Cool, candid exchange m/

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

tombstone!!!!!

Album Rating: 3.5

My first Sodom album. Listened to it in 2003 when I was 9.

Album Rating: 2.5

nice

Album Rating: 3.5

Thrash was definitely my first musical genre I actively listened to, but Sodom was the first piece of music I ever heard. I was like 4 or 5 at a Halloween shop and Sodom was playing over the speakers, IDK why I liked it but I did and I told my mom I wanted it. I don't remember what happened after that but my mom said she asked the dude what the band name was and the guy told her who it was but said it probably wasn't a good idea to get me any of their albums cause of what they talk about.



My mom figured I wouldn't understand any of it anyways so the guy let her have a burned CD with random Thrash songs on it, except I only listened to the Sodom track "Jabba the Hut", I don't think I touched the other tracks on there. When I was 9 and still a fan, I asked her to buy me my first Sodom album, which was this one in 2003. Fucking nostalgia.



She was right, I loved it but didn't understand a word of it till I was 15 lmao