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Sodom -Demonized cd

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Here we have the two Sodom demos in all their unholy glory… and crude is an understatement. There just is no debating that “In The Sign Of Evil” is an eternal masterpiece – not despite the sloppy playing, the walkman-in-a-cookie-box recording and the juvenile lyrics, but because of it… but what we have here is harsher, wilder, noisier and way, way more Neanderthal in spirit and execution, and hardly even sounding like the Sodom we all know and love. “Witching Metal”, the first demo, dates back to 1982. This was a time when there wasn’t even a “Show No Mercy” in record stores, so yes, it is truly pioneering in terms of speed, heaviness and ferocity. Four songs, all killer, no filler. The second demo, “Victims Of Death”, is only two years younger and slightly more mature in every aspect. The sound is better, but still as far away from a studio production as Def Leppard is from not sucking. All four “Witching Metal” songs have been re-recorded here and as much as I love straight up noise, I’ll have to admit that the new and improved sound suits them well. To wrap things up, this is extreme Metal history class… literally nothing sounded just like Sodom at the time, and even Sodom had a hard time keeping up the rhythms and sounding like Sodom. But the raw and evil energy makes up tenfold for what these recordings lack in musicianship. And no, I don’t care what you say… this is the first wave of Black Metal. The refined and defined Satanism came only years later, but it was bands like Sodom, Venom and Bathory who made the Devil proud with their youthful fanaticism and inspired legions of pimply teens to pick up instruments and bash out heinous raw noise. When all is said and done, these demos certainly are not for everyone. In fact, they’re hard to digest even if you like Mutiilation or any other band with a crappy sound. But they have value that goes way beyond nostalgia or a history lesson: good songs will always sound good, even if the medium is a wax cylinder.

Track list:
1. Devil’s Attack
2. Witching Metal
3. Life From Hell
4. Poisoned Blood
5. Witchhammer
6. Devil’s Attack
7. Let’s Fight
8. Victims Of Death
9. Life From Hell
10. Poisoned Blood
11. Satan’s Conjuration
12. Witching Metal

Additional information

Label

Floga Records

Catalogue Number

FL174CD

Release Year

2017