Description

Double album on one green and one brown vinyl featuring, for the first time, both recordings of this classic album on the same release. With gatefold cover and lyric insert. Limited 500 copies

Back in 1986 Sodom went into the studio to record their debut full length, ‘Obsessed By Cruelty’. 12 bestial tracks were hammered onto tape and presented to the label. The label didn’t agree and Sodom was sent into another studio to re-record the songs. The second attempt was approved and released. Tom Angelripper explains the story of how 2 different recordings of “Obsessed
By Cruelty” came to be released: “We recorded this album twice. The first version was recorded in Berlin and the record company said that: No, it is awful – so bad and shit. We had to
record it twice and the second recording we did nearby in Nurberg, Germany. This recording has one bonus track because we had another guitar player. It was a completely different recording and as for that trash press made in Berlin, it was just for the US import. And it was a mistake of the company as they changed the tapes, so there was a complete new recording of “Obsessed By Cruelty”.

Track listing:
Disc 1: Casablanca recording / American version
1. Intro
2. Deathlike Silence
3. Brandish The Sceptre
4. Proselytism Real
5. Equinox
6. Obsessed By Cruelty
7 Fall Of Majesty Town
8. Nuctemeron
9. Pretenders To The Throne
10. Witchhammer
11. Volcanic Slut

Disc 2: Hilpoltstein recording / German version
1. The Rebirth-intro
2. Deathlike Silence
3. Brandish The Sceptre
4. Proselytism Real
5. Equinox
6. After The Deluge
7. Obsessed By Cruelty
8 Fall Of Majesty Town
9. Nuctemeron
10. Pretenders To The Throne
11. Witchhammer
12. Volcanic Slut