2003 live release from the German thrash metal act featuring 25 tracks including a brand new song 'The Enemy Inside' plus a videoclip for 'Among The Weirdcong'. Steamhammer.

Pictures of atrocities, abominations of Western civilisation, war, brutalisation and devastation: Sodom, one of the very first German thrash metal bands, appear to have everything but calmed down in the twentieth year of their career, and (thankfully) they don’t really seem to be much the wiser: Sodom are still loud, tough, troublesome and totally committed. On August 11, 2001, Tom Angelripper (vocals, bass), Bernemann (guitars), and Bobby Schottkowski (drums) are scheduled to perform a gig at the Rock Pub in Bangkok, presenting a number of tracks off their new album M-16 to fans and journalists from all over the world. The lyrical theme of the record deals with the horrors of the Vietnam war. One day later, on August 12, there will be a spectacular world premiere as part of a free show in Saigon, Sodom being the first metal act from the West to play Vietnam.

In May of this year, the band visited both Asian countries, travelling Thailand and South Vietnam to get a first-hand impression of the country which still bears the scars of a devastating war. The three musicians did not only meet napalm bomb victims but also visited the famous war criminal museum in Saigon, which exhibits pictures of victims, decapitations and people disfigured by fragmentation bombs, plus a complete arsenal of missiles in all shapes and sizes (the biggest one weighing 6.8 tons!) and jars containing the bodies of deformed babies, victims of the toxin Agent Orange. The defoliant was used by the American army in the merciless clashes during the war and causes severe deformations for at least four generations. At the same time the band took part in an extensive tour of the 200 km Cu Chi tunnel system, which the population used for underground operations.

The new album M-16 is due out at the end of October on Steamhammer/SPV and deals with the barbarity and effects of the brutal Vietnam war, which raged between the southern and the northern part of the country during the Sixties, with around 500,000 US troops fighting Eastern Block military. Sodom continue a long tradition of politically committed and socially conscious albums that Angelripper & Co. started with Agent Orange and Code Red.

1991 album by the German death/ thrash metal trio. 12 tracks.

Sodom 继成功屏弃了黑暗包装之后，于89年发表了这张更具“明星”气质的Thrash专集——Agent Orange。这张专集无论录音、乐队的技术、Thrash应具有的速度，流畅、还是快速中重量级的旋律，以及更现实化的反战主题，似乎从任何方面看，它都没有不成为经典的理由。
相比上张，在快速的同时更兼顾了旋律，很明显在Thrash节奏中夹带了很多有和弦走向的节奏型，但一切仍重量感十足。相对多数美国风格的Thrash团体，Sodom极端的同同时要细腻的多，非常注意小节，这也似乎是多数德国乐队的特点，而Sodom等几个巨头无疑是其中最为优秀的代表，他们的技术使二者很好的融合在一起，兼顾Thrash速度压迫的同时又追求细腻的感受，虽然主流但绝对酣畅过瘾。专集中"Agent orange"， "Tired and red" ，"Remember The Fallen" 、"Ausgebombt"等作品都可谓此中教材。(其实所有作品都很棒。)中多数作品的Riffs并不十分复杂，更多的是依靠Thrash的重型节奏和流畅取胜，当然还有各个乐器完美均衡的搭配。吉他冲刷出最典型的甩头节奏同时，鼓的表现也很是抢眼，时常接近200拍的双踩结合套路多变的军鼓泄愤般的敲击，瞬间完成的通鼓扫射都很到位。而军鼓时常出现的反常规手法和套路，使流畅的同时多了几分怪异和错综复杂。贝司在专集中也有更为突出的表现，很多作品中有着明显清晰的贝司线条，"Ausgebombt"贯穿始终的反复贝司线最为典型，配合同样清晰精确的鼓和些许压榨的吉他节奏，尖利的Solo和主唱独特的德国式嘶喊，完美。重摇滚味道的"Don't walk away"初听之下就觉得耳熟，而且绝对不是出自Sodom的手笔，后来看作曲名单才发现它来自NWOBHM经典乐团Tank！而Sodom的翻唱同样出色。
CD包装的背面醒目的写着如下一段话："This album is dedicated to all people - soldiers and civilians - who died by senseless aggressions of wars all over the world"，看的出Sodom把更多的关注给予了更为现实和贴近生活的战争主题。
怎么结束这篇听后感呢？呵呵。只能这么说：好作品、好录音、快速、好听、驾轻就熟的优秀技术的完美结合！89年的非极端Thrash到了什么程度，这张专集可以说明一切。

Extraordinary two-for-one package at a budget price that combines Sodom's first ever output, In The Sign Of Evil and their legendary debut album, Obsessed By Cruelty. True classics of early German Death /Thrash metal!