Sodom

[DeadlyPollution]

- New album coming in April 2013 - album title revealed -

 

As brutal as the production of Waldemar Sorychta is the diverse songwriting on the new studio album "Epitome Of Torture", a kind of tour de force through the whole history of thrash metal, featuring harsh arrangements, melodic solos and raging vocal attacks.

 

"Epitome Of Torture" will be released in Germany on April 26th, in Europe on April 29th and in the US/Canada on May 7th through SPV / Steamhammer and will be available in four editions: as a jewel case release, in a digipak and double gatefold LP with coloured vinyl and download.

Edited January 22, 2013 by DeadlyPollution

[HeLLsarma]

Sodom has posted another update of information related to the forthcoming LP "Epitome of Torture." The release drops on April 26, 2013 (GER), April 29, 2013 (EU) and May 7, 2013 (US) via SPV/Steamhammer.

In the latest update, the track list is revealed and mainman Tom Angelripper talks about some of the songs:

"'The devil is in the detail,' as the old saying goes. Translated to Sodom vocalist/bassist Tom Angelripper’s sharp-tongued and highly critical powers of observation, you might also say: the worst perversions often hide behind seemingly harmless terms. What are we referring to? For example to ‘Katjuscha’, one of twelve hard-as-nails songs which Sodom present on their latest studio album, Epitome Of Torture. After all, Sodom’s ‘Katjuscha’ has little to do with the same-named folk song by Mikhail Isakovsky, but is about the Russian rocket launcher which has been responsible for death and destruction thousandfold. 'The Katjuscha' has been produced since World War II and is still used today,' the Sodom frontman explains. 'It’s been responsible for the death of more people than Stalin’s organ. To name such a deadly weapon after a girl is as grotesque as giving the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima the code name ‘Little Boy’.' It’s obvious that Sodom 2013 haven’t changed their scornful view of the world, presenting an album in Epitome Of Torture that is as uncompromising as ever in musical as well as lyrical terms. 'Unfortunately there’s still plenty of inspiration for angry lyrics around,' says Angelripper.

"The bitter thrash metal attack ‘Waterboarding’, which deals with torture methods, fits perfectly into this context. 'It always surprises me how inventive – in the most negative sense of the word – people can be when it comes to torturing others,' states the vocalist, who recorded Epitome Of Torture together with guitarist Bernemann and new drummer Markus 'Makka' Freiwald. 'At the same time, 'Epitome Of Torture' features not only typical Sodom numbers, like the title track, our new hit ‘S.O.D.O.M.’ and ‘Stigmatized’, the toughest Sodom number in ages, but also two or three recordings which are slightly more moderate and melodic than what people have come to expect from us,' Tom Angelripper points out. He is referring to songs such as ‘Cannibal’ and ‘Tracing The Victim’, which allow guitarist Bernemann to present his impressive musical skills, as well as ‘Into The Skies Of War’, on which Angelripper allowed himself to be inspired by icons such as Motörhead and Tank: 'Luckily, it’s impossible to hide my influences.'

"'Epitome Of Torture' was produced by Waldemar Sorychta, whose expertise as a sound engineer and audio magician thoroughly benefitted Sodom’s 2010 release In War And Pieces. Tom Angelripper: 'Waldemar is an exceptional producer, who always succeeds in evening out an artist´s weak spot and promoting his strengths. He doesn’t let you get away with anything, he knows all our weak spots. Which occasionally makes working at the studio a little demanding, but at the end of the day it’s all worthwhile, as the result shows.' The Sodom frontman describes the sound on Epitome Of Torture as 'hard-as-nails and contemporary, without ignoring our tried-and-tested old-school attitude.'"

The album will be available in four different formats: as a limited-edition DigiPak including two bonus tracks and a poster, in a regular jewel case, as a double gatefold vinyl and for download. The cover artwork featuring Sodom‘s popular “Knarrenheinz” logo was developed by graphic designer Meran Karanitant, who has caused a stir with his work for Six Feet Under, Hatebreed and Dimmu Borgir, among others.

The track list for "Epitome of Torture" is as follows:

1. My Final Bullet

2. S.O.D.O.M.

3. Epitome Of Torture

4. Stigmatized

5. Cannibal

6. Shoot Today – Kill Tomorrow

7. Invocating The Demons

8. Katjuscha

9. Into The Skies Of War

10. Tracing The Victim

11. Waterboarding

12. Splitting The Atom

 

S.O.D.O.M :rockdevil:

[Uroš S.]

 

S.O.D.O.M :rockdevil:

 

Ta je i meni prva zapala za oko.

[perzekjušn menijak]

Nadam se da će biti zanimljiviji od nekoliko prethodnih.

[HeLLsarma]

Meni In War djene djene,al Sodom je jebacki album,od 84-te do 92 sve jebada,ovo izmedju mi nije to to,al Code Red i M 16 kidacine samo takve. Videcemo kako ce ovo biti.

[perzekjušn menijak]

Meni je prošli malčice podgrejao nadu da opet mogu biti "oni stari" zato jedva čekam da čujem ovaj novi. Sa "Sodom" i "M-16" mi se svidjaju po sve pesme. Em mi je zvuk tunjav em mi sama muzika nije ništa posebno na ta dva. Poslednji album koji mi se u celosti svidja je "Code Red" a to beše daaavnoooo.

[Сале]

Poslednji album koji mi se u celosti svidja je "Code Red" a to beše daaavnoooo.

 

И мени је тај албум последњи убитачан.Ни ова 3 после њега нису лоша ал као да им нешто фали.

[WoI]

Meni je Code Red njihov najbolji album, možda čak i bolji od Agent Oranga (sada će svi da me napljuju ).

Ali jednostavno taj album mi je baš definicija samog Sodoma - agresivan, sirov i brutalan. Dovoljno da poslušaš Liquidation i sve ti bude jasno

 

Nadam se da će biti bar neka pesma koja će malo da asocira na ovaj period Code Reda, ali otom potom.Za sada su mi nazivi pesama i opisi i više nego obećavajući

Edited February 22, 2013 by WoI

[perzekjušn menijak]

[Talvi]

očekivalo se ovako nešto

[In The Flesh]

Liči na Sisusov bubanj poslije jamming-a.

[Morphy]

Veća rezolucija..

 

I dalje mi je skrnav omot haha.. Mislio sam da će pri većoj rez biti makar malo bolji

[HeLLsarma]

Nis mu ne fali,meni je super.

[Сале]

Слика је доста конфузна.Али верујем да музика неће бити таква.Надам се да ће одвалити овај пут јер ми онај претходни није баш нешто легао.

[perzekjušn menijak]

Sa "Sodom" i "M-16" mi se svidjaju po sve pesme.

 

Šta ja pišem jebo te. Htedoh reći po dve pesme.

Elem, verujem da će novi album prijatno iznenaditi. Krajnje je vreme.

[Сале]

Мени је М-16 можда њихов најслабији.Agent orange до сад,мени непревазиђен албум.Можда и најбољи треш албум икада.

[Talvi]

M-16 najbolji Sodom ubedljivo

[kuruz]

Masquerade In Blood

[Сале]

M-16 najbolji Sodom ubedljivo

 

Мени тај М-16 није лош колико ми је чудан некако.

[Tower...]

Nisam slušao ništa posle Agent Orange. Znam desetak pesama, i nisu me nešto privukle da kupim albume. Najbolji mi je In The Sign of Evil, jebiga, to mi je suština Sodoma, iako je raspad od EPa, pa onda Agent Orange, Sodomov flert sa američkom školom. Inače, 70% rifova sa tog albuma je pokradeno, počevši od čuvene Sacred Reich krađe, pa preko Slayera, Forbiddena, Anthraxa...

[Uroš S.]

Jeb'o to što je pokradeno, važno da nam se skoro svima taj album sviđa.

[Tower...]

Pa, samo rekoh.

[destruction of mankind]

Nova stvar!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8WB6_FMdJ4

[Сале]

Треш метал за све паре.Тома још једном показао како се то ради!

[Lord Iffy Boatrace]

ja ne znam koj je kurac tim thrash metal vokalima na novijim albumima zvuce ocajno,Mile iz Kreatora ocaj zivi,Araya na world painted blood HAOS i na poslednja 2 ovaj Angelripper odvratno zvuci....