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Code Red

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The german trashers SODOM have done it again. After listening to the album atleast five times I changed my opinion on this album from average to excellent. The cover shows a picture of a man holding a mace and a chain-saw. Just imagine being pounded on your head with the mace. Thats how it feels when you listen to this album. Angelrippers voice couldn't have been better than this.

Sodom Came, they went.

I had listened to 'Masquerade In Blood' and 'Till Death Do Us Unite' and I knew the war that was Sodom was over, the ceasefires had been signed. When you end an album with a song called "Hey Hey Rock 'n' Roll Star" after putting out crap that just screams "We wanna be punk and are failing miserably at it!" I knew it was over. Saddened, I went to survey the damage.

And That's when I heard the Air Raid Sirens.

Code Red is the comeback album of all time. Sodom has snapped back into place, I don't know why, but they're rocking harder and heavier than they ever have. This is not for "Limp Bizkit" fans, you get your ears and a greater part of your head ripped off and handed to you. And that's the way it should be.

Notable Tracks are Liquidation, The Vice of Killing, Code Red, and Addicted to Abstinance.

I have nearly every Sodom album. I'm missing "Get What You Deserve" but I'll get around to it. Meanwhile I found "Code Red" as a used CD today and snatched it up. Turns out after checking the disc for scratches at the store, it was spotless, having never been played, or maybe even opened. Whoever the idiot was who didn't give this a listen, thanks for saving me a few bucks. As far as what you rejected, you lose.
Sodom were as sloppy as Venom's first album "Welcome To Hell" when they first appeared, but this band learned quick and very soon became a titanic force to be reckoned with especially in Europe. Only Kreator gave them much competition, being from the same hometown of Essen, Germany.
The line-up in Sodom has changed more than a baby's diapers, but with Tom Angelripper at the helm, the sound stays consistent, with his scratchy vocals and snarling bass. While some albums have varied a little in tempo, a few are speed metal barnburners. "Agent Orange" and the great "Tapping The Vein" come to mind, combining the speed and ferocity of Motorhead with their own thrash oriented riffing. "Code Red" could easily be the fastest and furious Sodom album to date. For whatever reason, they simply burn the house down with the title track, and the attack never lets up.
This is what thrash is all about - screaming guitars and a rhythm section that sounds like earth moving equipment on jet fuel. Put it in your car CD and don't blame me when you get the speeding ticket.

Sodom are back with another amazing thrash album. Sodom have truly put together another uncompromised, brutal, speed induced thrash masterpiece. \m/\m/

I like it alot. Tombstone, Cowardice and Visual Buggery are my favorites.

True thrash classic. Worth the buy!

if you have slayer or any other thrash metal acts in your collection, sodom belongs in your collection. it isn't a lame alternative act or a boy band, but a mature 3 prong thrash attack

What is there to say about Sodom? This band is infallible. Every album they release is pure Teutonic thrash that calls us back to a time when chaos reigned and only the strong survived. Or something like that. If you're a serious fan of thrash or just want some good head-banging material, pick this up.

While most thrash/speed bands have watered-down their sound into something unrecognizable (Metallica) or begun to gravitate toward nu-metal (Slayer), there are a few that have retained their own identities, still playing the fast, brutal music that made them infamous to begin with. Sodom is one of those bands. The production from Harris Johns is top-notch and most of the songs are truly great, only a few descending into that mindless drum-pounding/guitar-shredding that can sometimes afflict bands that straddle the line between thrash and death or black metal. Are they repeating themselves? Most likely, but I'd far rather listen to this material than any other "metal" being released by "progressive, forward-thinking" bands like Korn; turn up "Addicted to Abstinence" or "Visual Buggery" and forget nu-metal exists.

its like code red was an album from Sodom.This album is scarey and makes me feel cool

Hello again, here we are. This is what I think after listening to the new album of Germanys' Thrash-Metal godfathers.Nothing new but still they rock like hell. Unfortunately they made a step backwards and not like Slayer or Mayhem a step forward. Well, I believe that some old school fanatics will enjoy this feature, but Sodoms'great days are gone. Their last good record was and will be "Tapping the Vein". I was a great fan of them for over 12 years but they just repeat themselves. I am not happy about giving such a cruel review about this record but I just had to say that. Sorry guys, better luck next time, ok?