Speak English Or Die

Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Megaforce
• ASIN: B000003T8Q
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,537 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. March of the S.O.D.

2. Sargent D and the S.O.D.

3. Kill Yourself

4. Milano Mosh

5. Speak English or Die!

6. United Forces

7. Chromatic Death

8. Pi Alpha Nu

9. What's That Noise

10. Freddy Krueger

11. Milk

12. Pre-Menstrual Princess Blues

13. Pussy Whipped

14. Fist Banging Mania

15. No Turning Back

16. Douche Crew

17. Identity [*]

18. Go

19. March of the S.O.D./Sargent "D" [Live]

20. Kill Yourself [Live]

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Thrash Classic!, July 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Speak English Or Die (Audio CD)

Something happened to thrash/speed metal lately. Metallica cut their hair and thought they were Soundgarden. Megadeth kept its lineup intact and (surprise!) lost their edge. Slayer stayed true to its roots but retreated to the underground. It seemed as if the glorious history spawned by so many of these bands faded in the face of today's homogenous, politically correct fodder of neo-alterna/white-bread pop. Loose bands of rivetheads have kept the faith in defiance. Their numbers are few, but they can take comfort in knowing there exists an album that defines thrash/speed metal and has become the fuse between the genre it helped create and the punk rock that preceded it. It is a timeless collection that flips one big, collective bird at everyone and everything ever since these four at-the-time relative unknowns put (banged?) their heads together to create one of the harshest but silliest slabs of metal ever to grace the wax (plastic). Ladies and gentleman, S.O.D., "Stormtroopers of Death."

Do you like your thrash metal heavy, dark and fast? Do you believe all those hair bands (heavy tinsel, bubble metal, whatever) destroyed the art of metal? Good. Then sit down, shut up and hang on for dear life because this thirty-minute ride into the bowels of thrash is one heck of a trip you won't soon forget!

Formed in the mid-eighties by Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and rhythm guitarist Scott Ian, former Anthrax/Nuclear Assault bassist Dan Lilker and rotund, punk-metal nobody (at the time) Billy Milano, S.O.D. began as a side project./joke for old friends but soon became a cult classic. It would become the bible for every metalhead the world over. The sound is dark. The guitars are heavy, but clean. Benante, a fast and furious double-bass thrasher, pounds out S.O.D.'s punk rhythms on what sounds like a three-piece kit. Milano is a growling and shouting beast of fury that will offend you, make you laugh and make you mosh. The lyrics - if you can understand them (the CD booklet has the lyrics - better use a magnifying glass) - are funny, and poignant. S.O.D. takes pot shots at almost everything: the down and depressed, immigrants, women and the men that love them, hair bands and terrorists. Everything else ranges from some pretty intense instrumental interludes ("March of the S.O.D." and "Chromatic Death" - both used as themes to MTV's "Headbangers Ball") to bits and pieces of wild abandon.

No "Heal the World". No "Let Love Rule." Just mosh. So if you think rock 'n' roll should be a vehicle for change in this world, it's best you walk. If smug, arrogant, pompous, P.C.-rock posers like Sting, Bono and Eddie Vedder touch your very soul, then you better run. S.O.D. "Speak English or Die" is a knee-jerk response to all that is wrong with heavy metal, music in general and, in a humorous way, much of what is wrong with the world, but these guys aren't here to preach. They're here to mosh. They're here to make you laugh. They're here to make you blush. Now give it up for the Stormtroopers of Death. Buy it today and experience metal history!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic!, February 6, 2004

By 

francesco - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speak English Or Die (Platinum Edt) (Audio CD)

This album is a true trash metal masterpiece. It started all in 1985 as a side project by Scott Ian, guitarist of Anthrax. Recorded in three days it came out to be something like nothing else before: furious, mean, funny and heavy as hell. I still listen to it now in 2004 after almost 20 years from its birth!!
It's unbelievable how well it aged through time. I heard that it caused a lot of controversy because of the lyrics but I dindn't care 15 years ago when I dindn't even get a word of english (i'm italian) and I don't care now as I read the cd booklet. Besides the lyrics were never intended to be that serious. Anyways if you like trash metal bands like suicidal tendencies or anthrax you will love sod "speak english or die"!

"He'll make you wish that you dindn't exist,
Cause Sargent "D" is coming and you're on his list!"

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for Winger fans, July 29, 2000

By 

T. Stillman (Salt Lake City, Utah USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speak English Or Die (Platinum Edt) (Audio CD)

Speak English or Die is brutal, fast, and angry. It is also rude, intelligent, and surprisingly funny (check out "What's that noise?" and "Milk").

Anyone who can handle the intensity of, say Slayer, Nuclear Assault, MOD, etc, will dig this album.

If you are a Winger fan, it will probably make you cry.