Tapping the Vein [Import]

Sodom | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Steamhammer Europe
• ASIN: B0000073Y7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is the (...), December 12, 2001

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Destructhor (João Pessoa, Brazil.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tapping the Vein (Audio CD)

you think you know what thrash metal is all about? (...) the FASTEST thrash album EVER! the guitar riffs of Body Parts or Back To War etc..., are faster than ANYTHING! (...)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most perfect incarnation of Sodom--including the current one., January 8, 2009

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A Friend of Civilization - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tapping the Vein (Audio CD)

Andy Brings is less repetitive a writer than Blackfire, equal to Bernmann in his own way, but more minimal and death-ish. I love Persecution Mania, but Blackfire tends to recycle ideas slightly, to my ear. As for heaviness, the clips I have heard of Masquerade in Blood sound a bit sluggish and monotonous--and I love the heaviest of Death Metal (early Suffocation, etc.), so it's not the heaviness I object to. No--this is the ultimate in insane, ungodly heavy thrash.

Then there is the one and only --and now immortal--Witchhunter.

Jeff Hannman said Dave Lombardo is the perfect Slayer drummer because he is unpredictable, punky, always threatening a train wreck.

Has there ever been a drummer more worthy of that description than Chris Witchhunter?

Consider:The first song has Witchhunter's lyrics, the first picture in the booklet is Witchhunter, the most acknowledgments are written by Witchhunter, every song is an insane, furious Witchunter pounding-fest. Every drum fill is practically a wipeout.

Make no mistake, Chris Witchhunter was the star of Sodom at this point--and no guitarist has fitted him so perfectly than Andy Brings.

All I can say about this incredible album is that it proves that thrash beats, if done properly, can even trump blastbeats.

If you like thrash or thrashy death, get this album. It one of the most perfect examples of its kind anywhere.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, December 15, 2004

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Milt Mori "M & M" (Sparta, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tapping the Vein (Audio CD)

Good album, I'm sure they've done this all before so it's not anything different. Very fast and brutal. Definitely, can inspire many to play their instruments in a violent way.