The best Sodom albums
20 records, ordered by how much we can tell you about each one — not by chart position.
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Persecution Mania
1987
Represents Sodom's thrash metal sound with tight rhythms and aggressive melodies, providing a cohesive listening experience for newcomers.
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Better Off Dead
1990
Thrash riffs charge through battle-scarred songs while Tom Angelripper’s rasp keeps the violence close and abrasive.
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Code Red
1999
Sodom drive blunt riffs and rasped vocals through a punishing thrash attack that rarely lets up.
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In the Sign of Evil
1984
Ragged guitars and cavernous vocals drag thrash metal into a grimy world of occult dread.
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Ausgebombt
1989
Sodom’s thrash charges through wartime devastation with a raw attack that also makes room for punk and live-stage chaos.
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Tapping the Vein
1992
Sodom’s thrash tightens into a death-metal snarl, driven by frantic drumming and guitars with a serrated edge.
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In War and Pieces
2010
Sodom drive battle-scarred thrash with rasped vocals and riffs that shift from pounding marches to headlong attack.
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Decision Day
2016
Sodom’s thrash charges forward on serrated riffs and pounding drums while Tom Angelripper’s rasp gives the battlefield scenes a corrosive edge.
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Expurse of Sodomy
1987
Sodom's raw early extremity sharpens into hard-charging thrash beneath Tom Angelripper's abrasive bark.
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Sodom
2006
Rasped vocals and tightly coiled riffs drive German thrash through a bleak landscape of warfare and political violence.
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Get What You Deserve
1994
Sodom’s thrash barrels into punk’s blunt urgency with a raw guitar sound and Tom Angelripper’s ragged bark.
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Epitome of Torture
2013
Sodom’s thrash charges forward on serrated riffs and Tom Angelripper’s gravel-throated bark, with martial melodies cutting through the assault.
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The Arsonist
2025
A whirlwind of intricate melodies and dynamic shifts that explore darker themes while maintaining Sodom's signature intensity.
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Agent Orange
1989
Sodom’s thrash charges through battlefield smoke on serrated riffs and Tom Angelripper’s raw bark.
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The Final Sign of Evil
2007
Raw guitars and loose-limbed drumming drag Sodom’s earliest blackened thrash back through the rehearsal room.
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M-16
2001
Machine-gun drumming and serrated guitars turn Vietnam War imagery into a grim thrash-metal assault.
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Persecution Mania Start here
1987
Guitars cut through a raw but newly focused thrash assault as Tom Angelripper barks over drums built for headlong momentum.
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Aber bitte mit Sahne
1993
German thrash crashes into schlager satire, with a familiar confection transformed into a rough-edged metal romp.
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Genesis XIX
2020
Twin guitars cut through a raw thrash attack that stretches into longer stories without sacrificing its rough-edged momentum.
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Sacred Warpath
2014
A new studio assault opens into a live set where Sodom’s thrash takes on the rough edges of the stage.
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The Saw Is the Law
1991
A gruesome thrash-metal centerpiece gives way to a brisk punk cover and a hard-rock anthem recast with a harsher edge.