In the Sign of Evil
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| EP from Sodom | ||||
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Publication |
1984 |
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| Label (s) | Devil's Game | |||
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5 |
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running time |
19 min 12 s |
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Wolfgang Eichholz |
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Studio (s) |
Casablanca Studios, Berlin |
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In the Sign of Evil is the first EP by the German thrash metal band Sodom . It was published in 1984 by the SPV subsidiary Devil's Game.
Emergence
After the band had recorded the two demos Witching Metal and Victims of Death , Sodom parted ways with guitarist Frank "Aggressor" Testegen. He was replaced by Josef "Grave Violator" Dominic. In 1984 the band was signed by SPV , who sent the band to the Casablanca Studios in Berlin for recording in October 1984 , where Celtic Frost was finishing their EP Morbid Tales . The album was officially produced by Wolfgang Eichholz, the guitarist of the Berlin hard rock band SADO . According to singer Tom Angelripper, Eichholz was rarely in the studio. He listened to the recordings, said "Carry on!" And left again.
The majority of the production was done by the sound engineer Horst Müller, whom Tom Angelripper called the "actual producer". Müller constantly smoked cannabis during the recordings , which sometimes led to considerable timing fluctuations. Originally, the band wanted to record an entire album, but this was prevented by an SPV employee. He visited the band in the studio, heard the recordings and then, according to Angelripper, "clapped his hands over his head". The SPV employee ordered that the previous recordings should be mixed and that Sodom should then leave the studio. A bass solo recorded by Tom Angelripper was not released on the EP.
The EP cover was created by Joachim Pieczulski. According to Tom Angelripper, the band logo should actually be in the middle of the picture. The record company did not originally want to print the lyrics, but the band intervened successfully. According to SPV boss Manfred Schütz , the texts would have been in pretty bad English that the EP was not released via SPV, but via the subsidiary label Devil's Game.
Track list
- Outbreak of Evil - 4:49
- Sepulchral Voice - 4:31
- Blasphemers - 3:05
- Witching Metal - 3:13
- Burst Command 'til War - 3:36
reception
At the time of publication, the EP received bad to scathing reviews from the specialist press. Uwe Deese from the German magazine Rock Hard seriously considered giving the EP a negative number of points, since “everything that makes a good heavy metal record” “doesn't apply” to Sodom. Since Deese found the song Outbreak of Evil “not that bad” and Witchhunter's drumming “is not precise, but fast”, he still awarded two out of ten points. The Rock Hard participated In the Sign of Evil in June 2009 in a list of 250 thrash metal albums that you should know on. The British magazine Terrorizer described the EP as "part of the first black metal wave".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jan Jaedike: Jerking off for peace. In: Rock Hard . May 2015, p. 46.
- ↑ Uwe Deese: Sodom - In The Sign Of Evil. Rock Hard, accessed May 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund : 250 Thrash albums that you should know . In: Rock Hard . No. 265 , June 2009, p. 75 .
- ^ Black Metal Foundations Top 20: The First Wave . In: Terrorizer . No. 128 , 2005, pp. 42-43 .
Web links
- In the Sign of Evil on Allmusic (English)