Persecution mania
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| Studio album from Sodom | ||||
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Publication |
December 1987 |
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| Label (s) | Steamhammer / SPV | |||
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
34min 39s |
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Sodom, Harris Johns |
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Studio (s) |
Musiclab, Berlin |
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Persecution Mania is the second studio album by the German thrash metal band Sodom . It is the first album with the later Kreator guitarist Frank Blackfire and was released in December 1987 on Steamhammer / SPV .
Emergence
After the recordings for the previous album Obsessed by Cruelty , guitarist Michael “Destructor” Wulf left the band and was replaced by Frank Blackfire , who can be heard for the first time on the mini-LP Expurse of Sodomy . With Persecution Mania Sodom changed the concept away from texts with occult content, at the same time Tom Angelripper described the album as the birth of the band mascot Knarrenheinz . The album was recorded in the Berlin MusicLab Studio , produced by Harris Johns . Part of the German national anthem can be heard in a hail of bombs , which, according to Tom Angelripper, is only intended to express that the group comes from Germany. The musicians were called fascists , which Angelripper rejected, pointing out that Germans generally had problems with such statements and that no political opinions could be found in the texts of Sodom. In later live performances, the part with the national anthem was replaced by the European anthem . The piece Iron Fist is a cover version of a song from Motorhead .
Reviews
Guitar World magazine put the album on its list of "15 most important albums for Death Metal" in 2009 and writes that the album surprisingly showed that Sodom had already learned to write very intense songs on the second album and called Persecution Mania as one of the great moments of "Teutonic" metal. Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic sees the album at the crossroads between Thrash and Death Metal, and he also considers it the best in the band's career. In a contemporary review, the music magazine Rock Hard saw the album as part of a "noticeable increase in quality [s]" in the German Thrash Metal scene and by bands like Destruction , Tankard and Kreator , the path to recovery that had been taken on the previous EP was showing especially with pieces like Nuclear Winter , Christ Passion and Hail of Bombs .
Track list
- Nuclear Winter - 5:23 am
- Electrocution - 3:14
- Iron Fist - 2:43
- Persecution Mania - 3:38
- Enchanted Land - 3:59
- Procession to Golgotha - 2:01
- Christ Passion - 6:11
- Conjuration - 3:42
- Hail of bombs - 5:08
- Bonus title of the CD version
- Outbreak of Evil - 3:32
- Sodomy and Lust - 5:13
- The Conqueror - 3:29
- My Atonement - 6:04
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cosmo Lee: Interview: Sodom. Invisible Oranges, May 12, 2011, accessed June 10, 2011 .
- ^ A b Philip Anderson: Tom Angelripper - vocalist, Sodom. KAOS2000 Magazine, November 2001, accessed June 18, 2011 .
- ↑ cf. For example hail of bombs on Marooned Live (1994) and in the live video Live in der Zeche Carl (1994)
- ↑ Al DiPerna: Top 15 Most Essential Death Metal Records. Guitar World, January 12, 2009; archived from the original on October 14, 2011 ; accessed on June 18, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Persecution Mania - Sodom .
- ↑ Wolfgang Schäfer: Sodom - Persecution Mania. Rock Hard # 24, accessed June 18, 2011 .