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Agent Orange often gets all the attention, but for me this is easily Sodom's best and tied with Pleasure to Kill for greatest Teutonic thrash album ever. Worlds apart from their previous two releases, Sodom are an extremely tight unit here, with precise execution and cut-throat approach. While it retains a slight edge of their proto-black metal origins, this is pure thrash through and through, and is one of the top picks I'd dish out for anyone getting into thrash. There isn't ... read more

77 for the original, 84 for the 2004 re-recording. Arguably the OG of brutal tech-death- not the first to attempt it, but this album typifies all the elements that comprise its stereotypes, for better or for worse. Mostly for the better. Ungodly songwriting, and of coarse technical prowess, and I can see why one might consider this an all-time classic. The re-recording brings out/highlights what the original left a bit murky/hidden by the production, and is definitely the one I would recommend.

One of the finest Swedish death metal albums around! It has such a uniquely atmospheric sound, of the gloomy mid-paced origin, traces of which can be heard on its follow up- afterward they became a completely different band. Hugely underappreciated!

Napalm Death's defining moment. Scum might've brought grindcore to life, but this perfected it, and brought it closer to the death metal realms that they would subsequently dwell in. If there's one NP album. to own it's this.