GMD Poll: Sodom's Discography Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Sodom's 15 studio albums plus 2 early EPs. Order and number each album 1-17. Ties are OK. Your first place album earns 17 points, your second place album earns 16 points, etc.

Rules:

• You may rank as few as 9 albums. Lists with less than 9 albums will not be counted.
• If you list less than 17 albums, the first placed album will still get 17 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. The average points earned for albums that are not listed will not be impacted positively or negatively, so if you don't rank an album, you neither help it or hurt it.

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until Friday, March 15th at 5 PM PST to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in awhile, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

In the Sign of Evil (1985)
Obsessed by Cruelty (1986)
Expurse of Sodomy (1987)
Persecution Mania (1987)
Agent Orange (1989)
Better off Dead (1990)
Tapping the Vein (1992)
Get What You Deserve (1994)
Masquerade in Blood (1995)
'Til Death Do Us Unite (1997)
Code Red (1999)
M-16 (2001)
Sodom (2006)
The Final Sign of Evil (2007)
In War and Pieces (2010)
Epitome of Torture (2013)
Decision Day (2016)

Members who voted for this thread: @HamburgerBoy @CiG @RadicalThrasher @Krow @EchoForever @zerostatic @challenge_everything @Dak

 

[Phylactery]

Don’t think I’ve heard anything beyond Tapping the Vein so I’ll have to listen to a few more albums for my list to count if I’m going to participate.

Personally would have preferred Destruction. Hopefully we will get to them eventually.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Persecution Mania is definitely #1 for me, but i need to go back and relisten to some of their stuff form the mid 90's before i put together my list.

 

[Krow]

The only album I havent heard/dont own is 'Til Death Do Us Unite. I like their mid 90s era and 2000s era enough I occasionally listen to them so my list will come pretty quick.

 

[CiG]

I would have preferred Suffocation, but here we are. Anyway Sodom fucking slays so going through their discography will be a treat.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Prelim:

1. In the Sign of Evil - 7/10, legit raw and nasty stuff
2. Expurse of Sodomy - 7/10, Sodom at their songwriting peak and still aggressive
3. M-16 - 7/10, great sound, catchy thrash anthems with a good amount of groove, one of the best joke cover tracks too
Masquerade in Blood - 6/10, consistently heavy while still mixing things up between thrashier and punkier songs
Tapping the Vein - 5/10, decent thrash but little more, a couple songs that think outside the box but not much, quality riffing almost non-existent, the brutality aspect is totally overstated
Code Red
Obsessed by Cruelty
Persecution Mania
'Til Death Do Us Unite - 4/10, probably doesn't deserve its wider reputation since this is a pretty standard thrash album, but it's not actually good like Code Red and M-16 are so who cares
Better off Dead - 3/10, unfortunate because the increased trad heavy metal influences and slight experimental bits hint at a potentially very good album, almost sounds like a thrashier and simpler late 80s/early 90s Rage at its best, but it ends up being top-heavy and inconsistent, about half the album is still dead-boring generic thrash
Sodom - 3/10, maybe it's not actually bad but it's really boring, not quite melothrash but the closest thing to it at this point in their career, the mid-tempo songs don't groove but just kind of meander
Agent Orange - 1/10, totally faceless and boring, the obligatory classic song had to pinch Sacred Reich riffs of all things
Get What You Deserve - 1/10, literally painful production and the songs mostly suck
In War and Pieces - 0/10, it's too substanceless to even be called wimpy

Will rank later:
The Final Sign of Evil (2007)
Epitome of Torture (2013)
Decision Day (2016)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yeah the ones i occasionally listen to(Get What You Deserve, 'Til Death Do Us Unite and Masquerade in Blood) are the ones i need to go through again. I listen to the rest of their stuff almost on a weekly basis. That being said i've heard every single album they've released numerous times.

 

[jimmy101]

Damn, I'm impressed by how regularly Sodom have dropped albums over the years.

 

[CiG]

Agent Orange (1989)
Persecution Mania (1987)
In the Sign of Evil (1985)
Obsessed by Cruelty (1986)
Expurse of Sodomy (1987)
Better off Dead (1990)
Tapping the Vein (1992)
M-16 (2001)
Code Red (1999)
Get What You Deserve (1994)
Masquerade in Blood (1995)
Sodom (2006)
In War and Pieces (2010)
'Til Death Do Us Unite (1997)
The Final Sign of Evil (2007)
Epitome of Torture (2013)
Decision Day (2016)

As it stands, this is my ranking. Subject to change as I go over the albums again in the next weeks.

 

[Slammed]

What happened to Trivium?

Top for me will no doubt be Agent Orange or Persecution Mania.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Persecution Mania imo is not only one of the best albums to come out of Germany, but one of the best thrash metal albums of all time. A teutonic masterpiece.

 

[CiG]

My top album with Sodom always jumps between Persecution Mania and Agent Orange.

 

[Slammed]

I reckon Ausgebombt and Kreator's Betrayer melted the TV waves in Australia when they first came out. We had fuck all metal on TV at the time and I think the few times Dickie Wilkins was forced to play those videos on MTV he probably wet his pants. The respective albums for those singles became big in metal clubs and with garabe bands.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Garabe bands are the best.

 

[Slammed]

If u is gunna keee pikin on evry spelin mistook eye mark u gunna be toppin CiG's post cunt befour tha end of tha munth.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... ok eye promise eye'll stop

 

[Slammed]

You don't have to, after all while you can't help picking out my spelling mistakes you aren't picking on my obviously low metal IQ

 

[EchoForever]

right on

In the Sign of Evil (1985)
Agent Orange (1989)
Persecution Mania (1987)
Obsessed by Cruelty (1986)
Expurse of Sodomy (1987)
Code Red (1999)
Sodom (2006)
Tapping the Vein (1992)
M-16 (2001)
Better off Dead (1990)
Masquerade in Blood (1995)
'Til Death Do Us Unite (1997)
Get What You Deserve (1994)

ill prob add the rest later

 

[Baroque]

1) Among the Living
2) Persistence of Time
3) Spreading the Disease
4) Fistful of Metal

oh wait

 

[The Ozzman]

1) Roots
2) Kairos
3) The Mediator..
4) Chaos AD
5) Schizophrenia
6) BTR
7) Arise