Sodom
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DVD

Reviewed: 9/17/2007

This DVD tells the history of German thrash metal band Sodom from the beginning, 1982 (actually, from much earlier times way before the band), to 1995. The rest of the story will be told on part 2. If you don't know Sodom, you must be a newcomer to the realms of metal music, as they are one of the big three of German thrash bands, beside Kreator and Destruction. The second disc includes live stuff and early video clips etc. The history DVD goes deep! Its duration is three hours and a quarter. Telling about the Sodom main man Tom Angelripper's home town Gelschenkirchen and its mine working community where Tom himself is driven to work prior to creating Sodom, one might think it's way too deep, but no, everything is surprisingly interesting. Of course it's Tom who is heard most here,...

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