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LINE-UP:

Tom Angelripper – bass, vocals
Frank Blackfire– guitars
Yorck Segatz - guitars
Toni Merkel– drums

SODOM Back-Catalogue @ Steamhammer

2014 Sacred Warpath (EP)
2016 Decision Day (CD)
2018 Partisan (EP)
2019 Out Of The Frontline Trench (EP)



LIVE 2021:

29.05. DE-Berlin - Thrashfest Berlin (with Tankard, Legion Of The Damned etc...)
30.-31.07. CZ-Ostrava - Ostrava v Plamenech
06.08. NO-Bergen - Beyond The Gates X
25.09. IT-Milano - Metalitalia.com Festival

SALES ARGUMENTS:

- The first studio album since 2016 – the fans are waiting for that

- …the first studio album with the new line-up

- 12 brand new songs – Thrash Metal at it`s best

- Recorded by Siggi Bemm (Tiamat, Moonspell)

- Mastered by Patrick W. Engel (Heaven Shall Burn)

- Great digi pak edition with poster and great 2LP gatefold black vinyl edition

- Artwork by Joe Petagno (Motörhead)

- Sodom have classic albums like “Agent Orange” or “Better Off Dead”

- The band has a die hard fan base

- Extensive touring in 2021

Altenessen, a social melting-pot deep in the heart of the Ruhr Area. From the mid-19th century, the region supplied Europe’s industrialisation with the required raw materials, mined under back-breaking conditions below ground in coal pits named Carl, Anna, Fritz-Heinrich, Helene and the like. Altenessen is also the musical domicile of Tom Angelripper, vocalist/bassist of German metal act Sodom, who has met for some years with his band members in a ratty rehearsal room in that part of Essen to produce tough-as-nails thrash music. To other musicians, such information may be of marginal interest; to Tom it is an important component of his recipe for success. “I want guys from the Ruhr, who share my background, with whom I can work and rehearse consistently,” explains Sodom’s mastermind, who has implemented his band’s philosophy together with guitarists Frank Blackfire and Yorck Segatz as well as new addition Toni Merkel (drums). A philosophy that yields more impressive results in 2020 than ever before. Following the first relaxation of the lockdown rules, Sodom immediately got back to working creatively. Which is one of the reasons why Genesis XIX has turned into precisely what the musicians had in mind: “This is definitely one of the toughest and most diverse studio recordings that Sodom have ever released,” promises Tom, proudly presenting twelve new tracks which will be available from 27 November 2020 on Steamhammer/SPV on CD, double LP, in a boxed set and for digital download and stream.

There will be two digital single releases before the event: 25 September 2020 will see the arrival of ‘Sodom & Gomorrah’, followed by ‘Indoctrination’ five weeks later. Both, as indeed the whole album, will be marked by the diversity that Angelripper mentioned: “Our riff suppliers, Yorck and Frank, are totally different types of musicians. Yorck is a died-in-the-wool metalhead who grew up with t.......
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