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Sodom - Agent Orange



8.8 | 770 votes |
Release date: 1989
Style: Teutonic thrash metal

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Disc I
01. Agent Orange
02. Tired And Red
03. Incest
04. Remember The Fallen
05. Magic Dragon
06. Exhibition Bout
07. Ausgebombt
08. Baptism Of Fire
09. Don't Walk Away [Tank cover]

Disc II [bonus]
01. Incest [live] [Taken from the "Ausgebombt" Single]
02. Agent Orange [live] [Taken from "Marooned"]
03. Tired And Red [live] [Taken from "Marooned"]
04. Remember The Fallen [live] [Taken from "One Night In Bankok"]
05. Ausgebombt [Taken from "One Night In Bankok"]
06. Ausgebombt [German version] [Taken from the "Ausgebombt Single"]

Top 20 albums of 1989: 3
Top 200 albums of all time: 96

Additional info
Produced, engineered and mixed by Harris Johns.
Recorded at Musiclab Studios, West Berlin, March/April 1989.
Mixed at Horus Sound Studios, Hannover, April 1989.

Cover Artwork by Andreas Marschall.
Live-Photos by Manfred Eisenblätter.

* Re-released on 26th of February 2010 with bonus CD.

Guest review by
Hermann Langke
Rating:
9.5
If you have read the Bible then you would have surely come across Sodom and Gommorah, two cities which were famous or rather infamous for the wickedness of it's inhabitants. If you have not read the Bible but still you are a Metalhead then you must have surely heard of the Biblical Sodom's Thrash Metal counterpart - Sodom, which is as much notorious for it's music and Agent Orange was the high-point in this band's resume and it is the most successful Thrash album ever released by any German band and has, till date, sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.

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published 15.07.2010 | Comments (32)

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10.02.2010 - 09:13
Rating: 10
VelinSky
This is perfect
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05.04.2010 - 21:04
Rating: 10
Don Martin
le fu-
Blackfire rules! Best Sodom album, definitely.
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What a tackastrophe!
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05.04.2010 - 23:10
soadbyob
Account deleted
Agreed, best work yet
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06.04.2010 - 01:45
Rating: 8
Angelic Storm
Melodious
Hmm...I find this album slightly overrated! (puts flame suit on) I prefer Better Off Dead myself, and some of the later albums, like Code Red. The title track, Tired And Red, and Exhibition Bout though, are absloute classic thrash songs though, and among Sodom's best! Frank Blackfire was just what the band needed at that point. This album, and Persecution Mania were far superior to what came before them! xD
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09.06.2011 - 17:01
Beastofmetal456
Account deleted
Best thrash album I heard in a while. Vocals slightly weak though...
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11.12.2011 - 02:39
Rating: 8
JÄY
Metal slave
Pretty good but not as great as I was expecting. My leaast favorite aspect is the constant changes in speed......JUST STAY FAST.
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11.12.2011 - 02:41
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Staff
Written by JÄY on 11.12.2011 at 02:39
My leaast favorite aspect is the constant changes in speed...

It gives you time to bob your head for a minute before wrecking your neck again.
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11.12.2011 - 02:47
Rating: 8
JÄY
Metal slave
Written by Troy Killjoy on 11.12.2011 at 02:41

Written by JÄY on 11.12.2011 at 02:39
My leaast favorite aspect is the constant changes in speed...

It gives you time to bob your head for a minute before wrecking your neck again.

I actually do like some of that... but it was too much fer mee!
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24.07.2012 - 06:35
Lit.
Account deleted
I agree the vocals are a tad weak. That live vid of Agent Orange on youtube. Man I wish it sounded like that.
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16.08.2012 - 23:09
Rating: 8
Oaken
Hipster
Written by [user id=101272] on 24.07.2012 at 06:35

I agree the vocals are a tad weak. That live vid of Agent Orange on youtube. Man I wish it sounded like [I]that.[\i]

I feel they're kind of uninspired. Like they lack the thrashing energy that would make you headbang like crazy.
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25.11.2012 - 18:39
megadeath13
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Its in fact Persecution mania 2, but more mature and with a clearer production.With Extreme agression the best thrash metal album of 1989.
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16.02.2013 - 22:15
Maco
Pvt Funderground
This album makes war seem like a great adventure, which is not so
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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26.02.2013 - 18:09
Illog1cal
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Written by [user id=136500] on 28.11.2012 at 18:45

Overrated but even very good
agent orange(song) sounds a little bit like death squad from sacred reich

A little bit? Its exactly the same riff, the intro to that song is a slightly modified version of 'In My Darkest Hour' (Megadeth). They imitated many other riffs from other bands too.
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03.11.2013 - 06:18
Lião
Account deleted
Probably my favorite thrash metal album...
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18.03.2014 - 04:54
Rating: 10
Sepulnation
By far, one of the best thrash metal album I've heard...
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fuck shit up!
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22.03.2014 - 02:13
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Staff
I've stopped listening to a lot of old school thrash but some albums like this and mostly Slayer's back catalog still get some attention. Too good to forget about.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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04.06.2015 - 12:12
Dr. Strawberry
One of the most overrated albums in the metal history.
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15.06.2015 - 05:28
Rating: 9
indexqwest
A great thrash album!
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26.03.2017 - 21:08
Rating: 9
bblitz
Operation Ranch Hand is one of the worst war crimes
in the history of military operations.Spraying people and their crops with
poison,the thing only Americans or British could come up to!
Anyway,great album by thrash masters.
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01.04.2017 - 00:04
Rating: 9
Redel
Moderator
What a classic! Best Teutonic thrash I am aware of. The Tank cover falls a bit out of range here. Exhibition Bout probably dispensable, Incest maybe too. Other than that, masterpiece (in particular the title track). Somewhere aoround 9.0 for me.
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07.11.2017 - 15:49
VIG
Account deleted
One of my favorite thrash albums ever.
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04.01.2019 - 14:49
Rating: 8
Maasai Mara
The fuck do you mean the fire doesn't burn.. This album burns and forces you to bang your head like there is no tomorrow.
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05.05.2021 - 16:09
Rating: 9
nonZero
A teutonic thrash classic! Especially the first 3 tracks.

8.6/10 for me.
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29.12.2021 - 00:56
Rating: 6
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
I first found this pretty boring. But now I find it quite good It grows on me. The guitar sound is pretty excellent

My favorites are "Magic Dragon", "Agent Orange", "Tired and Red", and "Remember the Fallen". "Baptism of Fire" is also good

Perhaps slightly overrated, but on MS it's rightfully below Beneath the Remains and Altars of Madness for 1989
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31.01.2022 - 21:55
antvre
The very best teutonic thrash has to offer
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11.03.2022 - 12:39
Rating: 9
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Contributor
This is a total flipping onslaught of ferocious speedy riffs and pure in your face non-stop aggression! One of the best thrash metal albums ever made, period! "Remember The Fallen", "Magic Dragon", Agent Orange", and "Tired And Red" are the highlights for me.
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28.10.2022 - 20:14
Rating: 8
meister J Steele
Steelemeister
Oh yeah this album sounds surprisingly great after a long time away from it. One moment it sounds almost bay area style thrash, then after like blackened thrash and vice versa, and the occasional but rare punk influences are welcome addition too.
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14.02.2023 - 12:29
Rating: 7
Growing
Not quite get the appeal of this record as it sounds pretty derivative. Magic Dragon has the best gallop riff ever.
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10.03.2024 - 18:49
A Real Mönkey
Finally on Spotify PRAISE JEBUS
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