This LP and 7“ compile two of THE greatest moments in japanese hardcore: Sodom’s tracks off the legendary ADK Omnibus Vol. 1 from 1983 and their equally great 聖レクイエム tape from 1984. On these two recordings Sodom still played simple and brutally vicious hardcore, and had not yet evolved to their later post punk/new wave/avantgarde style yet.
The compilation songs are the more primitive ones of the batch and are hard to beat in their awe inspiring, primitive, thrashing simplicity. Wow! The tape is as great, but a lot darker, with more dirgy and unhinged moments.
The only thing I don’t like about this release, is that the order of the tracks has been totally scrambled. This kind of thing really pisses me off because it is absolutely unnecessary, and bands usually have reasons for chosing the order of their songs. I took the liberty of numbering them in the way they were released on the original records.
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