In the Sign of Evil / Obsessed by Cruelty

by Sodom

In the Sign of Evil / Obsessed by Cruelty cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:02:00
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Chris Fujiwara, Paul Caporino, Beck Dudley

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Combining the German trailblazers' seminal first EP and debut full-length album, this release chronicles their transition from primitive thrash into the earliest formulations of extreme black metal. Tom Angelripper's harsh vocal delivery and the band's notoriously raw, lo-fi production aesthetic laid a crucial stylistic foundation for the ensuing European extreme metal underground.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, occult, satanism, antireligious

Tracklist

  1. Intro (In the Sign of Evil) (0:14)
  2. Outbreak of Evil (4:34)
  3. Sepulchral Voice (4:31)
  4. Blasphemer (2:59)
  5. Witching Metal (3:13)
  6. Burst Intro (0:38)
  7. Burst Command 'Til War (2:43)
  8. Outro (0:15)
  9. Intro (Obsessed by Cruelty) (1:53)
  10. Deathlike Silence (5:06)
  11. Brandish the Sceptre (2:56)
  12. Proselytism Real (3:31)
  13. Equinox (3:32)
  14. After the Deluge (4:56)
  15. Obsessed by Cruelty (5:47)
  16. Fall of Majesty Town (4:01)
  17. Nuctemeron (3:00)
  18. Pretenders to the Throne (2:39)
  19. Witchhammer (2:02)
  20. Volcanic Slut (3:21)

Credits

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