Review by Daniel for Sodom - Agent Orange (1989)

I've been revisiting this old favourite over the last couple of days. I thought it was pretty amazing back in 1989 & it's still a great record with loads of energy & a tonne of quality thrash riffs. In hindsight though, every track includes chuggier mid-paced sections that sound quite generic in comparison to the obviously spectacular up-tempo material while the song structures sound a bit jerky as the band have obviously pasted together widely disparate sections in a haphazard fashion e.g. "Tired & Red". There's not a lot of depth on offer however the simplicity of these songs actually works to their advantage by opening them up to a generation of beer-drinking metalheads looking for drunken anthems. I had so many good times screaming out the choruses to these songs which are all very catchy & easy to remember. I definitely prefer the rawer "Persecution Mania" but it's still a really fun album that sounds undeniably German.