Sodom "Demonized" CD

Tracks 1 -4 Witching Metal Demo
Tracks 5 -12 Victims of Death Demo

Mastered and restored at Temple of Disharmony, Bamberg, Germany in May 2017.
Well, this is Sodom in 1984, and this demo was recorded not long before the "In the Sign of Evil" was released. Everything is very raw on this demo, but played with the sloppy intensity that only bands like Venom could achieve. A lot of these songs are only on this demo, and were probably trashed later on for very reasons, such as the song "Victims of Death", which is practically a distorted mess of a punk song for the first half, and then some how evolves to and NWOBHM riff, then back to punk. The guitar solos are like a less annoying Slayer whammy bar cat scratch type of solo. The bass is loud and distorted as hell. Now the vocals are very strange. Mr. Angelripper is one of those few guys that changes his vocal style a lot. He dosen't sound like he does on "In the Sign of Evil" or "Obsessed By Cruelty". He sounds like a pissed off punker kid, who listens to Venom. He will never sound like this ever again, the closest he would ever get to sounding like this would actually be on "Persecution Mania", and only from time to time. The real question though is "Is it any good?". If you like Venom, Onslaught or anything similiar, you'll eat this up. I wouldn't really call this thrash. It's like Blackened Punk Metal. There is no such thing, but that'll give you an idea.
I think many people would agree that while, yes, Sodom are one of the most influential thrash metal bands of the 80s, many of their releases have very poor production. Victims of Death, In the Sign of Evil, Obsessed by Cruelty, all of these releases have at least one thing in common: They have decent to almost unlistenable quality. This release is no different. Actually, this release has the worst production of all of them! Drums are too quiet, guitars are pretty much just static, the vocals are almost completely silent and sound incoherent (thanks to the echo effect).
This is a short demo, and I'd only recommend this to fans who want to complete their collection or own a part of history. This demo is very cool historical wise, but the production is just so shitty. I'd recommend In the Sign of Evil for beginners, or Victims of Death which is a much better demo than this.

Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...