Capture the Flag
1990 · Steamhammer 008-76261 · Germany: Unified
- Artist
- Sodom
- Title
- Capture the Flag
- Release
- Better Off Dead
- Year
- 1990
- Label
- Steamhammer # 008-76261
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany: Unified
- Genre
- Metal · Thrash Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
On this album, the song "Capture the Flag" (Steamhammer # SPV 084-76262) referenced "Hamburger Hill": "departure to conquest the Hamburger Hill" - also the name of a Vietnam War film: Hamburger Hill (see Vietnam War Films) - about a battle that took place in Vietnam by the Ap Bia Mountain, near the Laos border. It also referenced "a game like Russian roulette" - as famously portrayed in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter - and thus this is another example of the impact of Vietnam War films on music representation in the post-war period. Sodom, Thrash Metal band formed in 1981, in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The group had a revolving line-up. They released a few Vietnam-related songs: "Persecution Mania" (1987) on Persecution Mania, "Agent Orange" and "Magic Dragon" (1989) on Agent Orange, "Capture the Flag" (1990) on Better Off Dead, and "Among the Weidcong" & "Napalm in the Morning" (2001) on M-16.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — European Songs
Sodom, Thrash Metal band formed in 1981, in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The group had a revolving line-up. They released a few Vietnam-related songs: "Persecution Mania" (1987) on Persecution Mania, "Agent Orange" and "Magic Dragon" (1989) on Agent Orange, "Capture the Flag" (1990) on Better Off Dead, and "Among the Weidcong" & "Napalm in the Morning" (2001) on M-16. On this album, the song "Capture the Flag" (Steamhammer # SPV 084-76262) referenced "Hamburger Hill": "departure to conquest the Hamburger Hill" - also the name of a Vietnam War film: Hamburger Hill (see Vietnam War Films) - about a battle that took place in Vietnam by the Ap Bia Mountain, near the Laos border. It also referenced "a game like Russian roulette" - as famously portrayed in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter - and thus this is another example of the impact of Vietnam War films on music representation in the post-war period.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
German thrash metal band formed in 1981 in Gelsenkirchen, West Germany; their album 'Agent Orange' (1989), themed on the Vietnam War, became one of the genre's biggest German successes. [Source: Wikipedia]