Magic Dragon

Annotation

This album contained a couple Vietnam-related tracks. The song "Magic Dragon", which dealt with the Vietnam War, describing a combat situation: "no Vietcong can move in sustained fire, orders are clear - win the war...let sheets of fire hail down the base". Also on this album the title song, "Agent Orange" (Steamhammer # SPV 08-7596), dealt with the defoliant/herbicide used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, which had long term negative health effects, and featured in many post-war songs: "spray down the death... cancer creeps into their innocent souls... poisoned till the end of their lives".Sodom, a heavy 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, a heavy 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. This album contained a couple Vietnam-related tracks. The song "Magic Dragon", which dealt with the Vietnam War, describing a combat situation: "no Vietcong can move in sustained fire, orders are clear - win the war...let sheets of fire hail down the base". Also on this album the title song, "Agent Orange" (Steamhammer # SPV 08-7596), dealt with the defoliant/herbicide used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, which had long term negative health effects, and featured in many post-war songs: "spray down the death... cancer creeps into their innocent souls... poisoned till the end of their lives".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Operation 'Ranch Hand' / Spray down the death / Down on their farms / Assault against the population / Suppress by military arms / Only you prevent the forest / Legalize the war / They are deprived of their power / Eradication without law / Agent Orange... / A fire that doesn't burn / All the marks erased long ago / Scars are healed up / Cancer creeps into their innocent souls / Memorials of flesh and blood / Have survived unlawfully punished / Poisoned till the end of their lives / Physical deformity / What medicine will help? / Still births will rise / Agent Orange... / A fire that doesn't burn / Grieved weak hearts are crying / Waiting for the end / In this condition they are dying / Newborns of the damned / Preserved in test tubes for generations / Vicious circle of transmission / There's no way for reparations / Must live with chemical agent called / Agent Orange...

About the artist

Formed 1981, Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe

Themes

Combat · VC

In collections

European Songs · Metal Songs