Persecution Mania
1987 · Steamhammer SH 0084 · Germany: West [FRG]
- Artist
- Sodom
- Title
- Persecution Mania
- Release
- Persecution Mania
- Year
- 1987
- Label
- Steamhammer # SH 0084
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany: West [FRG]
- Genre
- Metal · Thrash Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Sodom, a Thrash Metal band formed in 1981, in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. The group had a revolving line-up. This album featured Tom Angelripper (bass, vocals), Chris Witchhunter (drums), and Frank Gosdzik (guitar). 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. The song "Persecution Mania" (Steamhammer # SH 0084) looked at a mercenary who returned to Vietnam to rescue the prisoners of war (P.O.W.), as well as describing the hell of war - like the Manowar song "Violence and Bloodshed" above, this song created imagery similar to the Vietnam War film Rambo: First Blood Part II. It started with a platoon "back" in the "jungles" with the task of finding the "missing captive, locked up in contaminated camps". The platoon encountered hostile fire, including nerve gas, but they found the prison camp and fought on in order "to do justice" for those that had died in the war. Suggested by SabbathBloodySabbath.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. 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. The song "Persecution Mania" (Steamhammer # SH 0084) looked at a mercenary who returned to Vietnam to rescue the prisoners of war (P.O.W.), as well as describing the hell of war - like the Manowar song "Violence and Bloodshed" above, this song created imagery similar to the Vietnam War film Rambo: First Blood Part II. It started with a platoon "back" in the "jungles" with the task of finding the "missing captive, locked up in contaminated camps". The platoon encountered hostile fire, including nerve gas, but they found the prison camp and fought on in order "to do justice" for those that had died in the war. Suggested by SabbathBloodySabbath.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Command to Vietnam, back into the jungles depths / Armed to the teeth, cold blooded experience / Mercenary paid to slaughter, sector madness kill and destroy / Missing captive, locked up in contaminated camps / Only war of liberation / Let them gather fresh hope, hostile crossfire finished eight lives / Bowels bury me alive, green hell swallows a silhouette / I could get away, persecution mania, driven me mad.... / Tremendous dreams, persecution mania, getting mentally ill / Persecution mania, alarmed about my life, there are traps behind every line / The combat zone in trench and fire, I know the danger every step / The nerve gas falls in black and white / But slowly I near my destination / Lost is our war to do justice / The brothers of people shot and died.... / Something fierce, something evil circles in the air
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]