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The Arsonist

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John Chaos Alexander
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John Chaos Alexander Damn brilliant album kicks major ass! Favorite track: Battle Of Harvest Moon.
terrariancloud
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terrariancloud One of the best bands out of the many that came from Germany during the 80s! Coming back with a newer sound akin to their last. Recommended for those wanting some of that modern, yet old-school thrash sound! Favorite track: Witchhunter.
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iwooooooo Disclaimer: I'm a fanboy of Sodom. And this album is great. Sounds like Sodom, feels like Sodom, smells like Sodom, looks like Sodom (I mean great album cover). Great bass (not as pronounced as on the previous album), great riffs, great drumming, screams of Angellripper always on point. Solid, not overly produces piece of thrash metal. Pure thrash, zero bullshit. My only complaint is lack of song in German. Warum? Favorite track: Witchhunter.
Cosmographer
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Cosmographer I think this is Sodom's best release since M16. These guys rip and will always rule. Favorite track: Return To God In Parts.
dano80
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dano80 love the new track can't wait for the album now
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1.
The Arsonist 01:03
2.
Machine gun fire ringing From war infested hills We stand as one but torn apart This new born day will never cease And when the very deeps unlocked To deny for us eternal sleep Silver flames across the dark Locked up in place We could not find a strategy No option to escape Battle of harvest moon Battle of harvest moon Tiding down the dooms of chaos Triggered in hellacious rage Cursed by the enemy’s constant fire Through the ghost of morning haze Dark absorption in your eyes Tenacious underneath The calls of fallen invited us To the god where we belong In persistent enemy force Forever silent, forever gone Battle of harvest moon Battle of harvest moon Left these sick brotherhoods That honor could not move Naught broken except this body Into the jaws of Death Nothing to shake the dying heart Into the mouth of hell Paled bones and desecrated tombs Into the cradle of our souls In the battle of Harvest moon Paled bones and desecrated tombs Into the cradle of our souls In the battle of Harvest moon
3.
You’ll never see it coming Just before you can react It’s gone for now and never And no way for turning back I count repulsive sins of war With my finger motor skills By the rhythm of my beating heart By the rushing of my boiling blood Mutilated praying angels Grace is not provided Bullets break consistency Won’t stop until you died I got no trigger discipline Cause I’m the choosen one to kill I got no trigger discipline Humanity begins to tip All life becomes so meaningless All matters now and here I curse and mock my gracious mother Giving birth to me Mercy just a misconception Bullets justify redemption Unbridled hatred has unfold Incursion shall devour your souls Monstrous anger of the guns Beneath condemption of your eyes A treasured blade that smeared with blood Will always keep the virgin shine I got no trigger discipline Cause I’m the chosen one to kill I got no trigger discipline Humanity begins to tip A blasting charm, about to burst Marauding tyranids Beat it down before it sins No trigger discipline If I’m riding fast enough I can escape damnation Lack god-given sympathy Enjoy the kind creation I got no trigger discipline Cause I’m the chosen one to kill I got no trigger discipline Humanity begins to tip Good and evil Love and hate Reproduction and extinction Friend or foe Man or beast Believing or denying No trigger discipline
4.
Festering limbs and sweat entwine Dried up marrow of the spine Tattered nerves released the pain Curdled blood in breast and brain Matted guts block my way to your soul Open gates of dawn beyond Laughter from the prayer shrine Stinking hell multiply inside Razed to the ground, but my eyes still see The transience incarnadine Bury the greedy unwanted lord The spirits that I called Deceptive signs of death and sin Amalgamation of cold and heat No human god will descend to you Where evil men may not intrude Broken bones, fatal smile Neither wicked, nor divine The screams of undead caress their ears For those who disbelieve Razed to the ground, but my eyes still see The transience incarnadine Bury the greedy unwanted lord The spirits that I called The hollow skin is what remains Even storm of doom is sealed The ghosts will never pray and dwell Slumbers deeper than your hell Blind attacks, no time to breathe Your body starts to rise Cold eternity, crypts of death Forever sacrificed Razed to the ground, but my eyes still see The transience incarnadine Bury the greedy unwanted lord The spirits that I called Razed to the ground, but my eyes still see The transience incarnadine Bury the greedy unwanted lord The spirits that I called
5.
Witchhunter 03:13
A lion’s pride in a restless night Living out another’s dream Escorted by marauding wicked souls A profound heart of steel Loved by friends who worshiped him Hated by those who can’t begrudge Don’t took his kindness for weakness When you caught into his rage Glorified reality Witchhunter Blind insanity Witchhunter A pioneer, no boundaries The leader of your enemies War-drums rolling, spiritual healing Caught in the faith of eternal youth No raging storm could delete the fire His best friend made of glass Loved by friends who worshiped him Hated by those who can’t begrudge Don’t took his kindness for weakness When you caught into his rage Glorified reality Witchhunter Blind insanity Witchhunter A pioneer, no boundaries The leader of your enemies A cheerful figure full of sadness Driven by inner lies The holy light blinds those who see Disbelievers cursed to eternity The evil spirits you always called Never left from your side Temptation was always too great to resist All deadly around was divine Loved by friends who worshiped him Hated by those who can’t begrudge Don’t took his kindness for weakness When you caught into his rage Glorified reality Witchhunter Blind insanity Witchhunter A pioneer, no boundaries The leader of your enemies
6.
Scavenger 04:01
Your creeping spirit punished me Horrible facts have been revealed Just mocking laughter from deep inside I’m ready for a suicide You are the one to taste my blood Enlightenment came with every stab To leave me where the others lie When flesh and soul divide You’re a scavenger Sinister claws and mercy refused You’re a scavenger Soaked in moralin for the final escort You are the evil sore of damnation Coupled with the erotic stench of death There is nothing you do not despise When your seed stimulates my strength The smell of decay with cute effects Desecrated and deflorated Ordered to attend the immortal wake Ready for the final blade You’re a scavenger Sinister claws and mercy refused You’re a scavenger Soaked in moralin for the final escort The truth is turned into the opposite The view of this world is transfigured Godlessness invades your eyes The deceptive facade revealed They circle like vultures over your remains Looking for guts to find eternal life Bullets hits where justice fails Enemies buried through your mind You’re a scavenger Sinister claws and mercy refused You’re a scavenger Soaked in moralin for the final escort
7.
My soul is vanished from this world Into a sea of emptiness Constant fire bounds my body Slayed me down without regret So cap my wounds with sulfur And coat my eyes with gasoline Stuff my nose with bullets And fill my ears with mercury I’m waiting for divine salvation Without mournful aftermath Stand by me, you golden angels Waiting for a painless death Blinded by those who believe in concealed death Freedom of decent Trapped in a nightmare that shattered my sore crest You’ll never understand The bullets like rain in an unreal damnation Can’t escape my savage doom Staring to hell with the devil’s creation My gun without groom My gun without groom The day when death descends from heaven Acid rain reveals the graves Beyond the blackness stretches A sea of sharpened blade So stick my legs in concrete And wet my tongue with enemy blood Glue my veins with tree resin And drown my guts in crimson mud I’m waiting for divine salvation Without mournful aftermath Stand by me, you golden angels Waiting for a painless death Blinded by those who believe in concealed death Freedom of the decent Trapped in a nightmare that shattered my sore crest You’ll never understand The bullets like rain in an unreal damnation Can’t escape my savage doom Staring to hell with the devil’s creation My gun without groom My gun without groom Where life refuses to count the dead The silent birth of rage dispread Where death refuses to protect the life Forever crucified in a foreign shine Hell expands where love dries up Beyond the reach of human eyes War rages up where man defeated Tracer splits the midnight sky So prick my brain with thorns And numb my mind with lies Pierce my heart with shrapnels And cover my body with flies I’m waiting for divine salvation Without mournful aftermath Stand by me, you golden angels Waiting for a painless death Blinded by those who believe in concealed death Freedom of the decent Trapped in a nightmare that shattered my sore crest You’ll never understand The bullets like rain in an unreal damnation Can’t escape my savage doom Staring to hell with the devil`s creation My gun without groom My gun without groom My gun without groom My gun without groom
8.
Taphephobia 03:42
Death rains down from rumbling heaven Grenades cutting through the ground With foreign souls unpurged and steadfast breath The way back blocked by angry fire Fueled by grief and faithless lies The lord is mocked and neither are the dead Stimulated willingness to justify the kill Confidence gets lost when fireballs to burn within Rebirth of abnormalities the worst thing God created All alone into my dreams when blood forever rains Taphephobia, taphephobia The faces of defeat concealed Into the darkness hidden deep Taphephobia, Taphephobia Godforsaken agony Bomb craters final resting place We trembled by machine gun rhythm No sudden death will fight the light Those who sent by God all dressed in black I hope I’m spared the worst scenario Gracious death will take me soon Release me from my greedy fear of death Stimulated willingness to justify the kill Confidence gets lost when fireballs to burn within Rebirth of abnormalities the worst thing God created All alone into my dreams when blood forever rains Taphephobia, taphephobia The faces of defeat concealed Into the darkness hidden deep Taphephobia, taphephobia Godforsaken agony Bomb craters final resting place Far below but close to heaven Begging for eternal sleep Buried in the back of my mind Under the debris of the human abyss Stimulated willingness to justify the kill Confidence gets lost when fireballs to burn within Rebirth of abnormalities the worst thing God created All alone into my dreams when blood forever rains Taphephobia, taphephobia Godforsaken agony Bomb craters final resting place
9.
Between the crosses, row on row As they went up to die In foul dugouts, anguished by rats Startled by the moving tides They marched in fateful fellowship A certain cure for bloodlust They saw a thousand Christ go by For what is dead they’ll hardly fight Bursting gas shells ringing While birds still bravely singing Sane insanity Sane insanity Where hate throbs out in endless pain Flash revealed the toxic rain This war is justified with sane insanity When death returns with scary shades Dying heroes’ senseless deeds This war is justified with sane insanity At some disputed barricades A rendezvous with death Merciless retribution Countless rounds in heads and chests Where love gets lost in blissful sleep On frightful slopes of battered hills The iron storm tears bloody wounds We can’t escape the pack of hounds The armistice rejected Decay in our trenches Sane insanity Sane insanity Where hate throbs out in endless pain Flash revealed the toxic rain This war is justified with sane insanity When death returns with scary shades Dying heroes’ senseless deeds This war is justified with sane insanity Between the crosses, row on row As they went up to die Where hate throbs out in endless pain Flash revealed the toxic rain This war is justified with sane insanity When death returns with scary shades Dying heroes’ senseless deeds This war is justified with sane insanity
10.
A.W.T.F 03:57
They came running like a thunderstorm The filth hounds took over their life Charming ears were bleeding We felt into a manic delight Breaking all over the world To turn your head around We should have better run like hell Into the arms of witchery spell Walked the way of broken glass To the man who never was Hades ruled the underworld To the glory of the damned Even if all hells are freezing over You will rise again my friend A.W.T.F., A.W.T.F. Resistance will be useless A.W.T.F. The face of death we just ignored Don’t wanna be left to be damned Raising hell released to the ground Escorted by a snorting tank Breaking all over the world To turn your head around They want to set your ass on fire Inflame the slumbering fear inside Now all the hunters are on the attack And roaring guns start fighting back Hades ruled the underworld To the glory of the damned Even if all hells are freezing over You will rise again my friend A.W.T.F., A.W.T.F. Resistance will be useless A.W.T.F. The leader’s pride with honour and blood The final dwelling place of dead You will never running out of ammo now Destroy with biting lead Breaking all over the world To turn your head around Your legacy will last forever To lead us through your final prayer You will return to the glory last The conquering sword still in your hand A.W.T.F., A.W.T.F. Resistance will be useless A.W.T.F.
11.
Sun breaking through the osseous wall Released the scary sanctified wraith Ignited reality envelops the souls Blind ecstasy in crimson caress Revenge of fire will return at least Don’t include me to your perverse dreams Whipping shadows of the dead Deep in inside their hollow shells Sprayed and betrayed I was killed in Vietnam Just haven’t died yet Slowly clotting blood Twilight void, obliterated Searching for the holy place Wherever I will slowly die at least Twilight void, exterminated Salvation numbs my godless pain To wash the warlike grimace from my face With every fiber of my body I detest your mendacious life The scent of wicked love of doom I cast out in the skies Deviate from faith and abasing myself Spit out your sins desecrated flesh Obsessions in the moonlight shadows Can’t escape the nightmare’s end Sprayed and betrayed I was killed in Vietnam Just haven’t died yet Slowly clotting blood Twilight void, obliterated Searching for the holy place Wherever I will slowly die at least Twilight void, exterminated Salvation numbs my godless pain To wash the warlike grimace from my face Sprayed and betrayed I was killed in Vietnam Just haven’t died yet Slowly clotting blood Twilight void, obliterated Searching for the holy place Wherever I will slowly die at least Twilight void
12.
The truth defaced the evil Desecrated dreams The wicked mutilated Immersed in mental grief They don’t regret the bloodshed Up against your rotting flesh Do not forgive their common sins Curse the places they have been Silenced in the grave below The faith is cloaked in black Lights of death illuminate Crammed into concrete The fire awaits At the end of the path Obliteration of the aeons Obliteration of the aeons Unholy revelations Don’t dread the dead Luciferian chants Increasing like a plague A burning heart upon the sky Among a thousand cold Demised in pain infested ground Mental plight unfold Unleash assassins of the mud Reveal their shameful names You can’t escape the reign of god His justice will prevail The fire awaits At the end of the path Obliteration of the aeons Obliteration of the aeons When cosmic space will fade away And you endure the scathing pain No dividend from time’s tomorrows When the final court will follow Obliteration of the aeons The fire awaits Obliteration of the aeons At the end of the path
13.
Trapped in the claws of agony We’ve heard the enemies cry No glory shines upon their faces Darkness spreads inside Laid down their gallant courage To the end with final breath Don’t care about the world disgrace Just moving through a no-man’s land Rifles rapid rattle No prayers and no bells No tenderness of patient minds Ghosts of glowing shells The soul of war remains united To find refuge in blind discharge Biting rounds in jerking flesh Return to god in parts Return to god in parts Heading to the west wind To the growling fire front Walk the line of sudden death To the place no truths are told With fear there can’t be courage Trust brother lead and steel We shall not sleep and fail Cause we are meant to kill Glory filled their hearts The slimy band of blood Deafening thunder hell awaked To clean us from the burning rust The soul of war remains united To find refuge in blind discharge Biting rounds in jerking flesh Return to god in parts It’s not the war to end all wars The end of life in shredded air Putrid sores on greedy tongues Hope replaced by deep despair Blinded faith that disappears Life creation has conceived With gruesome platitudes of pain Suicide I can’t resist

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Sodom returns with ‘The Arsonist‘, their first full-length album since 2020. It’s not only the complex production process that testifies to the band’s exceptional creative spirit, but also their diverse songwriting, which saw all four Sodom musicians – Tom Angelripper (vocals, bass), Frank Blackfire (guitar), York Segatz (guitar) and Toni Merkel (drums) – involved in the development of the material on ‘The Arsonist’. The mastering was done by the famous sound engineer Eroc and the cover artwork with its martial design was penned by the exceptional Polish artist Zbigniew M. Bielak (Ghost, Mayhem, among others).

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released June 27, 2025

Toni Merkel (drums) - Frank Blackfire (guitar) - Tom Angelripper (bass/vocals) - Yorck Segatz (guitar)

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