*SODOM-Agent Orange Reaction!!

[@georgejohnson5904]

It’s the perfect thrash song. It has everything.

[@blackcurtainshoen5524]

👍🤘💪

[@antondzajajurca7797]

There are 4 essential bands from Germany: Sodom , Tankard, Kreator and Destruction. Excellent pick for Sodom. For other bands I would recommend following songs: Kreator - Betrayer Tankard - The Morning After Destruction - Curse the Gods

[@cirith100]

anton džaja jurca Zee germans !!

[@Nitegasm]

66 six packs!!! I love tankard

[@Michael-ye9xj]

The Morning after ist so Great \m/...Greetings fron Germany \m/

[@unholyshaman9211]

Tankard is trash

[@antondzajajurca7797]

@@Nitegasm HAHAHA YES!!! Ironically Sodom is my "least"favorite of them four. :D

[@ErikStone1]

Sodom is a GREAT metal band from Germany. Very influential stuff back in the day.

[@bschuler6216]

Their new stuff is top notch too. Decision Day & the Partisan ep are examples of the best modern thrash today.

[@bschuler6216]

In fact, the Teutonic Four are much more consistent and high quality these past two decades than the Big 4.

[@threadworm437]

@@bschuler6216 I agree, another new ep for sodom came out and it sounds straight out of the 80's or 90's

[@bschuler6216]

@@threadworm437 Well, I much prefer the Partisan ep to the Out Of The Frontline Trench ep. I think it was a huge mistake for Tom to fire Makka & Bernemann. But luckily they joined up and formed the new thrash band, Bonded, with the singer from Artillery (and another guitarist from Suicidal Angels). Their debut album, Rest In Violence, is so far my favorite album of 2020.

[@humanmusic6409]

Sodom - Napalm In The Morning Absolute must!

[@Michael-ye9xj]

I love this Song \m/

[@Ecommerce-Marketing]

M FUCKING 16 !!!

[@mattbauckman9907]

Guns are guns, chemicals are chemicals. The two are mutually exclusive. Don’t be naive.

[@dorianbecker3600]

My favorite Song 🤘

[@ExplosiveAction]

This took FAR too long to happen. THE FIRE THAT DOESN'T BURN!

[@calebferguson883]

Sodom - M16 is another amazing song by Sodom

[@peo4989]

That whole album is good

[@neuroticgothguy]

my personal favorite is Napalm In The Morning

[@Zlo_dobrem_zwyciezaj]

And CODE RED

[@Neo-Midgar]

Vin would love The Saw Is The Law

[@ryanklaassen2124]

Cannon Foder, very underrated tune from the M-16 album

[@ashleycollins5201]

My husband's dad got sprayed with agent orange in Vietnam and all his kids including my husband got some form of cancer...my husband got brain cancer back in 2011, they have done 7 brain surgeries on him since then, the tumors keep reacurring, it's now 2019 and he is still fighting! Dr's said Agent Orange was to blame for a lot of what's been going on.

[@stormlavway9857]

really, really late but hope things are better

[@realscience948]

Great song...a true example of the genre! A good mixture of black, thrash, and other metals ...even a good lyrical topic!

[@bschuler6216]

Their first two releases are considered first wave Black Metal: In The Sign Of Evil & Obsessed By Cruelty.

[@Antifascista89]

Many times, i think Sodom create the evil sound of black metal accidentally.

[@dc4457]

@@Antifascista89 Kreator, Destruction and Sodom all based their early sound off of Venom. Where the American thrash bands mostly picked the brains of Motorhead and the lighter side of NWOBHM, the German bands dove right into the gutter with the grandfathers of black metal.

[@jernejvasic9585]

first wave is thrash though, so it makes sense

[@bschuler6216]

@@jernejvasic9585 True statement. But not every first wave thrash band (or any wave thereafter) would be considered first wave black metal.

[@MoveitorLoseit2]

Obsessed sounded more like thrash to me

[@ShiftaelV2]

Early Sodom is absolutely Essential, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@MasaM-c2c]

I like only, thrash metal Sodom, i don't like that black metal shit, thrash metal is better.

[@remulik3671]

All of Sodom is brilliant tbh.

[@robcro7995]

R.I.P. Chris Whitchhunter. You was a great Drummer. The Best for Sodom till today. Great Song. Grüße, Pozdrav 🤘

[@muhammadmustakimjoe7039]

"This album is dedicated to all people - soldiers and civilians - who died by senseless aggressions of wars all over the world."

[@listershat]

Classic track. You need to check out some 80's Overkill, Testament, Exodus, Sacred Reich, Celtic Frost, Coroner, Excel, etc, etc too.

[@bschuler6216]

Definitely some OverKill & Exodus!!!

[@listershat]

@UCXhZvVgqPDXvPEZ_Z14pQAQ YOD is my favourite LP of alltime, faultless album. TS are cool, Wasp's Headless Children LP or Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime are the pinnacle of hard rock for me.

[@bschuler6216]

Years Of Decay is one of my all time favorite albums. I love Feel The Fire & Taking Over, too. I'd like to see a reaction to the song Fabulous Disaster by Exodus. Oh, and Stay Hungry & Burn In Hell are absolute classicks!!!

[@unholyshaman9211]

@HQVideoDude still waiting for them to do more King Diamond. Like they havent done Fatal Portrait, Them or Conspiracy yet. Some more Mercyful Fate too

[@NikoDaisy]

Sacred reich surf nicaragua

[@NordicStrategy]

That one riff reminds me so much of in my darkest hour

[@hellhound6999]

My father was in Vietnam. He was around Agent Orange many times. I asked him about it 5 minutes ago. He compares it to a fiery version of Roundup.

[@SpaceJugs]

The best thrash song ever written alongside with Angel of death!

[@JoeyBagOdonuts.]

Omg. Sodom. Yesss. Never clicked so fast. Also have to check out "remember the fallen. Thanks Thanks for all you do !!!

[@antondzajajurca7797]

Bombenhagel and Ausgebombt :)

[@anbarazen]

Magic Dragon too

[@severed111]

Sodom's best albums : Agent Orange equal with the self titled (2006) / then Code Red / M-16 / Persecution Mania / Better Off Dead. I haven't listened much to stuff after the self titled, but when Bermann joined, he saved the band, they had a couple meh albums after Better Off Dead, which itself wasn't that great, about half the album is okay then the rest forgettable. I hear Bermann left the band before their latest album and EP, but thankfully the guitarist from Agent Orange is the one that came back to replace him. Addendum : Man, Tom Angelripper's voice is awesome

[@efogg3]

clicked so fast. my fave sodom song. i remember when this came out. german metal.thrash great channel guys! not only for the reactions but mostly for the deep thinking, big picture content, weather political.religious . whatever. im on board!

[@headsplitter46]

SODOM IS MY FAVOURITE BAND EVER!! How about Nuclear Winter? It's one of their best!!

[@ingovonderluhe2174]

Yes,my Heroes from Gelsenkirchen/Germany,formed in 1981 with their Band Founder Tom Angelripper,also known as Uncle Tom.It was the Title Track of their Heroic 1989 Album.A true German Metal LEGEND!......a lot to discover from them for sure!......interesting for you would be their Song "Der Wachturm " (Watchtower)...and dont take the Lyrics not so Seriously ;) ....and yes,its about Tom's attitude AGAINST Jehovah's Witnesses ! .... other Songs like "Stalinorgel" or "Ausgebombt" are Songs against war for example.....

[@fosforomatutino]

I just loved what Sori said around the second half of the video. You are one noble person.

[@METALSCAVENGER78]

Some more old bandsfrom Germany in the thrash genre: Deathrow, Darkness,Minotaur,Accuser,Necronomicon,Protector,Poison,Violent Force,Holy Moses,Grinder,Exumer,Assassin,Vendetta,Paradox,Pyracanda,Angel Dust

[@sudisarkaya7501]

Wow, I was not expecting this. Sodom is my favourite thrash metal band and Agent Orange is my favourite thrash song/album of all times. Sodom started as a black metal band. Their music was a combination of Celtic Frost and Venom at the very beginning. In time they developed into a thrash metal band. Agent Orange is their 1989 album. In 1987 with the album Persecution Mania, they started to write songs about the atrocities of war and they do ever since. Singer/founder Tom Angelripper is especially interested in the Vietnam War. In 2001 they had released the album M-16 which is entirely about the Vietnam War.

[@angelabordack]

I went to war in 2004. When I came home I was diagnosed with so many weird illnesses years later. Sometimes I can barely get out of bed. Every soldier I served with is screwed up, a lot have already passed on. War is hell.

[@self-transforming_machine-elf]

"Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander." - M*A*S*H

[@severed111]

Vin likely never read this. He's enjoying Slayer the wrong way, they often think lyrics are said almost always from the first person and in their point of view....Slayer rarely did that until God Hates Us All and later. They are describing the psychopathy of war, it's one of Slayer's big thing they were about, they're not praising the violence they are talking about...

[@petertapola8097]

Oh, and thrash sounds AMAZING live :D Really the best kind of live music, it really gets you going \m/

[@jesse23chndlr]

Agent orange and napalm really did a lot of damage to the people

[@mirokuusjarvik3439]

And sodom dif a song abou both of these

[@klumpos]

You don't say

[@jesse23chndlr]

@@klumpos sometimes

[@HCWz-_-Over9000]

Napalm in the Morning😎

[@barkingwolff]

Only the earliest songs by Sodom ("In the Sign of Evil" EP and partially "Obsessed by Cruelty" LP) can be attributed to black metal, and with the advent of Blackfire style became strictly thrash metal, and this became the basis for the success of the band: started with the "Persecution Mania" LP, and with the release of the "Agent Orange" LP they became mega-popular. So Sodom is a clearly thrash metal band, not black metal (for black metal you need to hear Venom, Celtic Frost, etc.) And they rightfully belong precisely to the CLASSIC thrash metal groups, along with Destraction, Kreator and so on. Be happy, stay hungry and ride the Metal! Peace!

[@mtaffer]

My uncle is about to have his kidney, prostate and some lymph nodes removed because he was in the Air Force in Vietnam and was exposed to agent orange. They are hoping that will get rid of the cancer, but something is also wrong with his blood. :(

[@DeathByGeek]

My uncle also has fought cancer multiple times. Among many other health issues, his cancer just came back this year. All because agent orange. Sorry, about your uncle, hope everything ends up ok.

[@mtaffer]

@@DeathByGeek His surgery is this Friday. I hope things go well for your uncle as well.

[@Atomicpasi]

Greeting from Essen / Germany...good old Stuff out of our Town in 1987

[@chrishanson6566]

This is the metal I grew up with hard thrash angry

[@allenellsworth5799]

When I worked retail I knew a man called Boom Boom who lost use of his leg to Agent Orange. Believe he was a demolition expert in Vietnam. Cool guy. He died awhile back.

[@MichaelRodriguez-sg8my]

Wow nice. Was not expecting this one

[@LionMetalMusic-videochannel]

European BIG Thrash Trio: Kreator , Sodom, Destruction !!!

[@shmelvinjoestar3586]

It's more like the german big 4 being sodom kreator destruction and tankard (the german big 4 is superioir to any other big 4)

[@LionMetalMusic-videochannel]

@@shmelvinjoestar3586 agree , Tankard was great in there ...

[@FirebirdCamaro1220]

Deathrow, Onslaught and Exumer can't be forgotten

[@rattlehead1816]

Kreator - Enemy Of God Megadeth - Looking Down The Cross

[@firdausradzuan5905]

Bullet - The misfits,moral majority - dead kennedys,trust your mechanic - dead kennedys

[@manuelhernandez4724]

Yoooooo this whole album is amazing

[@alcofgod4211]

I remember listening to this 30 years ago as a kid :) Great music.

[@rykeb4417]

I know them personally and yes they were Black Metal with Pseudonyms like Angelripper and Blackfire, they even did a Mid Eighties Black Metal Night in Frankfurt under their first Label.

[@TrollingInTheDeep]

Fuck yeah!!!! All Agent Orange album is awesome!!!! Mágic Dragon is the best song from that LP.. Sodom's línea up: Bass and vocals: Tom "Ángel Reapper" Drums: Cris "Witch Hunter" Guitars: Frank "Black Fire"

[@dkev001]

Destruction : Curse the Gods

[@sopwithsnoopy8779]

15:45 Sori is right again, it started coming out when Brown was still with the Raiders. The Patriots should have known...

[@henrikpersson4698]

i love how far you took this discussion

[@boxingeddy2568]

Sodom is great,Try the song:"tired and red" most Headbangable Breakdown at 2:42min

[@mp9488]

Next Sodom song.. Christ Passion

[@petertapola8097]

If you ever do later Sodom, do City of God - that's a blistering track!

[@peeweewallabowski7084]

Wow! Real thrash! Great band 🤘🏻

[@omarfernandez1620]

In my darkest Hour+Angel of Death + Raining Blood No Remorse + Balck Magic+ Sacred Reich's Death Squad= Agent Orange

[@cirith100]

Yessssssssss!!! The purest form of metal !! German thrash metal !!!! Alongside Iron Maiden and Judas Priest , you have been neglecting the best genre of metal and the purest , just music and nothing about stupid stage shows and costumes and masks and crap , the music of poor repressed metal heads over the globe

[@BlasphemousVerses]

Wow, wasn't expecting this.

[@bjrnarbjrnarsson5845]

Napalm Death would be another essential band!

[@tobi01451]

I will see them the 2nd time this year and 6th time in my live. Living in Western Germany has its pros. 😀

[@MrZeze87]

Just yesterday I mentioned how Celtic Frost should definitely be in this week, a band that essentially played thrash, but who influenced Black Metal with what they were doing in the 80's... well this isn't Celtic Frost, but the idea is kind of the same, and Agent Orange is a damn great Thrash album. I actually have a Sodom CD on my desk right now.. not sure why, I have their stuff in digital and who even has a CD Player these days, but hey, it looks good so I keep it around, haha. This leaves only 2 songs left in the "Essentials Week" I presume... so likely no Savatage or Celtic Frost, and definitely no Atheist, Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Edge of Sanity or Gamma Ray (just to name a few). Oh, and also Dark Tranquillity the only of the notable pioneers of Swedish Melodeath that you didn't react to (and the most consistent band among them). Too bad, maybe next time... I suggest a "Non-Metal Essentials Week", where people then proceed to pick Death Metal bands :P EDIT: I just reached the end, can't believe Sori gave this a 5. I actually thought she was enjoying it. But yeah, like I said yesterday when I mentioned Celtic Frost, I don't think you'd really enjoy it 30 years later and after all you've heard, so not surprised it happened with Sodom.

[@ArdensSedVirens1]

I think Vin would probably enjoy Celtic Frost, as he likes thrashy riffs and Tom G's riffing is definitely nothin' to scoff at. Sori I have no clue, I'm always shocked at what she ends up liking and disliking, haha. "Oh, and also Dark Tranquillity the only of the notable pioneers of Swedish Melodeath that you didn't react to (and the most consistent band among them)." Well, they did listen to In Flames, but not even from their melodeath period and who knows if that'll ever happen. I'd also personally count Eucharist as a "notable Swedish melodeath pioneer" since they were possibly the first in the Gothenburg scene that were actually playing melodic death metal. I mean I get why they often aren't, and there's no chance Vin and Sori will ever listen to Eucharist, I'm just Perpetually Upset they never get that recognition considering how ace their material was.

[@MrZeze87]

@@ArdensSedVirens1 You are totally right, i pretty much forgot what songs they even did for In Flames, but yes, they basically haven't really heard In Flames yet. As for Eucharist, it's a fair point, i shouldn't have said "the only". I don't listen to that much melodeath these days, but Dark Tranquillity was one of the bands that really got me into metal so I was giving them "a shout", in my rant. But yes, I remember hearing "The Velvet Creation" and it was a fine album indeed. Maybe i'll give it a listen later, why not!

[@SouthernAssault]

This is definitely thrash metal...

[@Michael-ye9xj]

yes...for sure .-)

[@Gregbaltzer]

Yes, but their first album and Ep were Black Metal.

[@erpho]

Sodom have the Best Album Covers i've ever seen !!! Owe

[@loba1383]

React to Sodom's album "Tapping the vein"!!!!!!! Please!!! You'll do yourself a favor.

[@travisfaircloth8341]

My Aunt’s spouse, RIP, was exposed to agent orange and had sores on his hands and arms that continually bled and festered. I think that’s what the chorus line “a fire that doesn’t burn” is a reference to. I also think it may be a reference to the selling point of agent orange accomplishing what a fire would in destroying vegetation without having to have an actual fire. But now, after the fact, we realize that the US military should’ve gone through the trouble of burning vegetation instead of using agent orange.

[@treylewis7036]

AGENT ORANGE!!!

[@bschuler6216]

Love Sodom!!!! This would not be my pick, though. Tired And Red or Nuclear Winter would've been my introduction.

[@jarkkokyntaja4073]

THIS is from the Encyclopedia Of Thrash Metal, indeed. Good for you. You are getting more and more civilized by listening to these classics !

[@sebastianquinones9406]

Damn I had to forward 10” so many times to find an actual comment about the song, you guys addressed it at the end, c’mon dudes!

[@opavodnik7982]

great that you not only react to the music, but also pay attention to the content. sodom's texts are mostly against wars and their consequences. btw the 87` Persecution Mania! \,,/ best SODOM ever

[@monsterkid4937]

I remember when my younger sister told me about agent orange this but, I didn’t know it was that bad. I’m surprise it’s not illegal or something like that

[@Mrs0guttaman]

I've never heard of this band. I thought I could strum pretty fast but once I heard that guitarist killing that low e I got super jealous 😂

[@rostislavolshevsky8733]

Sodom - Napalm In The Morning

[@thevillain8512]

Time for some teutonic thrash!!!

[@annawho2220]

so as you might know, there is a frist and a second wave of blackmetal and the first wave is usually either classivied death or thrash metal, so you where right when you said "oh, thats not black", well, its right, but its first wave (hope that makes sense)

[@wfd666]

Except for the genre , it's thrash metal, although on their first 2 or so CDs, the atmosphere and visuals are towards evil. But I don't know if it's blackmetal. I started listening to heavier and darker metal with these guys. The CD/ep called in the sign of evil is essential, although almost everything is out of tempo. Ahahahah

[@liminal_entity1331]

Good ole fashioned thrash. Can't go wrong.

[@zockor]

Epica--Kingdom of heaven

[@johnbernal7996]

Thought this said agent orange reaction. Yall need more punk

[@perhoglund9525]

Rammstein - zeig dich WATAIN - nuclear alchemy Naglfar - I am vengeance

[@HaeikeVraeik]

Love the way Vin only addresses the misfortunes of American murderers getting (slightly) hoisted by their own petards, lol.

[@scottjohnson7803]

Power Trip - Divine Apprehension Power Trip - Hornet’s Nest Power Trip - Crucifixation

[@jaakkotalvitie4700]

The King from Germanny is Kreator. - Tormentor, Flag of Hate, Love us or Hate us, Extreme Aggression, Betrayer... 🤘🏻

[@thestørmcrier2024]

The best thrash and black metal band out there. Y’all need to check out a German thrash band with a female singer called Holy Moses

[@TheWolvesCurse]

their early stuff inspired the norwegian black metal scene, but their full length albums were alraedy Thrashmetal from the beginning. Sodom are part of the (so called) Teutonic Big 4, which are Destruction, Kreator, Sodom, and Tankard.

[@TrueMetalGaming]

Great thoughts after the video. Agree with your comments. Right on.

[@lousassle4704]

This is the 1st wave of black metal, like Venom. As the genre got more defined they become more thrashy

[@themightydecibel-heavymeta7130]

Yes - one of THE greatest thrash metal songs of all time. Sodom are one of the German Big Four of thrash (including Kreator, Destruction and Tankard) ... a much more aggressive form of thrash metal than most of their American contemporaries. Check out "Invincible Force" from Destruction's debut full length for some more of this superior (IMO) version of the form.

[@aryinc]

great band, superb album.

[@Michael-ye9xj]

Damn Right

[@johanrevelid2067]

Nice :) Sodom, check out , Tired & Red and Magic Dragon from the same album! :D

[@juanxex]

Black/Thrash only in early days. Since their second album "Persecution Mania" they're pure thrash... So this song is pure fucking thrash metal!!! Essential for sure!

[@Keupi1974]

My schooltime - i loved it so much!

[@FanaticDrummer]

“Winter” - Oceans of Slumber. Do the music video!!! Super good.

[@stevensorrell1625]

Other Basic essentials...Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg, Entombed, even try some Stryper!

[@sopwithsnoopy8779]

They've reacted to 1 Stryper song already

[@stevensorrell1625]

@@sopwithsnoopy8779 I thought so, but I have forgotten which song.

[@sopwithsnoopy8779]

I believe it was 'To Hell With The Devil', though I might be wrong...

[@stevensorrell1625]

@@sopwithsnoopy8779 so...from the first two albums...full on Hair Metal. Those are good...but not what they would become. They would always be Power Metal, but they became more Judas Priest and Iron Maiden than the Sunset Strip Hair Metal they came from. BTW, you can't dismiss Def Leppard's first two albums either (not that YOU mentioned them) just because they had pop appeal as well. NWOBHM was pretty solid and Stryper learned from them too.

[@andrasberta1459]

The Vietnam War. A psychological craze that was out there. The patriots won and did not go crazy. The expropriators, the invaders, the mercenaries lost, and went mad. This is a world of materialism, disbelief, slow disintegration. Then and now... we have been able to experience the overthrow of the sacred hierarchy on which the functioning of the world rests. Here, too, the attitude of expropriation is apparent. The story is always about whether the human spirit or thinking is worthy or declining. There is confusion today because human thinking is decline. Now he is on a false foundations. Just the moment that has no aura...

[@dalegribble1560]

Sodom is real Extreme Metal OG, back before you had genre labels like Black or Death Metal.

[@Daniel92941]

Saw them last december, it was amazing! On of the german Big 4 of Trash!

[@slayersangelripper83]

dam u can tell the girl is awestruck about how real the lyrics can get, welcome to Thrash, as woke as it gets!

[@sdmfanthony5649]

Sodom is a legendary German thrash band

[@SoulSkater]

always with full force!

[@gannypoo66]

You should definitely reaction to Marines, god bless you, in war and pieces, among the weirdcong, and soul contraband. All great songs by sodom

[@steveconley4351]

Vital Remains forever underground

[@9thbloodandfire508]

Sodom was very influental for Black Metal with their earlier stuff. About your comment: "German band ... interesting they call us out," or something like that; especially with their album Persecution Mania they started to do a lot of anti-war topics from several eras. Especially this album was commercially one of the most successful thrash acts in the 80s in Germany. If you want to know more about Sodom, but about thrash at all, the German scene in the 80s I highly recommend "Sodom-Lords of Depravity part I and II." Unfortunatelly it is not dubbed, but subtitled in English. A very informative, and partly very funny documentation about the 80s including bands like Kreator, Destruction and Tankard as well. About the war stuff: Well, truth and humanity are the first victims in a war, aren't they? But about agent orange, it was not used in Iraq. Senseless in a desert. The gulf war syndom was mostly caused by depleted uranium ammunition, although newer science thinks it could be from minimal exposure to chemical agents during the destruction of Iraqi stocks.

[@dc4457]

So weird, I was just listening to this song the other day and wondering if anyone would ever do a reaction to it.

[@severed111]

Please do Sodom - The Enemy Inside. It's more recent and likely from their best album of the '00s and you'll be quite surprised, sometime, you only listened to them once!

[@cinnamoncakeface6996]

Celtic Frost - In the Crypt of Rays. OG black metal binge time ;)

[@PeterHenningssonJorma]

Thank you.

[@bschuler6216]

For a brutal, technical, bang your head till you bleed thrash track, check out the song Chaos Corporation by Torture Squad. For a great post punk anti war song, check out Missiles by The Sound.