The close relationship between a metal band and its fans can be measured by among other things how long they make their supporters wait for new songs. So looking at it from that perspective, Sodom are definitely exemplary seeing that they ve always supplied their huge following with new material at regular intervals. The release of their current album Decision Day was followed in time for their major European tour in December 2018 by the EP Partisan . Now the Gelsenkirchen thrash metal act surrounding figurehead Tom Angelripper (vocals, bass) presents itself from its generous side again: Even before work on their upcoming album is set to commence, Sodom are ready to unleash their brand-new mini-album Out Of The Frontline Trench . Tom calls the recording a sign of life for our fans , having cut, together with his guitarists Frank Blackfire and Yorck Segatz plus drummer Husky, three new songs as well as two classics (one of them re-recorded, the other one a live number), Out Of The Frontline Trench forging an arch between (Sodom s) past, present and future. The song Genesis 19 , according to Tom the first official harbinger of the scheduled, probably eponymously titled new album, is at the centre of the mini-album. Familiar Sodom attributes also apply to Genesis 19 : stalwart thrash metal, hard as nails and fast-paced, down to earth and ambitioned, with a typical Tom Angelripper lyric about the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (as mentioned in the Bible). I ve always been fascinated by the subject, explains Tom, but irrespective of religious aspects I ve approached the story from the historic side, raising the question of whether it could perhaps have been a natural phenomenon, such as a meteorite impact, that devastated those cities. The lyric also includes a new interpretation of the story of Lot, a resident of Sodom, to do justice to the original Bible version. Tracks 1, 2 and 3 are new recorded songs, track 4 is re-recorded with the current line-up and track 5 is a live version from 2018! Track 1 is the title track of their next studio album Genesis 19 in 2020! 1. Genesis 19 6:42 2. Down On Your Knees 5:04 3. Out Of The Frontline Trench 4:36 4. Agent Orange 6:04 5. Bombenhagel 6:17
