Persecution Mania is the second studio album by German thrash metal band Sodom, released on 1 December 1987 by Steamhammer/SPV. The album marked the beginning of the change in sound from having elements of thrash metal, speed metal and black metal to mostly being thrash metal. As well as defining Sodom's sound, it exemplified the thrash metal genre at a time when it arguably peaked in popularity. The album also bore similarity to the music of other German bands such as Destruction and Kreator, and the term "Teutonic" thrash was coined from this.
Despite what the cover may imply, the lyrical themes of the album are centred more around politics and war than religion. This is largely due to guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik joining the band. He brought new songwriting aspects to the band that gave it a much more organized and clearer sound, as well as helping Sodom to carve a lyrical niche that it still practices to this day. The outro guitar lead in track 9, "Bombenhagel", is the German national anthem, "Das Lied der Deutschen".
Persecution Mania was re-released in 2000 as part of a double pack with the Obsessed by Cruelty/In the Sign of Evil split. Both CD releases include the Expurse of Sodomy EP.[3]
PersecutionMania is the second studio album by German thrash metal band Sodom, released on 1 December 1987 by Steamhammer/SPV. The album marked the beginning...
that they are being targeted by an individual or a group of people. Persecution delusions are very diverse in terms of content and vary from the possible...
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Mania, also known as manic syndrome, is a mental and behavioral disorder defined as a state of abnormally elevated arousal, affect, and energy level,...
The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts...
development and direction of Sodom and played on an EP and on the album PersecutionMania (1987). In 1989, the album Agent Orange followed. In July 1989, Blackfire...
Kreator's Terrible Certainty, Destruction's Release from Agony, Sodom's PersecutionMania and Tankard's Chemical Invasion; these albums cemented their reputations...
with a range of mental disorders – anxiety, depression, paranoia, persecutionmania, feelings of helplessness. They are formed unconsciously. Being taken...
frantic double bass drumming. Only with the release of their second LP PersecutionMania and with guitarist Frank Blackfire's input to move away from their...
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that they were reading too many crime novels or were affected by persecutionmania. On 24 June, Mussolini gave his last important speech as prime minister...
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"absolutely looney, completely hyped up with the thing" and of having a "persecutionmania". By now the political row was being discussed in the media, partly...
Gromov is convinced that anyone can be imprisoned. He develops a persecutionmania and is incarcerated in a horrific asylum, where he meets Doctor Ragin...
Chocolate, Spin Magazine described the song as "a truly towering fit of persecutionmania with a great melody and a good beat." Rolling Stone praised it as...
By the end of 1883 a diagnosis recorded "hallucinatory insanity, persecutionmania—recovery no longer to be expected." He died of tuberculosis in 1884...
to their malevolence. In the course of the 1570s Tasso developed a persecutionmania which led to legends about the restless, half-mad, and misunderstood...
contemporaries began to refer to a person of uncontrollable temper with a persecutionmania (and indirectly to the king) as a kamanya. MM Semakula Kiwanuka, A...
declared Leavis was acting out of "pure hysteria" and was displaying "persecutionmania". Mary McCarthy's feud with Lillian Hellman had simmered since the...
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