SODOM announce deluxe expanded reissue of 1994's 'Get What You Deserve' in February
26-11-2025
On February 27, 2026, BMG will release “Get What You Deserve”, the sixth studio album by German thrash metal veterans SODOM, as an extensive box set, remastered and newly mixed by former SODOM guitarist Andy Brings, who played on the original recording, including the remastered and remixed “Aber Bitte Mit Sahne” EP, plus the first concert with drummer Guido “Atomic Steif” Richter as a bonus double LP and a DVD with additional live shows. Alongside the original hotel room cover, the package also includes the censored version with the band photo and the originally planned artwork featuring a “Knarrenheinz” painting by cult artist Andreas Marschall.
Brings says: “There’s nothing nice about this album — not the sound, not the lyrics. It wasn’t supposed to be. It was meant to be completely unfriendly. The others were the polished ones.”
SODOM bassist/vocalist Thomas “Angelripper” Such adds: “With Atomic Steif on drums, we became an unstoppable machine — in the studio and on stage.
“It breaks our hearts that he passed away far too soon on August 31, 2025, at only 57, and can’t witness how songs like ‘Jabba The Hutt’, ‘Sodomized’ and ‘Silence Is Consent’ are being rediscovered and loved again. He was the German Dave Lombardo — an incredible drummer!”
“Get What You Deserve” was a 16-track chunk of fury with which SODOM defiantly stood against the musical zeitgeist of the early 1990s.
Brings says: “Back then every band suddenly wanted to be PANTERA or MACHINE HEAD. Incredibly clean, sterile, and technically perfect. We didn’t. Couldn’t, weren’t, didn’t want to!”
Angelripper adds: “With ‘Get What You Deserve’ we wanted to return to our roots — more VENOM, more MOTÖRHEAD. Andy‘s punk roots also came through stronger, which was right up my alley. Short songs, maximum impact, straight in your face — the way it should be!”
A few months earlier, SODOM had released the “Aber Bitte Mit Sahne” EP — partly to introduce their new drummer Atomic Steif, and partly to have fresh songs ready for the upcoming Christmas Metal Meetings tour at the end of 1993 with MOTÖRHEAD, KREATOR and ENTOMBED. The EP also served as a test run for what would become a fruitful collaboration with then-unknown producer Wolfgang Stach, who would go on to major success with GUANO APES, JUPITER JONES and BAP.
The deluxe, expanded reissue of “Get What You Deserve” is available for pre-order now. The lead single, “Sodomized”, was the first song written by the new lineup in 1993. The accompanying video, made from Brings‘s private footage of the Christmas Metal Meetings tour, features not only the band but also Lemmy Kilmister of MOTÖRHEAD and other legendary musicians.
Brings says: “I wanted to strip the album — which already had almost no additives and zero ballast — down to the absolute maximum. No samples, no tricks, just a very pissed-off band at the peak of its creative energy.”
Angelripper adds: “Over 30 years ago, we went against the current with this album — and we’re doing it again today. Nothing sounds like this record, and that makes me proud. ‘Get What You Deserve’ was, is, and will always be the sound of pure defiance. My personal favorite SODOM album!”
In June SODOM released a lyric video for their new song “Taphephobia”. The track appeared on the band’s most recent studio album “The Arsonist”, which arrived on June 27 worldwide through SPV/Steamhammer.
Watch “Taphephobia” below.
SODOM frontman Thomas “Angelripper” Such says: “Taphephobia is an abnormal phobia of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. Drummer Toni Merkel, who is also an excellent guitarist, contributed this song and helped to make the album even more versatile.”
Tom says: “Frank contributed those typical SODOM riffs and hooks again, whereas York favors more epic songwriting. As a perfect complement to both of them, Toni, who is also an excellent guitarist, contributed a number of songs and helped to make the album even more versatile.”
Watch the previously released Witchhunter and “Trigger Discipline” below.
Tracklisting:
1. The Arsonist
2. Battle Of Harvest Moon
3. Trigger Discipline
4. The Spirits That I Called
5. Witchhunter
6. Scavenger
7. Gun Without Groom
8. Taphephobia
9. Sane Insanity
10. A.W.T.F.
11. Twilight Void
12. Obliteration Of The Aeons
13. Return To God In Parts
“The Arsonist” was released on June 27th, 2025 worldwide through SPV/Steamhammer as CD digipak, 2LP version, download and stream: https://Sodom.lnk.to/
In a Januari 2025 interview with Ghost Cult Magazine, bassist/vocalist Thomas “Angelripper” Such of German thrash metal veterans SODOM spoke about the band’s plans for 2025. He said in part: ”I wanna slow down everything in next year. I don’t wanna stop with the band, but I wanna slow down a little bit. It’s like (SLAYER bassist/vocalist) Tom Araya — I need more time for my family, I need more time for my hunting and I need more time for my friends and I need more time for myself. So I have to slow down a little bit.
“I need a break, because after the pandemic, we did so many shows and we did so many things because I’m busy every day with the stuff,” he explained. “I’m working 12 hours a day, maybe more. I get some health issues — I get the same, like Tom Araya, with my spine, with my neck, my ears, my eyes. I have to fix it. But I need more time. But if you’re on the road every day and all the time, you can do nothing. So we’ll see what happens. We wanna wait for the new album and wanna wait for the reaction. And we’ll see what happens.”
Angelripper added: ”If I don’t have so much shows in the next year, I have more time for the back catalog, I have more time for the new album, I have more time for this, for that. I never stopped doing my job and I never stopped doing my work, but I can’t tour so much next year. That is a problem, because you have one show or two shows in South America and you are on tour for 10 days. You waste time on airports, on hotels, on soundchecks, whatever. I need to take care of my time. I need to take care of myself.”
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