Legendary German thrashers Sodom have debuted the first taste of their upcoming album, Decision Day, due out on August 26th. Check out the lyric video for “Caligula” below. Leader Tom Angelripper says about the song: “’Caligula’ is one of my favorite songs on Decision Day. It`s about the most notorious and relentless tyrant who ever ruled the imperium. One of his famous quotes reads as follows: ‘let them hate me, so long as they fear me.’”

Together with his two comrades-in-arms, guitarist Bernemann and drummer Markus "Makka" Freiwald, Tom Angelripper spent four months at the studio honing the new Sodom material. The result is a hard-as-nails, diverse thrash metal offering on the subject of D-Day, the day in June 1944 when the troops of the Western Allied forces landed in Normandy to liberate mainland Europe from the scourge of Nazi Germany.

Songs such as “Belligerence”, “Decision Day” and “Strange Lost World” present the Sodom frontman once more as a historically well-versed contemporary witness and critical observer of current international events. Decision Day was produced by Cornelius ‘Corny’ Rambadt, sound engineer and drummer with Angelripper's side project Onkel Tom.

The new release is bound to cause a stir, not least thanks to its impressive artwork courtesy of none other than Joe Petagno (pictured below). As well as having worked for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, Petagno is also Motörhead's favoured graphic designer and has created legendary album covers such as Overkill, Orgasmatron and Another Perfect Day.

Angelripper: "I was surprised and proud to learn how familiar Joe is with Sodom, immediately bringing up associations of our ‘Knarrenheinz’ when we talked about the artwork. For a Motörhead fan like myself, this cover is an absolute dream come true."

Petagno: "After having spoken with Tom about the current state of world affairs and heard some brilliant tracks from the album I wanted to visualize the History of Man from the dawn of creation to the mess we have today. Firstly and rather obviously it's World War III. However on psychological and symbolic level it's considerably more. I used Knarrenheinz as a symbol for the countless numbers who have soldiered on thru' the centuries in one guise or another just to get us here anno 2016 where we seem to be on the brink of another possible eruption."

Tracklisting:

“In Retribution”
“Rolling Thunder”
“Decision Day”
“Caligula”
“Who Is God?”
“Strange Lost World”
“Vaginal Born Evil”
“Belligerence”
“Blood Lions”
“Sacred Warpath”
“Refused To Die”
“Predatory Instinct” (Bonus Track for Vinyl and iTunes Edition)

Configurations:

* DigiPak incl. double sided poster
* Double gatefold LP with printed inner sleevs, 180g, red Vinyl, CD in cardboard sleeve and bonus track
* Boxset limited to 1,000 units: Digi, 2LP, poster, hand-signed photo card, sticker, button, patch and a flag
* iTunes exclusive version incl. bonus track
* Download version