Sodom - Agent Orange
Happy 20th birthday, Agent Orange. Evidently, it is the best-selling German thrash record ever. In Germany alone, it shifted over 100,000 copies. 99% of metal albums now don’t put up those kinds of numbers worldwide! Agent Orange‘s secret weapon was guitarist Frank Blackfire. He made it and its predecessor Persecution Mania unstoppable thrashing machines. (In...
Hava Nagila
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/FdG9P1MsU5A&hl=en&fs=1 “Hava Nagila” is one of my favorite songs of all time. It is cute yet dark, with its sinuous Phrygian Dominant tonality. I won’t get into the history of the song, as a Google search will take care of that. I will, however, direct you to the first ever recording of “Hava Nagila,” from...