Style: 1st wave black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A sloppy and utterly genuine taste of evil
Thoughts: Everything has to start somewhere. This is where Sodom did.
To say that this is a technically sound release would be an overt lie. This is a sloppy mess of riffs and drums with some grumbled/shouted vocals over top. It's chaotic and seems like it was recorded in one take, and that is exactly why I love it.
In the Sign of Evil is one of my favorite releases of the 80's. It has the raw energy that you would expect of some teenagers creating counter culture music. The lyrics are all about evil and Satan, they don't care about the good in the world - look at the world to see the effects of this "good." Songs fully embracing evil were rarer back then, but it's as relevant today as the day this thing hit the shelves in 1984.
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