{{More citations needed|date=September 2012}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Sadistic Symphony | type = Album | artist = Vicious Rumors | cover = Sadisticsymphony.JPG | alt = | released = January 24, 2001 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Groove metal|heavy metal}} | length = 52:18 | label = Perris Records | producer = Geoff Thorpe | prev_title = Cyberchrist | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Warball | next_year = 2006 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r520491|pure_url=yes}} link] }} '''''Sadistic Symphony''''' is the eighth album by American heavy metal band Vicious Rumors, released in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.viciousrumors.com/VR5.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-10-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024025555/http://www.viciousrumors.com/vr5.html |archivedate=2014-10-24 }}</ref> This is the only album to feature Morgan Thorn on vocals and also the only album not to have longtime drummer Larry Howe.
==Track listing== #"Break" – 5:06 #"Sadistic Symphony" – 5:47 #"March of the Damned" – 5:17 #"Blacklight" – 8:06 #"Puritan Demons" – 4:17 #"Born Again Hard" – 3:47 #"Neodymium Man" – 4:35 #"Elevator to Hell" – 3:55 #"Cerebral Sea" – 4:53 #"Ascension" – 1:24 #"Liquify" – 5:11
==Personnel== * Morgan Thorn - lead vocals * Geoff Thorpe - guitars, backing vocals * Ira Black - guitars * Cornbread - bass
=== Additional musicians === * Mark McGee - additional guitars (tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 9) * Atma Anur - drums (tracks 1–10) * James Murphy - guitar solo (track 11) * Bill Ackerman - drums (track 11)
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Category:2001 albums Category:Vicious Rumors albums Category:Groove metal albums