Thomas Such[1] (born 19 February 1963), known professionally as Tom Angelripper, is a German musician.

[1] Thomas Such was born in Gelsenkirchen on 19 February 1963, from where he learned to play bass steadily whilst working in coal mines.

He then went on, as Tom Angelripper, to be one of the founding members of the German thrash metal band Sodom.

[2] Angelripper formed Sodom with guitarist Frank "Aggressor" Testegen and drummer Rainer "Bloody Monster" Focke in 1982, in a desperate bid to get out of work in the coal mines that the three had worked in.

In addition, he worked with a side project of Sodom's touring guitarist Alex Kraft, called Desperados, which played spaghetti Western-themed heavy metal.