Death - Spiritual Healing

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Release date:	1990
Style:	Death metal
Owners:	1136 have it 83 want it 4 trade it

Disc I
01. Living Monstrosity
02. Altering The Future
03. Defensive Personalities
04. Within The Mind
05. Spiritual Healing
06. Low Life
07. Genetic Reconstruction
08. Killing Spree

Disc II [2012 Re-Release - Rehearsals]
01. Altering The Future
02. Defensive Personalities
03. Within The Mind
04. Within The Mind: Take 2
05. Spiritual Healing
06. Killing Spree
07. Defensive Personalities [Instrumental]
08. Spiritual Healing [Instrumental]
09. Within The Mind [Instrumental]
10. Satanic Jam
11. Primus Jam
12. Jon A Qua: Take 2
13. Jon A Qua: Take 3
14. Jon A Qua: Take 4
15. Jon A Qua: Take 5
16. Jon A Qua: Take 6

Disc III [2012 Re-Release - Live In New York, March 17th, 1990 & Pre-Human Rehearsals]
01. Living Monstrosity
02. Pull The Plug
03. Zombie Ritual
04. Spiritual Healing
05. Left To Die
06. Defensive Personalities
07. Genetic Reconstruction
08. Open Casket
09. Within The Mind
10. Leprosy
11. Suicide Machine [Pre-Human Rehearsal]
12. Together as One [Pre-Human Rehearsal]
13. See Through Dreams [Pre-Human Rehearsal]

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Produced by Chuck Schuldiner and Eric Greif.
Engineered by Scott Burns.
Mixed by Scott Burns and Death.
Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida.
Engineering assisted by John Cervini and Mike Gowan.
Arranged by Death, with invaluable studio assistance by Scott Burns.
Remastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.
Additional bonus material revitalized and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

Cover artwork by Edward J. Repka.
Original photography by J.J. Hollis.
Layout by Jacob Speis.

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Yanko

Rating:
9.0

Well, well, well? Here it is the album that keeps the flame burning. Death have started it three years ago and now bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and Carcass are strenuously practicing in some garage and deafening drunken metallers in some dirty underground metal club in the south of the US.

Death continue playing their typical style - the most brutal of thrash for its time, verging on death metal, but not quite being it, maintaining the creative attitude guitar-wise, mainly due to Chuck's genius.

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published 15.09.2003 | Comments (22)

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Pauleto Account deleted	Permalink 20.03.2010 - 10:37 Pauleto Account deleted Excellent album. Grande school Death Metal!!! Loading...
Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675	Permalink 20.03.2010 - 11:23 Rating: 7 Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 I find this album to be too inconsistent to be called a classic. But, there are 3 songs on it which I regard as true Death classics, and are among my fave Death songs! ''Altering The Future", "Low Life", and the title track are all monster songs, and are among the best songs Chuck ever wrote. They also contain some scorching twin leads from Chuck and James Murphy. Definitely a good album, but not quite up there with their absolute classic albums. Loading...
Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955	Permalink 19.08.2010 - 06:33 Rating: 6 Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955 Still can't understand the big fuzz about this band... Excellent cover art btw o/ ---- ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/ Loading...
Insineratehymn Account deleted	Permalink 19.08.2010 - 07:12 Insineratehymn Account deleted Written by Uirapuru on 19.08.2010 at 06:33 Still can't understand the big fuzz about this band... Excellent cover art btw o/ The cover art there was done by the legendary Ed Repka. He's the guy who designed Vic Rattlehead, the mascot for Megadeth. Loading...
Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955	Permalink +1 19.08.2010 - 07:40 Rating: 6 Uirapuru Liver Failure Posts: 2955 Written by [user id=5630] on 19.08.2010 at 07:12 Written by Uirapuru on 19.08.2010 at 06:33 Still can't understand the big fuzz about this band... Excellent cover art btw o/ The cover art there was done by the legendary Ed Repka. He's the guy who designed Vic Rattlehead, the mascot for Megadeth. Seen a catalog with his art, it's really awesome. Although it can be said that Death and Megadeth received his finest pieces.. XD ---- ---- member of the true crusade against old school heavy metal, early 80s thrash, NWOBHM, traditional doom, first and second wave black metal, old school death metal, US power metal, 70s prog rock and atmospheric doomsludgestoner. o/ Loading...
vezzy Stallmanite Posts: 3493	Permalink +3 19.08.2010 - 18:37 Rating: 8 vezzy Stallmanite Posts: 3493 I'll take this, Leprosy and Individual Thought Patterns over Symbolic any day. ---- Licensed under the GPLv3. Relinquish proprietary software for a greater GNU/America. Loading...
musicalkaratekid Posts: 1506	Permalink 27.02.2012 - 00:51 Rating: 7 musicalkaratekid Posts: 1506 A good album, though some of the riffs are repetitive and generic. The title track is an absolute beast. Loading...
X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374	Permalink 20.03.2012 - 23:31 Rating: 7 X-Ray Rod Skandino Staff Posts: 18374 Written by MyNameJeff on 20.03.2012 at 21:38 I see this as an excellent thrash album How can anybody say that a Death album is thrash is beyond me. ---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Like you could kiss my ass Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49 Rod, let me love you. Loading...
tea[m]ster Au Pays Natal Contributor Posts: 5266	Permalink 20.03.2012 - 23:53 Rating: 9 tea[m]ster Au Pays Natal Contributor Posts: 5266 If I remember right, in the liner notes, the band thanked the 1989 Oakland A's. I was a bigtime time jock growing up and felt like the only one who listened to metal I thought it was fucking sweet that a death metal band liked baseball! ---- rekt Loading...
K✞ulu Seeker of Truth Posts: 2573	Permalink 20.03.2012 - 23:55 Rating: 8 K✞ulu Seeker of Truth Posts: 2573 Written by X-Ray Rod on 20.03.2012 at 23:31 Written by MyNameJeff on 20.03.2012 at 21:38 I see this as an excellent thrash album How can anybody say that a Death album is thrash is beyond me. I have chased you here... People sometimes refer to Death as thrash regarding their later era albums although I don't any thrash there either, but as far as Spiritual Healing, this is practically a definition of classic death metal, but the prog/tech elements are already heard here. ---- Savor what you feel and what you see Things that may not seem important now But may be tomorrow R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner Satan was a Backstreet Boy Loading...
Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071	Permalink 20.03.2012 - 23:57 Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 Written by K✞ulu on 20.03.2012 at 23:55 Written by X-Ray Rod on 20.03.2012 at 23:31 Written by MyNameJeff on 20.03.2012 at 21:38 I see this as an excellent thrash album How can anybody say that a Death album is thrash is beyond me. I have chased you here... People sometimes refer to Death as thrash regarding their later era albums although I don't any thrash there either, but as far as Spiritual Healing, this is practically a definition of classic death metal. Although the later albums aren't death metal any more they also aren't thrash. But the first three four are pure unadultered death metal no doubt about it. ---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 Loading...
megadeath13 Account deleted	Permalink +4 17.11.2012 - 15:06 megadeath13 Account deleted Very underrated album. Old school death metal with lots of outstanding harmonies. Loading...
Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469	Permalink 13.04.2013 - 20:12 Lord_Regnier Posts: 1469 Written by Angelic Storm on 20.03.2010 at 11:23 I find this album to be too inconsistent to be called a classic. But, there are 3 songs on it which I regard as true Death classics, and are among my fave Death songs! ''Altering The Future", "Low Life", and the title track are all monster songs, and are among the best songs Chuck ever wrote. They also contain some scorching twin leads from Chuck and James Murphy. Definitely a good album, but not quite up there with their absolute classic albums. Last time I listened to this album was something like... at least 15 years ago. But I remember that I found it inconsistent. Never been a fan of Death, to be honest. I hate vocals. ---- "Why would we fear death, when life is so much more frightening?" Loading...
NocturnalStalker Metal Addict Posts: 889	Permalink 27.09.2013 - 17:54 Rating: 8 NocturnalStalker Metal Addict Posts: 889 Classic death metal album. ---- "And we are not who we think we are We are who we're afraid to be" - Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah" Loading...
Dr. Strawberry Posts: 698	Permalink +1 19.08.2014 - 05:12 Rating: 7 Dr. Strawberry Posts: 698 Their Best album. Loading...
LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4100	Permalink 18.04.2015 - 17:36 Rating: 7 LeKiwi High Fist Prog Posts: 4100 The second half of the album is much better than the first - catchy riffs, good melodies, more time signature and tempo changes. The first half kinda ruins the album IMO. ---- Most Talented Vocalists In Metal Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS So I Heard You Like Opeth... Loading...
Redel Moderator Posts: 2250	Permalink 22.09.2020 - 18:00 Rating: 8 Redel Moderator Posts: 2250 Written by LeKiwi on 18.04.2015 at 17:36 The second half of the album is much better than the first - catchy riffs, good melodies, more time signature and tempo changes. The first half kinda ruins the album IMO. I think that is not so clear. The standout tracks for me are: 01 Living monstrosity 02 Altering the future 05 title track 07 Genetic reconstruction Tracks 04 Within the Mind and 06 Low Life on the contrary are subpar. But I would not go as far as saying they ruin this album. This album is not ruined. It is not their best one, but it is still a kick-ass album, maybe even an old-school DM classic. Loading...
JavierPaper Posts: 218	Permalink +1 25.12.2020 - 01:24 Rating: 9 JavierPaper Posts: 218 Excellent album! There is a lot of good guitar solos ---- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2dxBMBdBnmWIeKHv61bQEl?si=e323eb3e397e4478 Loading...
F3ynman Nocturnal Bro Contributor Posts: 3025	Permalink +1 27.06.2021 - 08:21 Rating: 9 F3ynman Nocturnal Bro Contributor Posts: 3025 Very underrated album! People here say it's inconsistent, but I remember it being fun to listen to all the way through. The standout tracks have already been listed: Spiritual Healing, Low Life, Altering the Future. I'd add Within the Mind and Defensive Personalities - great heavy riffs mixed with technical solos - Death's signature style Loading...
F3ynman Nocturnal Bro Contributor Posts: 3025	Permalink 13.09.2021 - 18:38 Rating: 9 F3ynman Nocturnal Bro Contributor Posts: 3025 This album is incredible. The song "Genetic Reconstruction" alone has such amazing riffs (for example at timestamps 0:00, 1:00, 1:20, and 2:28), a fantastic solo (starting at 1:40, speeding up at 2:08, and having a beautiful elegant section at 2:47), and has a great death growl at 3:11. Speaking of great vocals, in the Spiritual Healing title track, when Chuck says "your life you should PAY!" (at around 2:53 in the song) that is one of the most evil voices I've heard him utter! This is one of the greatest death metal records of all time! Thank you, Chuck! R.I.P. Loading...
Metal Diogenes Posts: 1260	Permalink 13.09.2021 - 18:47 Rating: 9 Metal Diogenes Posts: 1260 Spiritual Healing is indeed the most underrated Death album, I think mainly because it's unfortunately sandwiched between killer classics like Leprosy and Human. It may not surpass other Death albums in any way, but it's at least as entertaining as any of them. ---- You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like! Loading...
AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5308	Permalink 13.09.2021 - 19:42 Rating: 8 AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5308 The only Death album I'm yet to hear in full, but you can certainly tell a major difference between Leprosy and Human, Leprosy was proper old school death metal, in sound and in lyrics too, but the songwriting on Human had matured, and it was where the band started to show more of their technicality, and progressive. I think this album is where they ended the original Death sound, although I still haven't heard it in full, so I can't compare this album yet with Leprosy and Human. ---- Andy's 2024 album ranking Loading...
Redel Moderator Posts: 2250	Permalink 12.08.2022 - 12:41 Rating: 8 Redel Moderator Posts: 2250 Written by [user id=329624] on 12.08.2022 at 12:11 all I hear is Chuck growling "She's a stupid bitch", it's just too funny. Well, you know, maybe she is. Loading...
Ryanm123 Posts: 68	Permalink +1 14.01.2024 - 00:27 Rating: 10 Ryanm123 Posts: 68 Scratches that OSDM itch and technical/skilled playing itch at the same time. It and Human are my favorite Death albums. Loading...