Death - Spiritual Healing
Tracklist
Disc I01. 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]
Line-up
Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner - vocals, guitars
James Franklin Murphy - guitars
Terry Butler - bass
Bill Andrews - drums
Charles Michael "Chuck" Schuldiner - vocals, guitars
James Franklin Murphy - guitars
Terry Butler - bass
Bill Andrews - drums
Additional info
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.
Guest review by
Yanko
Yanko
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9.0
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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. Read more ›› |
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| Pauleto
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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.
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Still can't understand the big fuzz about this band... Excellent cover art btw o/
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Posts: 2955 Written by [user id=5630] on 19.08.2010 at 07:12 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/
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I'll take this, Leprosy and Individual Thought Patterns over Symbolic any day.
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Posts: 18620 Written by Mark Minoa on 20.03.2012 at 21:38 How can anybody say that a Death album is thrash is beyond me.
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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!
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Posts: 2574 Written by X-Ray Rod on 20.03.2012 at 23:31 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
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Posts: 40071 Written by K✞ulu on 20.03.2012 at 23:55 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.
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Posts: 1469 Written by Angelic Storm on 20.03.2010 at 11:23 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?"
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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"
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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.
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Posts: 2799 Written by LeKiwi on 18.04.2015 at 17:36 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.
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Excellent album! There is a lot of good guitar solos
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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 
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Posts: 2799 Written by [user id=329624] on 12.08.2022 at 12:11 Well, you know, maybe she is. 
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Scratches that OSDM itch and technical/skilled playing itch at the same time. It and Human are my favorite Death albums.
---- Upon the plain, there rushed forth and high Shadows at the end of night and mirrored in the sky Far far away beyond might of day And there lay the land of the dead of mortal cold decay
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Am I crazy in slightly disliking Chuck's vocal delivery on this album? I find his vocals to be unusually monotone and there to be little rhythmic variation, it's all very staccato. The vocal production doesn't help, but I find his vocals to stick to the rhythm guitar too much and it brings down the album for me. Am I alone on this? 
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IMHO the best Death album. This is so good and their last old school one. No fillers, just killers with masterpieces like the title, Living Monstrosity, Altering The Future, Defensive Personalities, Within The Mind and Low Life. Human is still a good LP but went to get to technical. The following got weaker and weaker (which means still solid 7/10s for me). Great artwork! Top 100 album!
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Totally over-hated album. Maybe I am biased because this was the first death metal album I ever bought, but there are some amazing songs and moments. Take that solo in "Altering the Future" for example. Yes, Leprosy and Human are better albums, but this one still shreds. "Spiritual Healing" walked so that "Human" could run. You can see the songs becoming more ambitious and technical.
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