Description
Very rare 2000 box set featuring 5 picture discs and a huge Scream Bloody Gore poster. Limited 3000 copies
Over the course of more than a decade and increasingly accomplished albums, Chuck Schuldiner, the architect behind the ubiquitous Death, became a bona fide heavy metal icon. Now widely recognized as the father of death metal (if a single candidate must be chosen, his résumé is about as good as it gets), Schuldiner’s singular drive and ruthless creative vision guaranteed that Death would ever represent the cutting edge of the style’s development. Indeed, while the savagely raw aggression contained in Death’s first three albums proved crucial to spearheading the first generation of death metal bands, the astounding musicianship and increasingly sophisticated songwriting found on their later-day efforts surely influenced even more groups to explore the limits of extreme metal’s most progressive outposts. By all accounts a force to be reckoned with on-stage, Death also logged more frequent flier miles than perhaps any other band of their ilk, undertaking numerous far-reaching tours despite suffering from continuous and often acrimonious musician turnover within their ranks. Throughout this long journey and drastic evolutionary curve, Schuldiner was to be the only constant, the effective mastermind behind Death’s continually groundbreaking career, and, as proven by his near-canonization at the time of his untimely passing, arguably unequalled in stature within one of rock’s most uncompromising style. Death’s aggressive and confrontational style was introduced on their influential debut album, 1987’s Scream Bloody Gore, while 1991’s Human and 1993’s Individual Thought Patterns were more accomplished and precise works that captured the group at their creative peak.
Track list:
Disc 1: Scream Bloody Gore
1. Infernal Death
2. Zombie Ritual
3. Denial Of Life
4. Sacrificial
5. Mutilation
6. Regurgitated Guts
7. Baptized In Blood
8. Torn To Pieces
9. Evil Dead
10. Scream Bloody Gore
11. Beyond The Unholy Grav-demo
12. Land Of No Return-demo
13. Open Casket-live
14. Choke On It-live
Disc 2: Leprosy
15. Leprosy
16. Born Dead
17. Forgotten Past
18. Left To Die
19. Pull The Plug
20. Open Casket
21. Primitive Ways
22. Choke On It
Disc 3: Spiritual Healing
23. Living Monstrosity
24. Altering The Future
25. Defensive Personalities
26. Within The Mind
27. Spiritual Healing
28. Low Life
29. Genetic Reconstruction
30. Killing Spree
Disc 4: Human
31. Flattening Of Emotions
32. Suicide Machine
33. Together As One
34. Secret Face
35. Lack Of Comprehension
36. See Through Dreams
37. Cosmic Sea-instrumental
38. Vacant Planets
Disc 5: Individual Thought Patterns
39. Overactive Imagination
40. In Human Form
41. Jealousy
42. Trapped In A Corner
43. Nothing Is Everything
44. Mentally Blind
45. Individual Thought Patterns
46. Destiny
47. Out Of Touch
48. The Philosopher