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2025 press on metallic red and white centurion vinyl

With a shockingly tight performance and a handful of evil anthems, Glen Benton and company managed to craft a death metal classic with their eponymous debut. Taking their Satanism to a new level of seriousness, Benton was burning crosses into his forehead and desecrating churches to promote this album, something that didn’t exactly endear them to the mainstream metal media. While similar (and even weaker) groups were getting hyped up as the leaders of the death metal underworld, this album struck a chord that would, for good or bad, instantly inspire legions of like-minded groups. This self-titled debut would become one of the genre’s top-selling releases but it was also a staggering philosophical and artistic statement. Uncompromising is definitely the appropriate if euphemistic term to describe its stance on organized religion, which doesn’t just include Christianity but also Charles Manson (Lunatic of Gods Creation) and Jim Jones (Carnage in the Temple of the Damned). But it’s Sacrificial Suicide and Dead by Dawn, which references the Evil Dead movie for maybe the slightest hint of levity on what is a very black album, that have become stone-cold classics. Metal was never the same after this record…

Track listing:
1. Lunatic Of Gods Creation
2. Sacrificial Suicide
3. Oblivious To Evil
4. Dead By Dawn
5. Blasphericion
6. Deicide
7. Carnage In The Temple Of The Damned
8. Mephitopheles
9. Day Of Darkness
10. Crucifixion