Comments on: Death – Leprosy (Reissue)

By: F.RINI

F.RINI — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:44:01 +0000

Yep, Chuck’s work will never be duplicated, but thankfully he created music that is timeless and still sounds awesome to this day, whether you have the remastered versions or not. He had a knack, and, even more with the later Death albums of creating emotive guitar riffs and song structures. Very difficult to do in extreme metal, but the dude pulled it off. Yeah the DTA tour looks like a killer line-up, not sure I can make it. I think Gorguts are on the bill and they rule live, as well as Noisem, from Baltimore. Get their early to see them. Very young band, but they play brutal death/thrash. Think Reign in Blood, mixed with Dark Angel and blast beats every once in a while.

By: Overman

Overman — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:44:41 +0000

Fuck yeah, didn’t know that about TSOP being a control denied album. I’ve had Death Live in L.A. (Death & Raw) for years now and loved every track and visuals of Chuck just owning his music and that third appendage, I mean guitar. He is still by far one of the greatest vocalists too. I can’t wait to get all the earlier stuff and be impressed all over again.

I’m gonna go to the upcoming Death DTA Tour and see what you saw years ago. Thanks for keeping Death alive, ironic, but Death will always reign. And yeah, I’ve supported Digitalmetal and TOTD for years, otherwise I wouldn’t know what I was missing.

A. Curry

By: F.RINI

F.RINI — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:00:57 +0000

Overman-many thx for reading, your comments and support for Teethofthedivine. I love all the Death albums, however I enjoy their earlier material a bit more. I will say their first 4 albums are my favorites. However when they decided to go more technical and progressive with Individual…, Symbolic and TSOP, I still loved the band and those albums are still some of the best death metal ever and still can’t be duplicated. I do prefer Leprosy to TSOP, as Leprosy is my favorite Death album, with Human right there with it and on TSOP Chuck’s higher vocals are a little grating at times, but that album was supposed to be the first control denied album, but he revamped some stuff and incorporated more of the Death sound into it. Richard Christie’s (love him on Howard Stern, btw), drumming is stunning on TSOP. For live stuff, I saw Death 2x on Leprosy, 1x on Spiritual Healing with James Murphy-extraordinary show, and then 1x on Individual…-and Gene Hoglan was drumming with them and it was outstanding. Anyway all the source material on the Relapse Reissues are incredible and the way Death was meant to be heard on a recording!! \m/

By: Overman

Overman — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:22:40 +0000

I was four years old when this came out, but at age 18, I’ll never forget the first time I heard The Sound of Perseverance. To this day, and most likely forever, will always be in my top three albums ever. Thanks to Frank here, I’ll grab this re-issue, and join my older metal brothers with reverence as I baste in the glory of Death’s reign and push Leprosy up higher of all time greatest.

RIP Schuldiner, ‘The flesh, and the power it holds.’

Frank, what is your take on The Sound of Perseverance compared to Leprosy?