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Rating: If an alien came to Earth and asked me what Death Metal is, if I didn't faint, I would walk shocked to my room and put on this record, telling them: "Here. THIS is Death Metal".
Exactly. Seminal debut of the equally seminal Death, major founders of Death Metal along with all the other usual bands you'll look up on the Internet because I'm tired of repeating them, and then you might also take me for an arteriosclerotic and repetitive person. This album is a sort of testament of how Death HAD to sound at the time: exactly as our tormented ears can perceive from this album with its terrible cover!
Rotten, raw, and brutal sounds, all obviously accompanied by a good dose of B-series Gore/Horror lyrics, which fortunately are overshadowed by Chuck's guitar (here also playing the bass! Give it a try yourself, for fuck's sake!), downtuned as usual, sounding really powerful and heavy while Chris Reifert's drumming (later in the fundamental Autopsy, which I also reviewed UAZZZ) delivers an excellent performance, hindered by the poor production that unfortunately makes the snare sound too sharp and intrusive, a flaw that nonetheless did not undermine the skill of the powerful and promising drummer, another of the many fundamental elements that contributed to the correct development of Death. (Given the essential dose of tupatupatupa contained here, after a while you'll find yourself cursing the producer, just as it happened to me).
The vocals deserve more than a mention (eeeh? vocals?), obviously in the groundbreaking Growl, a brand new characteristic that scandalized the purist Thrasher of the time who expected a voice, aggressive yes, but clean, like Tom Araya's to be clear. The Slayer must have smiled at the release of this album: the tupatupa refers to them, the solos refer to them, the riffs refer to them: don't expect an album in the style of "Symbolic" or "The Sound Of Perseverance", here there is only violence and history of Death: the album is VERY bad. Pieces inherently tied to the fiercest Thrash tradition (King and Hanneman are always around the corner) seasoned with gut-wrenching, vomited guts, and baptisms in blood (here the references are to Venom) which would soon become the standard of Death Metal band lyrics (Cannibal Corpse doesn't say anything to you?) make Death from "Scream Bloody Gore" absolutely unrecognizable, hundreds of kilometers away from epoch-making "Works of Art" like "Human", "Individual Thought Patterns" and especially "The Fragile Art Of Existence": all elements that however well represent the idea of the genius of the great Chuck, capable of transitioning from the purest Death Metal (this and the subsequent “Leprosy”) to intelligent Death ("Spiritual Healing"/"Human"/"Individual Thought Patterns"/"Symbolic"/"The Sound Of Perseverance"), to contaminated Classic (“The Fragile Art Of Existence”) and who knows how many more things, if it hadn't been for the fucking greed of the American healthcare system.
The album opens great with the purest Death of "Infernal Death", which will go down in history as one of the most violent opening songs for an album. Pure Death Metal! Moving through the equally exceptional "Zombie Ritual", "Regurgitated Guts", "Baptized In Blood" you can notice Chuck's technical lack which still remains at good levels, while the innovativeness of the riffing leaves you speechless. A perfect work, maybe too raw, but excellent: an absolute Masterpiece of Death Metal, from which Chuck's band got its name. Maybe, if you want a piece of advice to "digest" the early Death better, don't approach their magnificent multidimensional world with this album (as I did) because given the absolute violence of the Songs and the soft delicacy of your virgin ears you might be tempted to drop everything labeling it with a generic "mess" or you might take longer to get through it: instead, start with more "light" things such as "Symbolic" and "The Sound Of Perseverance", thus retracing the greatest Death Metal growth ever seen.
What else to say? Oh yes, almost forgot: the album is also available in a pornographic version, with moans instead of growls: just go to any sex shop and ask for "Screma Bloody Whore"! Uahahahahaaa!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Zombie Ritual (04:35)
Revengeful corpse out to kill
Smell the stench, Your guts will spill
Vomit for a mind, Maggots for a cock
With his axe the corpse will chop
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
Drink from the goblet, The goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, Now you want more
Drifting from the living, Joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, Now infest your head
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Ceremony now complete
Chosen one is now deceased
Fucking, Raping zombie whores
Killing, Feasting no remorse
Stare into his eyes
Now in his spell
Kiss the rotting flesh
Now you're in hell
Drink from the goblet, The goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, Now you want more
Drifting from the living, Joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, Now infest your head
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual
04 Sacrificial (03:43)
With chainsaw in hand
Your death I demand
Slicing through your fat
My awaited gore attack
Manipulating lies
Is your way of life
Riding on cheap glory
Your life is getting gory
Watch you bleed to death
Gasping for last breath
Choking on your blood
I shit onto your guts
Sacrificial cunt
I despise
Sacrificial cunt
No more lies
Slabs of fat
Lay on the ground
Ram an axe
Into your mound
Time to pay the gruesome price
A stupid cunt we sacrifice
Watch you bleed to death
Gasping for last breath
Choking on your blood
I shit onto your guts
Sacrificial cunt
I despise
Sacrificial cunt
No more lies
Sacrificial cunt
I despise
Sacrificial cunt
No more lies
05 Mutilation (03:29)
Massacred, Hacked to death, My revenge
Slicing deep, Into your flesh, The pain intense
Dreams of hate, Misery, Fill my mind
Puke in your face in disgust, It's time to die
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Staring your severed head in the face
I celebrate a faggot's death, Human disgrace
Hanging your mangled corpse for display
My revenge was fulfilled upon this day
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
You must die in pain
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
Mutilation
06 Regurgitated Guts (03:46)
Suicidal preacher hangs himself
Unfaithful servant goes straight to hell
When he returns, Your life will end
Down from the skies maggots descend
Least expecting his horrible face
Your decayed guts you soon will taste
Unholy feeling grows deep inside
Choking on your guts you open wide
Regurgutated guts
Satisfy his needs
Regurgutated guts
Now you're gonna bleed
Visions of death are growing clear
Life as a corpse is what you fear
Searching through the graves to be set free
From the curse of the priest that's come to be
So unaware of what's to come
Your guts are his when he is done
Reaching for your cross to end this pain
Your life and blood he will have drained
Regurgutated guts
Satisfy his needs
Regurgutated guts
Now you're gonna bleed
In his trance
Your eyes they bleed
Your guts come forth
For his own need
07 Baptized in Blood (04:32)
Under command a new-born child
Submerged in blood, The dead they smile
Growing possessed, Burning inside
A bloody feast for us tonight
The way of death
Is growing hear just take my hand
Skies grow black
Unholy corpses upon their land
The dead they gather around
Praising the child they found
Possessed, The child shall kill
The future is now revealed
Baptized in blood
Destined to burn
Baptized in blood
Reborn they'll learn
Gather around, Watch and see
A new creation of misery
Taking the place of the elderly dead
Forbidden ways now in his head
The way of death
Is growing hear just take my hand
Skies grow black
Unholy corpses upon their land
The dead they gather around
Praising the child they found
Possessed, The child shall kill
The future is now revealed
Baptized in blood
Destined to burn
Baptized in blood
Reborn they'll learn
Baptized in blood
Destined to burn
Baptized in blood
Reborn they'll learn
08 Torn to Pieces (03:38)
Out to find the truth
Behind the myth of
Man eating man
Finding bodies tied
Up to a stake
You cannot understand
Filled with ignorance
You watch them eat your friends
Ask for evidence
A hook right through your tits
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Trying to escape
They torture you by
Cutting off your cock
When you're dead
They'll feast upon your flesh
Your brains they'll
Eat and chop
Pray if you want
Pathetic rancid cunt
Face reality
Death your final pleasure
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
Torn to pieces
09 Evil Dead (03:01)
Trapped inside a life which is not yours
Spirits within causing terror, Fear and darkness
Evil dead
Evil dead
Voice speaks out, All will die tonight
Insanity fills your mind, You hear them calling
Evil dead
Evil dead
Covered in blood, All hope is lost
Forever to rot, Controlled by the powers of the
Evil dead
Evil dead
10 Scream Bloody Gore (04:35)
Decapitated head licking your cunt
Sucking all the blood from your stump
Intestinal guts taking their hold
Leaving you dead, Stiff and cold
Controlling the minds of the bloodthristy dead
Unholy seizure slicing through your head
Who will survive only time will tell
Dripping from your mouth comes a rancid smell
Lobotomised corpse shredding your flesh
Leaving your body a bloody mess
Scream bloody gore
Scream bloody gore
Inject the reborn terror, The blood comes spurting out
Another to control, Add it to your count
Orders to destroy, Rip and tear apart
Wishing for the end, Your dead is just the start
Controlling the minds of the bloodthristy dead
Unholy seizure slicing through your head
Who will survive only time will tell
Dripping from your mouth comes a rancid smell
Lobotomised corpse shredding your flesh
Leaving your body a bloody mess
Scream bloody gore
Scream bloody gore
Armies of the dead
Hail their leader's head
Hungry for the flesh
While it's warm and fresh
Through the smoke who will see
Who will come out alive?
Now it's your turn to feel the pain
Now it's your turn to die
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