Leprosy
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| Label (s) | Combat Records | |||
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CD |
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8th |
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38 min 52 s |
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Dan Johnson |
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Leprosy ( English for leprosy ) is the second album by the American death metal band " Death ". A promotional demo preceded the album .
background
After Chuck Schuldiner moved back to Florida, drummer Chris Reifert stayed in California and founded Autopsy .
The material is very Thrash Metal- heavy. The songs were all written by Chuck Schuldiner , only with the title Primitive Ways Rick Rozz helped out as a "songwriter". This was mainly due to the fact that Schuldiner had put together a completely new line-up . He recruited all three musicians (Rick Rozz, Terry Butler, Bill Andrews) from the band Massacre . Kam Lee was the only member left. Rick Rozz and Kam Lee had both played in the previous Death band Mantas.
Terry Butler is given as bass player . However, Schuldiner claimed that he had recorded the bass tracks from Leprosy and the follow-up album Spiritual Healing himself, as Butler found it too difficult to record the material.
Track list
- Leprosy - 6:20
- Born Dead - 3:27
- Forgotten Past - 4:36
- Left to Die - 4:38
- Pull the Plug - 4:27
- Open Casket - 4:56
- Primitive Ways - 4:34
- Choke on It - 5:54
Trivia
- The producer of many Death albums, Scott Burns, worked as an engineer on the album.
- The cover of the album was again designed by Ed Repka .
- A cover version of the title "Born Dead" can be found on the album Farbenfinsternis by the German band Eisregen .
Awards
- In Rock Hard No. 273 of February 2010, the album was voted No. 1 of the 25 most important death metal albums by the editorial team.
Individual evidence
Albums: Scream Bloody Gore (1987) | Leprosy (1988) | Spiritual Healing (1990) | Human (1991) | Individual Thought Patterns (1993) | Symbolic (1995) | The Sound of Perseverance (1998)