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Death is the brainchild of death metal founder (though some argue Possessed had equal contributions) Chuck Shuldiner. Death were origanally formed under the name of Mantas with Chuck and a few of his high school friends in 1982. Later on, Chuck found out the name Mantas was already copywritten, so he changed the name to Death in 1984. A few bootlegs and demos were recorded before Death's first studio album, Scream Bloody Gore, was released in 1987, with Chuck on lead guitar and vocals with the bass synthesised, John Hand on rhythm guitars and Jeff Reifert on drums. Jeff would later go on to form his own band (Autopsy) after the release of Scream Bloody Gore. Scream Bloody Gore was arguably one of the first death metal albums released. I'd have to agree. It's the first album with the trademark gore ridden lyrics, fast riffs, and eerie drumming. Death's second platter would come a year later with the classic death metal album Leprosy. After sacking the original lineup, most people would figure that the sound would change. Amazingly, much of the sound stays the same in Leprosy. The corpulent yet amazing guitarist Rick Rozz is recruited, along with Bill Andrews on drums and Terry Butler on bass for one of Death's best releases. The next studio album would not come until 1990 with James Murphy (of Testament and Obituary fame) is recruited on the guitar. Death make a huge leap in the world of metal on this release. The songs aren't about death and gore ridden things, but about Chuck and Co.'s personal opinions on issues. Many thought that this would be Death's final album because Chuck again trashed the band members because he wanted to go for more of a "traditional" metal sound. In 1991, Death release a masterpiece in the name of Human. Human features bass guru Steve DiGiorgio (of Sadus and Control Denied fame). While Death's previous albums were fast tempoed, Human puts speed metal bands to shame with songs like Together As One and Suicide Machine. Two years later in 1993, Death would release yet another testament in the world of metal. Keeping Steve DiGiorgio on bass, Chuck recruits King Diamond guitarist Andy LaRocque and Dark Angel drummer Gene Hoglan for the release of Individual Thought Patterns. ITP set another standard in the world of technical/speed metal with technical songs such as Overactive Imagination, Individual Thought Patterns, and In Human Form. Two years later, after almost disbanding Death yet again because of his own frustrations vocally, Chuck and Gene recruit Kelly Conlon on bass (Steve would have helped out for this release, but he had obligations to Sadus to fulfill) and Bobby Koelble on guitars for the release of Symbolic. Symbolic was symbolic in many ways. At this point, Death were no longer just plain death metal pioneers, Death were pioneers in the world of metal period. Symbolic features Chuck's love for progressive metal and heavy metal. Symbolic was almost the last Death album released, as Chuck shelved the band for his side project, Control Denied, where he took on the role of lead guitars. After bringing back many musical influences and the entire band of Control Denied minus Tim Aymar (which consisted of Shannon Hamm on guitars, Richard Christy on drums, and Scott Clendenin on bass [Steve again had obligations to Sadus]), Death would realease their final studio album, The Sound of Perseverance. I must say, what a better way to end an era with a fine metal platter? TSoP would turn out to be Death's most complicated, longest, and technical album to be released. After TSoP's release, Chuck would tour with Death and would again leave Death for Control Denied. Shortly after the release of The Fragile Art of Existance under Control Denied, Chuck was diagnosed with a brainstem tumor in 1999. Many bands put on shows and gigs to help raise money for the cancer treatment and two Death DVDs, Live in L.A. and Live in Eindhoven were also released to help raise funding. Sadly, however, on December 13, 2001, Chuck lost his battle with cancer and began his perennial quest into eternity. To acknowledge his place in the world of metal fame, as he was probably the most underrated artist in the world of metal, I have written this biography for isound.com. This biography is original and has been pieced together as one from my website and reviews of Death's albums.
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Lucifer’s – The State Of The
Infernal Region Address
Lucifer’s – The State Of The Infernal Region
Address
By: Mark R. Sosa
Death's Door @ www.death777.com
Copyright 2003
“My vision of HELL”
Apocalyptic Architecture - “Gargantuan
Electric Human Meat Grinder”
“In The Round” apocalyptic amphitheater
Of blasphemous maniacal vocalizations
Chain sawed adolescent skulls outline
supremely
This unimaginable architecture for the chosen
nocturnal deity
The center stage holocaust exhibition
A gargantuan electric human meat grinder
The master regurgitating floor insulator
That thrusts those carcasses who’ve taken
freely
The Revelation’s mark of the beast
As chosen black sheep of Christianity
Experiencing maliciously their timely demise
Beheaded, shredded, and then desecrated
Surpassing the end of time
The North – “Salivating Demon Possessed Pit
Bulls”
To the north a see-through glass room
Exhibits those guardians who’ve cast away
their offspring
Lying defenseless on the cold floor of
unpredictability
Salivating demon-possessed pit bulls are
unleashed
Clinching on each of their ankles and wrists
to secure immobility
Then a conveyor belt discharges piece by
piece
Abortion remains to revive in their hollowed
minds
All the valueless scars they’ve so selfishly
left behind
The South – “Chopping Blocks of Maximum
Amputation”
To the south pornography’s sexual
persecution
Atop chopping blocks of maximum amputation
The hole, the opening tip of manhood’s overly
extended virility
Shall be held fastened and then high torque
drilled
Using one bit with ferocious rupturing
abilities
Next the vaginal cavity shall be separated
By contaminated extra thick, metal fishing
hooks
Used as instruments of death and brutality
Then a hand-held steel grater with razor
sharp teeth
Is inserted and then removed in an
accelerated fashion
To inescapably disfigure the womanhood’s
excitability
Internal human flesh fastens itself
Like 10 year dried-up corpses in a war torn
mortuary
The East – “The Quicksand Landfill of
Cannibal Fishes - Piranhas”
To the east the ever-present creeping
quicksand landfill
Full of schools of merciless cannibal fishes,
the piranha
Dissecting on contact the submerged fleshly
appendages
Of all present-day invokers who adhere
To the black arts of incantation
Reverted spells once to intentionally
puncture another’s soul
Now presents in flawless animation
Their own Hell daunting damnation
The West – “Gasoline and Anal Blowtorches”
Slayer’s “God Hates Us All” plays unceasingly
to the west
Directly outside the spiritually famished
concentration camps
Where all partake of one big swig of gasoline
To secrete the inner linings of their naked,
blood soaked flesh
Onto the highly flammable showers where when
done soaking
Anal blowtorches detonate upon impact
Some in line from close quarter apprehension
Gulp their own dry mouth tongues
For a quicker suicidal solution
Marilyn Manson – “Anti-Christ Superstar
Prelude”
Blackest greetings from me the Antichrist
Superstar
Live from carnalities capital – Hell
Tonight we unite as beastly brethren
Baptized in the blood of iniquity
To marvel at the live “in the round” martyred
souls
Persuaded by the phantoms of their fiery
furnace illusions and
To hear in its entirety
Lucifer’s State Of The Infernal Region
Address
The Angel of Death – “Opening Act”
A human body casket shaped sandbox
Where all victorious sexual predators
Are chained by their waist cavity above
ground
To the coffins of their prey underground
The Angel of Death arrives in a black hooded
trench coat
His pupils of dried blood are in the
formation of a sinister smile
Sent to strategically insert mini-chisels
under both
The fingernails and toenails of these
statutory rapists
Then uninterrupted “finishing hammer” flesh
breakage begins
Smashing until agony wailing echoes through
The rejoicing ears of the innocent dirt
nappers
Then the Angel of Death exposes his skeletal
vacantness
To this now valueless impaired misfit
The “fierce snake” is then vomited forth
From his bellybutton region
Immediately injecting in the jugular vein
The world’s most toxic venom
Sexless misfit now extinct
Lucifer – “The State Of Infernal Region
Address”
I’ve spent lifetimes since my dissension
From the celestial regions of Heaven
Unceasingly castrating, manipulating,
poisoning, and tempting
The sane brainwaves of humankind with one
irreligious outcome
To form a military allegiance
On planet Earth solely unto myself
Of salvation hatred kamikazes with newly
formed
Cranial psychotic thought processes
Within the nocturnal trenches of sobriety
To the outcasts of contemporary society
I’ve offered every pleasurable vice
Souls of frozen faith to mate in the awaiting
abyss
All world religions and idols shall be
detonated
By the unstoppable atomic bomb kiss
Self inducing PCP injections heighten coma
nightmares
Of monstrous violent hallucinations of
warfare
Facial discoloration paint
Covers the naked canvas flesh expression
My puppets of the infernal infantry
Blasphemic war chants unite from every
country
To soothe my ears of chromosomal alteration
Your infernal inheritance I have saved
To the north, south, east or west you shall
be placed
Or the Angel of Death shall appear and choose
your fate
All in all, human disintegration is why I
exist
Your everlasting spiritual crucifixion I
shall not dismiss
Loved one’s memories banished here in
perdition
Your blinded eyes within
Fail miserably to repress
Your mortal addiction to sin
I’m Lucifer, the holocaust narrator of this
My “State Of The Infernal Region
Address”
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