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Death - Spiritual Healing



8.4 | 1162 votes |
Release date: 1990
Style: Death metal

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Disc I
01. Living Monstrosity
02. Altering The Future
03. Defensive Personalities
04. Within The Mind
05. Spiritual Healing
06. Low Life
07. Genetic Reconstruction
08. Killing Spree

Disc II [2012 Re-Release - Rehearsals]
01. Altering The Future
02. Defensive Personalities
03. Within The Mind
04. Within The Mind: Take 2
05. Spiritual Healing
06. Killing Spree
07. Defensive Personalities [Instrumental]
08. Spiritual Healing [Instrumental]
09. Within The Mind [Instrumental]
10. Satanic Jam
11. Primus Jam
12. Jon A Qua: Take 2
13. Jon A Qua: Take 3
14. Jon A Qua: Take 4
15. Jon A Qua: Take 5
16. Jon A Qua: Take 6

Disc III [2012 Re-Release - Live In New York, March 17th, 1990 & Pre-Human Rehearsals]
01. Living Monstrosity
02. Pull The Plug
03. Zombie Ritual
04. Spiritual Healing
05. Left To Die
06. Defensive Personalities
07. Genetic Reconstruction
08. Open Casket
09. Within The Mind
10. Leprosy
11. Suicide Machine [Pre-Human Rehearsal]
12. Together as One [Pre-Human Rehearsal]
13. See Through Dreams [Pre-Human Rehearsal]

Additional info
Produced by Chuck Schuldiner and Eric Greif.
Engineered by Scott Burns.
Mixed by Scott Burns and Death.
Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida.
Engineering assisted by John Cervini and Mike Gowan.
Arranged by Death, with invaluable studio assistance by Scott Burns.
Remastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.
Additional bonus material revitalized and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

Cover artwork by Edward J. Repka.
Original photography by J.J. Hollis.
Layout by Jacob Speis.

Guest review by
Yanko
Rating:
9.0
Well, well, well? Here it is the album that keeps the flame burning. Death have started it three years ago and now bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and Carcass are strenuously practicing in some garage and deafening drunken metallers in some dirty underground metal club in the south of the US.

Death continue playing their typical style - the most brutal of thrash for its time, verging on death metal, but not quite being it, maintaining the creative attitude guitar-wise, mainly due to Chuck's genius.

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published 15.09.2003 | Comments (22)

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20.03.2010 - 10:37
Pauleto
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Excellent album. Grande school Death Metal!!!
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20.03.2010 - 11:23
Rating: 7
Angelic Storm
Melodious
I find this album to be too inconsistent to be called a classic. But, there are 3 songs on it which I regard as true Death classics, and are among my fave Death songs! ''Altering The Future", "Low Life", and the title track are all monster songs, and are among the best songs Chuck ever wrote. They also contain some scorching twin leads from Chuck and James Murphy. Definitely a good album, but not quite up there with their absolute classic albums.
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19.08.2010 - 06:33
Rating: 6
Uirapuru
Liver Failure
Still can't understand the big fuzz about this band...

Excellent cover art btw o/
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19.08.2010 - 07:12
Insineratehymn
Account deleted
Written by Uirapuru on 19.08.2010 at 06:33

Still can't understand the big fuzz about this band...

Excellent cover art btw o/

The cover art there was done by the legendary Ed Repka. He's the guy who designed Vic Rattlehead, the mascot for Megadeth.
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19.08.2010 - 07:40
Rating: 6
Uirapuru
Liver Failure
Written by Guest on 19.08.2010 at 07:12

Written by Uirapuru on 19.08.2010 at 06:33

Still can't understand the big fuzz about this band...

Excellent cover art btw o/

The cover art there was done by the legendary Ed Repka. He's the guy who designed Vic Rattlehead, the mascot for Megadeth.


Seen a catalog with his art, it's really awesome. Although it can be said that Death and Megadeth received his finest pieces.. XD
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19.08.2010 - 18:37
Rating: 8
vezzy
Stallmanite
I'll take this, Leprosy and Individual Thought Patterns over Symbolic any day.
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27.02.2012 - 00:51
Rating: 7
musicalkaratekid

A good album, though some of the riffs are repetitive and generic. The title track is an absolute beast.
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20.03.2012 - 23:31
Rating: 7
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by MyNameJeff on 20.03.2012 at 21:38

I see this as an excellent thrash album


How can anybody say that a Death album is thrash is beyond me.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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20.03.2012 - 23:53
Rating: 9
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
If I remember right, in the liner notes, the band thanked the 1989 Oakland A's. I was a bigtime time jock growing up and felt like the only one who listened to metal I thought it was fucking sweet that a death metal band liked baseball!
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20.03.2012 - 23:55
Rating: 8
K✞ulu
Seeker of Truth
Written by X-Ray Rod on 20.03.2012 at 23:31

Written by MyNameJeff on 20.03.2012 at 21:38

I see this as an excellent thrash album


How can anybody say that a Death album is thrash is beyond me.

I have chased you here... People sometimes refer to Death as thrash regarding their later era albums although I don't any thrash there either, but as far as Spiritual Healing, this is practically a definition of classic death metal, but the prog/tech elements are already heard here.
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Savor what you feel and what you see
Things that may not seem important now
But may be tomorrow

R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner

Satan was a Backstreet Boy
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20.03.2012 - 23:57
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by K✞ulu on 20.03.2012 at 23:55

Written by X-Ray Rod on 20.03.2012 at 23:31

Written by MyNameJeff on 20.03.2012 at 21:38

I see this as an excellent thrash album


How can anybody say that a Death album is thrash is beyond me.

I have chased you here... People sometimes refer to Death as thrash regarding their later era albums although I don't any thrash there either, but as far as Spiritual Healing, this is practically a definition of classic death metal.


Although the later albums aren't death metal any more they also aren't thrash. But the first three four are pure unadultered death metal no doubt about it.
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05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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17.11.2012 - 15:06
megadeath13
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Very underrated album. Old school death metal with lots of outstanding harmonies.
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13.04.2013 - 20:12
Lord_Regnier

Written by Angelic Storm on 20.03.2010 at 11:23

I find this album to be too inconsistent to be called a classic. But, there are 3 songs on it which I regard as true Death classics, and are among my fave Death songs! ''Altering The Future", "Low Life", and the title track are all monster songs, and are among the best songs Chuck ever wrote. They also contain some scorching twin leads from Chuck and James Murphy. Definitely a good album, but not quite up there with their absolute classic albums.


Last time I listened to this album was something like... at least 15 years ago. But I remember that I found it inconsistent.
Never been a fan of Death, to be honest. I hate vocals.
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27.09.2013 - 17:54
Rating: 8
NocturnalStalker
Metal Addict
Classic death metal album.
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"And we are not who we think we are
We are who we're afraid to be"
- Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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19.08.2014 - 05:12
Rating: 7
Dr. Strawberry

Their Best album.
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18.04.2015 - 17:36
Rating: 7
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
The second half of the album is much better than the first - catchy riffs, good melodies, more time signature and tempo changes. The first half kinda ruins the album IMO.
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22.09.2020 - 18:00
Rating: 8
Redel

Written by LeKiwi on 18.04.2015 at 17:36

The second half of the album is much better than the first - catchy riffs, good melodies, more time signature and tempo changes. The first half kinda ruins the album IMO.


I think that is not so clear.
The standout tracks for me are:
01 Living monstrosity
02 Altering the future
05 title track
07 Genetic reconstruction
Tracks 04 Within the Mind and 06 Low Life on the contrary are subpar.
But I would not go as far as saying they ruin this album.
This album is not ruined. It is not their best one, but it is still a kick-ass album, maybe even an old-school DM classic.
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25.12.2020 - 01:24
Rating: 9
JavierPaper

Excellent album! There is a lot of good guitar solos
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27.06.2021 - 08:21
Rating: 10
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Very underrated album! People here say it's inconsistent, but I remember it being fun to listen to all the way through. The standout tracks have already been listed: Spiritual Healing, Low Life, Altering the Future. I'd add Within the Mind and Defensive Personalities - great heavy riffs mixed with technical solos - Death's signature style
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13.09.2021 - 18:38
Rating: 10
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
This album is incredible. The song "Genetic Reconstruction" alone has such amazing riffs (for example at timestamps 0:00, 1:00, 1:20, and 2:28), a fantastic solo (starting at 1:40, speeding up at 2:08, and having a beautiful elegant section at 2:47), and has a great death growl at 3:11.
Speaking of great vocals, in the Spiritual Healing title track, when Chuck says "your life you should PAY!" (at around 2:53 in the song) that is one of the most evil voices I've heard him utter!
This is one of the greatest death metal records of all time! Thank you, Chuck! R.I.P.
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13.09.2021 - 18:47
Rating: 9
Metal Rasputin

Spiritual Healing is indeed the most underrated Death album, I think mainly because it's unfortunately sandwiched between killer classics like Leprosy and Human. It may not surpass other Death albums in any way, but it's at least as entertaining as any of them.
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13.09.2021 - 19:42
Rating: 8
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
The only Death album I'm yet to hear in full, but you can certainly tell a major difference between Leprosy and Human, Leprosy was proper old school death metal, in sound and in lyrics too, but the songwriting on Human had matured, and it was where the band started to show more of their technicality, and progressive.

I think this album is where they ended the original Death sound, although I still haven't heard it in full, so I can't compare this album yet with Leprosy and Human.
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12.08.2022 - 12:41
Rating: 8
Redel

Written by Guest on 12.08.2022 at 12:11

all I hear is Chuck growling "She's a stupid bitch", it's just too funny.

Well, you know, maybe she is.
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14.01.2024 - 00:27
Rating: 10
Ryanm123

Scratches that OSDM itch and technical/skilled playing itch at the same time. My #2 favorite Death album behind Human.
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