'Torn to Pieces' is another maniacal murder anthem that stands out on the album. 'Regurgitated Guts' is a hostile riffing beast, and 'Baptized in Blood' has some excellent, maddening leads over the driving thrust of its rhythms. 'Denial of Life' has killer bridge and chorus riffing, a thrashing that is both creepy and happy. 'Zombie Ritual' is easily the most recognizable track from the album, with its evil intro rhythm and flawless bloodflow of gory bludgeoning riffs, but there are many moments that glisten with with the sanguine discharge of its victims. Despite what music theory dorks will tell you, the first three albums are the best of Death, because they were able to compose creepy, memorable music that really flaunted the.er.'virtues' of the form: evil sounding rhythms, brutal vocals, and excellent musicianship, without falling off the deep end. It's a lot more primal than what you'd expect if you jumped on the Death-wagon during the years of Human, Individual Thought Patterns, or Symbolic. Scream Bloody Gore is actually the work of only two musicians, the immortal Chuck Schuldiner performing all guitars, bass and vocals, and Chris Reifert ( Autopsy, etc) behind the kit.

The thrash elements remain, of course, since all death metal is derived from that, but this is the well from which so much of modern brutality has sprung. I like to take the safe route: the first pure death metal album is Scream Bloody Gore, the debut from Florida's legendary Death. Many would say Possessed takes this title, and certainly a case could be made, depending on where you feel thrash ended and death began. However, IвЂ™m not sure it would be worth getting just for the remastered album itself because, though an improvement on the original, the sound is only subtly different.There are many arguments to be made about which album was the first 'true death metal' effort. If you already own Leprosy, this is worth picking up if youвЂ™re a fan of hearing demos and live performances. But itвЂ™s great to hear the band refining the tracks that would appear on the album, and itвЂ™s interesting to hear a number of the tracks without vocals.ДЄgain, the live tracks on CD3 are not of the highest sound quality вЂ“ but then theyвЂ™re live recordings and they really do a great job of capturing the intensity of Death playing live. The demos and rehearsal tracks on CD2 are incredibly raw and the recordings are not of the highest quality. Even now, an amazing 26 years after the albumвЂ™s original release, these tracks still sound amazing.

The album itself features a number of all time Death classics вЂ“ including вЂ Pull the PlugвЂ, the title track вЂ LeprosyвЂ, and my personal favourite вЂ Open CasketвЂ.

The packing is first class and comes in a deluxe embossed 8 panel digipak, with a 24 page booklet that features unseen pictures of the band, and liner notes.ДЄll three of the CDs have been remastered by Alan Douches (who has previously mastered albums by Atheist, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, and Malevolent Creation to name just a few), and the songs sound all the better for it, with a subtly sharper sound that manages to retain all of the rawness of the original. This remaster comes with three CDs вЂ“ a remastered version of the album, a ten track CD of demos and rehearsal material, and a fifteen track CD of previously unreleased live tracks. Not only that, but there are hints at the progressive and technical mastery that would follow on later albums.

It moved things up a gear and added stronger song writing and more serious subject matter to the brutality and rawness of the first Death album, Scream Bloody Gore. Hopefully you donвЂ™t need me to tell you that Leprosy is a classic death metal album вЂ“ hell, this album pretty much set the blue print for death metal as a genre. Relapse RecordвЂ™s impressive re-issues of the Death catalog continues with this three-disc version of 1988вЂ™s Leprosy вЂ“ the bandвЂ™s titanic second album.

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