Mutilation (demo)

Mutilation is a demo album by American death metal band Death, released in 1986. The following year, the band would release their full-length debut album, Scream Bloody Gore on Combat Records. American heavy metal magazine Metal Maniacs noted that the demo was "the most polished of the early Death recordings" and that "the underground and Combat Records were in agreement about Mutilation".[2]

Mutilation
Demo album by
Death
ReleasedApril 1986
RecordedApril 12–13, 1986
StudioATR Studios, Lafayette, California
GenreDeath metal
Length10:24
LabelIndependent
Death chronology
Back from the Dead[1]
(1985)		 Mutilation
(1986)		 Scream Bloody Gore
(1987)

Writer Albert Mudrian noted in his book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore that the Mutilation demo "earned [Chuck] Schuldiner that elusive recording contract", stating it was "the band's most polished material in the form of the three-track demo".[3] Author Ian Christe, in his book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, noted that Death's demos "became as heavily shared by tape traders as any well-established act in metal".[4]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Land of No Return"2:48
2."Zombie Ritual"4:22
3."Mutilation"3:14
Total length:10:24

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[5]

Death

Additional personnel
  • Mark Sikora – artwork

References
  1. "Death - Back from the Dead". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
  2. Grayson, P. Precious Memories of Chuck Schuldiner, Metal Maniacs, May 2002 (retrieved June 3, 2010)
  3. Mudrian, A. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, 2004, p. 75, Feral House
  4. Christe, I. Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, 2003, p. 241, Harper Collins
  5. Mutilation Demo (retrieved July 7, 2016)
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