Released August 12, 1988 Length 38:37 Artist Death Label Combat Records | Recorded April 1988 Producer Dan Johnson Release date 12 August 1988 Genre Death metal | |
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Studio Morrisound Recording,
Tampa, Florida, USA Leprosy
(1988) Spiritual Healing
(1990) Similar Death albums, Death metal albums | ||
Death leprosy reissue full album stream
Leprosy is the second studio album by American death metal band Death, released on August 12, 1988 by Combat Records. Notably different in tone and quality from the 1987 debut, it is the first example of Scott Burns' work heard on many of the death metal and grindcore albums of that era. The cover is featured in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. It is the first album to feature drummer Bill Andrews and the only one to feature guitarist Rick Rozz.
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In a death metal special by the German "Rock Hard" Magazine, Leprosy was voted the no. 1 of the 25 most important death metal albums of all time. A deluxe re-issue of the album was released in April 2014.
The title track "Leprosy" was covered by the blackened death metal band Akercocke on their 2007 album Antichrist. Dutch melodic death metal band Callenish Circle covered "Pull the Plug" as a bonus on their Flesh Power Dominion album, released in 2002; shortly thereafter, Norwegians Zyklon also recorded "Pull the Plug" to be used as a bonus track. Finnish thrash metal band Mokoma covered the track "Open Casket", with lyrics in Finnish and titled "Avoin Hauta", on their EP Viides Vuodenaika. "Pull the Plug" was also covered by American band Revocation.
On April 29, 2014 a three disc remastered edition containing bonus tracks was released via Relapse Records.
Track listing
All music written by Chuck Schuldiner and Rick Rozz, unless stated. All lyrics written by Chuck Schuldiner. All songs published by Mutilation Music.
Personnel
Songs
1Leprosy6:20
2Born Dead3:27
3Forgotten Past4:36