Spiritual Healing (album)
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| Studio album by Death | ||
| Released | February 1990 | |
| Recorded | 1989, Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida, USA |
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| Genre | Death metal | |
| Length | 43:23 | |
| Label | Combat | |
| Producer(s) | Scott Burns Death |
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| Death chronology | ||
| Leprosy (1988) |
Spiritual Healing (1990) |
Human (1991) |
Spiritual Healing is the third album released by Death in February 1990. The title comes from the era when faith healer Peter Popoff was exposed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson by James Randi as a fraud.
[edit] Miscellanea
The members of Death stayed in a single motel room at the Safari Inn, near Busch Gardens, for the entire six weeks the album was recorded and mixed, although bassist Terry Butler and drummer Bill Andrews frequently went home as they lived in the Tampa area. New guitarist James Murphy had his first taste of the strange in-humour of the other band members and their manager during all of this time confined to close quarters in the studio and motel.
This was the final Death album cover painted by Ed Repka, following the first two releases.
Manager Eric Greif played a Kawai K1 keyboard part that sounded like a church organ during a break in the middle of title track Spiritual Healing.
Free time was spent driving around Tampa in their manager's car talking on a c.b. radio using fake voices and accents, a specialty of Butler.
[edit] Track listing
- "Living Monstrosity" (Chuck Schuldiner) – 5:08
- "Altering the Future" (Schuldiner, Terry Butler) – 5:34
- "Defensive Personalities" (Schuldiner, Butler) – 4:45
- "Within the Mind" (Schuldiner, James Murphy) – 5:34
- "Spiritual Healing" (Schuldiner) – 7:44
- "Low Life" (Schuldiner, Murphy, Butler) – 5:23
- "Genetic Reconstruction" (Schuldiner, Murphy, Butler) – 4:52
- "Killing Spree" (Schuldiner, Murphy) – 4:16
[edit] Credits
- Chuck Schuldiner - Guitar, Vocals
- James Murphy - Guitar
- Terry Butler - Bass
- Bill Andrews - Drums
- Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida, USA
- Produced, recorded and mixed by Scott Burns and Death
- Assistant engineered by John Cervini and Mike Gowan
- Edward Repka - Artwork, Cover Design
- David Bett - Art Direction
- Brian Freeman - Design
- J.J. Hollis - Photography
- Eric Greif - Management
| Death (band) |
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| Chuck Schuldiner | Richard Christy | Shannon Hamm | Scott Clendenin |
| Discography |
| Official albums and EPs: Scream Bloody Gore (1987) | Leprosy (1988) | Spiritual Healing (1990) | Human (1991) | Individual Thought Patterns (1992) | Symbolic (1995) | The Sound of Perseverance (1998) |
| Live albums and compilation: Fate: The Best of Death (1992) | Live in L.A. (Death & Raw) (2001) | Live in Eindhoven (2001) |
| Related articles |
| Control Denied |
