Leprosy (album)

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Leprosy
Studio album by Death
Released November 16, 1988
Recorded April 1988 at Morrisound Recording,
Tampa, Florida, USA
Genre Death metal
Length 38:37
Label Combat, Relapse
Producer Dan Johnson
Death chronology

Scream Bloody Gore
(1987)		 Leprosy
(1988)		 Spiritual Healing
(1990)
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Leprosy is the second album by death metal band Death, released in 1988. 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.

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 re-issue of the album is in the works via Perseverance Holdings, Ltd. and Relapse Records.

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 "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.

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 (BMI).
No. Title Length
1. "Leprosy" (Schuldiner) 6:19
2. "Born Dead"   3:25
3. "Forgotten Past"   4:33
4. "Left to Die"   4:35
5. "Pull the Plug" (Schuldiner) 4:25
6. "Open Casket"   4:53
7. "Primitive Ways[2][3]"   4:33
8. "Choke on It"   5:54
2008 Century Media remastered digipak version[4]
No. Title Length
9. "Open Casket" (Live) 4:49
10. "Choke on It" (Live) 5:50
11. "Left to Die" (Live) 4:35
12. "Pull the Plug" (Live) 4:26
13. "Forgotten Past" (Live) 4:33

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Huey, Steve. "Leprosy - Death". Allmusic. Retrieved October 13, 2011. 
  2. ↑ Primitive Ways as registered at BMI.com, the percentage filed is 75% Schuldiner, 25% DeLillo (Rozz)
  3. ↑ Death (Official), facebook page administered by Relapse Records and Eric Greif (the lawyer for Chuck Schuldiner's Estate), (retrieved November 18, 2011)
  4. ↑ "Death (2) - Leprosy (CD, Album) at Discogs". Discogs.com. June 2, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2011. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Counterattack". Emptywords.org. October 3, 1999. Retrieved October 13, 2011. 

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