Death Biography

The biography existed two groups under the name; The first played garage rock, the second - Det metal. Death English. The vocalist, guitarist and author of the texts Chuck Schuldiner is considered one of the pioneers in the genre of Dat Metal, and the album called “Scream Bloody Gore” is considered the standard of the genre. Chuck Schuldiner was the only permanent member of the group.

The history of the group creation of the group. Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy. The Death group was one of the most important and influential DET groups that have ever appeared in North America. The group was founded by the guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, the guitarist Frederick Delillo better known as Rick Roses and the drummer Barney Lee is also known as Kem Lee under the original name Mantas Mantas - this is the pseudonym Jeff Dunn, the then guitarist of the Venom group in the year.

Mantas was looking for inspiration in the creativity of Slayer and Venom groups. The trio composed its own songs, making rehearsal notes and sending them to various resellers of cassettes around the world. Of these records, a demos of five songs was compiled, called Death by Metal, released in the middle of the year, which approved Mantas as the most promising contender for the DET-metal throne of America, which at that time was occupied by the Possessed group of San Francisco.

But the group was not so well accepted in its own city, Orlando, where the group was still not taken seriously.

Chuck Schuldiner subsequently recalls: the situation was almost impossible. Many people have seen us down. We got a lot of troubles from local groups; All groups in the district considered us complete shit. There was a lot of noise in our records [because of an independent recording], but we played brutal Det-metal, and it was difficult to understand people.

Such a lack of local support of the group was one of the main causes of constant internal conflicts in the group. In the end, the Mantas group broke up at the end of the year. Having promised to continue to compose music that would be “faster and harder” than any other of his previous creativity, Chuck immediately announced his plans to create a new group and move to the Tampa or California, when he was eighteen on May 13, he gave a simple, laconic and at the same time reflecting the essence of the name Death English.

Chuck believed that moving would increase the chances of the composition of the group to be constant. For several weeks, Schuldiner settled relations with Rick Rose and Cam Lee and began a session of the record of the material for the legendary demo Reign of Terror. Recorded in five hours in October of the year in the office room of the music store, which stored recording equipment, Reign of Terror in the per.

The release of six compositions spread throughout the world through an extensive network of traders. The group became known as one of the most extreme and brutal in its genre. Three months later, on March 9, Chuck, Rick and Kam finally had a chance to record a full -fledged studio demo, a tape of three songs, which was created mainly to attract the attention of large recording companies.

This entry was subsequently called Infernal Death in the trans. It is the last made in this composition of the group, since the relationship between Chuck Schuldiner with the rest of the group became more cold. He liked the Basist from Michigan named Scott Carlson, who was then a member of the Genocide group, and then Repulsion. He sent Schuldiner a record of his improvisations, which impressed him greatly.

The group spent several months in vain search for the drummer. Ultimately, Carlson and Olno left the group and returned back to Michigan; Chuck was a very difficult task: to choose a completely new composition of the group. To do this, he moved to San Francisco, where he met with the former drummer D. Eric Brecht, and this couple became the next composition of the Death group. Their goal was to "play faster than ever." But in the end, Schuldiner realized that the speed game prevents the melodism in Death music, which later became its distinctive feature.

He returned to Florida again without a group. At that time, the participants of the DET-metal participants of the Slaughter from Toronto, who began to record the debut album Strappado, called Chuck. They asked Schuldiner to move to Canada, to which he agreed, as he was disappointed in local musicians and the situation. Chuck moved to Toronto in January of the year and the group began to rehearse.

Although Schuldiner was initially delighted with his stay in this group, he soon realized that he could not obey anyone's leadership, and returned to Florida. In San Francisco, he met with a promising young drummer named Chris Raefert, and in April of the same year the duet went to the studio for the recording of the three-peeled demo multilation. This entry was widely used in circles of metacles and even fell into the hands of representatives of the Combat Records label, which offered a contract for several albums ahead.In July, Chuck and Chris in Florida began working on a debut album, but for various technical reasons, the work did not advance and the whole process had to be transferred to the Hollywood studio “Music Grinder Studios”.

The group, together with the producer Randy Burns, recorded the record in just a few days, and Chuck and Chris returned home, and Randy remained to mix the album. At this time, the duet made contact with a young California guitarist named John Hand, who was invited to the group, and he was so warmly accepted that his photograph was posted on the cover of the outgoing album.

But this was a solution that had not grown peace to the Death participants: the hand left the group even before the recording of the second album, and thus did not record anything with it. The debut album Death, Scream Bloody Gore, was released in May and was immediately accepted with praise and approval of fans, magazines. The record was named one of the most important releases of DET-metal of all time.

Schuldiner decided to join the Florida group Massacre, in which Rick Roses played. This served as the beginning of the death's real concert activity. The first serious performance before the public took place at the metal festival in Miluoi. During the successful tour, concerts within which were mainly held in the DEATH clubs played three completely new songs “Born Dead”, “Open Casket” and “Pull the Plug”, which Chuck Schuldiner wrote.

These songs were presented by Death as a more adult group that chose its direction. The brutality that became the “trademark” of the Death of these compositions was not at all inferior to the old material. By the April of the year, the group returned to the Morrisound studio in Tampa, and under the leadership of Dan Johnson recorded her second album, Leprosy, which greatly ahead of its time.

The sound of the album, despite the brutality and severity, was very pure. The new plate, like her predecessor, went to Slayer, Venom, Hellhammer roots, but the melodic fragments were more emphasized on it, which later became the “core” of Death music. It is not surprising that such a combination immediately became a “hit” in a metal underground and the main source of inspiration for hundreds of DET-metal groups of the end of the end, for example, Entombed and Napalm Death, which recorded their Harmony Corruption record in the same “Morrisound” studio as in the same sound as in the same sound as in Leprosy.

The group appeared in the video of Ultimate Reveng II Concert video and audio recording, which also contains Morbid Angel and Forbidden groups in October, which was followed by the tour of the year. By the end of this year, the attitude between Chuck and Rick Rose became unbearable for Schuldiner, and the divergence of the paths of both musicians became inevitable.

Despite the fact that the composition of the group has changed again, Death left an indelible impression of the public by the release of its two albums. Indeed, these albums have laid the road to hundreds of DET metal groups formed in subsequent years, albeit unable to surpass or overshadow the importance and incredible severity of songs like “Pull the Plug”. And the fact that until now many of these songs have remained loved among fans, speaks only of the subtle skill of Death and its importance, and not only on the American metal scene, but throughout the world, which the group soon demonstrated.