#353- Death — Scream Bloody Gore: The Album That Created Death Metal

About this episode

The episode explores the impact of DEATH's debut album 'Scream Bloody Gore' on the death metal genre.

“Would it be fair to say that horror metal and death metal are kinda…symbiotic?” Released May 25, 1987, SCREAM BLOODY GORE, the debut album from Florida death metal pioneers DEATH, marks a dark and transformative turning point from thrash metal into something else…something with “thrash overtones” that “sounds like thrash” but also doesn’t. While it seemed to be the next logical evolutionary step for extreme metal, we weren’t exactly sure what it was. It was still thrashy, yet there was a much darker presence to it than the thrash to which we were accustomed. “They don’t have the cookie monster vocals, which is kinda nice…” As it turns out, when you mix in the violent themes of horror movies like ‘Evil Dead’ with the sonic intensity of thrash metal, you end up with death metal, the genre which Chuck Schuldiner and DEATH helped establish in the mid 1980’s, putting Florida on the map as the death metal capital of the world. “They just have a sound…if you take the vocals out, you can tell it’s Death.” Discover how immersion reading can make Dr. Seuss and Lord of the Rings even more compelling, always remember where you should “NEVER put alcohol…”, and find out which song on this…

People in this episode

Host: Metal Nerdery Podcast

Guest: Xander Bonerman

Topics covered

• death metal
• horror metal
• music evolution
• thrash metal
• extreme metal

Keywords

• death metal
• Scream Bloody Gore
• Chuck Schuldiner
• thrash metal
• horror themes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DEATH

Books & works: Scream Bloody Gore, Evil Dead

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