Spiritual Healing (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Spiritual Healing
Type = studio
Artist = Death


Released = February 1990
Recorded = 1989, Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida, USA
Genre = Death metal, technical death metal
Length = 43:23
Label = Combat
Producer = Scott Burns Death
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rijxlfge5cqi link] | Last album = "Leprosy" (1988)
This album = "Spiritual Healing" (1990)
Next album = "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. This album is currently out of print. However, the band's two previous studio albums, Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy, are still in print, and are of the same label. This was also the first album to incorporate progressive metal elements due to more varied time signatures and longer song lengths.

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.

Unlike the previous two efforts by the band, the lyrics are primarily concerned with social issues such as abortion, as opposed to the strictly gore-related content of both "Scream Bloody Gore" and "Leprosy".

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".

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

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

References

External links

* [http://www.emptywords.org/LyricsSH.htm Spritual Healing - Lyrics]