; ''Season of the Dead'' is the first full length studio album by the death metal band

Necrophagia Necrophagia was an American death metal band. The band is credited as one of the inaugural groups within the death metal genre, along with Possessed and Death. History Early years (1983–1997) Necrophagia was formed by Frank "Killjoy" Pucc ...

. It was released in February 1987 by the label

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. It is the only album to feature Joe Blazer on drums, Larry Madison on guitar, and Bill James on bass. It was also the band's last album until 1995, and last studio album until 1998. The album was released a few months before

Death Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...

's ''

Scream Bloody Gore ''Scream Bloody Gore'' is the first studio album by American death metal band Death, released on May 25, 1987, by Combat Records. It is considered by many to be "the first true death metal record". Chuck Schuldiner, the band’s founder and lead ...

'' debut album, which makes it one of the first full-length death metal albums and consequently, valued by collectors.

Track listing

Influences

*The introduction of "Mental Decay" is the theme from ''

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'' by

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. *The album's closing track, "Beyond and Back", was apparently inspired by a sequence from the 1978 Sunn Classic Pictures' 'deathsploitation' film ''

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''. Like the song, part of the film tells the story of a person who endures a

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after committing suicide. The person visits hell, only to be spared to return to the world of the living shortly thereafter.

References

External links

Metal ArchivesOfficial website of the band
Necrophagia albums 1987 debut albums {{1980s-death-metal-album-stub