The name DEATH seems appropriate for the band that helped get the Death Metal genre moving. Chuck Schuldiner is known as the forefather of Death Metal and it's too bad Schuldiner isn't around today still making quality material such as "Spiritual Healing". He passed away in 2001 and the whole Death Metal scene hasn't been the same since. I think Metal as a whole needs more artists like Schuldiner. Schuldiner was not afraid to experiment with his sound as you can tell if you listen to an early record like "Spiritual Healing" and then put on "Sound Of Perseverance" the difference is staggering. Even though the overall DEATH sound evolved greatly each record was still definitely

a DEATH album. Mr. Schuldiner never believed in having the same line up twice in fear of recreating the same sound of a previous record. I think since he was always trying to create a different sound each time he recorded helped make his music so much better than the majority of releases today. Schuldiner made sure his fans never got bored when listening to his records; it would have been interesting to see where he went with his next release. But, to keep this from turning into a review of Chuck Schuldiner let's focus on DEATH's 1990 release, "Spiritual Healing". Relapse Records was nice enough to reissue this classic in a few different formats, an entire box set with a ton of DEATH goodies, a two disc, and three disc set. Each format comes with the original cd (which I am reviewing), some have a second disc with jam tracks and instrumentals, and a few that have the third cd has a live performance included on it. I will most likely be purchasing the 3 disc set if not the entire box set.