Death – Leprosy (Vinyl LP)

The sixth installment in Relapse’s exhaustive reissue campaign of Death‘s immensely influential catalog isLeprosy, the band’s titanic second album.

Originally released in 1988 Leprosy was a pioneering album, building upon the thrash sounds of Metallica and Slayer but adding a previously unheard level of raw extremity.

These songs are the roots of an entire genre: Death metal. While this was only the second record Death released, it immediately cemented them as Extreme Metal icons and frontman the late, great Chuck Shuldiner as the founding father of the genre.

Meticulous care has been put into this reissue. The entire album has been painstakingly remastered by Alan Douches (Mastodon, Nile, etc).