Mutilation (demo)

Mutilation is a demo released by Death in 1986. The following year, they would release their debut album, Scream Bloody Gore, on Combat Records. Metal Maniacs magazine noted that the demo was "the most polished of the early Death recordings" and that "the underground and Combat Records were in agreement about Mutilation".[1]

Mutilation
Demo album by Death
Released	April 1986
Recorded	April 12–13, 1986
Studio	ATR Studios, Lafayette, California
Genre	Death metal
Length	10:24
Label	Independent
Death chronology
Back from the Dead (1985) Mutilation (1986) Scream Bloody Gore (1987)

Writer Albert Mudrian noted in his book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore that the Mutilation demo "earned [Chuck] Schuldiner that elusive recording contract", stating it was "the band's most polished material in the form of the three-track demo".[2] Author Ian Christe, in his book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, noted that Death's demos "became as heavily shared by tape traders as any well-established act in metal".[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Land of No Return"	2:48
2.	"Zombie Ritual"	4:22
3.	"Mutilation"	3:14
Total length:		10:24

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[4]

Death

• Chuck Schuldiner – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, bass guitar
• Chris Reifert – drums

Other

• Mark Sikora – artwork

References

1. Grayson, P. Precious Memories of Chuck Schuldiner, Metal Maniacs, May 2002 (retrieved June 3, 2010)
2. Mudrian, A. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, 2004, p. 75, Feral House
3. Christe, I. Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, 2003, p. 241, Harper Collins
4. Mutilation Demo (retrieved July 7, 2016)