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1) Death was an American death metal band formed in Altamonte Springs, Florida in 1984 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner. Death is considered to be among the most influential bands in heavy metal and a pioneering force in the extreme metal subgenre of death metal. Their debut album, Scream Bloody Gore, has been widely regarded one of the first death metal records, alongside the first records from Possessed and Necrophagia.
Death had a revolving lineup, with Schuldiner being the sole consistent member. The group's style also progressed, from the raw sound on its first two albums to a more sophisticated one in its later stage. The band ceased to exist after Schuldiner died of glioma and pneumonia in December 2001, but remains an enduring influence on heavy metal.
Founded in 1984 by Chuck Schuldiner under the original name of Mantas in Altamonte Springs, Florida, Death was among the more widely known early pioneers of the death metal sound, along with California's Possessed. Inspired by Nasty Savage, Death was among the first bands in the Florida death metal scene. In the late 80s, the band was both a part of and integral in defining the death metal scene which gained international recognition with the release of albums by a number of area acts.
Together with Kam Lee, and Rick Rozz, Schuldiner started to compose songs that were released on several rehearsal tapes in 1984. These tapes, along with the Death by Metal demo, circulated through the tape-trader world, quickly establishing the band's name. In 1984, Schuldiner dissolved Mantas and quickly started a new band under the name Death. Tim Aymar, in an article written in December 2010, states that Chuck Schuldiner renamed the band Death in order to turn his experience of the death of his brother Frank years earlier into "something positive". Its members again included Rick Rozz and Kam Lee. Another demo was released, called Reign of Terror.
In 1985, the Infernal Death tape was recorded and released. Rick Rozz was out of the band by early 1985. Kam Lee played with Scott Carlson and Matt Olivo, bassist and guitarist respectively, of the band Genocide (later to be renamed Repulsion) for a short time. However, Kam had some "personal problems" that caused him to be ejected from the band. Olivo and Carlson left soon afterward. Schuldiner moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and recruited Dirty Rotten Imbeciles drummer Eric Brecht, then recorded the Back from the Dead demo. However, Chuck was not happy with this incarnation of Death and moved back to Florida without a band. In 1986, Schuldiner got an invitation from early Canadian thrash metal band Slaughter to play on their album, which he accepted, moving to Canada. However, this only lasted two weeks, and he returned to the States. He returned to Florida, then moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area again, where he joined with 17-year-old drummer Chris Reifert.
Schuldiner and Reifert recorded the Mutilation demo in April of 1986, which led to a deal with Combat Records. That summer, they began recording their first album, which was abandoned and written off as a mistake after Combat was not satisfied with the recording, which Reifert blamed on the studio engineers. In November of 1986, the band was sent to Los Angeles to re-record the album at The Music Grinder with Randy Burns, which the band felt optimistic about due to his work on Possessed's Seven Churches. The basic tracks were recorded in a couple of days, while the bass, lead guitars and vocals were recorded by Schuldiner at Rock Steady Studios, which was also in L.A.
Scream Bloody Gore was released in 1987, widely considered a genre template for death metal. The band briefly had a second guitar player, John Hand, but he did not appear on the album (though his photo did). By this time Schuldiner had moved back to Florida, splitting with Reifert who had chosen to remain in California, where he went on to form Autopsy. There, Schuldiner teamed up with former bandmate Rick Rozz and two members of Rozz's band Massacre, Terry Butler and Bill Andrews.
Death is considered to be one of the most influential bands in heavy metal and a pioneering force in death metal. Death is also now recognized as one of the most acclaimed music groups of all time, held in high praise by critics, metal musicians, and fans. Scream Bloody Gore is widely regarded as the first death metal album. Music biographer Garry Sharpe-Young considered Death "a genre-breaking band centered upon frontman Chuck Schuldiner" and that the band "would become one of the prime instigators of the death metal movement". However, Schuldiner dismissed such attributions by stating, in an interview with Metal-Rules.com, "I don't think I should take the credits for this death metal stuff. I'm just a guy from a band, and I think Death is a metal band". In Death's later output, the band's music became more technical and melodic, moving to a technical death metal, progressive metal, and melodic death metal style. In January 2001, Mahyar Dean, an Iranian musician, wrote Death, a book about Death and Schuldiner, and released it in Iran. The book includes bilingual lyrics and many articles about the band. The book was sent through the site keepers of emptywords.org to Schuldiner, who in his words was "truly blown away and extremely honored by the obvious work and devotion he put into bringing the book to life". A documentary entitled Death by Metal was released in 2016.
Regarding percussion styles, Gene Hoglan is recognised as a percussionist using double kick drum equipment and one of a crop who "set new standards in speed and endurance". During an interview he described Sean Reinert's drumming on Human as "godly", and praised it as "the fastest double bassing around at the time" and "a template which we tried to match on Individual Thought Patterns".
Kam Lee designed Death's original logo before he was kicked out. Schuldiner designed the various incarnations during the length of his career. In 1991, before the release of Human, he cleaned up the logo; he took out more intricate details, and the "T" in the logo was swapped from an inverted cross to a more regular-looking "T", one reason being to quash any implication of being anti-religious. The logo was changed again, between Symbolic and The Sound of Perseverance, to a more streamlined look; also, a hooded reaper was removed above the "H".
2) A garage rock and protopunk demo band formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1971 by brothers Bobby Hackney(bass, vocals) / David Hackney (guitar) / Dannis Hackney (drums).
In 1964, the three young Hackney brothers were sat down by their father to witness The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. The following day, David found a discarded guitar in an alley and set about learning to play. Brothers Bobby and Dannis soon followed suit and they began playing music together.
The brothers practiced and recorded early demos in a room in the family home and performed their earliest gigs from their garage. Originally calling themselves RockFire Funk Express, guitarist David convinced his brothers to change the name of the band to Death. "His concept was spinning death from the negative to the positive. It was a hard sell," Bobby Hackney recalled in 2010.
In 1974 at Detroit’s United Sound Studios with engineer Jim Vitti, they recorded seven songs written by David and Bobby. According to the Hackney family, Columbia Records president Clive Davis funded the recording sessions, but implored the band to change its name to something more commercially palatable than Death. When the Hackneys refused, Davis ceased his support. The band only recorded seven songs instead of the planned dozen. The following year they self-released (on their label Tryangle Records) a single taken from the sessions: "Politicians in My Eyes / Keep On Knocking" in a run of just 500 copies.
The Hackney brothers ended the band in 1977. The brothers then moved to Burlington, Vermont and released two albums of gospel rock as The 4th Movement in the early 1980s. David moved back to Detroit in 1982, and died of lung cancer in 2000. Bobby and Dannis still reside in Vermont and lead the reggae band Lambsbread.
In 2008 the sons of Bobby Hackney Sr (Julian, Urian, and Bobby Hackney Jr) started a band called Rough Francis covering the songs of Death after discovering the old recordings in their parents attic.
In 2009, Drag City Records released all seven Death songs from their 1975 United Sound sessions on CD and LP under the title ...For the Whole World to See. In September 2009, a reformed Death played three shows with original members Bobby and Dannis Hackney, with Lambsbread guitarist Bobbie Duncan taking the place of the late David Hackney.
During a 2010 performance at the Boomslang Festival in Lexington, Kentucky the band announced that Drag City would release a new album with demos and rough cuts that predate the 1974 sessions. The album Spiritual Mental Physical was released in January 2011.
An independent documentary film titled A Band Called Death, directed by Jeff Howlett and Mark Covino, was released in 2012.
In 2013 the EP Relief/Story of the World was released.
3) A horrorcore rapper from New Orleans, who released an album "Possessed by the Ouija Board" in 1993.
4) Death (real name: Thomas Peter Heckmann), is a German musician born in Mainz, Germany.His first release was as Exit 100 in 1991 on the Force Inc. Music Works label out of Frankfurt. In 1993 he founded Trope Recordings, and its sub-label Acid Fuckers Unite (A.F.U.) the following year. In 1998 he succeeded those labels by starting Wavescape, and its sub-label Sub~Wave in 2000. He currently produces Hard Techno with strong EBM influences, and has been a frequent collaborator with Jörg Henze since 1998.
Destiny
Death Lyrics
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With no company but the shadows of the night
Shadows that whisper in my ear
Suicide, suicide, come, reach the other side
Reach the other side
I try to scream but my mouth
Is muted by the fear of darkness
I feel the chill of death through my body
Meaningless, worthless
Feeling the dark winds of death coming closer and closer
I try to run, but I cannot move at all
No scream, no move, not flee, I'm stuck in here
I'm stuck in Here
This nightmare releases a terrible disease
My mind is playing the game of whores
Pay me and I give You pleasure; deny me
And you'll be suffering
Forever… and ever
Nightmare, it seems to be my life or life seems to be
My nightmare But Timeless, in frozen scenery
Where everything stands still!
Except for me!
Nightmare, it seems to be my life or life seems to be
My nightmare But Timeless, in frozen scenery
Where everything stands still!
"Please kill me"!
When suicide is torturing my mind, I'm Terrifying
By an unbearable screaming, someone from behind
He screamed: "Please kill me"!… And it's me
How it could be, become true…
Why I have become this…
"Please kill me"!
A corpse, a rotting stench… Why I have become this…
And it's me.
I've dream the horrors of those ones condemned to death
Men, women, children… And me, horrible fate I took
I cannot breathe with this deep soak of stench full mist
Torturing my mind with silhouettes of life and death
From me, I was forsaken, and my soul will be distressed
And so if the devil is in charge, giving me those orders
From the depths of the abyss
So I obey Your orders master
Quickly I comprehend
All this time I was damned
This silhouettes behind me
Will keep me in hell and Turning back forever
And it's me, I
With the devil, inside
Every time I die
He waits for me
Forever
The song "Destiny" by Death is a powerful anthem that delves into the inner turmoil and anguish that one feels during tough times. The writer describes a situation where they are trapped in memories of the past, haunted by shadows that whisper deadly thoughts into their ears. The writer feels like they are stuck in a nightmare, where everything is frozen in time except for them. They are consumed by the fear of darkness, and they cannot even scream for help. Everywhere they look, they are reminded of death, making them think of suicide as a solution to escape this horror.
As the song progresses, the writer continues to describe their state of mind, unable to move or flee, and the nightmare gets worse. They are plagued by a terrible disease of the mind, where they find themselves playing the game of whores to find pleasure or suffer forever. The lyrics paint a picture of a person who is begging for help and is becoming increasingly torturous, leading them to scream loudly for someone to kill them. They feel like corpses, rotting away, and can no longer bear the stench of death that's engulfing them.
Overall, "Destiny" is a captivating song that speaks to the human struggle with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. It's a powerful reminder that even when we feel like we're stuck in a hopeless situation, we need to keep fighting.
Line by Line Meaning
Trapped by memories of the past
Feeling stuck in the memories of past events
With no company but the shadows of the night
Alone in the darkness with only the shadows as companions
Shadows that whisper in my ear
The shadows trying to persuade with sinister whispers
Suicide, suicide, come, reach the other side
The shadows calling for suicide to reach the afterlife
Reach the other side
To reach the afterlife by committing suicide
I try to scream but my mouth
Attempting to scream but unable due to fear
Is muted by the fear of darkness
The fear of darkness causing silence
I feel the chill of death through my body
The sensation of death approaching the body
Freezing every move that I make, Meaningless, worthless
Being immobilized by the fear and feeling of worthlessness
Feeling the dark winds of death coming closer and closer
Sensing the approach of death's embrace
I try to run, but I cannot move at all
Attempting to run but feeling paralyzed with fear
No scream, no move, not flee, I'm stuck in here
Feeling trapped and unable to escape
This nightmare releases a terrible disease
The nightmare is causing a mental illness
My mind is playing the game of whores
The mind is being controlled by dark forces
Pay me and I give You pleasure; deny me
Being tempted with pleasure in exchange for submission
And you'll be suffering
Suffering the consequences of refusing submission
Forever… and ever
The consequences lasting for eternity
Nightmare, it seems to be my life or life seems to be
The feeling of constantly living in a nightmare
My nightmare But Timeless, in frozen scenery
The nightmare perpetually frozen in time
Where everything stands still!
Everything is stagnant and unchanging
Except for me!
The only thing that is not frozen in time
When suicide is torturing my mind, I'm Terrifying
The thought of suicide is haunting and frightening
By an unbearable screaming, someone from behind
Hearing a scream from behind that is unbearable
He screamed: "Please kill me"!… And it's me
The realization that the one screaming is the self
How it could be, become true…
The shock of the scream becoming a reality
Why I have become this…
Questioning how one became this way
A corpse, a rotting stench… Why I have become this…
Feeling like a lifeless, rotting corpse and questioning how it happened
And it's me.
The realization that the lifeless rotting corpse is the self
I've dream the horrors of those ones condemned to death
Having nightmares of being condemned to death
Men, women, children… And me, horrible fate I took
Being included in the group of those condemned to death
I cannot breathe with this deep soak of stench full mist
The smell being so strong that it is difficult to breathe
Torturing my mind with silhouettes of life and death
Being mentally tormented by visions of life and death
From me, I was forsaken, and my soul will be distressed
Feeling like one has been abandoned and their soul is in distress
And so if the devil is in charge, giving me those orders
The feeling of being controlled by Satan
From the depths of the abyss
Being in a dark and hopeless place
So I obey Your orders master
Submitting to Satan's control
Quickly I comprehend
Understanding the situation quickly
All this time I was damned
Feeling like one has been cursed for a long time
This silhouettes behind me
The shadows or visions behind that are tormenting
Will keep me in hell and Turning back forever
Being stuck in a cycle of torment and never escaping
And it's me, I
Realizing that it is the self that is being tormented
With the devil, inside
Having Satan inside and being controlled by evil forces
Every time I die
Experiencing the same torment even in death
He waits for me
The devil waiting for the self in the afterlife
Forever
The torment and control lasting for eternity
Lyrics © DistroKid
Written by: Isaac Munoz
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