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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.
Lack of Comprehension
Death Lyrics
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Things they cannot understand
An excuse to cover up weaknesses that lie within
Lies
Laying your guilt and pain
On people that had no part in the molding of a life
That creates its destruction
Lies
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your part in the demise of a life
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
[Solo: Schuldiner]
Reaching into the minds of those that created
The depression in which they
In which they drowned their flesh and blood
Lies
So easy to blame the
Everlasting fear on a pathetic attempt
To justify the ending of life
Lies
Right before your very eyes
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your part in the demise of a life
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
The song "Lack of Comprehension" by Death explores the theme of blame and how it is often used as an excuse to cover up one's own weaknesses and mistakes. The lyrics speak of a condemning fear that strikes down those who cannot understand or comprehend the struggles and pain of another's life. This fear leads to the laying of guilt and pain on people who had no part in the molding of one's life, creating a destructive cycle that ultimately leads to the demise of a life.
The song criticizes the tendency to thrive on cliches and self-resentment, and how it makes it easy for people to blame others for their own shortcomings. The solo by guitarist Schuldiner adds a sense of depth to the theme of the song, highlighting the emotional turmoil of those who are struggling with depression and self-doubt.
Interestingly, "Lack of Comprehension" was written in response to the controversy surrounding Death's previous album, "Leprosy". Many critics had accused the band of being too self-absorbed and uninterested in exploring more meaningful themes. With this song, Death proved that they were capable of tackling important social issues and raising awareness about mental health.
Line by Line Meaning
A condeming fear strikes down
A paralyzing fear overwhelms individuals
Things they cannot understand
Things that are beyond their level of comprehension
An excuse to cover up weaknesses that lie within
Using fear as a coping mechanism to conceal personal vulnerabilities
Lies
Deception
Laying your guilt and pain
Putting the blame and burden of emotions on others
On people that had no part in the molding of a life
On innocent individuals who played no role in one's upbringing or choices
That creates its destruction
Resulting in the downfall of oneself and others involved
Lies
Deception
Right before your very eyes
Easily observable
A reflection of the mistakes
Demonstrating past errors
To the end you will deny
Refusing to admit one's responsibility
Your part in the demise of a life
Contributing to the downfall of others
Lack of comprehension
Inability to grasp the gravity of the situation
Thriving on your cliche
Living in a state of predictability and conventionality
Compelled by self-resentment
Motivated by one's own feelings of bitterness and disappointment
[Solo: Schuldiner]
Musical interlude without lyrics
Reaching into the minds of those that created
Examining the thoughts of those who shaped one's worldview
The depression in which they
The emotional state of the individuals
In which they drowned their flesh and blood
In which they inadvertently caused harm to their loved ones
Lies
Deception
So easy to blame the
Convenient to pin responsibility on
Everlasting fear on a pathetic attempt
Using fear as an excuse, but ultimately failing
To justify the ending of life
To rationalize taking one's own life
Lies
Deception
Right before your very eyes
Easily observable
A reflection of the mistakes
Demonstrating past errors
To the end you will deny
Refusing to admit one's responsibility
Your part in the demise of a life
Contributing to the downfall of others
Lack of comprehension
Inability to grasp the gravity of the situation
Thriving on your cliche
Living in a state of predictability and conventionality
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LYRICS :
[Verse 1]
A condemning fear strikes down
Things they cannot understand
An excuse to cover up
Weaknesses that lie within
Lies
[Verse 2]
Laying your guilt and pain
On people that had no part
In the molding of a life
That creates its destruction
Lies
[Pre-Chorus]
Right before your very eyes
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your part in the demise of a life
[Chorus]
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
[Verse 3]
Reaching into the minds of those that created
The depression in which they
In which they drowned their flesh and blood
Lies
[Verse 4]
So easy to blame the
Everlasting guilt on a pathetic attempt
To justify the ending of life
Lies
[Pre-Chorus]
Right before your very eyes
A reflection of the mistakes
To the end you will deny
Your help in the ending of a life
[Chorus]
Lack of comprehension
Thriving on your cliche
Compelled by self-resentment
@BaldotheDon
Read those gods damned lyrics. Consider the implications of their meaning in this age of COVID-19.
So many have stood on the edge of the pit. They saw the corpses of their families, friends, and neighbors burning at the bottom. So many of those piles of ash had unshakeable faith in their deity of choice, rock solid conviction their freedom of choice was sacrosanct, convinced that said deity of their choice would bear them aloft to glory, and happily cast themselves into the air over the flames, and fell to ruin.
So many looked upon the flames and decided those burning were fools, not for leaping in faith, but for having faith too weak to protect them, then they admired their own faith, faith like iron, and cast themselves into the air over the pit, and fell.
So many had fallen in. So many had been pulled in by regretful jumpers. So many were shoved in by the hateful. So many stand now at the mouth of the pit.
And, hatefully, the comprehesion still fucking lacks.
@bobjoe7508
Here's his entire discography on Wikipedia:
Sadus – Illusions (1988)[29]
Autopsy – Severed Survival (1989, session)[30]
Sadus – Swallowed in Black (1990)[31]
Autopsy – Fiend for Blood (1991, session)
Death – Human (1991)[32]
Sadus – A Vision of Misery (1992)[33]
Death – Individual Thought Patterns (1993)[34]
Sadus – Elements of Anger (1997)[35]
Testament – The Gathering (1999)[36]
Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence (1999)[37]
James Murphy – Feeding the Machine (1999)[38]
Testament – First Strike Still Deadly (2001)
Dragonlord – Rapture (2001)
Iced Earth – Horror Show (2001)[39]
Vintersorg – Visions from the Spiral Generator (2002)
Artension – Future World (2004)
Lunaris – Cyclic (2004, guest)
Quo Vadis – Defiant Imagination (2004, session)
Takayoshi Ohmura – Nowhere to Go (2004)
Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur (2004)[40]
PainmuseuM – Metal for Life (2005)[41]
Various artists – Roadrunner United (2005)[42]
Rob van der Loo – Freak Neil inc. Characters (2005, guest)
Sadus – Out for Blood (2006)[43]
Scariot – Momentum Shift (2007, session)
Sebastian Bach – Angel Down (2007)[44]
Necro – Death Rap (2007)[45]
Roger Staffelbach's Angel of Eden – The End of Never (2007, session)
Futures End – Memoirs of a Broken Man (2009)[41]
Faust – From Glory To Infinity (2009)[41]
Charred Walls of the Damned – Charred Walls of the Damned (2010)[46]
Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos (2010, guest)
Christian Muenzner – Timewarp (2011, guest)
Charred Walls of the Damned – Cold Winds on Timeless Days (2011)[47]
Johnny Newman – More than Ever (2011)
Anatomy of I – Substratum (2011)
Sylencer – A Lethal Dose of Truth (2012, guest)
Ephel Duath – On Death And Cosmos (2012)
Soen – Cognitive (2012)
Memorain – Evolution (2012)
Mythodea – Mythodea (2013)
Artlantica – Across the Seven Seas (2013, session)
Jeff Hughell – Chaos Labyrinth (2013, guest on track 3)
Gone In April - Threads Of Existence (2016)
Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake (2016)
Counter-World Experience – Pulsar (2016, guest on track 7)
@aita45
Fun fact: Chuck said this song is about Judas Priest's Stained Class trial. Chuck was very upset about how parents of dead kids made their "pathetic attempt to justify the ending of their lives" by suing Priest for "inserting suicidal messages" onto Better by You, Better than Me song and laying their guilty and pain onto them, yet they deny their impact on lives' end (which is neglicient raising and ignorance). Also he was sad that this resonance trial promoted stupid "metal is Satan music" stereotypes (everlasting fear).
@ziegh5369
where he said that?
@aita45
@Ziegh Interview to Metal Forces Magazine UK, November 1991
@bezerah3695
The lyrics make a different type of sense to me now after reading this and it makes hella fucking sense thanks G. 🙏🏾🔥
@cynaptyc
@RZRREDD chuck always putting a strong message in every song! Brilliant artist, miss his insightful work.
@MVProfits
Nice. Now the lyrics really make sense. Tons of sense. Why the video storyline then though?
@leoromanopinelo4761
I will always argue, there is not a single bad song in Death’s discography. Absolutely brilliant material.
@popoguy7287
Farpine spiritual healing has some bland spots
@simonriley4131
@Popo Guy hell no Spiritual Healing rips ass
@popoguy7287
Simon Riley I didn’t say it was bad, it’s just not as good as some other ones