Death - Leprosy (30th Anniversary Edition)Deluxe limited edition one time pressing of Deaths legendary second album, featuring expanded packaging and a bonus LP featuring 10Leprosyrehearsal recordings! Limited to 5000 copies worldwide! Death's immensely influential second albumLeprosyoriginally released in 1988 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:

The songs are even catchier

That band quickly took on a life of its own

"No Sleep Till Brooklyn"

Add a dash of hopeful Krautrock flavor and the recipe is a smashing success

The album contains 10 tracks of uncompromisingly nihilistic outsider RnR

which originally came out in February on the Richmond label EggHunt Records

Those guitars are hoisted in defiance of cool

is frequently forgotten amongst their greatest achievements in psychedelia

and played their final show in support of Celebration Rock in Buenos Aires

A simplicity

one-part painterly

and while not quite in the same league as its illustrious predecessor