Behind the Mourner's Veil is an EP by death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Deceased

Deceased (band)

Deceased is a death/thrash metal band from Virginia, that has attained a dedicated, though cult following throughout a lengthy recording and live career. Founded in 1984, by drummer and vocalist King Fowley, the first band to sign Relapse Records, they released four full albums through the label,...

, released in 2001 on Relapse Records

Relapse Records

Relapse Records is an independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990.-History:The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado...

. It was their last release on the label.

Track listing

1. "It's Alive" (King Fowley) - 4:08
2. "The Mausoleum" (Fowley) - 4:58
3. "Zombie Attack" (Tankard
   Tankard (band)
   Tankard is a thrash metal band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, founded in 1982. After losing their guitarist because of their image as a bunch of drunks, they moved on to issue their first record in 1986. From that point on, the band has continuously made songs and records in the same style they...
   
    cover) - 3:04
4. "Reaganomics" (D.R.I.
   Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
   Dirty Rotten Imbeciles is a thrash metal/crossover thrash band from the United States that formed in Houston, in 1982. The band currently comprises founding members, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy, as well as drummer Rob Rampy and bassist Harald Oimoen.D.R.I...
   
    cover) - 0:36
5. "New Age of Total Warfare" (Warfare cover) - 2:16
6. "Deathrider" (Anthrax
   Anthrax (band)
   Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...
   
    cover) - 2:56
7. "Victims of the Masterplan" (Fowley) - 10:01

Originally, the record was going to include another original song, "Slow Infection", based on the Black Dahlia

Black Dahlia

"The Black Dahlia" was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short is an American woman and the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. She acquired the moniker posthumously by newspapers in the habit of nicknaming crimes they found particularly colorful...

 murder, and a cover of the Hallows Eve song "Plunging to Megadeath". The former was not included on the final cut, and the latter was replaced by a cover of Warfare's "New Age of Total Warfare".

Songs

• "It's Alive!" is based on the 70s movie 'It's Alive!'
  'It's Alive!'
  'It's Alive!' is a 1969 American film directed by Larry Buchanan. It is about a mad farmer who tries to feed a stranded couple to a dinosaur he keeps in a cave. Its tagline is: "Trapped In a Cave of Terror!" It was filmed in the Ozark Mountain area of northern Arkansas and Tennessee...
  
  
• "Victims of the Masterplan" is about the West Memphis Three
  West Memphis Three
  The West Memphis Three are three men who were tried and convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was...
  
  and is split into five parts:

I. The Child Murders

II. Confession And Fear

III. Speculation

IV. The Masterplan

V. Forever We Must Wonder

Line-up

• King Fowley - drums, vocals
• Mark Adams - guitar
• Mike Smith - guitar
• Les Snyder - bass

External links

• Behind the Mourner's Veil at Relapse Records
• Behind the Mourner's Veil at the Encyclopaedia Metallum