Season of the Dead
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Season of the Dead is the first full length studio album
by the death metal
band Necrophagia
. It was released in 1987 on New Renaissance Records.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by the 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 Necrophagia
Necrophagia
Necrophagia is an American death metal band. The group was assembled in Wellsville, Ohio in 1983 and are credited as being one of the very first musical groups to be classified within the death metal genre. The group was founded by Frank Pucci...
. It was released in 1987 on New Renaissance Records.
Track listing
- "Season of the Dead/Forbidden Pleasure" - 6:05
- "Bleeding Torment" - 4:50
- "Insane for Blood" - 3:10
- "Reincarnation" - 2:20
- "Ancient Slumber" - 5:15
- "Mental Decay" - 3:35
- "Abomination" - 4:31
- "Terminal Vision" - 4:30
- "Painful Discharge" - 3:10
- "Beyond and Back" - 4:10
Influences
- The introduction of "Mental Decay" is the theme from Night on Bald MountainNight on Bald MountainNight on Bald Mountain is a composition by Modest Mussorgsky that exists in, at least, two versions—a seldom performed 1867 version or a later and very popular "fantasy for orchestra" arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, A Night on the Bare Mountain , based on the vocal score of the "Dream Vision...
by Modest MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
. - The album's closing track "Beyond and Back" was apparently inspired by a sequence from the 1978 Sunn Classic Pictures' 'deathsploitation' film Beyond and BackBeyond and BackBeyond And Back is a 1978 documentary and "death-sploitation flick" released by Sunn Classic Pictures that deals with the subject of near death experiences.-Production notes:...
. Like the song, part of the film tells the story of a person who endures a near death experienceNear death experienceA near-death experience refers to a broad range of personal experiences associated with impending death, encompassing multiple possible sensations including detachment from the body; feelings of levitation; extreme fear; total serenity, security, or warmth; the experience of absolute dissolution;...
after committing suicide. The person visits hell, only to be spared and return to the world of the living shortly thereafter.