Death- Where do I begin?

[Simon "Warheart" Ivanoff]

I'm pretty much aware that Chuck Shuldiner and his group Death are fucking legends, and all I've heard up until this point is the song "Spirit Crusher", so what's the first of their records that I should buy, in your guys' opinions?

 

[Scourge of Malice]

Human was the first I bought.. enjoyed it very much. I'd say basically any one would do as a first buy... Symbolic might be a little easier to get into.. maybe.. or individual thought patterns... but none of them are really hard to get into.

 

[Episteme]

Start off with The Sound of Perseverance and work backwards.

 

[bmh]

I personally started with Individual Thought Patterns, though Sound Of Perseverance would probably be the most accessible.

 

[Erik]

ZOMBIE!
RITUAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

Start with "Scream Bloody Gore."

 

[SlaughterofSoul]

Spiritual Healing. James Murphy does some leads on this album, so it's good.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Scream Bloody Gore and Human.

 

[Dev]

You'd better do this :
Human then Individual Through Patterns AND Spiritual Healing , see what you like best and go forward/back .

 

[no country for old wainds]

Meh, probably Leprosy. Not a fan, though.

 

[stefan86]

Symbolic and The Sound of Perseverance are more polished and accessible.
Human and Individual Thought Patterns are also pure genius.
I'd probably start with Symbolic.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Sound of Perseverance

 

[Life Sucks]

Get Human first, and it is a midpoint between their earlier and later sound. It is also their best CD IMO. DO NOT start out with The Sound of Perseverance, which is their worst, and most pretentious CD IMO.

 

[Doomwatcher]

I’ll recommend you start off with Human.

 

[Minion520]

Symbolic got me hooked

 

[J.]

bleh, never liked 'em much, but the first three albums are tolerable.

 

[MasterOLightning]

Definitely Human. Leprosy was my first, but that was a rather mediocre release. Human is much better, and pretty easy to get into.

 

[Cythraul]

Death is overrated. I used to like Death until I discovered the godly Atheist. Whatever Death album you start out with don't start with TSOP. That album has way too much vapid guitar wankery and bad songwriting.

 

[Profanity]

Death are very much overated but no other Death Metal band has been as influential.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Considering Death mainly just popularised stuff that had already been done better, I'd beg to differ.

 

[SlaughterofSoul]

I really don't like Leprosy that much. That really dry drum sound gets on my nerves when I try to listen to it.