Leprosy (Deluxe Reissue)

From Under_DuressSuper pumped to get into this album. Here are some notes from Wikipedia: "Leprosy is the second studio album by American death metal band Death, released on August 12, 1988, by Combat Records. The album is notable in its different tone and quality from the band's debut album 'Scream Bloody Gore' (1987), and is the first example of producer and engineer Scott Burns' work heard on many of the death metal and grindcore albums of that era. Leprosy has been described as sounding "raw", "raucous" and "just absolutely pissed off".... The songwriting on the album has been called 'structurally audacious.' Jonathan Horsley of MusicRadar assessed, 'Even this early in his [career], [Chuck] Schuldiner was a provocateur, upending the songwriting rule book, eschewing repetition, operating like the editor of an action movie in cutting together contrasting riffs and ideas with brutal efficiency.' Released in 1988, Leprosy is considered to be ahead of its time musically, and a groundbreaking achievement in the genre. The staff of Loudwire wrote, '[i]n regards to the ‘80s, not much was more extreme than the brutal savagery of Leprosy.' According to Eduardo Rivadavia of Loudwire, the album made it apparent that the death metal genre was 'already advancing by leaps and bounds.' Jonathan Horsley of Guitar World wrote, 'There is an argument to be said that, of all the great death metal bands, Death were the least heavy. [But,] if Leprosy is not the heaviest death metal guitar album, it’s possibly the gnarliest, worthy of Ed Repka’s career-best cover art, and essential listening.'"