Mutilation (demo)

Mutilation is a demo album by American death metal band Death, released in 1986. The following year, the band would release their full-length debut album, Scream Bloody Gore on Combat Records.

Mutilation
Demo album by Death
Released	1986
Recorded	April 12–13, 1986
Studio	Lafayette, California[1]
Genre	Death metal
Length	10:24
Label	Independent
Death chronology
Back from the Dead (1985) Mutilation (1986) Scream Bloody Gore (1987)

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Land of No Return"	2:48
2.	"Zombie Ritual"	4:22
3.	"Mutilation"	3:14
Total length:		10:24

Legacy

American heavy metal magazine Metal Maniacs noted that the demo was "the most polished of the early Death recordings" and that "the underground and Combat Records were in agreement about Mutilation".^[1] Writer Albert Mudrian noted in his book Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore that the Mutilation demo "earned [Chuck] Schuldiner that elusive recording contract", stating it was "the band's most polished material in the form of the three-track demo".^[2] Author Ian Christe, in his book Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, noted that Death's demos "became as heavily shared by tape traders as any well-established act in metal".^[3]

The demo gave the band the chance to be signed to Combat Records.^[4]

Personnel

Death

• Chuck Schuldiner – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar
• Chris Reifert – drums

Additional personnel

• Mark Sikora – artwork