Spiritual Healing (album)
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
Name = Spiritual Healing |
Type = studio |
Artist = [[Death (band)|Death]] |
Cover = Spiritual_Healing.jpg |
Released = February 1990 |
Recorded = 1989,<br/>[[Morrisound Recording]],<br/>[[Tampa, Florida]], USA |
Genre = [[Death metal]], [[technical death metal]]|
Length = 43:23 |
Label = [[Combat Records|Combat]] |
Producer = [[Scott Burns (producer)|Scott Burns]]<br/>[[Death (band)|Death]] |
Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|2}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rijxlfge5cqi link]
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Last album = ''[[Leprosy (album)|Leprosy]]''<br/>(1988) |
This album = '''''Spiritual Healing'''''<br/>(1990)|
Next album = ''[[Human (album)|Human]]''<br/>(1991) |
}}
'''''Spiritual Healing''''' is the third album released by [[Death (band)|Death]] in February 1990. The title comes from the era when [[faith healer]] [[Peter Popoff]] was exposed on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' by [[James Randi]] as a fraud. This album is currently out of print. However, [[Scream Bloody Gore]] and [[Leprosy]] are still in print, and are of the same label. This was also the first album to incorporate [[Progressive metal]] elements due to more varied time signatures and longer song lengths.
==Miscellanea==
The members of Death stayed in a single motel room at the [[Safari Inn]], near [[Busch Gardens]], for the entire six weeks the album was recorded and mixed, although bassist Terry Butler and drummer Bill Andrews frequently went home as they lived in the Tampa area. New guitarist [[James Murphy (musician)|James Murphy]] had his first taste of the strange in-humour of the other band members and their manager during all of this time confined to close quarters in the studio and motel.
Unlike the previous two efforts by the band, the lyrics are primarily concerned with [[social issues]] such as [[abortion]], as opposed to the strictly [[gore]]-related content of both ''[[Scream Bloody Gore]]'' and [[Leprosy (album)|''Leprosy'']].
This was the final Death album cover painted by [[Ed Repka]], following the first two releases.
Manager [[Eric Greif]] played a Kawai K1 keyboard part that sounded like a church organ during a break in the middle of title track ''Spiritual Healing''.
==Track listing==
# "Living Monstrosity" ([[Chuck Schuldiner]]) – 5:08
# "Altering the Future" (Schuldiner, [[Terry Butler]]) – 5:34
# "Defensive Personalities" (Schuldiner, Butler) – 4:45
# "Within the Mind" (Schuldiner, [[James Murphy (musician)|James Murphy]]) – 5:34
# "Spiritual Healing" (Schuldiner) – 7:44
# "Low Life" (Schuldiner, Murphy, Butler) – 5:23
# "Genetic Reconstruction" (Schuldiner, Murphy, Butler) – 4:52
# "Killing Spree" (Schuldiner, Murphy) – 4:16
== Credits ==
* [[Chuck Schuldiner]] - Guitar, Vocals
* [[James Murphy (musician)|James Murphy]] - Guitar
* [[Terry Butler]] - Bass
* [[Bill Andrews (drummer)|Bill Andrews]] - Drums
* Recorded and mixed at [[Morrisound Recording]], [[Tampa, Florida]], USA
* Produced, recorded and mixed by Scott Burns and [[Death (band)|Death]]
* Assistant engineered by John Cervini and Mike Gowan
* [[Ed Repka|Edward Repka]] - Artwork, Cover Design
* David Bett - Art Direction
* Brian Freeman - Design
* J.J. Hollis - Photography
* [[Eric Greif]] - Management
==External links==
*[http://www.emptywords.org/LyricsSH.htm Spritual Healing - Lyrics]
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