Human

Death, the band that has had many of metal’s great instrumentalists. This album probably has the best line up in Death history. Steve Digiorgio basses away, around the riffs of both Chuck Schuldiner and Paul Masvidal, who create patterns of off-time angular aggressive riffs. Sean Reinert, one of my favorite drummers creating insane drum lines and fills under all this madness. Chuck sounds great on vocals too, with a mid range death vocal, not the bellow, but not the scream, it is perfectly balanced.

The mix may sound a little too bassy to people, but it grows on you after several listens, and you may get a more trained ear from it, trying to discern the little specialties in Digiorgio’s playing. The album is Death, The songs well-arranged and the lyrics magnificent. Chuck does not play the music around the lyrics, he adjusts the lyrics so they fit, creating an odd sound that is unique to death, with start-stop vocals everywhere. Song like Vacant Planets and Lack of Comprehension stand out as vocal songs, while of course the instrumental Cosmic Sea with its keyboards is amazing. Oddly Chuck has a knack of creating only 4 minute long songs mostly on this album, but it is not much of a problem, it just makes it sound like the songs are the same in structure, due to restricted time.