Track Listing

1. Scavenger Of Human Sorrow
2. Bite The Pain
3. Spirit Crusher
4. Story To Tell
5. Flesh And The Power It Holds
6. Voice Of The Soul
7. To Forgive Is To Suffer
8. A Moment Of Clarity
9. Painkiller

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18677 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-15
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Combining their old sound with a fresh & more progressive sound, Death are stronger than ever. Features the last work of Chuch Schuldiner. Nine tracks, including an amazing cover of Judas Priest's 'Painkiller'. Nuclear Blast.

Customer Reviews

RIP Chuck
One of my favorite metal CDs of all time. So many bands owe it to Schuldiner and the boys for creating this masterpiece.

THIS IS IT!!!!
Disclaimer: My original review was one star. It was also an April Fool's Joke. The Five star rating is not a joke. This is the real review.

Too often, Progessive metal, just like progressive rock, carries a negative connotation, for me at least. Garbage bands like Queensryche are more akin to Iron Maiden with the cheesiness and added wankery (I'll admit that Iron Maiden do try to go somewhere, though) cranked up to the top. Death, however, especially on this album, use progressive elements just like some of those bands, but with bad@$$ riffs and beats, and real progression and degression. It's the elastic songwriting that makes progressive rock, progressive.

Death is progressive metal without any of awful falsettos or wankery. Instead, the drums, the guitars, all meld together and create one bad @$$ passage after another. And Chuck's lyrics never disappoint. Chuck was never a fan of gore in metal (I find gore soaked metal to be pointless with splatter films these days, though there are plenty of exceptions). Instead he writes mostly about the human spirit and all of it's many sides, it's pretty interesting what this guy has to say. And his falsetto is really cool, too.

The instrumentation is the real star. Death packs a huge, sprawling joyride of jazzy rhythms, crushing riffs, great solos with a tone of neo-classical shred guitar(I always thought the shred tone was cool, but it's lost in suffocating guitars with no interesting aspects), and more.
Describing the whole songs are pretty much a waste of time, well you should listen to it because I sure as heck ain't going to explain it all. Just expect a bucketfull of awesome rhythms for drummer Richard Christy, this guy's _________ good. Pulverizing and grateful, he floats like a butterfly, and devours like Godzilla. At least that's the best description, but he's freakin good.

There's tons of copies that include DVD's, so keep your eye on them if you don't have them. It includes a killer performance. I wasn't crazy about the Judas Priest, though the drums at the beginning are the best drums on the whole disc. Death rules, and deserves all the hype.

9.5/10

the best death metal there is?
Death is an extremely technical, heavy, extreme metal band. Did they invent the genre of death metal? It's likely. Did they prefect the music known as death metal? Yes. Chuck is (was, RIP) an amazing musician and great with ideas and created things nobody else thought of before. Death was a legendary band for a reason, they defined an era. Richard Christy, the drummer on this album, is amazing. Maybe the best metal drummer next to Dave Lombardo from Slayer. This is an essential CD for anyone interested in death metal or any fan of "very" heavy metal. I don't listen to a lot of death metal really, I'm more into faster thrashy stuff like Slayer and Megadeth or older metal like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest or punk stuff like Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys. But I have the utmost respect for Death, the musicianship just can't be denied and the brute force of The Sound of Perservance, I can't help but be in awe. Really the only "death metal" bands I like are Death and Morbid Angel, and Death is the top of the genre for sure, and The Sound of Perservance is one heck of a CD.