Greatest DEATH METAL Band 

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Literally one of the few acts in Metal to never have a bad album.

Richard Christy such a beast of a drummer, so under rated. Death wrote some killer music.

Symbolic is my favorite album from Death. Hoglan and Schuldiner were an unstoppable force. Sound of Perseverance is my 2nd fave. That was the golden era for the band.

I hadn’t heard of Death until I bought a used Ibanez RGD that had Death, Carcass, and Obituary stickers on it.

Up there with Hetfield & Mustaine for sure, a monstrous riff master and pioneer. No need for makeup or gimmicks, RIP Chuck

I believe that he was completely self-taught but much like Mustaine, just had the ear for it

Richard Christy was/is still an absolute monster on the kit. His drumming on this album is top fucking notch. When I want to show people some crazy drumming, I choose from this album. It is very unfortunate that I will never be able to hear them live.

Got into Death this last year and I absolutely love them and most of their songs. I'm sure others will grow on me

The wisdom in his lyrics is staggering. His message is timeless especially from Human on, truly a shining light for impressionable young men like myself at the time. Chuck subtly instilled some powerful philosophical nuggets in our young minds. His skill at writing riffs that serve a larger song picture was definitely a cut above the rest. Most bands can spell words and say some elaborately technical statements but it’s another to write words that create complete intelligent emotionally poetic statements. This songwriting brilliance was evident on SBG and the development carried through on following albums is analogous to the evolution of man. His star burned brightly during his time here. An energy this powerful unfortunately has a finite life span in this dimension…

Chuck was fantastic, Sound of Perseverance is a masterpiece among his other masterpieces.

Chuck was definitely one of the main inspirations for me picking up a guitar to begin with.

As much as I prefer modern death metal bands and how far the genre has progressed in terms of heaviness, you just can't deny Chuck. He was an absolute master of a composer.

I've discovered Death relatively late, way past my high school years, but I'm glad I did. Chuck was a music genius.

So blessed to have seen Death in multiple lineups in clubs. Life altering experience

I remember how jaw dropping Death was when i listened to it for the first time. A very unique and underrated band in metal history

Big Leagues guitar, there! Death & Chuck Schuldiner work can't be ignored in Metal!

I really appreciate what you do on here Shred. I’ve been playing guitar for over 10 years but didn’t start taking it seriously until a couple years ago. Whenever I lose faith in my ability your videos help me get back to playing, whether it be the way you explain things or the musically relatable topics you discuss, I always find myself going back to guitar after watching your videos, even if I’m in a tough spot when it comes to my playing or how I feel about my playing

My favorite band of all time. Chuck is my main inspiration for guitar. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be playing guitar today. Truly a hero to many musicians I'd say.

Chuck is a top 10 personality in metal history, a real genius. My favourite album is Sound of Perseverance, no weak song and the greatest instrumental of all time "Voice of the Soul"

Chuck is literally my idol... an artist, and im proud of that.

I was able to see Death live in Chile 🇨🇱 back in 1998…opening band was Canibal Corpse… They were touring Sounds of Perseverance… I was totally blown away by the quality of their sound …it was like listening to a cd with headphones on …Definitely Chuck was a perfectionist and a genius …but at the same time, really humble and charismatic 🤟🏼🤘🏼

Spiritual healing was my first and favorite death record. But i love them all. Love this performance, awesome to see you cover it shredmaster. 🤘

Possessed Seven Churches is the first death metal album probably, I know that Chuck released demos and stuff before 1985, and those were great too.

Yeah, DEATH is one of my all-time favorite bands. I saw them back when they toured with Hammerfall. Chuck always got the best musicians to work with. Legends. He is certainly one of my main guitar influences. Funny thing: Chuck used a DiMarzio X2N bridge pickup in his guitars. I also have an X2N in my MiJ Ibanez RG. Michael Romeo also uses the X2N.

I was inspired to check out Death after I heard the tapping intro from Evil Dead in a Loudwire video, and then I checked out more songs from Scream Bloody Gore, and I was hooked, to the point where I've heard almost their whole discography. It never gets old, and they never made an album that disappointed me. I think the best Death song is either this, A Moment of Clarity, Evil Dead, or Spiritual Healing! In fact, it's almost a waste of time trying to pick a 'best' song because I love so many of them! You just can't go wrong with Death! I'm even a big fan on Control Denied. I feel like CD is super underrated. The Fragile Art of Existence is an outstanding album, with awesome riffs, beautiful solos, Steve Digiorgio's incredible bass playing, and more of Richard Christy's signature crazy drumming. Songs like Consumed, Breaking The Broken, and When The Link Becomes Missing blow me away every time. I'll always love Chuck's work. The era of Symbolic and TSoP is definitely my favorite era of Death. Great video! Rip Chuck. \M/

Dude, THANK YOU for doing a video on *Death!* Absolutely *Solid* Discography throughout. Just all complete masterpieces.. a _"Great Old One"_ of Metal for sure. 🥲 *RIP Chuck.* 🤘❤

Legit one of the best metal bands of all time. Melodic deathmetal pioneers.

Death literally doesn’t have a bad album. I personally listen to Leprosy, Spiritual Healing, and Human the most, but their final album is a monstrous achievement; very interesting and complex moments.

Can still remember hearing Death for the first time in around 2004. It was voice of the soul and the solos soared out of this world. The more you delve into this band the more you know that it was on a whole other artistic level. You have songs like Perrenial Quest that I save up to listen to when I'm at my lowest points and it always gets me back to functioning level. You have a thousand eyes that was predicting the future rather accurately, I don't think they had social media when he wrote that. There's flesh and the power it holds and it's about the porn industry. It was extreme music with extreme topics and that's what makes Chuck a legend.

R.I.P Chuck...gone but NEVER forgotten

I was and still am a HUGE FAN of Death!! Probably since I was 17. I like the material written when Gene Hoglan was in the lin-up. I always enjoyed Death because it's unpredictable and has a progressive/jazz element to Chuck's music. You never knew where the journey would take you. Speaking of progressive, Scott - have you heard of/checked out Earthside? I've been getting into them lately.

First heard Death in 1989 Leprosy on cassette & in 2022 I STILL get full body goosebumps from his music. Love you Chuck🤘❤️

Richard Christie on the drums.

Death quickly became one of my favourite bands. I think Individual Thought Patterns is my favourite record, along with Human or Symbolic. I cannot really choose one specific song. It could be either Overactive Imagination, The Flesh And Power It Holds or Without Judgement ... or many many more.

Fantastic vid and band; I absolutely love “The Philosopher”. Ever review any Athiest?

I’ve been dying for you cover this song, this always gives me a go when I’m practicing it on bass

Death is one of my top 10 favorite metal bands. Chuck didn’t like to put music into sub genres but, he was a major part of the first in his. I was turned on to Death by the Human album. Never left my tape player for at least 6 months. To many songs to say which is my favorite. Have all their albums.

I've always been a huge fan of James Murphy, which is how I first learned of Death (Spiritual Healing). That band was absolutely ground breaking. That was definitely not the best death metal song, imo, but it was great!

Thank you Shred for keeping Chuck's legacy alive. Let the Metal flow🤘🏻💀

Wish I was around when this happened, Dynamo was such a great festival literally on a 10 minute drive from my house. Rip Dynamo and Rip to Chuck

Thanks for reviewing my favorite band shred

Because they added melodies to the intensity of the band it made them amazing. Because early death metal bands very heavy and hard. Carcass, napalm etc very difficult for beginners. But death was still heavy but also approachable and gradually introducing someone into that very hard style.

I'm glad someone broke this song down like you did....definitely looking for more

RIP Chuck and Scott. Killer riffs and basslines

For me, suffocations "pierced from within" is the greatest death metal song ever. But you can't really go wrong with anything off deaths "symbolic" album. Those two (pierced.. and symbolic) LPs haven't aged one bit, as compared to most of mid 90s death metal.

what a day... i have watched every of your video and waited for any video on Death or CHuck since I started subscribing

Thanks, Shred! Great analysis!

Very well done sir. I too discovered the late, great Chuck Schuldiner and Death- a year ago. Lol. I'm 54. So this older-but-not-old-dawg has learned some new tricks. Namely I'm into heavier music than I ever have been before. Extreme metal/death metal was just "not my cup of tea" solely because I didn't like "extreme vocals/'cookie monster' style." That was my ignorance . I had immediately fallen in love with the "Heartwork" album by Carcass in the 90s (musically) but I couldn't "get" Jeff Walker's vocals. Well thanks to my discovery last year of Death I have increasingly become enamored with melodic death metal(mdm) and technical/progressive death metal Indeed, as a guitarist and metal nut from WAY BACK I now think Insominum, Dark Tranquility, Mors Principium Est, Soilwork, Gatecreeper, Machine Head, Be'lakor, Allegaeon, et al are just astounding. I've long since learned to like that style "growling" and ironically enough the almighty, incomparable Carcass is my favorite HEAVY METAL band and Jeff Walker is my favorite singer of that style. The older I get the heavier shit I gravitate towards. I used to tell friends that Carcass makes the Metallidudes sound like hard rock practically. Lol. If you want to make me REALLY happy Shred will you tackle one of Carcass's masterpieces like "Heartwork" in the future? You play guitar. You know the astounding musicianship that these bands possess. "Heart Like A Grave" by Insomnium is just beautiful. 95% of Dark Tranquility's work is mind-blowing. It just blows my mind how my shortsighted views and intolerance for harsh vocals had closed me off from this incredibly diversified and amazing musical landscape. I'm sure I'm not the only one that is about three decades late to the party. Crank it up!

Scream Bloody Gore will always be my favorite death metal album couldn't stop playing it summer of 87 had the big 15 inch woofer's boom box in the back seat and blew up the streets of Detroit with it !!

RIP Chuck

Thank you for including so much theory in this! Death’s work is without a doubt just as worthy of in-depth analysis as Beethoven or Bach. Hats of bro keep this up.

Death had a huge influence on me growing up. Holds a place in my heart forever

I have heard that whole performance a hundred times or more, it still hits hard.

I love voice of the soul, it was the first song I ever heard by Death sadly only about 10 years ago, found out the whole album rocks harder than anything I’d ever heard so I checked out all their music, except for Control Denied which I only just heard of last week now that I think of it…

Such a huuuuge death fan. This man didnt know theory but he ripped the shit out of his guitar. You sir have gained my sub. A man who appreciates DEATH is a good man indeed.

The backdrop says Dynamo. The concert name. Pantera was also there. You can see Phil in the background too the left watching and rocking out to Death in some of the videos of this concert

Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam! Requiescant in Pace Chuck. His passing was a major shock.

I started playing listening to them on Spiritual Healing . Among several amazing album, if I have to pick one probably I will choose HUMAN: Sean Rinehert (RIP) on drums was unique. And the first album to mark them moving to new lands for Death Metal… they have just founded.

I just discovered Death a few weeks ago and now I'm angry I haven't discovered them years ago.

Getting into Death in high school & thinking this is the best it'll ever get lol. Now in my 40s & hearing so many other bands & tons of black metal I still go back to Death often enough. R.I.P Chuck you will love on in our ears forever ✊

💥😎💥Its one of the best for sure, all those riffs, that one on the key Modulation, a string always sets me off!💥😎💥 Prior to that the way it builds up and just crushes the spirit crusher is so Brutal💥💥💥😎💥💥💥

I love the format of the video. With your reaction in real time panned to the left, the performance on the lower left and the highlighted theory concepts in bold text on the upper right. Great job! 💪

I think "Possessed - Seven Churches" is widely considered the start of Death Metal. It's hard to pick my favorite track from Death but Spirit Crusher would be a good contender (along with The Philosopher, Symbolic, Crystal Mountain, Pull the Plug and Lack of Comprehension).

More on death please so good explaining parts of chucks composition

Chuck and the lead singer of possession chilled alot and some how the genre it’s self was coined love being from Florida 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿awesome job Shred!!!

Death is still and forever be my favorite band, wish I could of seen them live at least once… me and my buddie been playing death songs since 2016 and gave some locals a show so we definitely keeping the spirit of chuck/death alive 🤘🏻🤘🏻

This is a band I never get sick of.

I wore out my Death cassettes. Literally, with my Walkman and a lot of AA batteries. Yup, been shredding for a while.

It is so cool you are covering a Death song.

RIP Chuck. His legacy will be forever.

Chuck might have one of the fastest right hands ive ever seen on a guitar. Rip Riff Lord

Was waiting for this video. I hope to see more on the channel

Chuck was a master. Flesh and the power it holds. Plays in my house daily.

This track was one of the first metal songs I ever tried to learn along with Trapped in a Corner, purely because I loved that quintal harmony sound that Chuck used all over his music. It sounds like a Sus9 chord to me? The Sound of Perseverance and Individual Thought Patterns are two of my favourite metal albums of all time. I just recently learned Scavengers of Human Sorrow over the last few months, I noticed the song modulates all over the place and has those quintal harmonies throughout the track. Would love to see a breakdown of the scales and get your take on its composition oh Lord Shred Master Scott \m/ Love your videos bro...

That was very well written and the drummer is incredible. The lead singers voice reminds me of Children Of Bodom.

Thank u so much SHRED for doing this reaction. Pls do more of death stuffs but the studio versions not lives🤘🏻 again thank you brotha

For me it's gotta be both Spirit Crusher and Crystal Mountain. Both songs are respectively influential, as they should be for various reasons. Even the way they structured their songs had influence from the legendary Iron Maiden, as well as one other group to the best of my recent knowledge from another video covering how Death wrote and recorded their songs.

My prayers have been answered! Shred making a new video on DEEEATH

When I saw the thumbnail say the father of death metal. I didn't see the picture yet, and I thought to myself, if he isn't talking about Chuck, I'm clicking the Don't Recommend Channel button. I really enjoy your content because you know your stuff. I have a degree in music, and it's great to see someone applying music theory principles to metal music. I couldn't stand the high horse music students who thought music theory couldn't possibly apply to anything but classical. I am a metal vocalist, but I actually apply vocal techniques I learned from my classical training. I also took linguistics classes in order to learn where in the mouth and throat every sound is made. It all makes me a more effective singer. If you can't sing Hatebreed, followed by Les Miserables, you're not singing in a healthy way.

More Death reaction/analysis please. I really love these videos!

Oh man, Death, Symbolic and The sound of Perseverance are by far one of my favorite albums on all metal, and helped me adquire that taste for melodic and technical death metal, it can be brutal, yet refined and meaningful. Spirit Crusher speaks to me very fondly, im not that good with english, so i can't quite understand the lyrics, even less since it's not a clear voice, but the melody itself talks to me and transmit emotions. I'm not a guitarrist, im a bass player, who got more in depth since last year, Steve DiGiorgio is one of my favorite bass players and someone i look into, in terms of musicianship

I was at this gig! So happy to have seen them live. I actually met Chuck after the gig. Fresh of stage, still taking time to take a picture! He and Sean are greatly missed... Thankfully we still have Gene, Richard and Steve!

Richard Christy as others have commented is just killing it, phenomenol player, def I'm sure had Jazz lessons in his youth

Here in Germany we had all the rehearsals, livetapes and demos since the beginning. A lot of us had screenprinted Logoshirts, too...

Been learning this song recently, loved hearing more about the compositional elements of it

Great performance, great show! I was there, 🤘🤘🤘🤘at the Dynamo metal fest 1998. So long agooo now. RIP Chuck and Scott! We missed out on so much great metal because they died so young. 😪

Thanks for covering some Death! Undeniable legends... RIP Chuck

He didn’t invent Death metal but he was among the creators. What made Chuck stand out was his riffs(as you said). He created memorable melodic riffs in a heavy and fast context better than anyone at that time. His music touched me at a very young age and still to this day is my number one. I’ll never forget the shock of hearing of his passing when I was just starting to emulate his playing style. For me it was like the Kennedy assassination. I couldn’t move.

Chuck Schuldiner... The best musician of all time. RIP

I remember back in 88, "CARNIVORE" knocked me about, but "LEPROSY" blew me away.

1:25 Awesome Wappy Juice!

Do more death stuff man, they're so sick

I saw them at 11, my first concert. I am still on a high from that show!!

Live in LA came out shortly after his death, most of the more well known songs including spirit crusher was on that DVD

I love it when Chuck and Death get the appreciation and respect he/they deserve.

I'm 56 years old and was a fan of DEATH starting in 87 .......Torn To Pieces \m/

what I really love about Death is how they were able to stay so catchy while being incredibly progressive and technical. I feel like a lot of bands nowadays go all out on the technicality, but it's just a riff salad and there's nothing memorable to a song, nothing to draw you back to it. Chuck Schuldiner on the other hand managed to keep Death's songs incredibly memorable and catchy while being technical as fuck. Many choruses and melodies he wrote just stay in your mind. I also love about them that they managed to unite brutality and melodicness incredibly well. People often act like melodic and brutal are these two opposing forces, but Death managed to stay incredibly melodic while also being brutal, fast and ripping as fuck, which for sure is to be attributed to the melody riffs. Another thing I really love about them, which isn't unique for them, but uncommon in death metal I'd argue, is their ability to paint a picture, a setting if you want, with their music. A great example is the song Leprosy: The beginning riff just paints this picture of a desolate, post-apocalyptic landscape, where as we find out from the lyrics, disease and death has taken over.

Thank you, I just wrote a huge thing before even starting the video about THIS COMPOSITIONAL TALENT. I was specifically speaking of the guitar melodies, as that is something that even today, both Decrepit Birth and Skeletal Remains have somehow failed to equal even while putting out great records and that 2nd Decrepit Birth record has guitar interplay that Shuldiner would approve of lol 4:28

I was 16 in 1991 & ate up aaaaaall those iconic old school death metal albums it was spectacular. As a long time percussionist now it's no wonder it remains Chuck Schuldiner & his journey & evolution of music sit at the very top for me. Human set itself apart from everything else going on around it.