465 - Death Altering the Future 1990

Death's third album, "Spiritual Healing" was released in 1990 and marked yet another change in the bands legendary career. After countless line-up changes throughout their young career, Death had always seemed to be walking a tight-rope but the excellent songwriting and determination of the man who essentialy was the band, Chuck Schuldiner had alwasy pulled them through. Different to preivous releases, "Spiritual Healing" was less gore in the lyrics, the music was a little less brutal and it was, well, more musical. The songs are still heavy though, a little more diverse than previous releases though. "Altering The Future" starts with a slow, almost doomy riff. Followed by a weird set of notes, with an inversed drum beat which gives a good feeling, before going into a more straightforward, "headbangable" drumbeat and riff.