'''''Scream Bloody Gore''''' is the first studio album by American [[Death metal]] band [[Death]], released on May 25, 1987 by [[Combat Records]]. It was considered "the first true [[death metal]] record".<ref>Aldis, N. & Sherry, J. ''Heavy metal Thunder'', 2006, San Francisco: Chronicle ISBN 0-8118-5353-5</ref> [[Chuck Schuldiner]] plays bass, wrote all the songs on the album and provides vocals in addition to guitar for the album. John Hand is noted on the cover as playing rhythm guitar, though this was incorrect and Hand was only in the band for a short period and was not on the recording.<ref name="Blabbermouth Reifert interview">{{cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=71774 |title=Blabbermouth Reifert interview |publisher=Roadrunnerrecords.com |date= }}</ref> This is also the only Death album to feature drummer [[Chris Reifert]], who had joined for the [[Mutilation|''Mutilation'']] demo.<ref>[http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/content/view/892/0/ Lahtinen L. ''Chris Reifert - Ex-DEATH, ex-AUTOPSY & ABSCESS'', metal-rules.com], (retrieved May 23, 2010)</ref> The album is currently out of print, pending a re-issue via [[Eric Greif|Perseverance Holdings, Ltd.]] and [[Relapse Records]]. It is however available for download through digital music retailers. ==Overview==''Scream Bloody Gore'' was actually recorded twice, with the second Los Angeles-based session being released as the complete album by label Combat Records (later Relativity). It was first recorded in Florida, although only the rhythm guitar and drum tracks were recorded. The track listing consisted of "Torn to Pieces", "Legion of Doom", "Scream Bloody Gore", "Sacrificial Cunt" (later shortened to "Sacrificial" because the label asked the band to do so, possibly because "they didn't want to get P.M.R.C. on their case"<ref>''Death''. In: Jon Kristiansen: ''Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries''. Bazillion Points Books 2011, p. 134.</ref>), "Mutilation", "Land of No Return", and "Baptized in Blood". The label were unsatisfied after hearing the initial mix, so Schuldiner and Reifert re-recorded the album in California with Randy Burns as producer. Once returning to Florida, the first session was released as a promotional tape, and was eventually bootlegged. "Legion of Doom" was a longtime staple of Death's rehearsals and live shows, and was indeed the first song written, reaching back to when they were known as Mantas. Despite the many songs written during Death's demo days, only half of them were re-recorded for the album, the rest being new compositions. "Infernal Death" and "Baptized in Blood" originally appeared on the ''Infernal Death'' demo. "Zombie Ritual", "Mutilation" and "Land of No Return" originally appeared on the ''Mutilation'' demo, and "Evil Dead" and "Beyond the Unholy Grave" were originally on ''Death By Metal''. "Beyond the Unholy Grave" and "Land of No Return" were also cut from the album, though were included on the re-release, with the live audio tracks taken from the ''Ultimate Revenge II'' video. Certain songs on the album were inspired by horror movies. For example, "Regurgitated Guts" was inspired by the 1980 film ''City of the Living Dead'' (a.k.a. ''The Gates of Hell''), "Beyond the Unholy Grave" was influenced by the 1981 film ''The Beyond]', and "Zombie Ritual" was inspired by the 1979 film ''Zombie'', all of which were directed by Italian director Lucio Fulci.<ref>{{cite journal |date=March 2002 |title=Diamonds Are Forever |journal=Hard Rock Magazine|url=http://www.emptywords.org/HardRock03-2002.htm}}</ref>