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• Inspired by some of classic rock’s heroes, Death riff-rocked with minimal leads at maximum heat, a la Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith or MC5. Following their 1974 demo Death were given an audition with Don Davis, whose chart-topping work with Stax acts Johnnie Taylor and The Dramatics had made him a local celebrity. Davis booked the band into his United Sound Recording Studio, one of Detroit’s main destinations for aspiring blues, R&B and soul musicians, and they recorded the tracks that make up this album with engineer Jim Vitti, whose work with Parliament / Funkadelic seemed to inform his decision to record Death in raw fashion with little polish, showcasing the organic power relationships within the trio.

  – ‘… For The Whole World To See’, a fresh and inspired early entry in the category of