Review by ZeroSymbolic7188 for Death - Scream Bloody Gore (1987)

For me personally, Chuck Schuldiner is the holy grail of heavy metal. I could never put into words how important his music is to me. 

Trying to rank the albums is an exercise in futility, with the exception that I do always have Spiritual Healing at the back of the pack. Ultimately I put this in the #1 slot because it was the first of it's kind, and thus get's the influence perk. I was also able to see Death to All (a modern tribute to Chuck featuring Steve and Gene-arguably the cream of the crop of Chuck's line-ups), that's a fabulous thing to witness, and is undoubtedly my all-time favorite concert experience to date. On the night I saw them, "Baptized in Blood" and "Zombie Ritual" just fuckin' hit different! This lead me to revisit the album yet again with a fresh lens. This whole album is just a ton of brutal fun. It's an all-time great. Sometimes people say the lyrics are juvenile, but I think that's just because of how much more introspective and philosophical Chuck would be in later offerings. I like the rawness of this thing, like another reviewer said, this is blue-collar heavy metal made to bang, and it does that better than maybe anything else.