Death (partially lost demo tracks from death metal band; 1980s)

The band's logo.

Status: Partially Lost

Death was an American death metal band from Altamonte Springs, Florida. It was formed in 1983 under the name Mantas. The band is globally famous for their music and performances leaving a big legacy. They recorded several demo tapes featuring different members, but most of these tapes were lost, The only founding member to stay on the band was Chuck Schuldiner. The band ended in 2001 when Chuck died from pneumonia.

Demos (Pre-Death)

Rehearsal #1 (Emotional) (1984)

This is the first-ever record of the band. it contains 7 tracks that are re-recordings of 3 songs: Legion of Doom, Evil Dead and Mantas (Evil Dead is the only one featured in their first album Scream Bloody Gore).

In 2012 Relapse Records re-released the demo along with all the other demos (except Rehearsal #2) from Mantas Period.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Legion of Doom	Found
02	Legion of Doom	Found
03	Legion of Doom	Found
04	Evil Dead	Found
05	Evil Dead	Found
06	Mantas	Found
07	Mantas	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Dave Tett - Bass
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

Rehearsal #2 (1984)

This demo has 2 songs listed, Dave Tett didn't happen on this demo due to the fact that he left the band

This demo didn't appear on the Relapse compilation.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
02	Legion of Doom	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

Rehearsal #3 (1984)

This demo tape has three new songs included, it's unknown if the demo was released; some sources claim that the demo is from July 1984 but on the Relapse compilation it's said that was from early 1984.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Legion of Doom	Found
02	Mantas	Found
03	Death by Metal	Found
04	Evil Dead	Found
05	Rise of Satan	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

Live Tape #1 (1984)

This is the first show ever performed by Mantas (later Death), it contains new songs and some covers from bands that inspired Mantas.

The demo was recorded in September 1984 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, Orlando.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Legion of Doom	Found
02	Zombie	Found
03	Demon Flight	Found
04	Death by Metal	Found
05	Evil Dead	Found
06	Power of Darkness	Found
07	Black Magic (Slayer Cover)	Found
08	Evil Chuck Solo	Found
09	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
10	Poison (Venom Cover)	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

Death by Metal (1984)

This is the last demo under the name Mantas and it has the same name as the bands previous songs.

It was released on cassette and got a second version with an extra song.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Legion of Doom	Found
02	Power of Darkness	Found
03	Death by Metal	Found
04	Evil Dead	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

(Death by Metal second version)

#	Song Title	Status
01	Death by Metal	Found
02	Legion of Doom	Found
03	Evil Dead	Found
04	Mantas	Found
05	Power of Darkness	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

Demos (Post-Mantas)

Death by Metal (1984)

To re-inaugurate the band they re-recorded their last demo replacing the track "Mantas" with "Beyond the Unholy Grave"

It was released with a Xerox cover art and a tape (mostly black).

(Death by Metal Death's version)

#	Song Title	Status
01	Legion of Doom	Found
02	Evil Dead	Found
03	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
04	Power of Darkness	Found
05	Death by Metal	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

Live Tape #2 (1984)

This is the second live tape recorded by the band. it was recorded when they were under the name Mantas but when the tape was released they already changed their name.

The tape was released on the same day of recording 9/11/1984. it was recorded in Tampa, Florida.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Mantas	Found
02	Summoned to Die	Found
03	Evil Dead	Found
04	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
05	Reign of Terror	Found
06	Power of Darkness	Found
07	Poison (Venom Cover)	Found
08	Corpse Grinder	Found
09	Legion of Doom	Found
10	Zombie	Found
11	Witch of Hell	Found
12	Slaughterhouse	Found
13	Death by Metal	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Reign of Terror (1984)

This is the first original tape made in the post-Mantas era

This tape had several versions, some versions instead of "Slaughterhouse" have an interview with the band, another version instead of "Summoned to Die" had a live instrumental song which was later titled "Zombie Attack"

When Kam Lee and Rick Rozz already left Death to focus on Massacre they re-recorded the song "Corpse Grinder" for the band's first album.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Corpse Grinder	Found
02	Summoned to Die	Found
03	Witch of Hell	Found
04	Reign of Terror	Found
05	Slaughterhouse	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

Total Zombie Death (Live Tape #3) (1984)

Doesn't have too much to say about this tape. it has the same tracklist as Live Tape #2 (except for "Poison (Venom Cover)."

It was recorded in Brandon, Florida.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Mantas	Lost
02	Summoned to Die	Lost
03	Evil Dead	Lost
04	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Lost
05	Reign of Terror	Lost
06	Power of Darkness	Lost
07	Corpse Grinder	Lost
08	Legion of Doom	Lost
09	Zombie	Lost
10	Witch of Hell	Lost
11	Slaughterhouse	Lost
12	Death by Metal	Lost

Kam Lee - Drums
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Live Tape #4

A demo tape of a Live Concert with the full Live Tape #2 tracklist.

It was recorded in Brandon, Florida on 11/20/1984.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Mantas	Lost
02	Summoned to Die	Lost
03	Evil Dead	Lost
04	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Lost
05	Reign of Terror	Lost
06	Power of Darkness	Lost
07	Corpse Grinder	Lost
08	Legion of Doom	Lost
09	Zombie	Lost
10	Witch of Hell	Lost
11	Slaughterhouse	Lost
12	Death by Metal	Lost

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Infernal Live (1984)

Last tape recorded in 1984, it is also called Live Tape #5 on this show Death was opening for Nasty Savage.

On the tape cover it contains the first appearance of the band's famous logo.

The first track "Intro" is the opening theme of Friday the 13th (1980).

The tape was recorded at Ruby's Pub in Tampa, Florida on December 30, 1984.

#	Song Title	Status
	Side A
01	Intro	Found
02	Infernal Death	Found
03	Summoned to Die	Found
04	Evil Dead	Found
05	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
06	Reign of Terror	Found
07	Power of Darkness	Found
	Side B
08	Slaugherhouse	Found
09	Legion of Doom	Found
10	Curse of the Priest	Found
11	Witch of Hell	Found
12	Archangel	Found
13	Death by Metal	Found
14	Corpsegrinder	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #1 (1985)

This is the first of 13 rehearsal tapes. it is a live concert containing five covers and three original songs.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Total Disaster (Destruction Cover)	Lost
02	Black Magic (Slayer Cover)	Lost
03	Legion of Doom	Lost
04	Corpsegrinder	Lost
05	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Lost
06	Into the Crypts of Rays (Celtic Frost Cover)	Lost
07	Paranoid (Black Sabbath Cover)	Lost
08	Armies of the Dead (Genocide Cover)	Lost

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #2 (1985)

This demo is shorter than the other and contains a Slayer cover.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Black Magic (Slayer Cover)	Lost
02	Evil Dead	Lost
03	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Lost
04	Baptized in Blood	Lost
05	Legion of Doom	Lost
06	Corpsegrinder	Lost

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #4 (1985)

This is a live rehearsal tape with various improvised songs.

It's unknown if exist a Rehearsal Tape #3.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Intro	Found
02	Chamber of Horrors	Found
03	The First Song	Found
04	The Second Song	Found
05	Beach Building	Found
06	Not Paying Attention	Found
07	The songs of ?	Found

Kam Lee - Drums
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #6 (1985)

It is a cassette with 14 tracks being two covers from Slayer and Devo, this demo was released before the Rehearsal Tape #5.

This demo contains two takes of Beyond the Unholy Grave.

At some point Kick Ass Records released a bootleg CD containing the audio from the demo but apparently it was lost.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Lost
02	Power of Darkness	Lost
03	Baptized in Blood	Lost
04	Archangel	Lost
05	Infernal Death	Lost
06	Summoned to Die	Lost
07	Corpsegrinder	Lost
08	Death by Metal	Lost
09	Photograph intro (Def Leppard Cover)	Lost
10	Legion of Doom	Lost
11	Slaughterhouse	Lost
12	Curse of the Priest	Lost
13	Grannie's Revenge	Lost
14	Whip It (Devo Cover)	Lost
15	Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash Cover)	Lost
16	Chemical Warfare / Black Magic (Slayer Cover)	Lost

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #5 (1985)

It was released briefly after #6, it contains nine tracks and a different version of Chamber of Horrors.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Infernal Death	Found
02	Summoned to Die	Found
03	Corpsegrinder	Found
04	Evil Dead	Found
05	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
06	Power of Darkness	Found
07	Baptized in Blood	Found
08	Seizure	Found
09	Chamber of Horrors	Found

Kam Lee - Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Infernal Death (1985)

This is one of the most famous Death demos, it was released in 3/9/1985 and has three tracks.

It also was the last demo to contain Rick Rozz on the line-up.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Infernal Death	Found
02	Baptized in Blood	Found
03	Archangel	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Rick Rozz - Guitars
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals, Bass

Rigor Mortis (1985)

This demo has only two tracks with one being a rough mix of the same song. Had a possibility of this demo be recorded on the same session of the Infernal Death, Chuck said in a interview that his voice was weak on the recording.

Some riffs from Rigor Mortis was recycled on the songs "Torn to Pieces" and "Choke on it".

#	Song Title	Status
01	Rigor Mortis	Found
02	Rigor Mortis (Rough Mix)	Found

Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals, Bass

Rehearsal Tape #7 (1985)

This demo tape has four tracks, as a result of the exit of Rick Rozz, the band hired Scott Carlson and Matt Olivo from the band Genocide who later would form Repulsion.

This is the first demo in the Death era to have a bass.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Rigor Mortis	Found
02	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
03	Archangel	Found
04	Legion of Doom	Found

Matt Olivo - Guitars
Scott Carlson - Bass, Vocals
Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #8 (1985)

Recorded on June 1985, Doesn't have too much information about this demo.

It has five tracks and didn't feature Matt Olivo (he would only come back on the #11).

#	Song Title	Status
01	Intro	Lost
02	Baptized in Blood	Lost
03	Rigor Mortis	Lost
04	Archangel	Lost
05	Curse of the Priest	Lost

Scott Carlson - Bass
Kam Lee - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #9 (1985)

Release on July 1st 1985, it's the shortest demo of Death

This demo is only a recording of a cover of a song by Hellhammer

#	Song Title	Status
01	Horus/Aggressor (Hellhammer Cover)	Found

Scott Carlson - Bass
Kam Lee - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #10 (1985)

Released on July 15th 1985, Doesn't have too much information about this demo.

It has six tracks and later it was bootlegged as Decree of Death.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Corpsegrinder	Lost
02	Summoned to Die	Lost
03	Seizure	Lost
04	Curse of the Priest	Lost
05	Slaughterhouse	Lost
06	Grannie's Revenge	Lost

Scott Carlson - Bass
Kam Lee - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #11 (1985)

Released on August 2nd, 1985, this was the last tape to feature Kam Lee on the line-up.

It has 14 tracks eight of which are covers.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Total Disaster (Destruction Cover)	Lost
02	Into Crypts of Rays (Celtic Frost Cover)	Lost
03	Incinerator (Slaughter Cover)	Lost
04	Rigor Mortis	Lost
05	Black Magic (Slayer Cover)	Lost
06	The Exorcist (Possessed Cover)	Lost
07	Evil Dead	Lost
08	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Lost
09	Baptized in Blood	Lost
10	Legion of Doom	Lost
11	Corpsegrinder	Lost
12	Hit the Lights (Metallica Cover)	Lost
13	Paranoid (Black Sabbath Cover)	Lost
14	Iron Man (Black Sabbath Cover)	Lost

Matt Olivo - Guitars
Scott Carlson - Bass, Vocals
Kam Lee - Drums, Vocals
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Back from the Dead (1985)

Released on October 1985, this demo has a almost completely different line-up compared to the last demo, it was also the first demo after the band moved to San Francisco, California.

The intro of the tape is the theme from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

The opening riff of "Back from the Dead" was reused on the song "Living Monstrosity".

#	Song Title	Status
01	Intro	Found
02	Back from the Dead	Found
03	Mutilation	Found
04	Reign of Death	Found
05	Beyond the Unholy Grave	Found
06	Baptized in Blood	Found
07	Legion of Doom	Found
08	Skill to Kill	Found

Erik Meade - Bass
Eric Brecht - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #12 (1985)

Released on October 1985, this demo has a almost completely different line-up compared to the last demo, it was also the first demo after the band move to San Francisco, California.

The intro of the tape is a theme from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

The opening riff of "Back from the Dead" was recycled on the song "Living Monstrosity".

#	Song Title	Status
01	Archangel	Lost
02	Mutilation	Lost
03	Baptized in Blood	Lost
04	Legion of Doom	Lost
05	Reign of Death	Lost

Erik Meade - Bass
Eric Brecht - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Live Tape #7 (1985)

Recorded on October 19th, 1985, in this show Death was opening for Sacrilage B.C., Desecration and Insanity.

Recorded in Ruthie's Inn, San Fracisco.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Back from the Dead	Lost
02	Reign of Death	Lost
03	Legion of Doom	Lost
04	Infernal Death	Lost
05	Archangel	Lost
06	Corpsegrinder	Lost
07	Skill to Kill	Lost

Erik Meade - Bass
Eric Brecht - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Live Tape #8 (1985)

Recorded on November 27th, 1985, this was the last tape released in 1985. At this show Death shared the stage with Black Dethe.

Also recorded in Ruthie's Inn, San Fracisco.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Back from the Dead	Lost
02	Reign of Death	Lost
03	Legion of Doom	Lost
04	Infernal Death	Lost
05	Archangel	Lost
06	Corpsegrinder	Lost
07	Skill to Kill	Lost
08	Baptized in Blood	Lost

Erik Meade - Bass
Eric Brecht - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Rehearsal Tape #13 (1986)

Released on March 28th, 1986, Chris Reifert from Autopsy joined the band due to the exit of Erik Meade and Eric Brecht.

This tape has the first appearance of the famous song "Zombie Ritual".

Fun fact: on the insert has a song called "Fuck Off Death" but it didn't appears on the recording.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Land of No Return	Found
02	Zombie Ritual	Found

Chris Reifert - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals

Mutilation (1986)

Released on April 1986, this is the last demo recorded until the recordings of Scream Bloody Gore (1987). It has three tracks and a tape cover made by Mark Sikora.

It was set via mail with a lyrics sheet and info and regular tapes with xerox covers.

Recorded at ART Studios, Lafayette, California.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Land of No Return	Found
02	Zombie Ritual	Found
03	Mutilation	Found

Chris Reifert - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars, Vocals, Bass

Scream Bloody Gore Aborted Sessions

This tape includes aborted sessions from the album Scream Bloody Gore (1987). The album was first recorded in Florida without vocals because the band and the label (Combat Records) were not satisfied with the result of the recording so they moved to Los Angeles, California to re-record the album.

"Legion of Doom" is the only song of the tracklist to not appear on Scream Bloody Gore and "Sacrificial Cunt" was later renamed to just "Sacrificial" to avoid the Parents Music Resource Center.

#	Song Title	Status
01	Torn to Pieces	Found
02	Legion of Doom	Found
03	Scream Bloody Gore	Found
04	Sacrificial Cunt	Found
05	Mutilation	Found
06	Land of No Return	Found
07	Baptized in Blood	Found

Chris Reifert - Drums
Chuck Schuldiner - Guitars

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