Reception
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| Sputnikmusic | 4.5/5 |
Scream Bloody Gore is perhaps the first death metal prototype, and “clearly defined true essence for the first time”, “which would qualify as the first true death metal album”, declared music biographer Joel McIver, who also noted that “Scream Bloody Gore was a turning-point in extreme metal”. Writer Ian Christe stated in Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal that “Scream Bloody Gore emulated hardcore punk. It also evoked the dark moods of horror sound tracks from the drive-in zombie and cannibal horror films of George Romero”. Metal Forces described the album as “death metal at its utmost extreme, brutal, raw and offensive - the kind that separates the true death metallers from countless trend-following wimps”.
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