DEATH - Symbolic 30th Anniversary LP (Preorder)

NB! Preorder item, release May 2.

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of its release in 1995, Roadrunner Records is making available again the sixth album by legendary Florida metallers Death on vinyl. 

While Individual Thought Patterns saw the complete immersion of Death into the progressive death metal sphere, Symbolic is where the potential with that full immersion was realized to its peak. In a way, this takes the best features of Human, removes the small remnants of the old school sound, and replaces them with what Individual Thought Patterns did right. What does this all mean to the layman? The complexity remains but the memorable songwriting reaches a new level.

Death’s followup The Sound of Perseverance might be even more adventurous, and Individual Thought Patterns might have been more technical, but neither of them pulled these qualities together as meaningfully as Symbolic did. Very few death metal or progressive metal bands could keep up with the sheer ambition and focus of this epic. Symbolic is beautiful, immersive, elaborate, brutal, and a stunning testament to just how emotionally and artistically accomplished heavy metal can be.

Black vinyl LP

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