We posted a Song of the Day on Death a while back and I still listen to that one song almost everyday. Well, their full and only album was released in February of this year and it’s quite the banger. I just picked it up at Plan 9 today and I can’t stop listening to it.
From the Jake Davis Blog: Timing is everything in this life. Sometimes you’re too ahead of the curve and it takes a while for the masses to catch up. This is the story of most innovative artists. In the case of the band Death it took nearly 35 years for the rest of the pack to catch up.
Death was punk before punk had a name. Three brothers from Detroit preceded legends like Bad Brains and The Sex Pistols. The band only recorded seven songs in a 1974 session funded by Columbia Records before a disagreement with Clive Davis about a name change. These guys are the definition of hard body. In a celebration of not selling out, artistic integrity, and saying fuck you without the fuck you money here are two burners from their only album …For The World To See. It was released earlier this year when the demo tape was discovered in one of the member’s attic by his son…
