[2][3] Chuck Schuldiner, the band’s co-founder and leader, performed guitar, bass and vocals, and composed all tracks on the album.

And sure enough, when we got copies of the album in the office, right there on the inside sleeve, under the lyrics and credits, it said, ‘This record is Don Kaye’s folly.’ I just thought, Oh god.

Bassist Steve DiGiorgio, who had previously played with the band as it shared practice space with Sadus,[9] recorded bass on a test pressing of the album.

According to band manager Eric Greif, "the deal was sealed and [Combat] trusted us to find a studio and go at it on our own, which turned out to be a terrible idea!

[laughs] We were enthusiastic, but unaware that the studio we picked was a bad choice, due to the fact that the folks who ran it had NO idea of what metal was.

[1] Band manager Eric Greif recalled, "When Steve was making arrangements for the recording of [the album's] second incarnation [...] from what I understand from Randy, it was just like 'Try to refine this a little.

"Legion of Doom" was a longtime staple of Death's rehearsals and live shows, and was indeed the first song written, reaching back to when they were known as Mantas.

[citation needed] The style of Scream Bloody Gore has been described as drawing from bands such as Possessed, Slayer and Sepultura, fusing "the wild vitriol of thrash and black metal" with "a handful of swanky melodies" and "insanely" violent lyrics.

[19] Steve Huey of AllMusic said that although Scream Bloody Gore appears "slightly musically amateurish" in comparison to Death's later releases, it "trades polish for savage, gut-wrenching force and speed.

"[4] Arthur von Nagel of American progressive metal band Cormorant observed, "the album's lyrics are rife with slasher flick violence, misogyny, homophobia, and sexual aggression, traits which clashed with the narrative of self-discovery and acceptance he crafted around his later, more sophisticated works".

[32] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff indicated Schuldiner as the musician who introduced "a new level of convolution that will mark the beginnings of the next stage in extreme.

"[21] According to Matt Mills of WhatCulture, Scream Bloody Gore "deserves to be put on a pedestal alongside Black Sabbath, Kill ‘Em All and Iron Maiden.

[1] Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura covered "Zombie Ritual" as a bonus track for their 2013 album The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart and was included as the second side of the digital single The Age Of The Atheist.