The band behind the 1987 album Scream Bloody Gore is Death. It was the debut studio album of the Florida-based band led by Chuck Schuldiner and is widely regarded as a foundational death metal recording.
Released by Combat Records in 1987, the album features Schuldiner on vocals and guitar, with Chris Reifert on drums. Its raw production, fast riffs, growled vocals, and graphic horror-themed lyrics helped establish many of the traits later associated with death metal.
The album’s historical reputation needs a little context. It is often called one of the first death metal albums, but no single record universally receives that title. Possessed’s 1985 album Seven Churches is frequently cited as an earlier landmark, while Death’s demos and Scream Bloody Gore helped turn the emerging style into a recognizable movement.
Death later developed a more technical and progressive sound on albums such as Human and Symbolic. That evolution can make Scream Bloody Gore seem musically simpler, but its importance lies in how directly and influentially it captured death metal’s early blueprint.