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Symbolic is the sixth and penultimate studio album by American death metal band Death, released on March 21, 1995, by Roadrunner Records. The album was remastered and reissued on April 1, 2008, with five bonus tracks.[2] It is the only album to feature Bobby Koelble and Kelly Conlon on guitar and bass, respectively, and the second and last album to feature drummer Gene Hoglan. The album has received unanimous critical acclaim.

Symbolic
Studio album by Death
Released	March 21, 1995
Studio	Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida[1]
Genre	Technical death metal melodic death metal
Length	50:37
Label	Roadrunner
Producer	Jim Morris Chuck Schuldiner
Death chronology
Individual Thought Patterns (1993) Symbolic (1995) The Sound of Perseverance (1998)

Musical style

Symbolic shows a continued shift in sound from Death's previous albums; the music became less focused on the traditional death metal template and more focused on increasing melodic aspects.[3] Symbolic has been described as technical death metal[4][5][6] and melodic death metal.[3]

Release

Symbolic was released by Roadrunner Records on March 21, 1995.[7]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Blabbermouth.net	10/10[8]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	8/10[9]
Metal.de	10/10[10]
Pitchfork	9.1/10[11]
Record Collector	[12]
Rock Hard	10/10[13]
Select	[14]
Sputnikmusic	[15]

Symbolic has received widespread critical acclaim and is regarded by many as being Death’s greatest album, and as being the greatest death metal album of all time. In a contemporary review, Select stated that "there're still lashings of gristly, growling vocals and head-in-the-groin thrashing to be had" as a listener can "snuggle up to witness what dark depths Death's 12-year career has taken them too [sic]".[14]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic noted that "some of the riffs are beginning to sound a little tired and there is no great leap forward in terms of their musical ideas, but the sheer visceral force of their sound should please their dedicated fans".[7] A review of the 2008 re-issue in Record Collector stated that the album was as "close to flawless as metal gets, and a testament to the drive and talent of the much-missed Schuldiner".[12] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff considered the album "the band's most impressive and crossover-ish to date", combining conventional metal, "traces of doomy, Germanic melody and heaps of progressive might."[9]

The webzine Metal Rules ranked the album as the 7th greatest extreme metal album[16] and the 58th greatest heavy metal album of all time.[17]

Track listing

Personnel

Personnel adapted from the CD liner notes of the original 1995 release and the 2008 reissue.[1][19]

Death

• Chuck Schuldiner – vocals, guitar
• Bobby Koelble – guitar
• Kelly Conlon – bass
• Gene Hoglan – drums

Additional musicians

• Steve Di Giorgio – bass (tracks 10–13, 2008 remaster)

Technical personnel

• Chuck Schuldiner – production
• Jim Morris – production, engineering
• George Marino – mastering, remastering
• Patricia Mooney – design
• René Miville – artwork, photography

References

На других языках

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[de] Symbolic

Symbolic ist das sechste Musikalbum der US-amerikanischen Death-Metal-Band Death. Es wurde am 21. März 1995 als einziges Album der Band über Roadrunner Records veröffentlicht.

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- [en] Symbolic (Death album)

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[es] Symbolic

Symbolic (Simbólico) es el sexto álbum de estudio de la banda estadounidense de Death metal Death. Se puede apreciar un fuerte contenido melódico contrastando la fuerza y la velocidad del Death metal más crudo. También se puede ver un cambio de sonido en la voz de Chuck, subiéndola a un tono más agudo.[1]

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[ru] Symbolic

Symbolic (с англ. символический) — шестой студийный альбом американской дэт-метал-группы Death, вышедший в марте 1995 года на лейбле Roadrunner Records.

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