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CD: Death - Individual Thought Patterns	Released:
Reviewed By: John Profiti (Painkiller)	Rating: (4.5/5)

1. Overactive Imagination
2. In Human Form
3. Jealousy
4. Trapped In A Corner
5. Nothing Is Everything
6. Mentally Blind
7. Individual Thought Patterns
8. Destiny
9. Out Of Touch
10. The Philosopher

Death get more technical and almost progressive on 1993's Individual Thought Patterns with possible one of the best lineups the band has ever had (Andy Laroque (King Diamond) Guitar, Steve Digorgio Bass and Gene Hogland Drums). Thought I'd put that in there if anyone wondered what Steve and Gene did before their respective stays in Testament.

Now Back to the album. It is almost what you would come to expect from Florida's Death. A heavy aggressive output of death metal with agonizingly painful vocals. But the big difference here (and I mean big) is the experimentation that Chuck Schuldiner uses throughout the album. The first and second songs Overactive Imagination and In Human Form respectively would lead you to believe this is any other Death album. That is until the third song Jealousy kicks in with an almost ambience to it. Many would think some of the strange augmented or diminished chords Chuck and Andy use would not work in Death metal. But once again Chuck proves us wrong with a heavy album full of these near atrocities.

Now those of you keeping up to date this is Death's 5th album (Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy and Spiritual Healing, Symbolic.). This album manages to blow all of those other ones away and that does not mean that doesn't mean that those aren't all great albums (because the are). So if you were to start with a Death record I recommend it be either this one or 1998 Sound Of Preserverance (and not anything in between I warn you).