'' is the third album released by
Death in February 1990. The title comes from the era when
Faith Healer Peter Popoff was exposed on ''
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson '' by
James Randi as a fraud.
The members of Death stayed in a single motel room at the
Safari Inn , near
Busch Gardens , for the entire six weeks the album was recorded and mixed, although bassist Terry Butler and drummer Bill Andrews frequently went home as they lived in the Tampa area. New guitarist
James Murphy had his first taste of the strange in-humour of the other band members and their manager during all of this time confined to close quarters in the studio and motel.
This was the final Death album cover painted by
Ed Repka , following the first two releases.
Manager
Eric Greif played a Kawai K1 keyboard part that sounded like a church organ during a break in the middle of title track ''Spiritual Healing''.
Free time was spent driving around Tampa in their manager's car talking on a c.b. radio using fake voices and accents, a specialty of Butler.
# "Living Monstrosity" (
Chuck Schuldiner ) – 5:08
# "Altering the Future" (Schuldiner,
Terry Butler ) – 5:34
# "Defensive Personalities" (Schuldiner, Butler) – 4:45
# "Within the Mind" (Schuldiner,
James Murphy ) – 5:34
# "Spiritual Healing" (Schuldiner) – 7:44
# "Low Life" (Schuldiner, Murphy, Butler) – 5:23
# "Genetic Reconstruction" (Schuldiner, Murphy, Butler) – 4:52
# "Killing Spree" (Schuldiner, Murphy) – 4:16
- Edward Repka - Artwork, Cover Design
- David Bett - Art Direction
- Brian Freeman - Design
- J.J. Hollis - Photography
- Eric Greif - Management
