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Gruesome is streaming their cover of Slayer’s “Black Magic,” off of their deluxe digital edition of their Savage Land album, out now via Relapse Records.

Guitarist/vocalist Matt Harvey says:

“We chose our cover tunes the same way we tried to write the album. We just did what Chuck [Schuldiner] would have done. Death was never a band particularly known for their cover song repertoire, but they did occasionally close their set with a rendition of ‘Black Magic’ and it’s a cover that dates as far back as an old 1984 Death/Mantas rehearsal, so we felt it would be appropriate. We were considering ‘The Exorcist’ by Possessed, since Death started recording a cover of it during Individual Thought Patterns, but since [Gruesome guitarist] Dan [Gonzalez] is in Possessed, it was a bit weird. Again, we tried to approach the song as Death doing a Slayer cover, so… hopefully we came close to the mark.”

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