Trading Pieces

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Trading Pieces
TradingPiecescover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly, 1996
Genre Brutal death metal
Length30:21
Label Repulse Records
Deeds of Flesh chronology
Gradually Melted
(1995)
Trading Pieces
(1996)
Inbreeding the Anthropophagi
(1998)

Trading Pieces is the debut full-length studio release by death metal band Deeds of Flesh. It was released in 1996.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Carnivorous Ways"3:42
2."Born Then Torn Apart"2:09
3."Trading Pieces"2:50
4."Hunting Humans"2:44
5."Impious Offerings"3:00
6."Acid Troops"3:41
7."Deeds of Flesh"2:57
8."Erected on Stakes"1:59
9."Chunks in the Shower"2:29
10."Blasted"2:17
11."Outro"2:33
Total length:30:21

Personnel


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