| Mutilation | |
| Type: | Demo |
| Artist: | Death |
| Cover: | Death_-_Mutilation(demo)-1-.jpg |
| Released: | April 1986 |
| Recorded: | April 12–13, 1986 |
| Studio: | ATR Studios, Lafayette, California |
| Genre: | Death metal |
| Length: | 10:24 |
| Label: | Independent |
| Prev Title: | Back from the Dead[1] |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Scream Bloody Gore |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Mutilation is a demo album by American death metal band Death, released in 1986. The following year, the band would release their full-length debut album, Scream Bloody Gore on Combat Records. American heavy metal magazine Metal Maniacs noted that the demo was "the most polished of the early Death recordings" and that "the underground and Combat Records were in agreement about Mutilation".[2]
Writer Albert Mudrian noted in his book that the Mutilation demo "earned [Chuck] Schuldiner that elusive recording contract", stating it was "the band's most polished material in the form of the three-track demo".[3] Author Ian Christe, in his book , noted that Death's demos "became as heavily shared by tape traders as any well-established act in metal".[4]
Credits adapted from liner notes.[5]