Chris Reifert

Chris Reifert (born February 23, 1968) is an American death metal musician.

• It may sound crazy now, but at the time we couldn't find band members around here to save our lives. The quest for at least a bass player turned up blanks. I guess you can say we didn't fit in with what the Bay Area was churning out, being a total death metal band in a strictly thrash environment. Fuck it, we couldn't let that stop us, so we didn't.
  • On the early days of Death, as quoted from the liner notes of the deluxe reissue of Scream Bloody Gore, September 2010

• Burning from the inside out
  Bloody foam spews from your mouth
  Smell the putrid stench of flesh
  As it burns you to your death
  [...]
  The rancid smell of burning hair
  Screaming in excruciating pain
  Blood boils over, warping veins
  Burnt skull collapses onto melting brains
  Spontaneous death, up in flames
  Twisting and writhing as life burns away
  Until nothing is left but charred remains
  
  • "Charred Remains," as quoted by Metal Injection [1]

• Here I sit surrounded by white
  My arms wrapped around my back real tight
  What did I do that was so wrong that I had to pay
  I don't think anyone's gonna miss her anyway
  I just couldn't take any more shit
  So with the swing of my knife her stomach was split
  Putrid guts and bile all over the floor
  Couldn't help but laugh at this vision of gore
  Severed flesh began to expel blood
  Stench of defecation as I cut
  Shoved my hand into the gaping slice
  As you tried to emit gurgling cries
  Intenstines on the ground
  Guts removed
  Disembowel
  Twitching violently
  Dying in agony
  Blood comes flowing forth
  Eyes no longer see
  • "Disembowel," as quoted from the album's liner notes