"Divine Spiritual and Intellectual Development" is 1990 debut album by the Dutch thrash band Usurper, formed in 1985. The best late 80s Dutch thrash bands were those that rapidly made the transition into a death/thrash hybrid, and then often into full on death metal. Pestilence, Thanatos, all need no introduction, but there were very few bands that stuck with the initial genre and met any kind of success. Usurper is a pretty rare find, a group that actually started off as a death metal act (they put out a demo as Sepulchral Death) and then evolved into a pure thrash act. All 3 demos, Sepulchral Death (considered as Usurper demo 1) demo 1 1986, Chants of Traducement Demo 2, 1987, Demo 3 from 1988 and full length Divine Spiritual and Intellectual Development are included on this massive double CD and double vinyl re-issue. The booklet contains rare and old pictures, flyers and posters. Extensive liner notes from Steven Willems (Rock Tribune, Streams of Ancient Wisdom: The History of Dutch Death And Extreme Metal).
CD1: Divine Spiritual and Intellectual Development + live in Rotterdam
1. Egoistic Mind
2. Enthrallment Fate
3. Diseased Reality
4. The Room
5. Insane Decisions
6. Behind Mandela's Mask
7. Infest the Convent
8. Ozon Tragedy
9. Orphanage Children
Live in Nighttown, Rotterdam 1990
10. Insane Decisions
11. Behind Mandela's Mask
12. The Room
13. A Crime to Satisfy
14. Egoistic Mind
15. Ozon Tragedy
CD2: Demo 3 1998, Chants of Traducement demo 1987 + Sepulchral Death Praising Death demo 1986
1. Insane Decisions (Demo 3 1988)
2. The Room (Demo 3 1988)
3. Orphanage Children (Demo 3 1988)
4. Habeas Corpus (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
5. Enthrallment Fate (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
6. Parables of Terror (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
7. Infest the Content (Chants of Traducement demo 1987)
8.Schizophrenic Doom (Sepulchral Death Praising Death demo 1986)
9. Praising Death (Sepulchral Death Praising Death demo 1986)
10. Sepulchral Death (Sepulchral Death Praising Death demo 1986)
11. Capitol Punishment (Sepulchral Death Praising Death demo 1986
12. Exaltation of the Cross (Sepulchral Death Praising Death demo 1986)
13. Mutual Repugnance (Sepulchral Death Praising Death demo 1986)