Acid Death was a Greek Thrash metal/technical Death metal band. They were formed in the early 1990's and originally consisted of Savvas Betinis (bass/vocals), Dennis Costopoulos (guitars), Themis K. (guitars) and Kostas Tsompanos (drums). This was the line-up with which they recorded and released their debut single Apathy Murders Hope in 1993 (Greece only). The band then went on to recorded a split album, titled Misled, with Spanish extreme metal act Avulsed in 1995 for the independent Molon Lave Records.In 1997, Acid Death, now signed with Metal Mad, recorded and released their first official full-length album entitled Pieces of Mankind. The album showed a good deal of technical skill in performance and song structure but was rather under-appreciated by being practically an underground production. Drawing most of its lyrical influences from Stephen King novels (in particular The Dark Tower and The Green Mile) and esoteric topics (such as substance abuse) and musically similar to bands