In 1998, the same year that the pioneering death -metal band Death released their final album, The Sound of Perseverance , Madonna released her ethereal trip-hop pop single, “Frozen.” At some point between Madge’s VH1 dominance and Schuldiner’s cancer-related death in 2001, the death-metal firebrand recorded his own version of the song — unreleased until now.

The track, an instrumental, features Schuldiner playing the song’s Middle Eastern–influenced music and vocal lines on his guitar to a drum machine. It sounds plaintive, understated, and unlike any other music for which Schuldiner is famous.

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The recording surfaced when Schuldiner’s nephew, Chris Steele, discovered a CD-R of the song and played it in his car stereo, as seen in an Instagram reel. “Fou

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