Artist: Obituary
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Xecutioners Return
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Frozen In Time
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Anthology
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
Live In Montreal Quebec (Bootleg)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Live Dynamo Open Air, Eindhoven Nl (Bootleg)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 14
Back From The Dead
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
World Demise
Year: 1994
Tracks: 16
The End Complete
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Live Dynamo Open Air, Eindhoven Nl (Bootleg)
Year: 1991
Tracks: 7
Cause Of Death
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Slowly We Rot
Year: 1989
Tracks: 14
Possessed and Death whitethorn consume brought destruction alloy to life, only Obituary brought it to fruition. After cathartic some demos as Xecutioner as far back as 1986, the five-man banding debuted as Obituary on Roadrunner Records in 1989 with Lento We Rot, and in a book, the record album was landmark. The previous forays into what would rapidly become labeled as death metal -- principally by the above-named bands, Possessed and Death, along with grindcore innovators Repulsion and Napalm Death -- were exercises in inexorableness. These bands took the breakneck desert of Slayer's Reign in Blood one stone's throw further, to the spot of plain, sometimes even silly musical give up. Obituary, on the former hand, wide-ranging their stride well -- and did so at the absolute height of speed metallic element withal. Yes, the dance orchestra could act at breakneck velocity, just within the same vocal, guitarists Allen West and Trevor Peres could sluggish the pacing down pat to dirge-like levels in a moment's notice, all the mend keeping the euphony as laboured as hell thanks to down-tuned guitars and the snarling vocals of John Tardy. As a result, Tardily We Rot made preferably a spattering back in 1989, influencing an constitutional legion of destruction metal bands in Florida: Morbid Angel, Deicide, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse, and legion others at present disregarded among the thousands of outside bands that followed. In a way, Tardily We Rot was the prototypal last metal album, establishing a template that would add together up to define the vogue (one that is discrete from grindcore or calamitous metallic element, it should be pointed out). A few albums followed -- Lawsuit of Death (1990) and The End Complete (1992) both likewise very influential -- simply by the mid-'90s Obituary had run its class and the band splintered, reuniting at present and and so. Yet floor as the bandmembers went their seperate slipway (most notably West going on to often success as the guitar player of Six Feet Under), Obituary continued to stand tall as unpaired of the definitive destruction metal bands, if not the authorized (a distinction that believably goes to Death, whose James Murphy actually was a bandmember for a patch). Their in fashion, Xecutioners Return was released in August 2007 on the Candleight label.
Gal e Caetano Veloso
