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
Cause Of Death Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Slowly We Rot Year: 1989
Tracks: 14
Possessed and Death may consume brought destruction metal to life, only Obituary brought it to fruition. After cathartic some demos as Xecutioner as far back as 1986, the five-man band 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 quickly become tagged 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 pathetic musical abandon. Obituary, on the other hand, wide-ranging their pace well -- and did so at the absolute height of speed metallic element withal. Yes, the dance orchestra could playact at breakneck velocity, simply 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 patch 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 rather a splatter back in 1989, influencing an integral legion of destruction metal bands in Florida: Morbid Angel, Deicide, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse, and numerous others at present forgotten 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 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 besides very influential -- simply by the mid-'90s Obituary had run its class and the band splintered, reuniting now and then. Yet level 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 unmatched of the definitive death metal bands, if non the authoritative (a distinction that credibly goes to Death, whose James Murphy actually was a bandmember for a patch). Their in style,
Xecutioners Return was released in August 2007 on the Candleight label.
