Obituary

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Slowly We Rot
1989 Roadrunner Records 

Slowly We Rot
  1. Internal Bleeding
  2. Godly Beings
  3. 'Til Death
  4. Slowly We Rot
  5. Immortal Visions
  6. Gates to Hell
  7. Words of Evil
  8. Suffocation
  9. Intoxicated
  10. Deadly Intentions
  11. Bloodsoaked

Line-Up
John Tardy - Vocals 
Trevor Peres - Guitar 
Allen West - Guitar 
Daniel Tucker - Bass 
Donald Tardy - Drums 
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Where it all began. Recorded on only 8 tracks, Slowly We Rot came into my life on the same vinyl buying trip as Sepultura's Beneath the Remains.  While BTR was my thrash fix, Obituary became the essence of death metal for me.  All the requisites are here, the guitar, the monster double bass, but it was really John Tardy's truly disgusting vocals which MADE this album.  More guttaral than on later albums, Tardy became the epitome of death metal vocals on this, one of the true legendary albums of metal.
A must have for any DM fan.
10 out of 10

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Cause of Death
1990 Roadrunner Records 

Cause of Death
  1. Infected
  2. Body Bag
  3. Chopped in Half
  4. Circle of the Tyrants
  5. Dying
  6. Find the Arise
  7. Cause of Death
  8. Memories Remain
  9. Turned Inside Out

Line-Up
John Tardy - Vocals 
Trevor Peres - Guitar 
James Murphy - Guitar 
Frank Watkins - Bass 
Donald Tardy - Drums 
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 Cause of Death is easily my favorite Obituary album.  No, it's not the sickest, nor the fastest, nor the most technical, but the band managed to capture a feeling here that is lacking on most metal albums.  I'm not sure if it's the recording or what, but there's just a feeling of space here that makes this album just so... fucking...  heavy.  All the tracks are classics for all time, but Chopped in Half will always hold a special place in my heart.  Allen West is replaced here by metal gun for hire Murphy, but his role was minimal, only really laying down leads in the studio, main man Trevor Peres being responsible for almost everything here, which may be why this rules so much.
The essential of the essentials.
10 out of 10

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The End Complete
1992 Roadrunner Records 

The End Complete
  1. I'm in Pain
  2. Back to One
  3. Dead Silence
  4. In the End of Life
  5. Sickness
  6. Corrosive
  7. Killing Time
  8. The End Complete
  9. Rotting Ways

Line-Up
John Tardy - Vocals 
Trevor Peres - Guitar 
Allen West - Guitar 
Frank Watkins - Bass 
Donald Tardy - Drums 
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World Demise
1994 Roadrunner Records 

World Demise
  1. Don't Care
  2. World Demise
  3. Burned In
  4. Redefine
  5. Paralyzing
  6. Lost
  7. Solid State
  8. Splattered
  9. Final Thoughts
  10. Boiling Point
  11. Set in Stone
  12. Kill for Me 
  13. Killing Victims Found

Line-Up
John Tardy - Vocals 
Trevor Peres - Guitar 
Allen West - Guitar 
Frank Watkins - Bass 
Donald Tardy - Drums 
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 I've got The End Complete, and it's good, but something was missing after COD.  World Demise fixes things up a lot, putting the power back into the Obituary attack.  Another standard (but good) Scott burns production job gives us some meat in the potatoes, but where the riffs haven't changed all that much, Donald Tardy has learned to pull the most out of them, always amplifying things with his double bass.  The music is standard but good, just being death metal, nothing more, nothing less.  I still dig the first two more for their overall feel, but World Demise is a solid album, something to throw on as you watch the Earth burn.
8 out of 10

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Back from the Dead
1997 Roadrunner Records 

Back from the Dead
  1. Threatening Skies
  2. By the Light
  3. Inverted
  4. Platonic Disease
  5. Download
  6. Rewind
  7. Feed on the Weak
  8. Lockdown
  9. Pressure Point
  10. Back from the Dead
  11. Bullituary (remix)

Line-Up
John Tardy - Vocals 
Trevor Peres - Guitar 
Allen West - Guitar 
Frank Watkins - Bass
Donald Tardy - Drums 
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Dead
1998 Roadrunner Records 

Dead
  1. Download
  2. Chopped in Half
  3. Turned Inside Out
  4. Threatening Skies
  5. By the Light
  6. Dying
  7. Cause of Death
  8. I'm in Pain
  9. Rewind
  10. 'Til Death
  11. Kill for Me
  12. Don't Care
  13. Platonic Disease
  14. Back from the Dead
  15. Final Thoughts
  16. Slowly We Rot

Line-Up
John Tardy - Vocals 
Trevor Peres - Guitar 
Allen West - Guitar 
Frank Watkins - Bass
Donald Tardy - Drums
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Anthology
2001 Roadrunner Records 

Anthology

Line-Up
John Tardy - Vocals 
Trevor Peres - Guitar 
Allen West - Guitar
James Murphy - Guitar 
Frank Watkins - Bass
Daniel Tucker - Bass
Donald Tardy - Drums
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Links
Obituarized - An Unofficial Obituary Page
Catastrophic - Trevor Peres's New Band
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