Slowly We Rot

Artist: Obituary
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016861876821
EAN: 0016861876821
ASIN: B000000H41

Release Date: 1998-01-27

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Tracks:

Internal Bleeding
Godly Beings
'Til Death
Slowly We Rot
Immortal Visions
Gates To Hell
Words Of Evil
Suffocation
Intoxicated
Deadly Intentions
Bloodsoaked
Stinkupuss
Find The Arise (Demo Version)
Like The Dead (Demo Version)

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Customer Reviews:

Warning: This album will tear you in half.......2007-03-15

If you think Slipknot is heavy, this will crush your skull and **** you in your bleeding neckhole. Okay, that was a bit extreme, but so is this album. This is an excellent old-school death metal album, and while Obituary isn't my favorite death metal band, John Tardy has one of my favorite death metal growls. He's one of the first to use a variant of the guttural death growl, but he uses various pitches in his growls, so he doesn't sound like a dead horse(i'm looking at you, Mortician). His lyrics are the typical death metal subject matter, but it isn't generic. The guitarists are very good. The riffs are heavy and rather catchy, and the solos are quite complex and grind you up like a chainsaw. The bassists isn't that audiable, but this is death metal, so it isn't a big deal. The drummer is great. His style is quite interesting, as he doesn't use that many blasts, though out of all of their albums, this one has the most. While the rest of Obituary's albums are mid-paced, groovy death metal, this album is a bit different. The tempo switches between blazing fast and slowly crawling constantly, which keeps things fresh. It's a nice death metal album that is quite unique.

Legendary!.......2006-05-20

Obituary maybe my second favorite extreme death metal band! Only the even more legendary Death would come ahead. Obituary had to be highly influnced by Slayer mainly due to the guitar solos. Vocalist John Tardy sounds a bit like Chuck Schuldner(RIP) of Death. After all the two bands originated around the same time at the same place! This is one of the most brutal bands to be signed on to the great Roaadrunner Records second most brutal on that label. The most brutal band on that label is probably Suffocation(another awesome band). This is Obituary's debut and their best album as well. I'm glad they reunited for a new album in 2005! The vocals are great! The guitars are killer! The drums sound excellent! The bass is audible! This album is a death metal classic all the way.
WARNING: If you think Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park are heavy than avoid this album at all costs! And if you're one of those people than you suck!

The Ultimate.......2006-03-02

After over 15 years since I last heard their music, I decided to pick up this CD. It is the ultimate in true death metal. I don't even listen to this type of music any more, but I listen to this CD. For anyone new to the genre; don't start here... you will be dissapointed in anything else you listen to in the genre from here on out.

An overlooked classic.......2005-11-27

Obituary were on of the pioneers of the Florida death metal wave. And even though they were one of the best bands to come out of that movement, Obituary never quite achieved the success of their peers (Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, and Deicide), because they were always kind of overshadowed by Metallica and Slayer. Granted, Obituary's guitarists, James Murphy and Trevor Peres, do unleash a furious barrage of blistering riffs that is as fast and precise as Eighties' Metallica (and sometimes, as in "Godly Beings," even Slayer); but Obituary aren't just another thrash knock-off. "Slowly We Rot" is catchier and usually pounds harder than a typical Metallica or Slayer song. Plus, John Tardy's growls and belching noises are more reminiscent of Max Cavalera than James Hatfield or Tom Araya. And finally, Murphy and Peres do toss in some guitar solos, here ("Suffocation" and "Like The Dead" both have two wailing solos), but they are slower and a bit more technical than Metallica's and Slayer's solos. "Slowly We Rot" sounds great all the way through, but it's most awesome when it's super speedy (which is about 95% of the time). And even when it slows down, like for the beginning of track three, it usually speeds up a lot and the rest of the song flies by. The door opening song, "Internal Bleeding," has a creepy intro, but (about half a minute later) it rockets into a full-fledged, breakneck, bullying guitar assault. Next, tracks six and seven, "Gates To Hell" and "Words Of Evil," are explosive salvos of scorching guitars and thumping double bass drums, and "Intoxicated" is a pounding rhythm with insanely fast riffing, barked vocals, and one of the album's longest guitar solos. The rest of the world may have (more-or-less) forgotten about Obituary and "Slowly We Rot," but that doesn't mean you have to. If you like any one of the Floridian death metal bands or Eighties' thrash bands, or if you just enjoy metal that sounds great through and through, definitely pick this up.

Probably the penultimate Death Metal album.......2005-09-12

When this came out in 1989 Obituary had quite a few demos under their sleeves. They were releasing demos under the name Xecutioner as far back as 1986. There was also something else Obituary had going for them -no one else sounded like them. As far as early Death Metal goes, and I have tons of demo tapes from this period, this album exemplifies everything a good band should have.

Shortly before releasing the great "Slowly we Rot" Xecutioner changed their name to Obituary, I suppose because they didn't want to get confused with the Thrash band (a good one at that) from Boston with the same name.

The guitar duo of Peres and West go from the slugdy slow heavy as all hell riffs to the lighting fast (in comparison to the verses) wild solos. The drumming ala Don Tardy is also very simple and goes from a mid-tempo to a slow thrashing of the high-hats, to hitting the crash cymbals to the breaking point. All of this is connected by the vocalist John Tardy's undeciferable signing and gutteral noises that make the music all that much more threatening sounding. I really hate most of the cliche Death Metal "cookie monster" vocals (as best exampled by Cannibal Corpse) but Tardy I could always admire. He just did it so well. It was the sound of decay coming forth from his throat.

The lesson of Obituary is a very good one. They could play fast if they wanted to but...They proved that to play really heavy music it was better if you played really slowly in order to emphasize the heaviness of it. Just like Black Sabbath had done a generation earlier, Obituary made into a science. They took the wild solos from mid 80s Slayer, the ferocity of S.F.'s Possessed, and the lessons from Black Sabbath, as well as their own stylings to create a totally original sound.

I'd say Death Metal started (and maybe ended) with Obituary, but most people ceed the title of king of Death Metal to Death mainman Chuck Schuldiner. But if he wasn't around in '89, Obituary would've been the undisputed kings. Take it from me, when this came there was nothing like it. The remastering is pretty good too. A must own.

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