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AUTOPSY - Charred Remains
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THE TRIUMPHANT LAUNCH OF MORBIDITY AT THE OEF - AUTOPSY!!! After several years of trying we FINALLY got it!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, headliner op the 25th annual Obscene Extreme festival will be none other than the truly legendary Californian death metal obscene quartet AUTOPSY!!! Yes, those AUTOPSY who are responsible for absolutely legendary recordings like "Severed Survival", "Mental Funeral" and other gems that will forever be written in the golden annals of extreme music!!! Exactly those AUTOPSY, who were one of the first and whose death metal is so incredibly and fundamentally rotten that you won't find another such band in the whole world that plays death metal with such speed up and matter of course.
AUTOPSY whose hallmark is the hellishly horrific voice of drummer Chris Reifert, the crushing yet morbidly melodic guitars of Danny Coralles and Eric Cutler, and the gut-wrenching bass of Greg Wilkinson!!! These are the AUTOPSY who undoubtedly belong on the OEF stage to show us clearly who is the master of their craft here and burn it to the ground!!! Because AUTOPSY will left Battlefield with charred torsos instead of bodies!!!
Bio
A savage and long-tenured California-based death metal unit with grindcore tendencies, Autopsy were founded in the late '80s by Eric Cutler and Chris Reifert, the latter of whom had just parted ways with pioneering Florida death metallers Death. Employing a caustic blend of thrash, doom, and death, the band released a string of influential albums like Severed Survival (1991) and Mental Funeral (1991) before shutting down operations in 1995. The group reconvened in 2010 and released an EP, The Tomb Within, followed by the uncompromising full-length Macabre Eternal. Having lost none of the sonic malice that made their earlier material so essential to the American death metal movement, the venerable decibel-pushers continued to tour and record, issuing punishing EPs like 2018's Puncturing the Grotesque and full-lengths (2013's The Headless Ritual, 2022's Morbidity Triumphant) with youthful regularity.
Formed by ex-Death drummer Christ Reifert shortly after he relocated to San Francisco in 1987, punishing death metal unit Autopsy were rounded out by guitarists Eric Cutler and Danny Coralles and bassist Ken Sorvari, with Reifert also handling vocal duties. Signed to U.K.-based indie label Peaceville on the strength of 1988's Critical Madness demo, they released their debut, Severed Survival, two years later. Mirroring the work of fledgling English groups like Napalm Death and Carcass, the album combined traditional death metal vocals and aggression with slower, grinding riffs and utterly repellent splatter-gore lyrics. It also boasted a cameo from another Death alum, bassist Steve DiGiorgio, but Steve Cutler was handling the four-string workload come 1991 -- a busy year that saw them issuing two EPs, Fiend for Blood and Retribution for the Dead, as well as a long-player named Mental Funeral.
Acts of the Unspeakable
None of these seemed to aid the band's cause, however, and neither did 1992's Acts of the Unspeakable album (featuring next bassist Josh Barohn), which is perhaps best remembered for cover artwork so shocking that Australian customs officials immediately confiscated all units upon arrival. A long period of inactivity followed, but Autopsy eventually returned for a semi-final gratuitous and scatological adieu via 1995's Shitfun album, featuring yet another bassist, one Freeway Migliore. Finally satisfied that they'd wreaked enough havoc, Reifert and Coralles moved on to a new project called Abscess and the former later joined Nuclear Assault's Danny Lilker in the Ravenous. A best-of set entitled Torn from the Grave was released in 2001, intended as a wrap-up, but in 2008, after reconvening to record two bonus tracks for the 20th anniversary edition of Severed Survival, the band announced plans to head back into the studio. The resulting Tomb Within EP arrived in 2010, followed in 2011 by the group's fifth studio long-player (and first since 1995), the remarkably resolute Macabre Eternal. The album featured the new core lineup of founders Reifert, Cutler, and Coralles, and new bass player Joe Trevisano, all of whom returned for 2013's Headless Ritual, 2014's Tourniquets, Hacksaws, and Graves, and 2022's Morbidity Triumphant.
Discography
Release date | Release name | Media |
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2023 | Throatsaw [Single] | |
2023 | Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts | |
2022 | Skin By Skin [Single] | |
2022 | Knife Slice, Axe Chop [Single] | |
2022 | Morbidity Triumphant | |
2020 | Live In Chicago [Live] | |
2018 | Critical Madness: The Demo Years | CD |
2018 | Sign Of The Corpse | CD |
2017 | Puncturing The Grotesque | EP |
2017 | Autopsy Vs Bloodbath [Split] | |
2016 | After The Cutting | CD |
2015 | Skull Grinder | EP |
2014 | Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves | |
2013 | The Headless Ritual | |
2013 | Introducing Autopsy | |
2012 | All Tomorrow's Funerals | CD |
2012 | Born Undead | DVD |
2011 | Macabre Eternal | |
2011 | Mauled To Death [Single] | |
2010 | Awakened By Gore | CD |
2010 | The Tomb Within | EP |
2009 | Horrific Obsession [Single] | |
2006 | Dark Crusades | DVD |
2004 | Dead As Fuck [Live] | |
2001 | Torn From The Grave | CD |
2000 | Ridden With Disease | CD |
1998 | Tortured Moans Of Agony | EP |
1998 | Tortured Moans Of Agony [Live] | |
1995 | Shitfun | |
1992 | Fiend For Blood | EP |
1992 | Acts Of The Unspeakable | |
1991 | Retribution For The Dead | EP |
1991 | Eternal / Twisted Mass Of Burnt Decay [Split] | |
1991 | Mental Funeral | |
1989 | Severed Survival | |
1988 | Critical Madness | DEMO |
1987 | Autopsy | DEMO |