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Florida death metal giants coming to OEF for the first time! When we all first heard the Slowly We Rot album at the beginning of 90’s, the vocal of John Tardy was hardly to believe and the blastingly heavy quitar tone of Trevor Peres left you breathless. If you managed to visit their show in 1992 with NAPALM DEATH and DISMEMBER during their Campaign for a Musical Destruction, you will never forget the massacre. The band celebrated its 30 year anniversary last year by releasing a phenomenal record Inked in Blood that sold more than 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 75 on The Billboard 200 chart.
OBITUARY had been working for three years on the album
material, raised the funds through a Kickstarter campaign, and released the
album by the band itself. The result is possibly their best album in the last
20 years. Regardless if you have seen them recently or not, in the family-like
atmosphere of OEF shows the OBITUARY set will be the one you will never forget,
total massacre, finito – The End Complete!!!
Bio
Obituary is an American death metal band formed in 1984 in
Tampa, Florida under the name Executioner, then changed the name's spelling to
Xecutioner, and later changed their name to Obituary in 1988. The band
comprises vocalist John Tardy, drummer Donald Tardy, guitarist Trevor Peres and
bassist Terry Butler. The band is a fundamental act in the development of death
metal music and one of the most successful death metal bands in the world.
Obituary are one of the pioneering bands of the death metal
genre. Founded as Executioner in Seffner, Florida during 1984. They soon
dropped the "E" from their name because of another band of the same
name, becoming Xecutioner. At the time the band was composed of John Tardy
(vocals), Allen West (lead guitar), JP Chartier (guitar), Jerome Grable (bass)
& Donald Tardy (drums). The band released demos in 1985, 1986, and 1987,
the 1985 demo as Executioner and the 1986 and 1987 demos as Xecutioner. They
made their vinyl debut in 1987 with two tracks ("Find The Arise"
& "Like The Dead") on the Raging Death compilation. Not long
after its release, Grable was replaced with bassist Daniel Tucker. Shortly
before the release of its first album the following year, Slowly We Rot, they
changed their name to Obituary. The band still remains an influential piece of
the Florida death metal movement that arose in the late 1980s.
After 1997's Back from the Dead album, the band had grown
tired of touring, which led to the band disbanding. During the hiatus, Donald
Tardy played in Andrew W.K.'s touring band (during W.K.'s appearance on
Saturday Night Live Tardy wore an Obituary shirt). Allen West focused on his
two projects, Lowbrow and Six Feet Under while not playing in Obituary. Trevor
Peres formed Catastrophic in 2001, which released one album, The Cleansing, in
that same year. Obituary reformed in 2003 and Catastrophic continued to exist
alongside the reformed Obituary. A reunion album, Frozen in Time, was released
in 2005. The band's first live DVD, Frozen Alive, was released in January 2007.
Obituary was signed with Candlelight Records for its next
two albums, Xecutioner's Return (2007) and Darkest Day (2009), as well as the
EP Left to Die (2008). A concert DVD release was also announced for January
2010. In April 2010, Obituary began work on new material for their ninth studio
album Inked in Blood, which was released in October 2014. It is the first
Obituary album not to be recorded with longtime bassist Frank Watkins since
their 1989 debut album Slowly We Rot as well as the band's first release on
Relapse Records.
Since 2012, the band have been highly involved with the
promotion of a new social networking site called Unation, as well as Donald
Tardy beginning a Cat Sanctuary organization called Metal Meowlisha, an
organization practicing “trap-neuter-vaccinate-return”, and caring for 25 cat
colonies (200 cats). In 2013, the band rebuilt their studio, and continued work
on the new album, with Tardy claiming that the band's progress in the studio
will be documented on the new website.
On Friday, August 2, 2013, the band launched a Kickstarter
campaign with a goal of raising $10,000.00; the money raised was promised to
allow Obituary to record and release their ninth album independently. The goal
was met in on August 3, and is still climbing. Obituary has claimed that if the
amount of money earned through the campaign extends to 20,000 dollars, the band
will release a 4-part documentary style video filmed at the legendary
Morrisound Recording Studios in Tampa, Florida. Morrisound is credited with the
popularization of heavy metal, and its subgenre death metal. The band Obituary
recorded their most popular, and still most loved albums of their career at
Morrisound. The Kickstarter "Morrisound Experience" documentary is
said to be shot over three days in which the band revisited their roots, and
will include sets from "Slowly We Rot," "Cause of Death"
and "The End Complete."
When interviewed by metal webzine All About The Rock, John
Tardy said of the Kickstarter campaign, "This campaign has been awesome
and just confirms again what we already know and that is that we have the
greatest fans in the world. We are using Kickstarter to raise enough money to
release an album on our own. This is not a bash against record companies, it is
just what we want to do. Years ago this would not even be a thought, but today
we feel everything is in place for us, for better or worse, give it a shot.".
Obituary to Release "Inked in Blood" October 28th,
2014.
Death metal legends OBITUARY make their Gibtown/Relapse
debut with Inked In Blood, their 9th full length LP. Almost three decades in,
Inked In Blood stands out as one of the finest moments in OBITUARY's already
godlike discography. Inked in Blood will be released October 28th in North
America (UK/World October 27th & Germany/Benelux/Finland on October 24th)
via Gibtown Records & Relapse Records.
The riffs, groove, snarl and rage are as fierce as ever,
putting most all other contemporary death metal bands to shame. OBITUARY are
THE definitive death metal band, and Inked In Blood is an instant classic
amongst their already storied catalog. OBITUARY are both the originators and
the torchbearers of the genre! Inked In Blood is the sound of true death metal
kings reclaiming their throne!!!
Discography
Release date | Release name | Media |
---|---|---|
2014 | Inked in Blood Full-length | |
2013 | The Complete Roadrunner Collection 1989-2005 Boxed set | |
2009 | Live Xecution - Party.San 2008 Video | |
2009 | Darkest Day Full-length | |
2009 | Blood to Give Single | |
2008 | Left to Die | |
2008 | The Best of Obituary Compilation | |
2007 | Xecutioner's Return Full-length | |
2006 | Frozen Alive Video | |
2005 | Frozen in Time Full-length | |
2001 | Anthology Compilation | |
1998 | Dead Live album | |
1997 | Back from the Dead Full-length | |
1994 | World Demise Full-length | |
1994 | Don't Care | EP |
1992 | The End Complete Full-length | |
1990 | Cause of Death Full-length | |
1989 | Slowly We Rot Full-length |