Having delved deep into the Deicide catalog, we now turn our fiendish eyes to another hugely influential death metal band out of Tampa (must be something in the water)! We are of course talking about Obituary, who, like Deicide, includes a pair of brothers, drummer Don and vocalist in extremis John Tardy. 1989s Slowly We Rot is, simply put, probably the most savage debut record ever made; reactions at the time ranged from Ozzy Osbournes exclamation that Theyre f**king mad! to journalist Phil Alexanders proclamation in the pages of RAW that it was The type of album thatll make you froth at the mouth. Adding to its landmark status is the fact that SWR was the first record produced by soon-to-be go-to death metal producer Scott Burns. For its FIRST-EVER U.S. vinyl reissue, weve had it remastered for the format, added two bonus tracks (demo versions of Find the Arise and Like the Dead), and pressed in corpse blue with blood splatter vinyl to match Rob Mayworths incredible album cover illustration. The first in a series of Obituaries to come!

Format /LP
Released / 03/06/2026
Catalogue / RLGM-2094
Barcode / 848064020943
Artist /Obituary
Label /Real Gone Music
Genre /Punk / Metal