Obituary Slowly We Rot

Obituary: John Tardy (vocals); Allen West, Trevor Peres (guitar); Daniel Tucker (bass); Donald Tardy (drums).Recorded at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida.All tracks have been digitally remastered.If death metal first came to life during the mid- to late '80s courtesy of bands like Florida's Death (Scream Bloody Gore), another Florida band, Obituary, brought it to fruition in 1989 with Slowly We Rot. These five guys took what groups like Death and the San Francisco Bay Area's Possessed had done to a new level of deathliness. The music of Obituary wasn't simply an extreme form of Slayer-esque speed metal with ghastly vocals; it was full-fledged death metal, with down-tuned guitar riffs of monstrous size, painful-sounding growls and moans for vocals, and distinct tempo changes that often brought the songs down to a lumbering doomy tempo rather relentlessly breakneck speeds ? la thrash. These innovations don't seem so revolutionary now, given the innumerable death metal bands that aros