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Rating: Raw, rotten, brutal, and bastardly. This is how you can summarize the first chapter of the career of the Floridian band Obituary, a key group in what was that magical death quartet (to which the Sepultura of "Arise" would later be added): Morbid Angel, DEATH, Deicide, and Obituary, exactly.
In this album, you can only find one thing: DEATH metal!!! Death as it was meant to be understood once before the arrival of a mess of subgenres and different currents, pure and raw death!
But what most struck the deathsters of the time about this killer debut was Obituary's ability to provide metal that can be defined as 100% death while trying to distance themselves from the patterns of their aforementioned colleagues, yet delivering an excellent result.
Slower tempos (so to speak, eh eh), heavier riffs, and above all, the most rotten voice the metal has ever let us hear, that of John Tardy, the fantastic vocalist who seems to be vomiting the demons of hell when he sings.
Like all the seminal death records of that era, the major influence was exerted not only by Slayer (and who would have thought...), especially those of Hell Awaits, but also by the equally seminal Napalm Death.
Also noteworthy are the lyrics which, even when rereading them today, never fall into the trite or the banal; the main topics are:
1. death
2. death after being dismembered
3. slow and painful death
4. bloody death
5. infernal death
6. death due to disembowelment (not to be confused with point 2)
Musically, I don't think there's much to say, I think I've made things clear enough with the first four words of this review, but nevertheless, the tracks that emerge from the rot are undoubtedly the title track and the complex "Intoxicated", which with its irregular (for the time) and complicated (again, for the time) structure anticipated techno-death (and what years later would become the various "Overactive Imagination"...)
Also noteworthy is the bass performance: probably Daniel Tucker had the same teacher as Paulo Pinto and Tom Araya.
A masterpiece of eighties Death Metal.
"Never trite, never banal... always brutal" (who guesses the quote is a genius)
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Internal Bleeding (03:00)
Rot Alone.
Destiny,
Killing the souls of lives at your feet.
Dead to its fight.
Hell as they said.
Killing the darkened rotting fate.
Fate. Rot Alone.
Bludgeoning hell.
Finding their souls and returning to dwell.
Killing and bleeding tightened as one.
Killing the darkest rotting fate.
Rot all lesions.
Glory. Rotting, plowed...
Dead he's killed your soul.
Glory. Rotting flower...
Kill!
02 Godly Beings (01:57)
When I looked at evils face.
Death I've seen beyond.
Killing Darkness.
Of rotting pain.
Chilling your spine.
Finding death rots slow.
Killing darkness is coming.
Flow.
Chilling your veins.
Rotting your soul.
04 Slowly We Rot (03:41)
Kill all!
Fight death!
Lesions fighting love.
Fight them all in a living hell.
Slowly rot and you die.
You fight death as you slowly realize.
Kill them all.
Fight death and slowly read in the love.
Fight them all, join me, slowly we rot.
Slowly we rot!
Dead to all.
Fighting as you slowly read in your love.
Fighting the sword.
The sword is your plow.
Dead to all.
Fighting as you're slowly rotting in hell.
Fight them all, join me, slowly we dwell.
Slowly we dwell!
Decharge!
05 Immortal Visions (02:29)
Your soul.
Take mine.
Your time.
Time.
Fighting it low.
Yeah. You.
06 Gates to Hell (02:47)
I know that in the depths beneath.
Guilty are the saved.
I know living through pain.
You will obey.
You lie!
Living out this day your body begins to rot.
Low down here beneath living is dying.
Woken feed by thoughts of the dead.
Find your way to escape.
You can't even try. Try!
Enter the gates to hell!
It is. Is at where we must dwell.
Fear. Fear of fate.
Then your fate is getting.
Is getting into grind.
Even as we've begun
You're decomposing as you're dying.
When you're paying for. Life after life.
Thoughts are incinerated.
Life is a crime.
Burning out!
08 Suffocation (02:38)
Rotting beneath, below.
Ranting, "Too soon to die."
Redefiles all.
Ranting "She's one to go."
Suffocation.
Killing The chance denied.
Ranting "She's only a child."
Rise above them all.
Lifting the soul in pain.
09 Intoxicated (04:45)
Robbed of the soul.
Live in hell.
Rise above the charred believings' bowel.
Rise above the soul's chalky chains.
Give the destiny what it's named.
The darkest white brought in death balloons soon to come.
Rise above the dark demon's tower.
Body's seized the charge.
You've killed yourself X6.
Killed. Killed yourself.
Rotting the soul to leave.
Ranting, "she's one to give."
Darkening your soul to waste.
Ranting, "She's soon to gain."
Rotting above the tide.
Ranting, "She's holding time."
Killing their souls in pain.
Ranting, "she's one to gain."
10 Deadly Intentions (02:12)
Dead.
With the rotting one below.
Live.
Leaving the one who died.
You. Lie. You.
Rotting as one.
Destiny comes.
Dying of this fear.
Death is the one.
Now he has come.
Dying.
The body's crying.
You.
11 Bloodsoaked (03:14)
Rot your soul to live.
Death I've seen beyond.
Killing the darkest time.
Rotting out the chains.
Darkness falls unto.
Ready the golden child.
Pain evolves this way.
Killing the darkest time.
Time.
Darkest time.
Liar.
You lying in the bottom grave, soul.
Dying in the bottom, lie. Lie.
Lying in the bottom to hide.
To hide.
12 Stinkupuss (03:00)
Here.
Lie alone.
Death will come to rot your soul.
Glories leaving you at the plow.
Rotting
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