Check out the video: Obituary "Evil Ways"
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Check out this video: Obituary "Evil Ways"

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US Tour with Unleashed & Carnifex
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GODS OF METAL FESTIVAL

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME and BLACK TIDE have been confirmed for this year's Gods of Metal festival, set to take place June 27-29, 2008 in Bologna, Italy.

The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:

Friday, June 27:

IRON MAIDEN
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
ROSE TATTOO
APOCALYPTICA
AIRBOURNE
LAUREN HARRIS
BLACK TIDE
KINGCROW

Saturday, June 28:

SLAYER
CARCASS
MESHUGGAH
TESTAMENT
AT THE GATES
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
STORMLORD

Sunday, June 29;

JUDAS PRIEST
ICED EARTH
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
MORBID ANGEL
OBITUARY
ENSLAVED
INFERNAL POETRY
NIGHTMARE

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OUR OFFICIAL WEBSTORE IS NOW OPEN!!!
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OUR OFFICIAL WEBSTORE IS NOW OPEN!!! NEW MERCH AVAILABLE ONLY HERE!!!!

  We've been getting so many requests to open an offical webstore and its taken some time but its here now!!!!

     This is all offically licensed Obituary items. We have a ton of great ideas for new T-Shirt designs, Hats, Skateboards, cd's, Jewlery all kinds of stuff! Keep checking as we'll be adding stuff from time to time. If there is anything you want email us at merch@obituary.cc and we'll see what we can do.

  We wanna thank all of our fans for their continued support and made this webstore just for you. Thank you!!

Til Death

OBITUARY

Currently listening : Xecutioners Return By Obituary Release date: 28 August, 2007

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OBITUARY BAND BIO

Upon switching their name from Xecutioner to Obituary, the career of one of the most successful and influential Death Metal bands began. Hailing from Florida and featuring John Tardy (vocals), brother Donald Tardy (drums), Trevor Peres (guitar), Allen West (guitar), and Daniel Tucker (bass), the band signed to Roadracer Records, a now defunct division of Roadrunner, for the recording of their debut album—the immense and immeasurably heavy "Slowly We Rot" (1989). The album was engineered by the legendary Scott Burns at Morrisound Studio, which would come to be the most sought after facility for production of albums during 1990's rise of the Death Metal genre. Unlike much death metal preceding it, the album had a sludgy feel and integrated devastatingly slow passages along with obliterating overtures that reached far beyond any point of mayhem that metal had yet to reach; the result was a carnal pleasure for doom, death and thrash fans alike coupling the adrenaline of a speedball with the slow, degrading measures of a sewer at dusk. Like them or not, Obituary was unlike anything anyone had heard before.

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"Slowly We Rot" was chaotic, bass heavy mix of manic guitar solos and crashing drums, but it was undeniably characterized by vocalist John Tardy's disarmingly horrific, gargling style, that created guttural chasms of dread which though often strived for, to date have been paralleled by none. The ability to augment tempo so drastically became the band's trademark along with Tardy's unique vocal style, which distinguished them clearly from the rest of the emerging Florida Death Metal bands; nowhere is this more apparent than on the prophetic title track of their debut.  The fact that Obituary refrained from printing lyric sheets with their albums led people to believe that they didn't actually write any lyrics. Some may question the verbosity or absence of documented lyrics, however, any true fan has each grunt, growl and howling grimace committed to memory like an utterance from God in painstaking form—what does not exist can not be remembered, and an Obituary show is testimony to the re-creation of what your ears couldn't believe in the first place. Once again bringing augmentation to irony, Live and Dead worked quite well for the quintet, dividing your conscience yet leaving much to the imagination; not since birth have your senses been so graphically assaulted yet pleased at the same time. While such differing sensations once seemed incongruous, Obituary have proven the ability to merge unlikely dichotomies, from their slow-as-hell-yet-fast-as-fuck style to the non-evil, homegrown approach to what would largely become the satanized, bastardized, make-up wearing movement known as Death Metal.

The maturation of the musicians into songwriters taking more visionary and complex forms would soon be heard world wide as Obituary took metal by storm in 1990. Despite their youth upon release of their sophomore offering, "Cause of Death" embodied the confident swagger of the most fearsome pack-leading hound. From the insidious growls of John's vocals to the barrage of Donald Tardy's thunderously-metered explosions of double bass, "Cause of Death" was the intention and method as promised by the early threat of "Slowly We Rot"; for Obituary, Death was just the beginning. Accordingly, the title track alone ("Cause of Death") would be heard, regurgitated, manipulated, complimented and collapsed—but never duplicated—on third and forth generation death metal albums for years to come. Lovecraftian imagery and aural morbidity aside, even a deaf man found fear when confronted by the formidable visage of guitarist Peres; entering Frank Watkins, the hulking henchman of a bassist from South Florida, finally provided long-needed and powerful rhythm stability to the line up. However, the grinding of the axes would not be complete until the return of Xecutioner veteran Allen West, who, along with Peres and Tardy, crafted the foundation for most of Obituary's most primordial and historic moments. Attack now whole, Obituary had given birth—sight, sound and feel—to a true horror greater than metal had ever known.

The paradox herein lies that Obituary was anything but a summation to and end, but more an exploratory journey into the infinite dehumanization of all that is known, as confronted brazenly by their best selling release yet, "The End Complete" and later followed by the cynical and dark expedition of "World Demise". Reunited with songwriter West, the band was conjoined like quintuplets sharing life and a name. Though finality was possibly inferred by these titles, Obituary was anything but finished.  Ironically, the images conjured by songs such as "Don't Care", "Platonic Disease" and "World Demise" seemingly foretold of the millennium as can now be seen daily, displayed plainly across the screens of CNN and reality TV programs world wide; not bad for a bunch of rednecks from Florida with Budweiser dreams and bongwater nightmares.

The 2007 release of the Xecutioner's Return brings reason for Obituary fans to rejoice, the sunken eyes and heaving cries have all but abated! Like a forgotten corpse in the basement, Obituary are back to haunt, taunt and fully pollute your senses. This visceral retreat to evil ways of the past embraces the embryonic spirit of the developmentally depraved that morphed into the sound you know and crave, a sound that pierced the shroud of death metal eternity. Fermenting like waste in the hot Florida sun, Obituary return with the voracity of a starven wretch...and the tenacity of guitar legend Ralph Santolla. With the hiatus of Allen West, long time friend Ralph Santolla has stepped in, treading an exponentially dynamic pathway into axe grinding oblivion. Recognized for installments with Iced Earth, Deicide and Death, Ralph's work imparts the virtuosic integrity of a true metal master.

Obituary has only aspired to live up to the standard they have set for themselves, one that numerous bands have strived to duplicate, but never attained, falling short both creatively and in lack of the unique talent that each member contributes to the near indescribable Obituary sound. The forfeiture of time brings blessings of brutality, and assurance that the Dead shall indeed rise again.  Such aural abrasion can only be heard on an Obituary album….or witness the Return of the Xecutioner live, coming soon to a town near you!

Currently listening : Xecutioners Return By Obituary Release date: 03 September, 2007

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Xecutioner's Return
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OBITUARY FINALIZE ALBUM  TITLE

Obituary have confirmed Xecutioner's Return as the title
for their forthcoming album.  The album's release date has been pushed
forward to August 28 from the earlier announced September 11 date.   The
band are finalizing US touring plans now that will kick off in early
September.  Full tour details to be announced shortly.
  
The band are working with artist Andreas Marshall for the cover art for
Xecutioner's  Return.  Marshall has worked with the  band for The End
Complete and their most recent record Frozen in Time.   Tracking of the
record has now been completed with mixing and mastering now on  schedule
in the coming weeks.
 
Obituary's next live performances are confirmed as noted below.

 
Jun-05, Teatro Teleton (Santiago, Chile)
Jun-06, The Roxy (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Jun-07, Bar Opiniao (Porto Alegre/RS, Brasil)
Jun-08, Hangar 110 (Sao Paulo/SP, Brasil)
Jun-09, Lapa Multishow (Belo Horizonte, Brasil)
July-07, Waldrock Festival (Bergum, Netherlands)

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OBITUARY Signs With CANDLELIGHT RECORDS
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Booking Obituary

Due to the overwhelming amount of requests to book Obituary for shows throught the world. We are dedicating this email address for all booking inquires: booking@obituary.cc     DO NOT write to us on myspace. Use this email for all inquires from now on. Thanks for reaching out and hope to work with all of you soon. Til Death

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New Video
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Well it took over a year but here it is the new video for "On the Floor" from our lastest album "Frozen in Time" This will also be included in our official DVD "Frozen Alive" Out today December 18th in Europe, Jan. 16, 2007 in the US and Canada and Jan. 9, 2007 the rest of the world. Thanks for the support everyone!! Get ready for next year we have a ton of new songs and cant wait to record them and get back on the road!

Obituary "On the Floor"

Currently listening : Frozen in Time By Obituary Release date: 19 July, 2005

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First Offical DVD
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We just got back from Europe a few weeks ago and had a great time. We met some new friends and saw alot of old friends. Now we are about to record an upcoming live DVD, which we plan on filming at our August 24, 2006 performance in Warsaw, Poland. The DVD will be released at a later date via Metal Mind Production. Also appearing on the bill will be SINISTER, GRAVE and CATAMENIA...

Currently listening : Hellbilly Storm By Demented Are Go Release date: 14 March, 2006

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