Slowly We Rot

Slowly We Rot

Track Listings

1. Internal Bleeding

2. Godly Beings

3. 'Til Death

4. Slowly We Rot

5. Immortal Visions

6. Gates to Hell

7. Words of Evil

8. Suffocation

9. Intoxicated

10. Deadly Intentions

11. Bloodsoaked

12. Stinkupuss

13. Find the Arise

14. Like the Dead

Slowly We Rot,Obituary,Roadrunner Records,Death Metal/Black Metal,Heavy Metal,Rock

Slowly We Rot/Cause of Death
Average customer rating:

This is too much, this is awesome!

These "remasters" are horrible -

GREAT OLD-SCHOOL DEATH METAL!!!

its fathersday, & i want my cake.

Terrific set worth buying

Slowly We Rot/Cause of Death
Obituary
Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000C0FIF
Release Date: 2003-09-09

Tracks:

Internal Bleeding
Godly Beings
'Til Death
Slowly We Rot
Immortal Visions
Gates to Hell
Words of Evil
Suffocation
Intoxicated
Deadly Intentions
Bloodsoaked
Stinkupuss
Find the Arise [*][Demo Version]
Like the Dead [*][Demo Version]

Tracks:

Infected
Body Bag
Chopped in Half
Circle of the Tyrants
Dying
Find the Arise
Cause of Death
Memories Remain
Turned Inside Out
Infected [*][Demo Version]
Memories Remain [*][Demo Version]
Chopped in Half [*][Demo Version]

Album Description

UK twofer combines the death metal band's 1989 & 1990 albums. Features 26 tracks including 5 bonus tracks, 'Find The Arise' (Demo), 'Like The Dead' (Demo), 'Infected' (Demo), 'Memories Remain' (Demo) & 'Chopped In Half' (Demo). Roadrunner. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

This is too much, this is awesome! .......2007-07-26

I found this one at a Borders store I believe it was and was amazed it was even available. Obituary was the first Death Metal band I ever listened to and I had the old CD of "Slowly We Rot" only, and to get their first 2 CD's for a decent price, remastered, with extra tracks was just too much of a good thing I thought. The great part about these types of packages is the amount of space they take up also, I may get the next two CD's also eventually.

Eventually I've gotten into bands like Death, Morbid Angel, and of course who can leave out Possessed and their "Seven Churches" CD..which I guess can be considered an early version of a DM band. Obituary remains my favorite of all time though, "Slowly We Rot" I can listen to over and over, especially in the fall (Halloween season), just sets the mood perfectly at times. I've taken a liking to DM Bands who started out in the late 80's. The new stuff I could care less about, but these bands are the founding fathers of death, and it's just awesome to see them re-issued and remastered over the years! If you are into Death Metal at all, and are just starting out or whatever, do yourself a favor and check out the beginnings of the genre and some of these bands that started it all.

These "remasters" are horrible - .......2007-01-06

Slowly We Rot and Cause of Death are two amazing death metal albums. Roadrunner has issues a lot of these 2 for 1 packages (suffocation, gorguts, etc...), and to be honest, its a rip off. The inserts have nothing new, and its just 1 piece of papaer with no additonal information; not even a band history has been added. It really just a waste. If you already own these two albums, there is no need to pick this up. Also, I notice no difference in the sound compared to the original CD's.

GREAT OLD-SCHOOL DEATH METAL!!!.......2006-05-06

Obituary was one of the main DM bands to come out of Florida in the late 80's- early 90's. They disbanded for a while, but recently got back together & released another album, "Frozen in Time," which I hear is actually pretty good. But I guarentee it DOES NOT beat either of these 2 masterpeices... I don't know which one of these I like better. I'd have to say at 1st I liked "Cause of Death" better, but I've been listening to "Slowly We Rot" again lately, & it's just as good. I recommend this "2 From the vault" double pack because you get BOTH of their original classics remastered and for the same price as you'd pay for just one of them by themselves. Great DM here, get on the ball & get it man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its fathersday, & i want my cake........2005-01-12

if a rotting corpes popped out of the ground & started talking to you, he would sound like john tardy.i heard that on the 1st album ("slowly..") they did'nt even bother to write lyrics for a lot of the songs.he would just scream,growl,grunt,& howl whatever sounded right.this may turn some people off but its so cool to me.this may have came out 4 or 5 years after "scream bloody gore" & "seven churches" but i still consider obituary 5 of the founding fathers of death metal.nothing realy stands out on either album from any other part of either album(did that make sence?).no one band member realy stands out either .they all compliment one another equally here for two well rounded & very entertaining cds.i would have to say, though that if somone asked me what death metal was i'd have to pop in "cause of death" track 7 ,the title track.

Terrific set worth buying.......2004-07-10

Obituary was one of the myriad of death metal bands to rise out of Florida in the late '80s, along with bands like Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, and Death. And they are probably the best of those bands. Sure, they're pretty much a more extreme version of Death's first album, but the music IS very good, and there are some doom-metal bits scattered over both these albums. While the albums here aren't as good as their next two albums (with Cause of Death being their career lowpoint), there are enough good songs on here to warrent picking this up. Everything sounds great with the remastering, and there's a few bonus tracks for each album.

On the downside, no lyrics are included (though the vocal are partially understandable). Plus, the cover artwork is horrible. What's with the cheesy, kinda CG looking hands and crypt, with the bands name looking very out of place? Would it have been so hard to simply have the band logo, and pictures of the albums included?

Despite the packaging, this set is still worth picking up for it's low price and great music.

Slowly We Rot
Average customer rating:

Warning: This album will tear you in half

Legendary!

The Ultimate

An overlooked classic

Probably the penultimate Death Metal album

Slowly We Rot
Obituary
Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music
Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000000H41
Release Date: 1998-01-27

Tracks:

Internal Bleeding
Godly Beings
'Til Death
Slowly We Rot
Immortal Visions
Gates To Hell
Words Of Evil
Suffocation
Intoxicated
Deadly Intentions
Bloodsoaked
Stinkupuss
Find The Arise (Demo Version)
Like The Dead (Demo Version)

Customer Reviews:

Warning: This album will tear you in half.......2007-03-15

If you think Slipknot is heavy, this will crush your skull and **** you in your bleeding neckhole. Okay, that was a bit extreme, but so is this album. This is an excellent old-school death metal album, and while Obituary isn't my favorite death metal band, John Tardy has one of my favorite death metal growls. He's one of the first to use a variant of the guttural death growl, but he uses various pitches in his growls, so he doesn't sound like a dead horse(i'm looking at you, Mortician). His lyrics are the typical death metal subject matter, but it isn't generic. The guitarists are very good. The riffs are heavy and rather catchy, and the solos are quite complex and grind you up like a chainsaw. The bassists isn't that audiable, but this is death metal, so it isn't a big deal. The drummer is great. His style is quite interesting, as he doesn't use that many blasts, though out of all of their albums, this one has the most. While the rest of Obituary's albums are mid-paced, groovy death metal, this album is a bit different. The tempo switches between blazing fast and slowly crawling constantly, which keeps things fresh. It's a nice death metal album that is quite unique.

Legendary!.......2006-05-20

Obituary maybe my second favorite extreme death metal band! Only the even more legendary Death would come ahead. Obituary had to be highly influnced by Slayer mainly due to the guitar solos. Vocalist John Tardy sounds a bit like Chuck Schuldner(RIP) of Death. After all the two bands originated around the same time at the same place! This is one of the most brutal bands to be signed on to the great Roaadrunner Records second most brutal on that label. The most brutal band on that label is probably Suffocation(another awesome band). This is Obituary's debut and their best album as well. I'm glad they reunited for a new album in 2005! The vocals are great! The guitars are killer! The drums sound excellent! The bass is audible! This album is a death metal classic all the way.
WARNING: If you think Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park are heavy than avoid this album at all costs! And if you're one of those people than you suck!

The Ultimate.......2006-03-03

After over 15 years since I last heard their music, I decided to pick up this CD. It is the ultimate in true death metal. I don't even listen to this type of music any more, but I listen to this CD. For anyone new to the genre; don't start here... you will be dissapointed in anything else you listen to in the genre from here on out.

An overlooked classic.......2005-11-28

Obituary were on of the pioneers of the Florida death metal wave. And even though they were one of the best bands to come out of that movement, Obituary never quite achieved the success of their peers (Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, and Deicide), because they were always kind of overshadowed by Metallica and Slayer. Granted, Obituary's guitarists, James Murphy and Trevor Peres, do unleash a furious barrage of blistering riffs that is as fast and precise as Eighties' Metallica (and sometimes, as in "Godly Beings," even Slayer); but Obituary aren't just another thrash knock-off. "Slowly We Rot" is catchier and usually pounds harder than a typical Metallica or Slayer song. Plus, John Tardy's growls and belching noises are more reminiscent of Max Cavalera than James Hatfield or Tom Araya. And finally, Murphy and Peres do toss in some guitar solos, here ("Suffocation" and "Like The Dead" both have two wailing solos), but they are slower and a bit more technical than Metallica's and Slayer's solos. "Slowly We Rot" sounds great all the way through, but it's most awesome when it's super speedy (which is about 95% of the time). And even when it slows down, like for the beginning of track three, it usually speeds up a lot and the rest of the song flies by. The door opening song, "Internal Bleeding," has a creepy intro, but (about half a minute later) it rockets into a full-fledged, breakneck, bullying guitar assault. Next, tracks six and seven, "Gates To Hell" and "Words Of Evil," are explosive salvos of scorching guitars and thumping double bass drums, and "Intoxicated" is a pounding rhythm with insanely fast riffing, barked vocals, and one of the album's longest guitar solos. The rest of the world may have (more-or-less) forgotten about Obituary and "Slowly We Rot," but that doesn't mean you have to. If you like any one of the Floridian death metal bands or Eighties' thrash bands, or if you just enjoy metal that sounds great through and through, definitely pick this up.

Probably the penultimate Death Metal album.......2005-09-12

When this came out in 1989 Obituary had quite a few demos under their sleeves. They were releasing demos under the name Xecutioner as far back as 1986. There was also something else Obituary had going for them -no one else sounded like them. As far as early Death Metal goes, and I have tons of demo tapes from this period, this album exemplifies everything a good band should have.

Shortly before releasing the great "Slowly we Rot" Xecutioner changed their name to Obituary, I suppose because they didn't want to get confused with the Thrash band (a good one at that) from Boston with the same name.

The guitar duo of Peres and West go from the slugdy slow heavy as all hell riffs to the lighting fast (in comparison to the verses) wild solos. The drumming ala Don Tardy is also very simple and goes from a mid-tempo to a slow thrashing of the high-hats, to hitting the crash cymbals to the breaking point. All of this is connected by the vocalist John Tardy's undeciferable signing and gutteral noises that make the music all that much more threatening sounding. I really hate most of the cliche Death Metal "cookie monster" vocals (as best exampled by Cannibal Corpse) but Tardy I could always admire. He just did it so well. It was the sound of decay coming forth from his throat.

The lesson of Obituary is a very good one. They could play fast if they wanted to but...They proved that to play really heavy music it was better if you played really slowly in order to emphasize the heaviness of it. Just like Black Sabbath had done a generation earlier, Obituary made into a science. They took the wild solos from mid 80s Slayer, the ferocity of S.F.'s Possessed, and the lessons from Black Sabbath, as well as their own stylings to create a totally original sound.

I'd say Death Metal started (and maybe ended) with Obituary, but most people ceed the title of king of Death Metal to Death mainman Chuck Schuldiner. But if he wasn't around in '89, Obituary would've been the undisputed kings. Take it from me, when this came there was nothing like it. The remastering is pretty good too. A must own.