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LABEL: Real Gone Music
RELEASE DATE: 03/06/2026
VARIANT: Remastered, Expanded, Corpse Blue w/Blood Splatter Vinyl LP

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!

TRACKLIST

A1. Internal Bleeding A2. Godly Beings A3. Til Death A4. Slowly We Rot A5. Immortal Visions A6. Gates to Hell A7. Words of Evil B1. Suffocation B2. Intoxicated B3. Deadly Intentions B4. Bloodsoaked B5. Stinkupuss B6. Find the Arise (Demo Version) B7. Like the Dead (Demo Version)

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