Torrent: OBITUARY - SLOWLY WE ROT (1989/2025) [MP3@320] [FALLEN ANGEL] |
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Nie wiem jak wam, ale mnie Obituary już do śmierci — nieważne ich, czy mojej — kojarzyć się będzie z kolorem zielonym. Zgniło zielonym, gwoli ścisłości. A wszystkiemu winien jest rewelacyjny wprost debiut Amerykanów, który klimatem i otoczką sprowadza na słuchacza tak jednoznaczne konotacje. Wszystko obraca się wokół śmierci, rozkładu, agonii, pustki i niebytu… Nie oczekujcie jednak po tekstach jakichś głębszych przemyśleń. Nie ma także sensu doszukiwać się w nich drugiego dna, bo nawet to pierwsze właściwie nie istnieje. Tak czy inaczej tematyka poruszana w tytułach jest dla gatunku typowa. Co ważniejsze, daje to jakieś podstawy do tego, aby John mógł zaprezentować swoje niesamowite możliwości wokalne. A zaprawdę jest się czym pochwalić!
Rzekłbym, że wymioty starszego z braci Tardy można porównać do ostatniego rozpaczliwego wrzasku pogrzebanego żywcem nieszczęśnika. I mniejsza już z tym, iż nie mam pojęcia, jak coś takiego w ogóle miałoby zabrzmieć. Mniemam jednak, że zestawienie jest wystarczająco obrazowe i przemawiające do wyobraźni? Schodząc na ziemię (czy raczej pod nią), już normalnie wam komunikuję, iż Jonhn w wyjątkowo młodym wieku doprowadził swój głos do ostateczności. Dość powiedzieć, że do dziś nikt nie osiągnął takiego efektu, choć garstka wytrwałych nieco się do niego zbliżyła. Napierducha na Slowly We Rot jest stosunkowo szybka (mając na uwadze ówczesne standardy), a przy tym prosta, dzika (czy nawet momentami chaotyczna), niezaprzeczalnie brutalna i przede wszystkim odarta z wszelkich upiększeń. Obok bezkompromisowej sieczki mamy jeszcze mocarne, okrutnie ciężarne zwolnienia, do grania których inni w tamtym czasie niezbyt się palili. W wykonaniu Obituary takie zabiegi zabijają, wystarczy wspomnieć o potwornie zdołowanym utworze tytułowym. Syf i brud zawarty w muzyce przełożył się również na brzmienie, które jest cholernie szorstkie i surowe, choć z czytelności wiele nie straciło. Wszystkie te składniki zebrane do kupy dają 35 minut pierwszorzędnego death’owego wyziewu prosto z otchłani Florydy. Musicie to mieć, choćby na przyszłość - tak się akurat składa, że debiut Nekrologu to idealny podkład do gnicia. Bo chyba nie wierzycie w życie wieczne?
demo
I was a fan, back in those days. Bought their stuff, went to their gigs, got the stuff autographed. You get the picture. Not a huge fan though. Obituary were one of the death metal bands I was really into but not in my top 10 of favourite acts. Music-wise Obituary weren’t even close to Death, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Pestilence and such bands in ’89-’90.
But John Tardy was unique! Eyes wide open when I first heard ‘Slowly We Rot’. Damn this boy was sick! That guitar tone, so dirty. Evil leads and solo’s making Kerry King sound like a choirboy. The whole concept of ‘Slowly We Rot’ overwhelmed me.
To be honest it was mostly the impact this album made back in ’89 which did and still does the trick. A unique sound and new level of dirtiness yet totally incomparable to Autopsy and such.
Take the riffing of Celtic Frost, let Scott Burns have a go at smudging the sound, thrust it through a meat grinder with a big load of Possessed madness and there your have Obituary’s music. Including the meat grinder that it. Give a youngster a microphone tell him to imagine he’s being eaten alive while eating a fellow man himself simultaneously and John Tardy even becomes more than the icing on the cake but almost the cake itself.
12 songs in 35 minutes, Unequalled by the band themselves to this day. Relentless!
morbert
Obituary is definitely one of my least favorite death metal bands ever, as well as one of the most overrated bands ever, but their crushing debut "Slowly We Rot" is most definitely exempt of that. Their debut couldn't have been better, it's a great album to start with, especially since it's an OSDM album, this is one of the best.
For a debut album, Obituary sure does make a name for themselves, already having their own style and sound. The music on this album makes me think of a rotting body with green pus slowly oozing out of it. Pure sickening repugnant death. Truly a disgusting and menacing sound that matches the artwork. Honestly, the artwork was MADE for the music, the cover is insanely appropriate considering how the music sounds.
The guitar sounds magnificent. To me, it sounds like TV static, but made into music, as if it were an instrument that could play musical notes, it's amazing. I love this guitar sound. There's no better or exact way else I could describe it, but the guitars on this album are awesome as hell! It gives the album a nastier sound than it already has; gives it the aesthetic of death, gore, and doom; which is what most OSDM is all about. The drumming is just as great, Donald Tardy is good with balance in his work here. He slows down or speeds up when necessary, not leaving any part underdone nor overdone. The drums themself are perfect too. The snare is great, it has a softer "poppy" sound that's solid and satisfying at the same time, same goes for the kick drum, they're great. They fit with the sound of the guitars as well. Same thing applies to Malevolent Creation's "In Cold Blood", the drums sound the same as on this album, and they also fit with the guitar on that album as well as it does with the drums on here. Instrumentally, everything fits together and works well! I seriously cannot express enough how great everything sounds, from the tone of the guitars, and to the drums and the drumming, great instrumentation.
John Tardy I'm not really a fan of, his vocals can be extremely annoying and overdone at times. But this is the band's debut album, the starting point. So it's not as annoying/bad as when it is. Here, he's pretty much perfect. Nothing overdone or cringey. On the faster parts he manages to keep up with the music, and on the slower parts he focuses more and lays down a solid foundation and direction. This is what every vocalist should do, sing along with the music and seek to follow it's path, and not let the vocals wander off on their own too much. On top of all that, the vocals go great with the music, so bonus! J. Tardy's work on the debut is his BEST, and isn't annoying and excruciating like on other records. Props to him here.
The songwriting is good. There's no identity crisis, no screw ups, no boringness or anything like that here. I wish this was the case with every OSDM album, to maintain solid songwriting throughout an entire album. Luckily, Obituary does this percfectly here. There's slower songs, faster songs; slower parts, faster parts. There's also solos, mini solos, good riffs, consistent drums,,,, this album is THE PACKAGE. Slowly We Rot is PERFECT OSDM. The production helps with it's nasty sound too, great job on that. Another good example of balance on Slowly We Rot. It's slightly raw but it doesn't overdo it. THIS is how it should be. Perfect with a hint of unfiltered rawness. Everything flows together with no "bad" or "less good" parts, everything has WORTH and is fucking kickass!
So many great songs here, let's start with Internal Bleeding. Starts off with a drum fill, then begins the mid-paced riffing, it's catchy and John comes in with his bloody wet vocals that even further pushes the theme of an unavoidable, doomy, certain death. Internal Bleeding is a sweet introduction to the album. Godly Beings shows the album's faster side, a more "DEATH METAL" vibe song, it has a catchy riff and the fast riffing/drumming is great! One of my top 5 Obituary songs for sure. The title track, what a smacker! It shows the album's more slower, groovier, doomier side. The riff is very easy to remember and spot out as well, one of the BEST Obituary riffs ever. Gates to Hell is similar to Godly Beings, except this time the riff is twice as awesome! The fast consistency is still there too. All the other songs are more riff-orientated and chiller, the best songs are Internal Bleeding, Godly Beings, Slowly We Rot, and Gates to Hell. All the songs are great reguardless of the album having best tracks. Some songs are definitely better than others, but at the end of the day every song is great and nothing is bad.
This has always been my favorite Obituary album, no doubt. This destroys all their other work, including Cause of Death. THIS is Obituary. THIS is their trademark sound. It's perfect and there's nothing to complain about, nor anything missing. Zero bad songs, catchy riffs, good songwriting, fits the theme of gore, death, and doom, this album undoubtedly has everything; and also everything an OSDM fan could ask for! Compared to this album, every single other Obituary release ain't shit. Take your focus away from Cause of Death, and give it all to Slowly We Rot, which truly deserves the most attention.
deathmetal69
Ah yes, slowly we all march towards the inevitability of death.....and no one reminds us of this fact more readily than the mighty Obituary. In addition to its all too acutely gory titles, this particular release's artwork is topped off with a seemingly dead, presumably-drunkard-in-life, poor sap lying on the street, graphically rendered in the style of a cheesy 80s beat 'em up style video game. This only serves to accentuate and compliment Obituary's already over-the-top, sensational nature, as exemplified by John Tardy's unmistakable long-winded growls and simple, to-the-point lyrical content dealing with nihilism and the inevitability of our own demise. Everything about Obituary is catchy and easily retained after only a few listens, a rare gift indeed, as I've not ever heard any other band in death metal that is so easily comprehensible and yet has such endless replay value as does Obituary. Obituary has not changed hardly at all stylistically in the 25 years of their existence, and you can kind of compare them to the ancient creatures that have seen little to no evolutionary change, with their phenotypes being essentially the same for millions and millions of years, dubbed "living fossils," and such is the same for Obituary, a living fossil of death metal--resisting change--not needing it. And this is what makes Obituary so special, their consistency and uncompromising nature; they are what they are, and if you don't like it, they don't care (as a later song title would declare). Perhaps one of the remotely few comparable bands in this regard that comes to mind would be Jungle Rot in all their simple stupid splendor, but they don't have the magic of John Tardy on the mic or the riff construction skills of Obituary.
Each Obituary album has its own identity with subtle differences, yet still being unmistakably Obituary. Slowly We Rot has the driest, bone-crunchingest (I think I just made that word up), most cacophonous guitar tone they've ever utilized throughout their long career, with a touch more of their thrash roots showing through. I would say the most obvious comparison to Slowly We Rot in terms of guitar tone and riffing would be another Florida band with an album out this very same year: Morbid Angel. Altars of Madness reminds me a bit of Slowly We Rot mostly due to the dry crunchy thrashy guitar tone and riff onslaught that both albums erupt forth. However, the comparisons mostly end there between these two albums (and bands too, really). I don't know who is predominately responsible for coming up with Obituary's riffs, but I do know that the period when they had Allen West was when most of their best albums were made. His soloing is definitely the best of the guitarists they had, blending into their riffing style best and most naturally. I've never been too keen on guitar solos, often ignoring them, more or less, to focus on the rhythm and riffing (since that's what I love so much about death metal), but Allen West's soloing really meshes well with the riffs and enhances each song in Slowly We Rot (since the soloing is kept to reasonable amounts), as in the opening song "Internal Bleeding", which gets a lot of its character from his efforts.
In addition to some excellent soloing, there is also some excellent riffing, what a surprise--aye! As I said in my opening paragraph, Obituary possesses a rare ability to construct fantastic death metal that is easily comprehensible, and their riffing is the foundation of this ability--catchy, yet morbid as all hell riffing that sticks with the listener from the very first listen. Their riffing tends to be straight-forward, with simple sickly melodies surrounded by the grotesque rhythms of Trevor Peres and John Tardy. As mentioned in the introduction; Obituary is a living fossil, and so too has their songwriting changed little in those 25 years, being very formulaic, but that's not necessarily a bad thing and Obituary has made it work so well. They often start with a slow to mid-paced groove riff, followed by a pummeling double bass section, then transition quickly into an up-tempo punky section, utilizing tremolo riffs and skank beats to increase the intensity, and finally coming full circle back to the slow/mid-paced groove of the beginning. There are so many obvious examples of this, but one example of a highlight that sticks out far above and beyond would be during the middle of "'Till Death," when the song transitions into that slow, ultra-doomy riff that could come straight from a funeral procession for Satan himself, unholy shit! That is the highlight of this entire album, so unbelievably amazing....And to top it all off, this doomy mood carries over into the beginning of the title track; "Slowly We Rot," before it breaks out into a faster punkier section guilty of inducing the most wild moshing I've ever seen. I was there, during MDF 2010 (so old school), right in the pit! And I saw what this did to the people....it made them go so crazy, I feared for my life! And I haven't even gotten to the highlight of the album yet--John Tardy! I say this because the riffing here on Slowly We Rot is actually not the best the band has ever come up with. Regardless, all the classic Obituary ingredients are here, but now we're all just waiting for the (ironically) immortal riffing to come in on a release like Cause of Death, to make something truly and horrifically unforgettable.
"BLAAAAHHHHUUUURRRRRRR!" Tardy exclaims with gut-busting power on "Internal Bleeding," as it repeats until it fades out briefly--only to enter back in a few seconds later. And here you have what makes this album so god damn good: John Tardy's beyond sick and morbid vocal performance, which puts all these shitty new school pig-squealing bands to shame. If there is one aspect of Obituary that has always been consistently good it's John Tardy's vocals. Sometimes the riffing has been lackluster; sometimes the production and guitar tone have been flat; but John Tardy has always been there, spewing forth his over-the-top and instantly recognizable take on death metal vocals. His distinct style has a tendency to transition suddenly from low gutturals into piercing screams rather often--sometimes even on the same syllable, creating a sort of rhythmic progression--which adds lots of extra dramatic effect, and enhances the horrific nature Obituary is attempting to construct in their music. And Tardy is a master at creating these brutal rhythms under (and in the case of this album, OVER) the classic Obituary riffing. His performance here on Slowly We Rot is loud and totally in-your-god-damn-face, utilizing short and sweet lyrical bursts, ala his profuse growls of "Rotting, beneath, below!" at the opening of the song "Suffocation"--his catchiest vocals lines on the album. And yet, the entire album is chock-full of ghastly, brutal-as-fuck, yet catchy vocal moments like this, elevating the album to new levels of excellence not often heard in death metal at the time--indeed, Tardy's work here would play a big part in the development of early death metal vocal styles.
And there you have it--Obituary's early classic masterpiece Slowly We Rot in a nutshell. While similar in approach to and possessing the replayability of other notable classics of its day, such as Altars of Madness and Leprosy, Slowly We Rot ups the ante on morbidity and sick nihilism--just the way I like it. I've never been all that impressed with Death personally, and Morbid Angel took a rapid dive into mediocrity after their masterpiece Altars of Madness. Both of these bands are notable for changing up their style and approach with each successive album, and while I can understand their desire to try new things and experiment, their varying directions didn't work all that well, and I'm glad Obituary decided not to follow such trends, retaining their basic style throughout their career--forever remaining a living fossil. All I can tell you now, my dear reader, is this: If you happen to be one of the lucky few enlightened death metal enthusiasts in this world, but have not yet explored the grisly wonders of Obituary, do so now and waste not another minute of your decaying, rotting existence on this Earth and go buy ALL of their albums.... NOW!
kybernetic
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. Stinkpuss
Bonus Tracks:
13. Find The Arise (demo version)
14. Like The Dead (demo version)
John Tardy - vocals
Allen West - lead guitar
Trevor Peres - rhythm guitar
Daniel Tucker - bass
Donald Tardy - drums, percussion
JP Chartier - lead guitar on tracks 13 and 14
Jerome Grable - bass on tracks 13 and 14
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