i am finally back with
some obituary vinyl. i thought the title of the album was
pretty apt for my little comeback here. we moved into the new house
eventually and now i feel like i can lean back and dive headfirst
into my vinyl collection again. in the meantime a few bits landed at
my doorstep but this is one from the old batch. i recieved "back
from the dead" with the self-titled devildriver record.
when i ordered the latest
two vinyl re-issues from relapse, listenable records
from france offered a few re-issues of old obituary classics
theirselves. in a reliable regularity listenable cranks out
those roadracer/roadrunner classics from the death
metal heyday in the early nineties. suffocation, gorguts,
malevolent creation and now obituary. they started with
"the end complete", "dead" and "back from
the dead". i opted for the latter one because i have an original
of the first one and don't need another live record of obituary.
the album marks the last
recording before the band went on a hiatus for six years. considering
the dark times for death metal in the late nineties, i suppose the
record wasn't commercially successful. musically it is a typical
obituary piece of doomy death metal the way i like it.
listenable did the album justice with its vinyl treatment.
slip sleeve, heavy cardboard stock insert and semi-translucent red
vinyl make for a sharp first vinyl pressing. 1000 copies made.
roadrunner records. 1997. listenable records. 2018.
