Obituary - Slowly We Rot LP

(Description from Real Gone Music)

Having delved deep into the Deicide catalog, Real Gone Music now turns its fiendish eyes to another hugely influential death metal band out of Tampa (there must be something in the water). That band is Obituary, who—like Deicide—features a pair of brothers at its core: drummer Don Tardy and vocalist in extremis John Tardy.

Released in 1989, Slowly We Rot is, simply put, one of the most savage debut records ever made. Reactions at the time ranged from Ozzy Osbourne exclaiming “They’re fucking mad!” to journalist Phil Alexander proclaiming in the pages of RAW that it was “the type of album that’ll make you froth at the mouth.” Adding to its landmark status is the fact that Slowly We Rot was the first record produced by soon-to-be go-to death metal producer Scott Burns.

For its first-ever U.S. vinyl reissue, Real Gone Music has remastered the album specifically for the format, added two bonus tracks (demo versions of “Find the Arise” and “Like the Dead”), and pressed it on corpse-blue vinyl with blood splatter to match Rob Mayworth’s incredible album cover illustration. This marks the first in a series of Obituary reissues to come.