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Obituary
- Back From The Dead
1997 Roadrunner
Track
Listing:
1. Threatening Skies
2. By The Light
3. Inverted
4. Platonic Disease
5. Download
6. Rewind
7. Feed On The Weak
8. Lockdown
9. Pressure Point
10. Back From The Dead
11. Bullituary (Remix)
Line-Up:
Vocals: John
Tardy
Guitars: Trevor Peres,
Allen West
Bass: Frank Watkins
Drums: Donald Tardy
Website: www.obituary.tk
Horatio's Rating: F
Average Rating: F
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Horatio's Review:
With the metal world currently engaged in Obituary's huge comeback, the time is right to revisit this mighty wankstain of an album, which best describes most of
Obituary's recordings. I remember the day I bought this in 1997.
I thought it was surely a death metal classic judging from the cover artwork and a back to basics affair after the rather pathetic
'World Demise'. Upon arriving home I discovered my brother had also bought a copy and here was I thinking I was a hero arriving home with such a hot new release.
Thirty eight minutes later I was asleep, awoken only by something that resembled rap metal.
Must have put in Body Count I thought in a daze. The next day I returned the CD and traded it in for a copy of
'Hell Awaits'. I should have done that in the first place.
If there's a reason nobody cares about Obituary anymore then this plays a huge part.
Listening to this is a mental challenge, harder than any exam I took in 1997 for Modern Literature or Modern Germany.
How can one band be so boring? After hearing 'Insane' from the
band's new album it might as well be a leftover from this or 'World
Demise'. Slow grinding riffs with lifeless soloing and speed so rare that this may as well be
Megadeth. How in good conscience do you expect me to decipher any song off this?
It would mean I'd have to listen to it all. 'Threatening Skies' almost tricks you into thinking a rampage of speed is imminent but
Obituary cleverly used it as the opening track to fool listeners into thinking the whole bonanza would follow suit.
Picking a track at random, 'Lockdown', and the result is the same, mid paced riffs which are no different to any found
elsewhere and Tardy's only recognizable vocal is the title track which suggests he was simply making the rest up in his tiresome garble while including one word as he couldn't be bothered writing lyrics.
Of more interest are the sleeve notes and the band photo. Perched upon a rocky surface, the band resemble death metal rejects circa 1992, the last five years having passed them by.
Watkins sports his finest camouflage shorts while skinny little West shows off his oversized long sleeved metal jersey with another shirt over it.
Peres folds his arms giving his toughest stare looking to the skies in hope.
Actually I think I have the names mixed up but I'm going by the name under each member.
Peres is surely a dirty Mexican which suggests he is Watkins. Who
knows? As faceless as these dudes are they all merge into one.
The band dedicates the album to the memory of Douglas Ray Lawson and Sherrie Leann McCoy who both died on October the 27th 1995 at the age of 26, born only seven days apart in January 1969.
A double suicide, both blew their heads off while listening to 'The End
Complete', with nothing to live for except death metal and crude early versions of online role playing games.
I'm utterly appalled and disgusted at the lack of anything remotely worthwhile about this junk.
I knew it was a flop in 97 and nearly a decade later it's even worse.
I assume they thought a rap metal collaboration with The Bully Boys was a novelty and actually it exceeds anything by the band only because one of the twinks rapping mentions something about taking a shit.
He was of course referring subliminally to 'Back From The Dead', as unleashing a steaming volume of solid
brown shit is far more exciting than Obituary.
Horatio's Rating: F
Discography (last updated 12.7.05):
Slowly We Rot - 1989
Cause Of Death - 1990
The End Complete - 1992
Don't Care EP - 1994
World Demise - 1994
Back From The Dead - 1997
Dead - 1998
Anthology - 2001
Frozen In Time - 2005
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