Photo Credit: Ester Segarra
Tampa Bay Florida Death Metal Godfathers OBITUARY have
shared the official live video accompanying “Sentence Day” off the band’s
self-titled full-length album. The video was filmed in stunning 4k by Magnetar
Studios at several locations on the band’s headlining tour with Gruesome
earlier this year. Watch OBITUARY perform “Sentence Day” via YouTube HERE.
OBITUARY commented on the video: "We are super excited
to bring you guys another music video from the new album. This video was extra
fun for the band as we invited James to ride along with us for a couple shows
and get onstage/offstage. His entire crew met up with us and filmed a show with
multi-camera angles. "Sentence Day" is one of our favorite songs on
the album and definitely a fan favorite so we are proud to bring you guys this
video. Enjoy!"
OBITUARY
return to the states and collide with Bay Area Thrash Metal Kings EXODUS for
another epic Battle
of the Bays this Fall! The co-headlining tour kicks off September 14 in Durham, NC and ends on
October 15 in Baton Rouge, LA. Support will be provided by POWER TRIP
and DUST BOLT. Tickets are on sale now and a complete listing of tour dates is
available below.
OBITUARY’s latest, self-titled album is out now on
CD/LP/Digital via Relapse Records. Physical packages and digital order are
available via Relapse.com HERE and Bandcamp HERE. The animated music video for
“Ten Thousand Ways To Die” which recently surpassed 1 million views can be
viewed HERE.
OBITUARY Tour Dates:
--- All Dates Sep 14 to Oct 15 w/ Exodus, Power Trip and
Dust Bolt ---
Sep 14 Durham, NC Motorco
Music Hall
Sep 15 Virginia
Beach, VA Shakas Live
Sep 16 Baltimore, MD Baltimore
Soundstage
Sep 17 Sayreville,
NJ Starland Ballroom
Sep 19 Brooklyn, NY Music
Hall of Williamsburg
Sep 20 Worcester, MA The Palladium (Downstairs)
Sep 21 Burlington,
VT Higher Ground
Sep 22 Quebec City,
QC Imperial Ball
Sep 23 Ottawa,
ON Bronson Centre
Sep 24 London, ON London Music
Hall
Sep 26 Grand Rapids,
MI The Intersection
Sep 27 Columbus, OH Park Street Saloon
Sep 28 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe @ Old
National Center
Sep 29 Joliet, IL The Forge
Sep 30 Minneapolis,
MN Skyway Theatre
Oct 01 St. Louis,
MO The Ready Room
Oct 03 Lawrence,
KS Granada Theater
Oct 04 Ft. Collins, CO Aggie Theatre
Oct 06 Sacramento,
CA Ace Of Spades
Oct 07 Los Angeles,
CA Teragram Ballroom
Oct 08 San Diego, CA The
Observatory North Park
Oct 10 Tucson,
AZ The Rock
Oct 11 Albuquerque,
NM Sunshine Theater
Oct 12 El Paso,
TX Tricky Falls
Oct 14 San Antonio,
TX Paper Tiger +
Oct 15 Baton Rouge,
LA The Varsity Theater +
+ Obituary, Dust Bolt ONLY
Cover Art: Andreas Marschall
OBITUARY BIO:
One of the most influential, revered and best-selling death
metal bands of all time, OBITUARY formed in the swamplands of South
Florida in 1986 after switching their name from Xecutioner. the band signed to Roadracer Records, a now
defunct division of Roadrunner, for the recording of their debut album, the
immense and immeasurably heavy Slowly We Rot (1989). The album was engineered
by the legendary Scott Burns at Morrisound Studio, which would come to be the
most sought after facility for production of albums during the rise of death
metal in the 1990s. Unlike much death metal preceding it, the album had a
sludgy feel and integrated devastatingly slow passages along with obliterating
overtures that reached far beyond any point of mayhem that metal had yet to
reach. The result was a carnal pleasure for doom, death and thrash fans alike
coupling the adrenaline of a speedball with the slow, degrading measures of a
sewer at dusk. OBITUARY were unlike anything anyone had heard before and would
change the shape of heavy music forever.
OBITUARY followed up Slowly We Rot with Cause of Death
(1990), perhaps the band’s most hailed album and an even more chaotic, bass
heavy mix of the band’s signature groove, manic guitar solos and crashing
drums. The album’s defining feature, however, was vocalist John Tardy’s
disarmingly horrific, gargling style, that created guttural chasms of dread
which, though often mimicked, have been achieved by no one else. Drastically
shifting tempos and Tardy’s unique vocal style became the band’s trademark,
which clearly distinguished them from the rest of the burgeoning US death metal
scene.
OBITUARY spent the next two decades releasing some of the
finest death metal ever put to tape with classics like The End Complete (1992),
World Demise (1994), and Frozen in Time (2005) solidifying them as one of the
genre’s most important bands of all time. Fast forward to 2014, when after a
five year gap between albums, OBITUARY successfully crowdfunded their new album
and subsequently partnered with Relapse Records for it’s release. Reinvigorated
with a new lineup featuring the additions of legendary bassist Terry Butler
(Death, Massacre, Six Feet Under) and lead guitarist Ken Andrews. The result
was Inked In Blood (2014) which immediately took the world by storm. The next couple years revolved around an
extensive world tour schedule that took them to sold-out venues across the
globe including tours with Cannibal Corpse, Carcass and Exodus and multiple
mainstage festival appearances including 7000 Tons of Metal, Maryland
Deathfest, Hellfest, Obscene Extreme, Full Terror Assault, Neurotic Deathfest,
Graspop Metal Meeting, and the band’s own inaugural Florida Metal Fest.
To end 2016, OBITUARY released a surprise, live EP, Ten Thousand Ways
to Die, featuring two brand new songs plus twelve classics and fan favorites
recorded across eleven different cities during the Inked In Blood world tour.
The EP left die-hard fans craving more, unbeknownst that it was just the
beginning.
Now in 2017, OBITUARY return with their self-titled, 10th
studio album, further cementing their legacy as one of the most important metal
bands of all time! Picking up where Inked In Blood left off, OBITUARY show no
signs of slowing down as they continue to reign as Kings of death metal.
Recorded at their home studio in Tampa, FL, Obituary is a 10 track
tour-de-force of bone-pulverising death metal that is as heavy, uncompromising
and infectious as anything they've released in their historic, nearly 30-year
career!
OBITUARY are:
John Tardy – Vocals
Trevor Peres – Guitar
Ken Andrews Jr. – Guitar
Terry Butler – Bass
Donald Tardy – Drums
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