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PO Box 142 . Congers NY 10920
| OBITUARY Death Metal / Death Metal / Death Metal
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(Vocals)
Ralph Santolla
(Guitar)
Frank Watkins
(Bass)
Donald Tardy
(Drums)
Trevor Peres
(Guitar)
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Obituary - Slowly We Rot
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FINAL TOUR REPORT
OCTOBER 9, 2009
Our last show was in Louisville, KY and that wraps up another great U.S. Tourfor us. Thanks to all of you that came out to see us that made this just an incredible run! We also would like to thank Goatwhore, Krisiun, The Berzerker and Warbringer! They are all great bands and I thought was a great lineup to see and they all busted their ass to make every show. We put almost 10,000 miles on our bus, so that is a lot of miles for 5 bands to do and not have any cancelled shows! Good job by everyone. Also, I would like to thank all our crew guys for making it all happen! We really appreciate all your hard work and look forward to doing it again!
OCTOBER 3, 2009
We are in Ashville, NC today for tonights show at the Orangepeel! We have never played this venue before and I don't know why, this is one of the nicest venues in the U.S. that we get to play. This is going to awesome, hopefully we can get some people in here, because it is a good size place to play. Come on out!
Last nights show in Raleigh was even better than I thought it would be. TheVolume 11 is cool, but not very big and I really appreciate you guys packing it out and makeing it a great show!
We have our last show tomorrow inLouisville, KY and then we are headed home!
OCTOBER 2, 2009
That was one hell of a day off!!!! We pulled up in the bus with the crew and the Krisiun guys and spent our day off at my moms house in VA. Thanks to my mom and dad for letting us take over their house for the day, that was awesome!!!!
Today we are in Raleigh, NC at Volume11 for tonights show! Only 3 shows left starting tonight, tomorrow we are in Ashville, NC and the last show in Louisville, KY!
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Unbelieveable show last night in NY City! This was our first time playing at the Blender Theatre and I found my new favorite club! This place is a great place to play and see a show! NY we really need to thank you all for coming out and making one of the best shows of the tour! We had a lots of friends show up and the party did not want to end until the sun was coming up!
What a beautiful drive we had coming up to MA this moring. The trees are all starting to turn colors and the temperature is starting to cool down!Worchester is a great city to play in and we look forward to our show tonight at the Palladium!
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Today we are in New York City at theBlender Theatre for tonights show! NY is always a great show for us and we have never played this venue so I am really looking forward it!
This tour is winding down right now. We only have 5 shows left, so I hope you get a chance to catch us if you can!
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
After that Toronto show it was nice to see Quebec City really show up for another tremendous show. Then there was last night in Monteal, a smaller venue, but awesome fans packing it out!!!! We have not played this much in Canada for a long time and we really appreciate all our Canadian fans that came out to support us! We will not wait that long again, I will tell you that! Today we are back in the U.S. and inPhiladelphia, PA for tonights show at the Trocadero! Looking forward to it and hope to see you tonight!
On a personal note, I would like to congratulate the USF Bulls on their big vitory over Florida State! (this is a college football 'thing' for those around the world who may not know. USF is the University of South Florida that is in Tampa where we live)
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
Toronto!!!!!!!!!! I will have to give it up to you, last nights show was the best of the tour so far! Thank you all so much for coming out..you are awesome!!!!
Quebec, Toronto has set the bar high for you guys, but this club is really nice and big enough to be as good as last night. Lets see how it goes! Tonights show is at the Imperial!
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
We had a good day off yesterday and we have now made our way to Toronto! Tonights show is at The Opera Houseright in downtown. It has been a great run through Canada and we only have a few shows left here, tomorrow inQuebec City and the last show on Sunday in Montreal!
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Milwaukee!!!! We are here and setting up for tonight's show at The Rave! They have us in a small room tonight, so make sure you get your tickets early! The room is small, but it is fun to play in and the PA jams!!!...should be a good time!
Tonight we head to Chicago for the next show at Logan Square!
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
Day off and the Fins on Monday Night Football! It does not get much better than this! We have the grills fired up and some beer on ice...we are ready to go!
Last nights show in Winnipeg was awesome. Our first time there and it was a great show. Small club, packed, hotter than balls and everyone going off! It was great!
After a week in Canada we are back in the U.S. and we will be playing at theRave in Milwakee! Lots of good shows over the year there and we are looking forward to tomorrow night!
SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
NFL Sunday...you know what we are doing!
We are in Winnipeg today for our show at Royal Albert Arms! Tomorrow we head back the States for a couple of shows before coming back to Canada for the last three shows here!
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
Not sure how or why, but that was our first time in Calgary and it was awesome, great city and we had an raging show! Thanks for coming out. Today we are in Edmonton and we are right downtown.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Tonights show is in Calgary at theWarehouse! After a day off yesterday we are ready to go and looking forward the show!
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
It has been way to long since we have played shows in Canada and it was great to have a sick show last night in Vancouver! Thanks to all of you for coming out. Today we have the day off and we stopped in Revelstoke, which is about half way to Calgary, where the next show will be!
Surrounded by mountains, it is absolutely beautiful here! We have the grills fired up and we are just hanging out throwing back some cool-ones!
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
After a great day off in Vancover yesterday, we took a ferry ride over toVictory Island for tonights show atSugar. What a beautiful ride that was! This is a small venue and I am sure it is going to be packed! This is our first time here and we just haven't played that much at all in Canada, so it is nice to have so many Canadian dates! We head back to Vancover tonight for tomorrows show at The Venue!
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
We are in Seattle, WA at the El Corazonfor tonights show! Seattle is a great city and hopefully tonight's show is great too! Last night was awesome! We had a blast with our Portland fans and thank them all for coming out!
We finally get a day off tomorrow and we will be spending that in Vancover! The first NFL Sunday, so I am glad we have the day off. The bus has the NFL Sunday Ticket and we will be throwing back some cool-ones and watching football!
SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
We are in Portland, OR for tonights show at the Hawthorne Theatre!Another great venue and hopefully another great show like last night! San Franciso thanks for coming out last night and making it a totally sick show, actually one of the best so far! Tonight we will be headed to Seattle, WA for the next show...hope to see you there!
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Great show last night in Hollywood! We had a lot of old fans and a lot of good friends show up and it was an awesome show. Beautiul drive from Hollywood toSan Franciso last night and we made our way to Slim's! This is another great venue and I remember this being one of the best shows on our last time through, so we are looking forward to tonight! Thanks to all of you that came out last night! After tonights show we will be headed to Portland, OR to theHawthorne Theatre for our show tomorrow night!
SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
We made our way to Sunset Blvd. inHollywood for our show tonight at theKey Club! This is an awesome venue to see a show and it is going to be sick in there tonight! Things are going good so far and we are moving right along. The shows have been good and last night was one of the better ones. I think it was our first time playing in Santa Ana, maybe someone can correct me on that, but we thank all of you that came out to see us! Tonight we will be headed toSan Francisco for the next gig at Slim's!...see you there!
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
After a day off in Las Vegas we have made our way to the Galaxy Theatre inSanta Ana, CA. Our pockets are a little lighter, but we had a hell of a time yesterday! The Galaxy Theatre is a great venue so we are looking forward to tonights show.
Tonight we will be headed toHollywood, CA to the Key Club!
SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
After a good show last night in Mesz, AZ, we made our way through the desert to New Mexico! Our show tonight is atGators in Farmington, NM.
I was up early this morning and really enjoyed the drive through the open desert! Such a beautiful site!
With a couple of shows under our belts, we are settling in and ready to get some shows done. After the show tonight we will be headed to Denver, CO to theBlue Bird Theatre for our next gig where it is always a great time!
SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
Yesterday was a long day for all of us, but we did get everyone here, got set up and had a great first show last night. This was our first time playing in Tucson and we appreciate all of you for coming out!
We have 4 other bands travling with us: Goatwhore, Krisiun, The Berzerker and Warbringer, so we are looking forward to a good tour.
Tonight we are Mesa, AZ at UB's Bar so we hope you can make it out!
AUGUST 31, 2009
John and Donald with Andreas from Sepultura
It was quite the trip to Portugal and back for one festival, but I am glad we did it! Believe it or not this was our first time to Portugal and we really had a good time! It was a great show and it such a beautiful place. We appreciate all the support from the fans and we will be back to see you again soon! Sepultura was playing the night after us, but they were there to watch us, hang out and have a few cool ones. They are good friends of ours and it was good to see them.
This show raps up our European Festivals for the 2009 and it is now time to focus on the start of our U.S. Tourthat starts September 3rd in Tucson, AZ! I have been getting lots of fan emails from our U.S. fans and we are ready to hit the road and tear this place up! I hope to see you all out there!
We do have shows confirmed in bothMexico in October and Australia inNovember! I will have all those dates up here hopefully by the end of the day!
Obituary - Blood to Give Live Ermal 2009 - Portugal
BIOGRAPHY
Upon switching their name from Xecutioner to Obituary, the career of one of the most successful and influential Death Metal bands began. Hailing from Florida and featuring John Tardy (vocals), brother Donald Tardy (drums), Trevor Peres (guitar), Allen West (guitar), and Daniel Tucker (bass), 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 1990’s rise of the Death Metal genre. 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. Like them or not, Obituary was unlike anything anyone had heard before.
“Slowly We Rot” was chaotic, bass heavy mix of manic guitar solos and crashing drums, but it was undeniably characterized by vocalist John Tardy’s disarmingly horrific, gargling style, that created guttural chasms of dread which though often strived for, to date have been paralleled by none. The ability to augment tempo so drastically became the band’s trademark along with Tardy’s unique vocal style, which distinguished them clearly from the rest of the emerging Florida Death Metal bands; nowhere is this more apparent than on the prophetic title track of their debut. The fact that Obituary refrained from printing lyric sheets with their albums led people to believe that they didn't actually write any lyrics. Some may question the verbosity or absence of documented lyrics, however, any true fan has each grunt, growl and howling grimace committed to memory like an utterance from God in painstaking form—what does not exist can not be remembered, and an Obituary show is testimony to the re-creation of what your ears couldn't believe in the first place. Once again bringing augmentation to irony, Live and Dead worked quite well for the quintet, dividing your conscience yet leaving much to the imagination; not since birth have your senses been so graphically assaulted yet pleased at the same time. While such differing sensations once seemed incongruous, Obituary have proven the ability to merge unlikely dichotomies, from their slow-as-hell-yet-fast-as-fuck style to the non-evil, homegrown approach to what would largely become the satanized, bastardized, make-up wearing movement known as Death Metal.
The maturation of the musicians into songwriters taking more visionary and complex forms would soon be heard world wide as Obituary took metal by storm in 1990. Despite their youth upon release of their sophomore offering, “Cause of Death” embodied the confident swagger of the most fearsome pack-leading hound. From the insidious growls of John’s vocals to the barrage of Donald Tardy’s thunderously-metered explosions of double bass, “Cause of Death” was the intention and method as promised by the early threat of “Slowly We Rot”; for Obituary, Death was just the beginning. Accordingly, the title track alone (“Cause of Death”) would be heard, regurgitated, manipulated, complimented and collapsed—but never duplicated—on third and forth generation death metal albums for years to come. Lovecraftian imagery and aural morbidity aside, even a deaf man found fear when confronted by the formidable visage of guitarist Peres; entering Frank Watkins, the hulking henchman of a bassist from South Florida, finally provided long-needed and powerful rhythm stability to the line up. However, the grinding of the axes would not be complete until the return of Xecutioner veteran Allen West, who, along with Peres and Tardy, crafted the foundation for most of Obituary’s most primordial and historic moments. Attack now whole, Obituary had given birth—sight, sound and feel—to a true horror greater than metal had ever known.
The paradox herein lies that Obituary was anything but a summation to and end, but more an exploratory journey into the infinite dehumanization of all that is known, as confronted brazenly by their best selling release yet, “The End Complete” and later followed by the cynical and dark expedition of “World Demise”. Reunited with songwriter West, the band was conjoined like quintuplets sharing life and a name. Though finality was possibly inferred by these titles, Obituary was anything but finished. Ironically, the images conjured by songs such as “Don’t Care”, “Platonic Disease” and “World Demise” seemingly foretold of the millennium as can now be seen daily, displayed plainly across the screens of CNN and reality TV programs world wide; not bad for a bunch of rednecks from Florida with Budweiser dreams and bongwater nightmares.
2004 brings reason for Obituary fans to rejoice, the sunken eyes and heaving cries have all but abated. Obituary has only aspired to live up to the standard they have set for themselves, one that numerous bands have strived to duplicate, but never attained, falling short both creatively and in lack of the unique talent that each member contributes to the near indescribable Obituary sound. Like a forgotten corpse in the basement, Obituary are back to haunt, taunt and fully pollute your senses. Fermenting like waste in the hot Florida sun, Obituary return from hiatus with the voracity of a starven wretch. The forfeiture of time brings blessings of brutality, and assurance that the Dead shall indeed rise again. Such aural abrasion can only be heard on an Obituary album or the live circumcision of a thirty-year-old man, the choice is yours...
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