American

Band: Autopsy

Logo: Letters are dripping and oozing. Each letter is a different sort of horrific figure. Cobwebs, horns, eyes. Grosses out.

Album:

Mental Funeral - 1991

Some sort of lurching horror featured on cover. Gruesome and evil looking. Disgusting and putrefying. Instills sense of disgust in viewer, makes one feel uneasy. Swampy green contrasts with blood read. Teeth, claws, puss, eyes. Abstract and horrible.

Sound: Evil, horror film inspired, gruesome. Murky production value, as though recorded in cave or chasm. Guttural vocals, down-tuned guitars groove and thrash. Faster thrashing parts lead into slower gloomy and doom-esque sections. Lurching and crawling. Guitar solos scream, create evil and macabre atmosphere. Dual guitar creates unique rhythms and extra-heavy doom sections. Little technicality, focus on heaviness and evil atmosphere.

Lyrics:

"Can you hear the funeral bell
Ringing in your mind
What will they find
In your blackened brain
Lobotomized, tranquilized
Falling, crawling
Casket calling
Slip into the abyss..."

Inspire sense of dread and foreboding evil. All sorts of evil present; zombies, malefic doctors, evil spirits, monstrous horror, one's own death, caverns, diseases, the horror of the unknown.

Feeling: Like watching an 80s slasher horror film. Blood, guts, death. Terror, like something is coming after you. Like running through a graveyard from a horde of zombies and suddenly falling into a fresh grave.  Slow heavy parts of the songs suffocates one and creates a crushing atmosphere, dread induced.

Relation to Scene: Pure American death metal. Thrash and doom influence creates a purely American sound. Lyrical themes of the undead and other horrific occurrences have always been at the forefront of American death metal.

The Band: At this point, a bunch of old gross men. Leather jackets worn adorned with buttons in typical metal fashion. Band t-shirts and sunglasses.

Members:

Chris Reifert - Vocals, Drums

Eric Cutler - Vocals, Guitars

Danny Coralles - Guitars

Joe Allen - Bass