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REVIEW: Obituary - The End Complete Roadrunner Records, 1992
8/10
Obituary - The End Complete - cover art John Tardy, Trevor Peres, Allen West, Frank Watkins and Donald Tardy. This was Obituary anno 1992 as they recorded their third album "The End Complete" midway into their career as a band. At that time Roadrunner was mainly an outlet for some of the biggest death and thrash metal bands of then. "The End Complete" is by many fans regarded as the high peak in Obituary discography. Indeed it is a good album but calling it one of the milestones in the history of death metal is in my opinion going a bit too far. There has been enough overrating done in the past and I will not succumb to such behavior. I must admit that I only bought this album a year ago or something like that from a friend's friend who was getting rid of a lot of old metal albums which he had grown tired of. I do enjoy to let it take a spin in my stereo from time to time and it reminds me of the good old days when bands like Morbid Angel, Deicide, Death, Obitutary, Cannibal Corpse and others were fronting the first wave of death metal. Massive, awe-inspiring growling from John Tardy and low-tuned monotonous mid-paced death metal riffing is what Obituary was all about. A very good album that should please all fans of early 90's American styled death metal.

written by Vincent Eldefors

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Tracklist
1. I'm In Pain
2. Back To One
3. Dead Silence
4. In The End Of Life
5. Sickness
6. Corrosive
7. Killing Time
8. The End Complete
9. Rotting Ways
11. Killing Time

Playing time: 36.23

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