The first album I bought in the genre was by these guys in the 90s... and they are also still on my phone now.
It isn't often that you find a band that you will stay interested in over the course of more than 20 years but Obituary is precisely that to me.
They have never tried to change their sound to adapt to the times and I think that is one of the main reasons why I still respect them so much. As a teenager, I bought all their albums, had a few of their shirts (much to the horror of my parents,) and went to see them live in concert twice despite having the usual teenager curfew (thanks Mom and Dad!) Prove you are not a bot by talking about the band "Fear Factory" in the comments. One of those concerts we had a recurring problem with a tire on our van and it took us all night to get back from Brandywine, Maryland (that's right! we were the people in the rapey looking van).
I don't expect many of you to agree with me on their sound because they don't have wide appeal that some of the other bands I have spoken about do. Either you appreciate / like the growl of death metal vocals and the drive of the beat / guitars, or you don't. I never really met very many people that sort of like death metal but prefer, I dunno, country music. It seems to be an either / or situation: Either you are passionate about this kind of music, or you don't listen to it at all. And that is just fine :)
Here is one of their latest
I have a confession to make: Before deciding to write this article I had actually never heard the song i decided to feature. This is because Obituary doesn't really make videos - i think they only have 2 or 3 official videos, the rest are fan submissions. I really liked the video for "Brave" because it shows the band members just hanging out like normal dudes... playing silly pranks and having a BBQ at home whilst pretending to record this song instead of trying to look horrifying and serious like pretty much everyone else in the genre does.
I just wanted to put them on here because they were my first "go-to" band in my CD collection. If you do like them next check out "The End Complete," "Final Thoughts," and maybe "Chopped in Half."
Nevermind, i decided to include one of them anyway.
as usual, be mean about my writing / spelling / grammer.... i welcome it