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Autopsy - Mental Funeral



8.6 | 233 votes |
Release date: 22 April 1991
Style: Death metal

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01. Twisted Mass Of Burnt Decay
02. In The Grip Of Winter
03. Fleshcrawl
04. Torn From The Womb
05. Slaughterday
06. Dead
07. Robbing The Grave
08. Hole In The Head
09. Destined To Fester
10. Bonesaw
11. Dark Crusade
12. Mental Funeral
13. Retribution For The Dead [2003 reissue bonus]
14. Ridden With Disease [demo version] [2003 reissue bonus]
15. Service For A Vacant Coffin [live] [2003 reissue bonus]

Top 20 albums of 1991: 14

Additional info
Recorded at Different Fur Studios San Francisco, Nov 20-26 1990.
Produced by Autopsy and Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw.

Guest review by
Beastofmetal456
Rating:
9.6
A few months ago, I tried to listen to this album but it sounded really awful, especially the vocals. After that, I experimented with a little death metal and I found no escape from listening to this classic. I was more patient this time, and I gave it another try. This time I could easily classify this among my top 5 albums of all time. Read the following to see what really makes the piece of death metal legendary.

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published 12.07.2011 | Comments (12)

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02.07.2011 - 17:44
Death Metal 456
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Headbanging to it right now.
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04.07.2011 - 19:06
Beastofmetal456
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Instant classic. The sickest album of all time. The vocals, the guitars, the slow drums. A monument in death doom.
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14.01.2012 - 22:57
3rdWorld
China was a neat
I watch begotten i get sleepy in the middle and yawned. I heard this, worms creeped out of my earlobe and reverberations of the churchbell nearly lobotomized my mind.
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21.05.2012 - 14:14
Rating: 9
musicalkaratekid

This album sounds completely disgusting, but in the perfectly right way. One of Death/doom's instant classics.
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06.04.2013 - 03:01
Illog1cal
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More of a classic than Severed Survival in my opinion.
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26.07.2015 - 19:58
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Tage Westerlund
Written by musicalkaratekid on 21.05.2012 at 14:14

This album sounds completely disgusting, but in the perfectly right way. One of Death/doom's instant classics.


death doom pure DM IMO
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Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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26.07.2015 - 20:55
Lit.
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Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 19:58

death doom pure DM IMO

Wrong, there is definitely doom influences that evolved from straight-forward death metal on the debut.

Shame this is a boring-ass album, and they went on to release an even worse album. They were onto something here.
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26.07.2015 - 20:57
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by Guest on 26.07.2015 at 20:55

Written by Bad English on 26.07.2015 at 19:58

death doom pure DM IMO

Wrong, there is definitely doom influences that evolved from straight-forward death metal on the debut.

Shame this is a boring-ass album, and they went on to release an even worse album. They were onto something here.


influences yes, but non doom metal fans would consider this as death/doom, some way as Aspyx (how to spell that Ned band name)
production, cant remember, this is in other country , cant listen it
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
apos;'
[image]
I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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07.08.2021 - 05:36
Maco
Pvt Funderground
It's always good to relisten the classics after some time. This is Autopsy's best.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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13.05.2022 - 15:14
Rating: 10
Metal Rasputin

It's been over 30 years since this masterpiece came out and still very few albums barely come close to this level of filthy death metal. The amount of swampy dirt on this record is so overwhelming there must have been way more thought put into it than meets the eye, like the song structures which lack anything even remotely commercial, "nice" and pop-oriented, all the instruments out of tune and the exceptionally raw production just grabs a hold of your spine and won't let go until the thing is over. Not all of the songs are masterpieces, but the overall experience is.
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You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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20.08.2022 - 18:16
Rating: 9
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
While I personally like the debut more because it has more straightforward badass riffs and DiGiorgio's bass is very nicely audible, this one is also great. Like Metal Rambo said, this is truly the epitome of swampy, filthy, death metal with a sinister doom vibe.

I find my view of these two albums is similar to my experience with Slayer's first two albums. The first one is fun and lets the riffs take center-stage, while the second one has longer, more atmospheric doomy songs.

My favorite songs here are "Destined To Fester" and "In The Grip Of Winter", which luckily are featured as bonus tracks on my copy of Severed Survival
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