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Obituary - Darkest Day

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 August 13 2009 at 12:39:11 AM


Chad Bowar may beg to differ, but this is another in a long line of goddamn woefully mediocre Obituary records. Xecutioner’s Return (2007) showed brief signs of life, mostly in the Mystery Machine styled “art” courtesy of Andreas Marschall, but eventually motherfuckin’ flat-lined. Not since 1994’s World Demise has Obituary truly submitted a top-to-bottom solid program, and the band’s continuance to tinker with laughably bogus takes on “Hardcore” or the sort of “Needle-Rock” typified by Eyehategod rip-off drones, Sourvein, fits their stinky feets with concrete.

Some of these choads hail from Gibsonton. Been there? I have. It’s Interzone’s inner core. Even fuckin’ Wikipedia dwells on its designation as a carnie destination; “they’ve even got a post office with a counter for ‘dwarves,’” quacks some Internets cuckold. Life drops anchor at River’s Edge Lounge & Marina, though, a wife-swapping, weekend warrior magnet as potent as they come. Rained way out of saltwater fishing, I spent nine hours draining flat draft and bottom-shelf whisky shots surrounded by midgets, morbidly obese twins, anglers of various shade and stripe, a pro white power negro, and a fleet of post-40 gearhead ladies clad toe-to-sagging tits in leather and Harley paraphernalia. One of the darlings, replete in Obituary tee, asked me why I reeked of pussy. It’s squid, honey. Squid. Been fishing. Or trying to fish until the sky fell. I asked her about Obituary. Did she still like ‘em? Hell yes. Did she still go see ‘em play out? Fuck yes. Did she buy their records? I just download ‘em off the Internet, kiddo.

My position, summed perfectly. Darkest Day starts as it should, with the Bros Tardy sorting the dead. John Tardy still has the Mike Dean/Blaine “Fart” Cook vox down pat, and Don, while not the bitchwhipper he once was, is accomplished enough to garner play-along legion via YouTube, fatpants and coral necklaces included. “List of Dead” is fast, but a quarter of the speed of ___________ off Slowly We Rot. This is an aging crew, folks. They even ape the nasal tone hawked here and there by every wigger with a gothic script waistline tatt. “Blood to Give” is the H-nod, let’s-go-steal-more-copper-pipe spiel but rendered even less convincingly than a horde of “Nola” wannabees. It’s painful to witness. I still haven’t heard the entire track.

In anyone’s book, a 13-track record with six great tunes is a fuckin’ failure. Darkest Day is a fuckin’ failure. Do I still like Obituary? Hell yes. Will I go see them play out? Fuck yes. Do I buy their records? No. I just download ‘em off the Internet, kiddo.

[Stewart Voegtlin]

 

Obituary

Darkest Day
Candlelight
2009

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Comments (10)

  • 35 comments
    Miskatonic
    12:29 PM on Aug 13, 2009 // reply »
    Obituary are great! I couldn't be bothered to hear the new album. Like most groundbreaking bands, they accomplish everything they set out to do early on. The following albums are merely put out so they can tour behind them. That's cool and all, but I'm a collector of good music, so late career rehash interests me very little. I'd just as soon listen to my old "Slowly We Rot" CD again as buy anything new.

    That said, there are some bands which continue to grow and experiment which can hold my interest. Entombed springs to mind. I buy everything they put out. Not because I know it's going to be good, but because I know there will be something different. Their old stuff had such a profound affect on me that I feel close enough to them to take an interest in current output. They would have made more hardcore fans happy by rehashing their first two albums to this day. Had they done that, I would've quit buying them the same day I quit buying Obituary records.
  • 374 comments
    VOEGTLIN
    12:32 PM on Aug 13, 2009 // reply »
    Yeah, they are great. And there are some rockers on this slab, but nothing remotely in the range of their early stuff.
  • 64 comments
    neu konservatiw
    2:18 PM on Aug 13, 2009 // reply »
    Wigger? I hadn't seen/ heard that one since longboxes. Really, other than Morbid Angel, I'd rather Florida never existed.
  • 374 comments
    VOEGTLIN
    2:23 PM on Aug 13, 2009 // reply »
    You don't strike me as the type to enjoy draining your weight in domestic cans and hooking a shark from the surf.

    I, however, am that type.

    Love Florida, especially the Ft. Lauderdale airport bar, The Beachfront Too [sic].
  • 13 comments
    Tim
    7:32 PM on Aug 13, 2009 // reply »
    What did Patrick Henry say? Give me liberty or give me Cause of Death?
  • 6 comments
    kevin
    11:57 PM on Aug 14, 2009 // reply »
    I think this is my favorite review of yours.
  • 23 comments
    trummer
    11:06 AM on Aug 17, 2009 // reply »
    world demise is indeed the point after which obituary's world demised.

  • 374 comments
    VOEGTLIN
    11:55 AM on Aug 17, 2009 // reply »
    Mos def, but they can still kick ass live.
  • 24 comments
    Dennis Dread
    4:17 AM on Aug 19, 2009 // reply »
    Can you add a comment about the cover art? It's almost as bad as that Weapon guy making fun of my heathen pimples and my Nietzsche.
  • 374 comments
    VOEGTLIN
    5:52 AM on Aug 19, 2009 // reply »
    Andreas Marshcall! Advanced D&D represent!
 

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