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Re: Autopsy Fuck yes dude, just saw them two weeks ago, sounded fucking sick. Great set list, tons of songs from Severed Survival, Mental Funeral, and some nee stuff, all of it sounded heavy and vicious. Eric Cutler was a cool guy too, talked to him before the show, totally down to earth. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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Fuck yes dude, just saw them two weeks ago, sounded fucking sick. Great set list, tons of songs from Severed Survival, Mental Funeral, and some nee stuff, all of it sounded heavy and vicious. Eric Cutler was a cool guy too, talked to him before the show, totally down to earth. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
Sounds like fun. I checked their website, and unfortunately, they are no longer on tour. I did demand that they come to my area on Eventful.
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Sounds like fun. I checked their website' date=' and unfortunately, they are no longer on tour. I did demand that they come to my area on Eventful.[/quote'] It wasn't really a tour for them. Bolt Thrower and Benediction did a short US tour following their performances at Maryland Death Fest, and Autopsy joined on the bill for their two dates in California. It was a fucking epic old school death metal show, I had never seen any of the bands, and they all sounded heavy as shit, and played a great mix of older and newer songs. I can easily say it was one of the best shows I've ever seen, and while it's tough to pick favorites, Autopsy certainly played their asses off.
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Saw their first show in like 15 years at the reunion in Baltimore 2010. That was probably the best death metal show Ill ever see, it was quite intense. Played a solid set of old shit, I loved every second. First three albums are wicked, some of the most brutal metal I've still ever heard. The new stuff is really great too of course, this has been my favorite death metal band for a long time, got to toke up with Danny and Chris at MDF 09/2010, great times!

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I've seen them on the exclusive european reunion show at Party San 2010 I believe. And after that on Neurotic Deathfest or something I guess. They're really amazing. Except for that album shitfun. I really disliked that one.
Yeah, they were really revolutionary and original, and they killed live. The sonic equivalent of rotting corpses. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Autopsy are a very unique band to me in the respect that it only took two albums (Severed Survival and Mental Funeral) to become one of my absolute favorite bands. I feel that those two albums were what they truly put their focus unto. Shitfun was just that, shit fun. Probably just the product of surplus drug money and downtime. Buried Death, god I wanted to like it, so bad, but couldn't. It was so boring and uninspired. I hated to see them use that as a way to stay relevant when headlining big shows like MDF totally sufficed. But enough of the bad. When it comes to the many subgenres that pollute my ears each day I primarily identify with the old school death metal style and good filthy sludge. Which is what makes me love this band's prime works because it was a perfect marriage of original death metal with sludge before sludge was fucking sludge. You just wanted to take a shower after a listen thru of Mental Funeral.

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‘Severed..’ and ‘Mental...’ are Death Metal essentials in my book.  That clumsy yet looming and undeniably filthy delivery just polluted my head for days after.

Props to ‘Macabre Eternal’ as a great latter release for this band, that shit gives me nightmares (there’s a reason for my username choice).  ‘Puncturing the Grotesque’ made me feel suitably dirty after listening through also.

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