Autopsy - Torn from the Grave [Compilation] (2001)

Autopsy was formed in August 1987 by Chris Reifert and Eric Cutler, shortly after Reifert's departure from Death. The band recorded a demo that year, Demo '87, before Danny Coralles joined in 1988 immediately prior to the recording of their second demo, Critical Madness, and along with Reifert and Cutler, would be a constant in the band's lineup. The band signed to Peaceville Records and released their debut album, Severed Survival in 1989. These early recordings featured a straightforward thrash-influenced death metal style in a similar vein to Scream Bloody Gore era Death (Reifert was Death's drummer on that album), but the band adopted a slower, doom metal influenced sound for their next release, the 1990 Retribution for the Dead EP. The next full-length, Mental Funeral, continued in this style and has since been cited by many other death metal musicians (particularly in the Swedish scene) as particularly influential. Having completed a successful European tour soon after Mental Funeral, the band reentered the studio to record the Fiend for Blood EP, which was followed by their third full-length, Acts of the Unspeakable, which featured shorter songs and a more grindcore influenced sound. A difficult US tour in 1993 led to the decision to disband Autopsy after the recording of a final album. Shitfun, released in early 1995, was heavily influenced by hardcore punk and would prepare fans for Abscess, previously a side project of Danny Coralles and Chris Reifert which would become their main band after Autopsy's demise.

Autopsy was featured in the 2005 music documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey when the film's narrator and star, Sam Dunn read aloud a verse from the band's song "Charred Remains".

After several years of speculation regarding an Autopsy reunion, and denial of the possibility, the band members briefly reunited in September 2008 to record two new tracks for the special edition of their 1989 debut Severed Survival. They later reconvened to the Maryland Deathfest in 2009. After Abscess broke up in June 2010, Autopsy immediately announced that they had permanently reunited. They released The Tomb Within EP in September 2010, Macabre Eternal in 2011, Born Undead DVD in 2012, The Headless Ritual in 2013 and Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves in 2014. Autopsy released the EP "Skullgrinder" on November 27, 2015. They released the EP Puncturing the Grotesque on December 15, 2017.

 

 

-Tracklist:

1     Charred Remains     3:38
2     Disembowel     4:03
3     Gasping For Air     3:18
4     Severed Survival     3:26
5     Ridden With Disease     4:40
6     Service For A Vacant Coffin     3:30
7     Retribution For The Dead     3:53
8     Robbing The Grave     3:52
9     Twisted Mass Of Burnt Decay     2:14
10     Fleshcrawl     0:35
11     Torn From The Womb     3:18
12     Slaugherday     4:04
13     Dark Crusade     3:54
14     Mental Funeral     0:36
15     Fiend For Blood     0:25
16     Squeal Like A Pig     3:42
17     Funereality     2:51
18     An Act Of The Unspeakable     2:25
19     Frozen With Fear     0:30
20     Spinal Extraction     0:21
21     Death Twitch     2:13
22     Walls Of The Coffin     1:17
23     Shiteater     2:15
24     Humiliate Your Corpse     3:27
25     Brain Damage     1:17
26     Blood Orgy     3:23
27     Bowel Ripper     1:12

 

Tracks 1-4 from "Severed Survival"
Track 5 from "Critical Madness" Demo.
Track 6 recorded live in Bamberg, Germany, March 16th 1990
Track 7 from "Retribution for the Dead" EP
Track 8 recorded live at The Waters Club, San Pedro, CA, March 30th 1991
Tracks 9-14 from "Mental Funeral"
Tracks 15-16 from "Fiend for Blood" EP
Track 17 from the Peaceville compilation album "Volume 4"
Tracks 18-22 from "Acts of the Unspeakable"
Track 23 recorded live at Bonnie's, New Jersey, NJ, May 16th 1993
Tracks 24-27 from "Shitfun" 

 

 

 

 

 

Label: Peaceville Records.

First catalogue number appears on spine; second and third catalogue number appears on CD; fourth catalogue number appears together with the barcode stickered on back cover.

"Made in CANADA" on the disc, "Made in the EU" on the back cover.

Digipak with panels opening into four directions. Some issued with four-page b/w Peaceville promotion leaflet.