Every Friday, The Metal Examiner delves metal’s endless depths to present the genre’s most important and exciting albums.
Autopsy: The Tomb Within (Peaceville, 10/5/2010)
Autopsy: “My Corpse Shall Rise”
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Following his early stint in death-metal progenitors Death, drummer/vocalist Chris Reifert formed pioneering metal act Autopsy. Like other bands in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Autopsy invented its own rules in its quest for extremity, and its blend of doom, punk, and thrash coalesced into a definitive take on the emerging death-metal sound.