4) “My Corpse Shall Rise”
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This song opens with some of the band’s doomiest riffing. “My Corpse Shall Rise” is from a cool period in Autopsy’s history between when they released the Horrific Obsession single and Macabre Eternal. Listening to it, it’s clear the dudes are having fun. This song is part Master-era Sabbath and part Hell Awaits-era Slayer. The rest is all Autopsy… vomited vocals and all. “My Corpse Shall Rise” first appeared on 2010’s Macabre Eternal precursor EP, The Tomb Within. It’s also collected, along with the rest of its original release, on the 2012 compilation, All Tomorrow’s Funerals.
5) “Feast of The Graveworm”
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“Feast” is the 2009 b-side from Autopsy’s first new recording after regrouping, the Horrific Obsession single. It features the sludgier harmonic approach the band took on Mental Funeral and combines it with the hardcore-influenced pacing of Shitfun. After such a long wait, and with “cash grab” rumors circulating around the possibility of new original music, the results were everything Autopsy fans could’ve hoped for. Both songs were included on Peaceville’s most recent two-disc reissue of Severed Survival. They’re also on All Tomorrow’s Funerals, the release collecting all the band’s non-album material, and “Feast of the Graveworm” is the lead-off track from the third disc of the upcoming After The Cutting. In other words, this thing’s everywhere. Run it down.
6) “Humiliate Your Corpse”
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Shitfun is Autopsy at their absolute vilest. Every song on this record is trashier than the one before it. This time around, they kept the gore/death fixation, but added scatological content in a way that not only beefed up the barf factor, but added a sicker humor to the lyrics than any of the tongue-in-cheek work they’d done in the past. Most of this album is criminally slept-on; if I have my history right, it was recorded quickly and during a time when everyone in the band was ready to move on to new prospects. I could pick probably any track off here, and odds are there’d be at least a few fans of the band out there who’d never heard it. I went with “Humiliate Your Corpse” because the lyrics are so brutally degrading that listening to this song makes me blush, like I would if I were watching some drunk friend perform painfully embarrassing karaoke. But instead of just singing out of key, they’d be singing about defiling a cadaver with… well, you’ve got the link. Just listen. Then go take a shower.
