Released September 19, 1990 Artist Obituary Producer Scott Burns Genre Death metal | Length 41:02 Release date 19 September 1990 Label Roadracer Records | |
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Recorded 1990 at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida Cause Of Death
(1990) The End Complete
(1992) Similar Obituary albums, Death metal albums | ||
Cause of Death is the second album by American death metal band Obituary. It was released on September 19, 1990. Cause of Death is considered a classic album in the history of death metal. The artwork was done by artist Michael Whelan. It is their first release with longtime member Frank Watkins on bass, and also their first and only album with guitarist James Murphy, previously of the group Death.
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The cover art of this album was used in an H.P. Lovecraft collection, Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, and part of it was used in The Tomb and The Doom That Came to Sarnath paperbacks. It was supposed to be the cover of Sepultura's album Beneath the Remains, but Roadrunner Records let Obituary use it first, even though Cause of Death was released a year after Beneath the Remains. Roadrunner Records forced Sepultura to use another Michael Whelan illustration for Beneath The Remains's cover.
Personnel
Songs
1Infected5:35
2Body Bag5:51
3Chopped in Half3:45