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Autopsy is a death metal band, founded in 1987 in the United States by Chris Reifert. They disbanded in 1995, but as of July 2009, have reunited

Biography

The band recorded two demos, Demo '87 (1987) and Critical Madness(1988) before signing to Peaceville records and releasing their 1989 debut album, Severed Survival. 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. Autopsy's last album, 1994's Shitfun, was heavily influenced by hardcore punk and would prepare fans for Abscess, a project of Danny Coralles and Chris Reifert after Autopsy's demise in 1995.

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."

Discography

Studio albums

* Severed Survival (1989)
* Mental Funeral (1991)
* Acts of the Unspeakable (1992)
* Shitfun (1995)

EPs/Singles

* Retribution for the Dead (1990)
* Fiend for Blood (1991)
* Horrific Obsession (2009)

Live albums

* Dead as Fuck (2004)

Demos

* 1987 Demo (1987)
* Critical Madness (1988)

Compilations

* Ridden with Disease (2000)
* Torn from the Grave (2001)