Artist: OBITUARY
Album: CAUSE OF DEATH REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1990/ 1997
EAN/UPS: 0016861876722
Media type: CD

Cause of Death is a 1990 album by American death metal band Obituary. Cause of Death is considered a landmark album in the history of death metal.[citation needed] The artwork was done by artist Michael Whelan. It is their first release with permanent member Frank Watkins on bass, and also their first and only album with guitarist James Murphy, previously of the group Death.

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 Arise, but Roadrunner Records let Obituary use it before, as Cause of Death was released in 1990 and Arise only in 1991. Sepultura chose another Michael Whelan illustration for Arise's cover.

TRACKLIST:

1."Infected" (Peres/D. Tardy/J. Tardy) – 5:34
2."Body Bag" (Peres/D. Tardy/J. Tardy) – 5:49
3."Chopped In Half" (Peres/D. Tardy/J. Tardy) – 3:43
4."Circle of the Tyrants" (Celtic Frost Cover) - (T. G. Warrior) – 3:36
5."Dying" (Obituary/Peres) – 4:29
6."Find the Arise" (Peres/D. Tardy/J. Tardy) – 2:51
7."Cause of Death" (Peres/J. Tardy/Murphy) – 5:38
8."Memories Remain" (Peres/D. Tardy/J. Tardy) – 3:44
9."Turned Inside Out" (Peres/D. Tardy/J. Tardy) – 4:57

Bonus Tracks 1997 Roadrunner Remasters:

10) Infected" (demo version) (4:16)
11) Memories Remain" (demo version) (3:34)
12) Chopped in Half" (demo version) (3:45)

LINE-UP:

John Tardy - vocals
James Murphy - lead guitar
Trevor Peres - rhythm guitar
Frank Watkins - bass
Donald Tardy - drums