Artist: OBITUARY
Album: CAUSE OF DEATH RED BLUE SPLATTER VINYL (LP)

Release date: 07.08.2026
EAN/UPS: 0848064021476
Media type: LP

Obituary’s second album stands astride the annals of death metal and will stay there…eternally. That’s because very few albums in any genre come close to matching its intensity; Cause of Death alternates (often in the same song) between the sludgiest power chords known to mortal man and breakneck tempos that verge on hardcore punk. All punctuated, of course, by the unearthly, guttural maledictions of vocalist John Tardy (one reviewer described them as “senseless gurgles”). This is the only Obituary album with former Death, Disincarnate, and Testament guitarist James Murphy, who contributes leads that, oddly, at times sound almost classical; it also features a no-holds-barred cover of Celtic Frost’s “Circle of the Tyrants” endorsed by Celtic Frost themselves. Throw in Michael Whelan’s foreboding cover art (originally used in a H.P. Lovecraft anthology, and originally intended for a Sepultura album cover), and there’s a reason why this 1990 release remains such a singular record in a genre where the surfeit of fury can flatten the differences between acts and albums. No, Cause of Death is one of a kind, and, for its first American reissue in nearly 30 years, we’ve remastered it for vinyl and pressed it in gray with black splatter vinyl, complete with insert. A metal must.

A1  Infected Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   

A2  Body Bag Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   

A3  Chopped In Half Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   

A4  Circle Of The Tyrants Lyrics By – T.G. Warrior
Music By – T.G. Warrior

A5  Dying Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   


B1  Find The Arise Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   

B2  Cause Of Death Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Allen West, Trevor Peres   

B3  Memories Remain Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   

B4  Turned Inside Out Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   

B5  Infected (Demo Version) Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres   

B6  Memories Remain (Demo Version) Lyrics By – John Tardy
Music By – Donald Tardy, Trevor Peres