Cause Of Death (Gray with Black Splatter Vinyl) TemporarilyUnavailable the loss of their close

the loss of their close friend and collaborator Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb

Partly it was probably down to the thrill of coming back together after a long period apart – but in large part

The album opens with “The Loom”

Now reissued on 180gm vinyl

Of the release

Cause Of Death (Gray with Black Splatter Vinyl) TemporarilyUnavailable the loss of their closeObituarys second album stands astride the annals of death metal and will stay thereeternally. Thats 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