Obituary

Obituary's self-titled record is the tenth studio album from the American death metal band, released on 17 March 2017 through Relapse Records. Giving a band's tenth album their own name is a bold move, and it suggests a group comfortable with who they are. It follows Inked in Blood from 2014 and comes ahead of Dying of Everything in 2023, so it sits in the later stretch of a career that began with Slowly We Rot in 1989 and Cause of Death in 1990.

Videos were made for "Ten Thousand Ways to Die", "Sentence Day" and "Brave", which makes them a sensible place to start if you want a quick taste of the record. For listeners who know the band mainly from their early work, it's a chance to hear how they sounded well into their career, still working firmly within death metal.