Autopsy

Autopsy are an American death metal band formed in Contra Casta County, California, in 1987 by Chris Reifert and Eric Cutler. Reifert had just left Death, having played on their debut album Scream Bloody Gore. The band's hometown is Concord, and they sit alongside Death, Possessed, Obituary, Deicide and Morbid Angel among the founders of modern death metal.

Their sound blends death metal with doom, which is why death-doom is often part of the conversation. Severed Survival (1989) and Mental Funeral (1991) are regarded as genre-defining, and Acts of the Unspeakable (1992) is another favourite. The band split in 1995, reunited in 2008, and have released nine studio albums, including Morbidity Triumphant in 2022.