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Chris DeMakes A Podcast

Ep. 73: Donald and John Tardy discuss Obituary's "Slowly We Rot"

Chris DeMakes A Podcast

Chris DeMakes

Music History, Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4.9923 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Death metal pioneers Obituary released their landmark debut album "Slowly We Rot" in 1989. In this episode, drummer Donald Tardy and vocalist John Tardy discuss the writing, recording, and release of the album's classic title track. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Distro Kit.

0:03.4

Introducing Laceldisei by Issemyake, a tribute to today's masculinity

0:10.4

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0:17.6

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0:24.0

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0:26.0

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0:30.0

Issemyake.

0:32.0

Hey it's your host Krista Makes.

0:34.0

Do you know that I write custom songs?

0:36.0

That's right. I'd love to write you that special someone, co-worker, friend or foe,

0:40.0

their very own custom song.

0:42.0

Makes a great gift for birthday's anniversaries holidays and more

0:45.4

For more info email me at Krista makes at gmail.com now let's get into this awesome episode. Hey Metalheads, Heads, Ghosts, Goblins, vampires, were wolves and ghouls, we got some death coming your way.

1:15.0

Today's guests are drummer Donald Tardy and his brother, lead vocalist John Tardy, of the Tampa

1:21.0

Florida death metal band Obituary.

1:24.0

It was cool to catch up with the brothers. A ton of laughs were had.

1:27.0

Together they took me through the writing, recording and release of the Obituary Classic,

1:32.0

Slowly We Rott, taken from their 1989 album of the same name.

1:35.6

I learned how legendary death metal producer Scott Burns went from operating the studio

1:40.5

gear as a second engineer to winding up in the producer's chair for the sessions of the album,

1:45.2

Scott's first major break.

1:47.2

I found researching the lyrics online to be more painstaking for this episode than any other

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