Extreme temperatures spawn extreme music – and Florida’s death metal OGs Obituary is another case in point.
Close to the Arctic circle? You get church-burning black metal. Down in the Bayou of Louisiana? Wild and crazy sludge metal emerges from swamps as if willed up by voodoo. If you lived in Florida near the legendary Morrisound Studios during the 80s, you would have seen the still-rotten-gore-birth of death metal. Fellow Dolphins fans (we assume) Morbid Angel, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, and Chuck Schuldiner’s (RIP) pioneering Death. Since 1984, the Tardy brothers (John on vocals, Donald on drums) were belting out death metal songs before the world at large knew what death metal properly was. Returing to Australia next January on the back of their eleventh record Dying of Everything, Hysteria probe a fit and happy John Tardy in his Florida home on the upcoming tour, being a teenage death metal pioneer, and whether he’s ever had to throttle Donald, as brothers do.
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