End Complete

Obituary | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Roadrunner Records
• ASIN: B000000H7F
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,181 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is The End Complete!, November 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: End Complete (Audio CD)

HOLY SH*T! I cannot explain how much this album means to me. I bought The End Complete over 2 years ago and I still listen to it almost every day. This album defines all that real death metal should be. John Tardy is really an underrated vocalist. He has one of the most original growls and voices in all of death metal. Allen West and Trever Peres, what a great combination of guitars. Don Tardy is an underrated drummer, he is really good compared with most death metal drummers. Every song on this album is heavy as Hell and played perfectly. This is one of the best produced albums ever, complementary of Scott Burns who produced most death metal in the 80s and 90s. FYI, this is the also the best selling death metal album of all time...over 250,000 copies, no death band has sold that high! This CD is a brutal masterpiece, Any true death metal head should own this. Peace!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the heaviest tones ever recorded. Best metal album 1992!, September 21, 2005

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Zander Haberstaft (Miami, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: End Complete (Audio CD)

Alan West returns to Obituary and the result is 1992's "The End Complete" -the epitome of what a Death Metal album should be.
From the opening feedback and John Tardy's "UnAowhroahhhhhh!" you just know it gonna be great. West comes in with a wild solo and then Obituary keeps delivering the goods.

The drumming is good with lots of tom on double-bass fills, and lots of heavy cymbal beatings. John Tardy's vocals have never sounded better, not only because his voice is decipherable, but because the throaty nature fits the heavy music so well. His also makes better use of his vocal range on this album. And who could forget the dual axeman of Peres and West -which goes between the sludgy main guitar to West's wild soloing and then back again. The production is great as always, would we expect anything less from Scott Burns?

Simply put the best written and arranged Obituary album. Best Obituary album? It is a close tie between this and 1989's "Slowly We Rot" but I think "The End Complete" has the edge. This was also one of the best selling Death Metal albums of all time, if not THE best selling Death Metal album, selling more than 500,000 copies 1/2 of which in the first year and a half alone. And while Obituary would go the political route with their next album and then descend into literal retirement, you can always listen to this album and point to a time where Obituary had it all going for them. And while the Death Metal genre has been swallowed by self-parody and the ability not to make good music since about 1995, it good to know that you can listen to the "old days" when Florida Metal was rich and ambituous as exampled by "The End Complete".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars solid death, September 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: End Complete (Audio CD)

Following up their groundbreaking death metal classic "Cause Of Death", Obituary see themselves treading familiar territory. Gone are the atmospheric sound effects and buildups of their first 2 discs, replaced by simple, rampaging death metal. First and foremost of mention is John Tardy's totally inhuman vocals. Sounding as if he's trying to talk while dry heaving, he lays down a wall of vocal hatred that is practically second to none in the death metal genre. Veteran death metal producer Scott Burns, also manages to capture an intense riff attack, laid down by Trevor Peres and the returning Allan West, replacing shred master James Murphy. While Allan is no guitar whiz (especially in comparison to Murphy's incredible lead playing), he makes a very decent showing of his (limited) skills and does a very good job. WHile the album isn't nearly as good as "Cause Of Death", "The End Complete" stands as a competent, no frills death metal disc that gives its fans exactly what they want. 3 and a half stars is a better rating.