The artwork of Dying of Everything is another Mariusz Lewandowski (RIP!) remix while the eleventh studio album by Obituary as a thrashing old-school death-fest early in the year as a candidate for perhaps the funniest album title of 2023.
After a legendary initial phase in the career up to the mid-90s, some subsequent mixed works have the good reputation of Obituary no harm – that a whopping six year break since the all-round convincing self-titled 2017 work could pose a problem was not to be feared in this respect.
actually is Dying of Everything a typical one Obituary-Work has become reliable and yet finally aggressive again as usual. John Tardy may be past his prime but still intones as genre nobility. The band behind it plays without innovative ambitions, but having effectively internalized the formula booklet in the rich groove – all the crisp riffs (which you have to admit to a large extent you can already hear right away alone in the Slayerdiscography and which are now declined here ten times with little variation or originally very similarly) hurling out hungry and powerful, with a lot of power and direct energy, straight and catchy, in a great, at the same time slightly modernized and yet also organically outdated sound , who practices a pleasantly unpolished approachability.
And, Dying of Everyhthing may be predictable business as usual, but (particularly in the thrashy, faster pieces) it’s quite uncomplicated and fills the band’s canon in the top third of quality. Especially in the fast-paced scenes like the triumphant catchy entry Barely Alive, Weaponize the Hate or Torn Apart the Florida combo just pulls off a damn entertaining hunt.
The more dignified pieces (such as the gloriously grim and evil stomping Wardas Hardcore-affine Without a Consciencewho seeks his endorphins in Nu Metal The Wrong Time or Be Warned as the best representatives of their guild), on the other hand, tend towards repetitive inertia, where some songs in the middle two quarters of the record leave too little impression anyway, and could have been shortened, and one gradually gets the feeling that everything essential has been picked up Dying of Everything to have heard before the finale in the routine course. One would have liked to have distilled a (sometimes very) good album into an outstanding EP.
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