Obituary @ Knockdown Center, Queens, NY 5/22/25

 


Bill: Obituary/NAILS/Terror/Spirit World/Pest Control

Venue: Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens, NY

Date: 5/22/25

Door: unsure, had a free ticket from DoNYC

9:15pm Obituary



Active: 1985 (Tampa, FL)

Latest Release: Dying of Everything (Relapse, 2022)

Featured Release: Cause of Death (Roadracer, 1990)

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Missed: NAILS, Terror, Spirit World, Pest Control

I took a car over to Knockdown Center from Le Poisson Rouge to get to Obituary on time.  Lo and behold they were still setting up.  Since I was splitting shows, I missed the rest of this bill completely.  

This year Obituary is celebrating and touring on the 35th anniversary of Cause of Death, their second album from 1990.  Of course, their big 'hit' with me is the title track from the debut "Slowly We Rot" which they did for an encore.  In any event, this is the third time I've seen them and second time in the past year since I've started this blog.  I probably enjoyed them most tonight of the three.  For whatever reason, I was in the mood.  I was gonna say, I probably don't have much else to say about Obituary since the last time I wrote about them.  Then I looked at the write-up and I wrote very little, yet it was exactly what I would have written today if I never wrote about them before.  I'll just link that below.  They kicked the show off with Pat Travers blaring "Snortin' Whiskey" which I was teaching myself the bass line from some hick on YouTube for an aborted cover band.

Slowly we rot!

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
Obituary @ Palladium Times Square, New York, NY 10/12/24



























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