A savage and long-tenured California-based death metal unit with grindcore tendencies, Autopsy were founded in the late '80s. Employing a caustic blend of thrash, doom, and death, the band released a string of influential albums like Severed Survival (1991) and Mental Funeral (1991) before shutting down operations in 1995. The group reconvened in the 2010s and released the uncompromising full-length Macabre Eternal. Having lost none of the sonic malice that made their earlier material so essential to the American death metal movement, the venerable decibel-pushers continued to tour and record, issuing punishing full-lengths (2013's The Headless Ritual and Morbidity Triumphant [2022]) and EPs (2018's Puncturing the Grotesque) with youthful regularity.