OBITIARY bassist Frank Watkins is featured in a new interview with The Metal Forge conducted by Simon Milburn. An excerpt from the story is available below.

"The thing is with us is when we write music and we put stuff together, we try not to be like anybody else. That’s our goal – our biggest thing. People would be like, ‘You guys sound like Celtic Frost’ or, ‘You guys sound like Slayer’ but we’re always trying not to sound like anything. We want to sound like our own distinct thing. We’ve never tried to sound a little bit like Metallica or a little bit like Slipknot. We’ve just always wanted to be just so heavy, so brutal, we had this idea in our heads that we wanted to be old school and we wanted to keep true to what we do and I think that has a lot to do with how our style and how we evolved to what we are. We’re definitely into metal. We’re fans of old school metal and thrash and stuff like that but we really don’t keep up with a lot of new stuff that’s out there now. New death metal, it’s almost like it’s saturated there’s so much stuff out there. So we kinda just keep it to our own vibe and what we do. When we get together to write a record, we just have this vibe of evil brutality and it just kinda flows out of us. It’s crazy when we get together. It kinda just pours right out of us and it’s that unique style. We know what that style is. We know what we have and when we sit down a put a record together, and we listen to it when it’s all finished, we’re like ‘Yep, that’s Obituary. No doubt about it.’”

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As previously reported, music lesson website PlayThisRiff.com is now featuring lesson videos with guitarists Ralph Santolla and Trevor Peres of OBITUARY.

At PlayThisRiff.com you will find the following lesson videos by Obituary:

* 'Evil Ways'

* 'Evil Ways' Solo (Part 1)

* 'Evil Ways' Solo (Part 2)

* 'Blood To Give'

* Ralph's Arpeggio Exercise

* Ralph's Practice Tips

* Ralph's Current Gear

* 'Slowly We Rot'

* 'Insane'

The lesson video for 'Evil Ways' Solo (Part 2) can be viewed below.

The printable tabs for 'Evil Ways' Solo (Part 2) are available at this location.

Darkest Day, the new album from Obituary, landed at #32 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

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