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Ossuary Insane
12+ albums
death metalmetalamericanblack metalamerican death metal
about
A USA three member death metal band from Minnesota's Twin Cites that is well known in the underground. They remain one of the very few "Satanic" bands that relied heavily upon multiple vocal overlaying to achieve its trademark "demon" or "infernal" caustic sound effect and there are blatant uses of a pitch shifter within parts of their earlier recordings. The band also achieved much of its sound by choosing to record only on analog and by keeping all scratch tracks to give the albums a more dirty and "live" feel. They released one demo titled 'Fallen to the Pits' in 1995 under the name Ossuary. The band then changed their name to Ossuary Insane prior to the release of 'Demonize the Flesh' in early 1997 and their subsequent disbanding. The band suffered multiple line-up changes after the shotgun suicide of the original bassist in 1994. Internal struggles and conflicts between members throughout the band's life also left their sound in constant and inconsistent change. While the style of guitar riffs and structures remained intact, the bands vocal approach varied greatly with the addition in 1999 of a full time frontman, Shane Patten (Brick, Si6ks, Ghost Hook). Although with obvious variance from previous recordings both vocally and in its deviation from the bands usual raw and stripped down sound, 'The Cauldrons of Aborted Flesh' highlighted a more fine tuned and precise Death/Thrash act that proves to be one of the bands most competent. Forming and reforming, with only
