Mental Funeral
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| Released | April 22, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | November 20 – 26, 1990 | |||
| Studio | Different Fur, San Francisco, California, USA | |||
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| Length | 37:54 | |||
| Label | Peaceville Records | |||
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Mental Funeral is the second album by American death metal band Autopsy, released on April 22, 1991 by Peaceville Records. The album was recorded at Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, and the band has attested that very little audio mixing was done on the final product.
Continuing in a similar vein as the band's previous album, Severed Survival, the band combines Death metal and Doom metal. The album's music draws influence from extreme metal acts such as Bathory. Lyrically, the album explores themes such as necrophilia.
Although the album polarized listeners when it was first released, it has come to be considered one of the most influential albums in the history of the death metal genre.