Autopsy's Chris Reifert

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Chris Reifert (born February 23, 1968) is an American death metal musician. He is the founder, vocalist, and drummer of Autopsy. He was previously a founding member of Abscess, and drummer for Death.

Reifert had a friend who was a DJ at a local radio station that was running an ad for musicians “Musicians needed for the new lineup of Death, or something like that.” He heard about it before the ad had aired. He was a fan of the band, and had already been collecting the band’s demos, and initially doubted it could have been the same Death that he was familiar with. Reifert responded to the ad, and him and Schuldiner began creating music with one another. Reifert played drums on the Death debut album, Scream Bloody Gore. After parting ways with Chuck Schuldiner in 1987, Reifert elected to remain in the San Francisco Bay Area, forming Autopsy in 1987. In his own band, he played not only drums but performed the vocals as well. He said he started singing out of necessity after trying several friends out on vocals. Cutler and Reifert started off sharing vocal duties before Cutler eventually grew tired of it, and Reifert assumed lead vocal duties. He describes singing and drumming as a “workout.” After several albums,
Autopsy split up in 1995 and Reifert and bandmate Danny Coralles began playing in their side-project, Abscess full-time. Autopsy reformed after Abscess' dissolution in 2010.

Chris Reifert is also known for his many side-projects, including the Ravenous, Doomed, Eat My Fuk, and Violation Wound. He has also performed guest vocals on Machetazo's Sinfonias del Terror Ciego and the Autopsy-inspired Murder Squad's Ravenous, Murderous, with further guest appearances for Immortal Fate, Nuclear Death, and "Cathedral of the Damned" on Cathedral's final album, The Last Spire.

Autopsy is an American death metal band formed in Contra Costa County, California, in 1987 by Chris Reifert and Eric Cutler, after Reifert departed from Death after the release of the demo Mutilation (1986) and their debut album Scream Bloody Gore (1987). The group disbanded in 1995 and reunited in 2008. The band's hometown is in Concord, California.
The band, along with Death, Possessed, Obituary, Deicide and Morbid Angel are regarded as among the founders of modern death metal. Their first two albums, Severed Survival (1989) and Mental Funeral (1991), are regarded as genre-defining landmarks for the genre, helping to birth death metal and the associated genre of death-doom. They have released nine studio albums.

History

Initial career

Autopsy was formed in August 1987 by Chris Reifert and Eric Cutler, shortly after Reifert's departure from Death. The band recorded a demo that year, Demo '87, before Danny Coralles joined in 1988 immediately prior to the recording of their second demo, Critical Madness, and along with Reifert and Cutler, would be a constant in the band's lineup. The band signed to Peaceville Records and released their debut album, Severed Survival in 1989. These early recordings featured a pioneering death metal style that adopted a slower, doom metal influenced sound.

Autopsy participated in what was dubbed the "Blood Brothers tour" in Europe with Bolt Thrower and Pestilence in 1990. The three bands took turns headlining. Reifert recalled thinking the name of the tour, which the promoter had come up with, was "kind of dumb." He said, "I remember they made a tour shirt that was equally dumb. We were like, 'Oh, yeah,
happy flying skulls...' That was a stupid shirt. So that was definitely not our doing, any of that stuff." Reifert claimed that the band received no payment for the shows, and that the promoter "ran off to Thailand with the money," never to be seen by them again.

The next full-length, Mental Funeral, continued the death-doom style of Severed Survival and has since been cited by many other death metal musicians as particularly influential. Having completed a successful European tour soon after Mental Funeral, the band reentered the studio to record the Fiend for Blood EP, which was followed by their third full-length, Acts of the Unspeakable, which featured shorter songs and a more grindcore influenced sound. A difficult US tour in 1993 led to the decision to disband Autopsy after the recording of a final album. Shitfun, released in early 1995, was heavily influenced by hardcore punk and would prepare fans for Abscess, previously a side-project of Danny Coralles and Chris Reifert, which would
become their main band after Autopsy's demise.

Autopsy was featured in the 2005 music documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey when the film's narrator and star, Sam Dunn read aloud a verse from the band's song "Charred Remains".