Autopsy

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 following 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, helping to birth death metal and the associated genre of death-doom. They have released nine studio albums.