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23 янв 2025 :	OBITUARY To Celebrate 35th Anniversary Of 'Cause Of Death' Album On North American Tour
1 окт 2024 :	Watch OBITUARY's Entire San Francisco Show; Fan-Filmed Video
16 авг 2024 :	OBITUARY To Celebrate 30th Anniversary Of 'World Demise' With Full-Album-Performance Livestream
20 апр 2024 :	OBITUARY Share "Barely Alive" Music Video
15 янв 2024 :	OBITUARY's DONALD TARDY On Former Guitarist ALLEN WEST: 'He Was His Own Enemy'
26 дек 2023 :	JOHN TARDY: There Are 'More Young Kids' And 'More Girls' Than Ever Coming To OBITUARY Shows
14 дек 2023 :	OBITUARY's JOHN TARDY Explains Why It Takes His Band Several Years To Release New Music
1 сен 2023 :	Car Crashes Into OBITUARY's Tour Bus In Glasgow, But 'The Show Must Go On'
28 авг 2023 :	OBITUARY - Pro-Shot Video Of Full Summer Breeze 2023 Set Streaming
24 апр 2023 :	OBITUARY Shares Music Video For 'Dying Of Everything' Title Track
11 апр 2023 :	OBITUARY Release Spatial Audio Version Of Dying Of Everything Album
1 апр 2023 :	OBITUARY Announces 'Barely-A-Live-Stream'
22 янв 2023 :	OBITUARY's DONALD TARDY Defends Production On METALLICA's '…And Justice For All' Album: 'I Thought It Was Killer'
17 янв 2023 :	OBITUARY's JOHN TARDY Says Opening For SLAYER On 2018 European Tour Was 'Awesome': 'Those Guys Were Super Cool'
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5 янв 2023 :	OBITUARY's DONALD TARDY On 'Dying Of Everything' Album: 'Somehow Magically All The Stars Lined Up For Us'
2 дек 2022 :	OBITUARY Shares 'Dying Of Everything' Title Track
15 ноя 2022 :	Watch: OBITUARY Performs New Song 'The Wrong Time' In Albuquerque
11 ноя 2022 :	OBITUARY Announces 'Dying Of Everything' Album, Shares 'The Wrong Time' Music Video
17 июл 2022 :	OBITUARY Announce Upcoming Multi-Format Releases Of Two Live Albums; Band To Tour North America With AMON AMARTH, CARCASS, CATTLE DECAPITATION
23 фев 2022 :	OBITUARY's New Album Is 'Done' But Won't Be Released 'Until Europe Opens Up'
2 фев 2022 :	Watch Pro-Shot Video Of OBITUARY Performing Entire 'Cause Of Death' Album In Melbourne, Australia
15 окт 2021 :	OBITUARY: Official Biography 'Turned Inside Out' Due In January
31 мар 2021 :	OBITUARY Covers POWER TRIP's 'Executioner's Tax' During Livestream (Video)
30 мар 2021 :	OBITUARY Fans Shouldn't Expect Surprises On Next Album: 'We Don't Like To Evolve Too Much'

19 окт 2015

Former OBITUARY Bassist FRANK WATKINS Dies At 47

Former OBITUARY bassist Frank Watkins has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 47 years old.

Watkins left OBITUARY in 2010 on acrimonious terms and was eventually replaced by Terry Butler.

Watkins started playing music at the age of 12 and joined OBITUARY in 1989, after the recording of the band's debut album, "Slowly We Rot". His first album with the group was their landmark 1990 LP, "Cause Of Death". OBITUARY broke up in 1997, but Watkins reteamed with his bandmates in 2003, and stayed with the group through the recording of 2009's "Darkest Day" LP.

Frank was also involved in managing, mentoring and guiding other bands and musicians through his management company Back From the Dead Productions, which he launched in 2007.

In late 2007, Watkins became the bassist of Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH, and in 2009 he participated in the recording of the GORGOROTH album "Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt". He made his live debut with the band at the Hole In The Sky festival in Bergen on August 29, 2009. This was the first concert GORGOROTH had performed since September 2007.

In an interview with Metal Maniacs published online in August 2009, Watkins explained that for his work with GORGOROTH he had taken the stage name "Bøddel", which means "Executioner" in Norwegian.

Watkins told Noisecreep in a 2009 interview that he once worked as a mortgage broker. "I had a mortgage company for a while and mortgages went out the window in America and it's all corporate," he said. "I worked for Wells Fargo for a long time and realized I could do this myself. I don't need a bank to pay me, so I just opened my own. Just as the mortgage industry dropped, OBITUARY said, 'Let's play again.' I let the company fizzle out in 2008. I decided to do music full-time since I could try and implement the business sense that I have and all the nightmares I suffered through in the music business!"

Watkins said that he honed his sharp-as-a-steak-knife business sense "probably from fighting with promoters at shows. All the shit we did in the band! When I started as a stock broker, I had gotten off a tour and OBITUARY decided we were not gonna do anything for a while. I saw my friend driving a Porsche in my neighborhood at the grocery store, and I was like, 'How do you afford that?' And he said he was working as a stock broker, so I told him to get me a job. I learned how to sell on the phone. It was hardcore and military-style shit. It was insane, but taught me a lot of negotiation skills."

Former OBITUARY Bassist FRANK WATKINS Dies At 47

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