Origin: Arlington, Virginia, USA  
Genres: Death Metal
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Last update/review: September 8, 2024

Deceased

Deceased is one of two bands led by one King Fowley, a popular metal personality in his home state of Virginia (his other band is October 31). Formed back in 1985, they became the first band signed to the fledgling Relapse Record label in 1990. They are often lumped in the death metal category, but this isn't entirely appropriate, as while Fowley's vocals fit this tag, much of the music is more rooted in traditional eighties metal, with some thrash and death touches. The result is a raw but forceful metal sound that, at least on Supernatural Addiction (the only album reviewed here), is quite good.

King Fowley has stepped down as drummer of the group for health reasons, but will continue to lead the band as vocalist. Dave Castillo has been recruited to take over on drums.

Recent album: Children Of The Morgue, released on August 30, 2024.

Current Members

King Fowley

vocals/drums (October 31)

Mike Smith

guitars

Shane Fuegel

guitars

Les Snyder

bass

Amos Rifkin

drums

Former Members/Guests

Matt Altieri (guest)

guitars

Matt Ibach

guitars (October 31)

Mark Adams

guitars

Chris Paolino

bass

Walter White

bass (Black Manta)

Dave Castillo

drums (ex-October 31) RIP: November 12, 2018, drowned, age 43

Eric Mayes

drums RIP: December 17, 2015, age 41


Discography



Luck Of The Corpse  
1992 Relapse
  1. Fading Survival
  2. The Cemetary's Full
  3. Experimenting With Failure
  4. Futuristic Doom
  5. Haunted Cerebellum
  6. Decrepit Coma
  7. Shrieks From The Hearse
  8. Psychedelic Warriors
  9. Feasting On Skulls
  10. Birth By Radiation
  11. Gutwrench
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder


The 13 Frightened Souls  EP
1993 Relapse
  1. The 13 Frightened Souls
  2. Robotic Village
  3. Voivod
  4. Planet Graveyard
  5. Nuclear Exorcist
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder


The Blueprint For Madness  
1995 Relapse
  1. Morbid Shape In Black
  2. The Triangle
  3. Island of The Unknown
  4. The Blueprints for Madness
  5. The Creek of The Dead
  6. Mind Vampires
  7. Into The Bizarre
  8. Alternate Dimensions
  9. Midnight
  10. Negative Darkness
  11. A Reproduction of Tragedy
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder


Death Metal From The Grave  DEMO RE-RELEASE
1995 Last World
  1. Immune To Burial
  2. Worship The Coffin
  3. Birth By Radiation
  4. Vomiting Blood
  5. Virus
  6. Deformed Tomorrows
  7. Nuclear Exorcist
  8. Shrieks From The Hearse
  9. A Trip To The Morgue
  10. After The Bloodshed
  11. Sick Thrash
  12. Futuristic Doom (Live)
  13. Haunted Cerebellum (Live)
  14. Robotic Village (Live)
  15. Die Hard


Fearless Undead Machines  
1997 Relapse
  1. The silent creature
  2. Contamination
  3. Fearless undead machines
  4. From the ground they came
  5. Night of the deceased
  6. Graphic repulsion
  7. Mysterious research
  8. Beyond science
  9. Unhuman drama
  10. The psychic
  11. Destiny
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder
1997 Readers' Album #55



Supernatual Addiction  
2000 Relapse
  1. The premonition
  2. Dark chilling heartbeat
  3. A very familiar stranger
  4. Frozen screams
  5. The doll with the hideous spirit
  6. The hanging soldier
  7. Chambers of the waiting blind
  8. Elly's dementia
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder


Up The Tombstones!!! Live 2000  LIVE
2000 Thrash Corner
  1. The Silent Creature
  2. The Premonition
  3. The 13 Frightened Souls
  4. Robotic Village
  5. The Triangle
  6. Dark Chilling Heartbeat
  7. Fearless Undead Machines
  8. The Psychic
  9. Headhunter
  10. Sick Thrash
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder


Behind The Mourner's Veil  EP
2001 Relapse
  1. It's Alive!
  2. The Mousoleum
  3. Zombie Attack
  4. Reaganomics
  5. New Age Of Total Warfare
  6. Deathrider
  7. Victims Of The Masterplan I. The Child Murders
  8. Victims Of The Masterplan II. Confession And Fear
  9. Victims Of The Masterplan III. Speculation
  10. Victims Of The Masterplan IV. The Masterplan
  11. Victims Of The Masterplan V. Forever We Must Wonder
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder


Zombie Hymns (covers)  
2001 Crook'd
  1. Black Metal
  2. Violence And Force
  3. Witching Metal
  4. Two Minutes To Midnight
  5. S.A.T.O.
  6. Blower
  7. Doomed By The Living Dead
  8. Dis-organ-ized
  9. Die By The Sword
  10. Not To Touch The Earth
  11. Metal Church
  12. Wrathchild
  13. Bombs Of Death
  14. Fire In The Sky
  15. Nuns Have No Fun
  16. Headhunter (live)
  17. Stay Clean
  18. Die Hard
  19. Tormentor
  20. Chemical Warfare


The Radiation Years  DEMO RE-RELEASE
2002 Cursed
  1. Birth By Radiation
  2. Vomiting Blood
  3. Virus
  4. Hallucinating Mutants
  5. Worship The Coffin
  6. Immune To Burial
  7. Decrepit Coma
  8. Deformed Tomorrows
  9. Nuclear Exorcist
  10. Shrieks From The Hearse
  11. A Trip To The Morgue
  12. Below The Tombstone
  13. Planet Graveyard
  14. Futuristic Doom
  15. Haunted Cerebellum
  16. After The Bloodshed '98
  17. Vomiting Blood '98
  18. Immune To Burial '98
  19. Sick Thrash '98


Corpses, Souls And Other Strangeness  COMPILATION
2003 Khaosmaster


Rotten To The Core  COVERS
2004 Malt Soda
  1. I'm Not Jesus
  2. Here To Stay
  3. False Profit
  4. Ultra Violent
  5. Nothing
  6. World Peace
  7. Eliminator
  8. You Stupid Jerk
  9. Corporate Death Burger
  10. Right Brigade
  11. Violent World
  12. V.A. Rocks Your Liver
  13. California Uber Alles
  14. Social Security
  15. State Oppression
  16. Bodies
  17. Subliminal (live)
  18. Mad Man
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder
  • Dave Castillo


Legions Of Arrggghhhh  
2004 Trauma


As The Weird Travel On  
2005 Thrash Corner
  1. The Kept
  2. The Funeral Parlour's Secret
  3. A Witness to Suspiria
  4. Unwanted Memories
  5. Missing a Pulse
  6. Craving Illness
  7. A Visit From Dread
  8. Fright
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder
  • Dave Castillo


Inject The Ugliness  EP
2007 Diabolist
  1. Agents Of Steel
  2. Iron Heads
  3. Black Metal
  4. Voivod
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Mark Adams
  • Les Snyder
  • Dave Castillo


Night Of The Deceased  COMPILATION
2009 Hard Rocker
  1. The Kept
  2. Night of the Deceased
  3. Haunted Cerebellum
  4. Experimenting With Failure
  5. The 13 Frightened Souls
  6. Mind Vampires
  7. Graphic Repulsion
  8. The Premonition
  9. It's Alive
  10. A Very Familiar Stranger
  11. A Witness to Suspiria
  12. The Blueprints for Madness
  13. Fright


Stalking The Airwaves  LIVE
2010 Outlaw
  1. Night of the Deceased
  2. A Witness of Suspiria
  3. Fading Suvival
  4. Robotic Village
  5. Haunted Cerebellum
  6. The Silent Creature
  7. Fearless Undead Machines
  8. Black Metal
  • King Fowley
  • Shane Fuegel
  • Matt Altieri
  • Chris Paolino
  • Eric Mayes


Surreal Overdose  
2011
  1. Skin Crawling Progress
  2. Kindred Assembly
  3. The Traumatic
  4. Cloned (Day of the Robot)
  5. Off-Kilter
  6. In the Laboratory of Joyous Gloom
  7. A Doom-Laden Aura
  8. Dying in Analog
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Shane Fuegel
  • Les Snyder


Ghostly White  
2018 Hell's Headbangers
  1. The Shivers
  2. In A Quiet Town
  3. Mrs. Allardyce
  4. The Germ Of Distorted Lore
  5. To Serve The Insane
  6. Poor Jessica's Drifted Away
  7. A Palpitation's Warning
  8. Mrs. Allardyce
  9. Germ of Distorted Lore
  10. A Palpitation's Warning
  11. To Serve the Insane
  12. Endless Well
  13. The Shivers
  14. Thoughts from a Leaking Brain
  15. Pale Surroundings
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Shane Fuegel
  • Les Snyder
  • Dave Castillo


Death Metal From The Dave  LIVE
2019
  1. Night of the Deceased
  2. The Premonition
  3. Fading Survival
  4. The Mausoleum
  5. Psychadelic Warriors
  6. Morbid Shape in Black
  7. The Silent Creature
  8. Haunted Cerebellum
  9. The Triangle
  10. Fearless Undead Machines
  • King Fowley
  • Shane Fuegel
  • Matt Ibach
  • Walter White
  • Dave Castillo


Rotten To The Core Part (The Nightmare Continues)  COVERS
2020
  1. Apocalypse Now (Final Conflict cover)
  2. Spooge (Lethal Aggression cover)
  3. All Twisted (Kraut cover)
  4. I like Cola (Outo cover)
  5. It'll Be Alright (H.R. cover)
  6. Protest and Survive (Discharge cover)
  7. Mercenary (Toxic Reasons cover)
  8. Martha Splatterhead (The Accüsed cover)
  9. Orgasm Addict (Buzzcocks cover)
  10. Cheese Is Fantastic (Stikky cover)
  11. No Limbs (Crucifix cover)
  12. Dirt And Decay (Die Kreuzen cover)
  13. Vomitheads (Impulse Manslaughter cover)
  14. Use Your Head (Uniform Choice cover)
  15. Decapitated (Broken Bones cover)
  16. They Wouldn't (Depression cover)
  17. London Calling (The Clash cover)
  18. M.A.D. (Cryptic Slaughter cover)
  • King Fowley
  • Shane Fuegel
  • Matt Ibach
  • Walter White
  • Amos Rifkin


Thrash Times At Ridgemont High  COVERS
2021 Hell's Headbangers
  1. . Spit on Your Grave (Whiplash cover)
  2. Pray for Death (Blessed Death cover)
  3. Sacrifice (Sacrifice cover)
  4. Get Stoned (Stone cover)
  5. Into the Universe (Artillery cover)
  6. Take This Torch (Razor cover)
  7. Thrashing Rage (Voivod cover)
  8. Death Squad (Darkness cover)
  9. In the Grip of Evil (Cyclone cover)
  10. Demons (Rigor Mortis cover)
  11. Demon Preacher (Deathwish cover)
  12. Ilona (The Very Best) (Bulldozer cover)


The Triangle  EP
2023
  1. The Triangle (live)
  2. Apocalypse Now (Final Conflict cover)
  3. Ilona (The Very Best) (Bulldozer cover)
  • King Fowley
  • Mike Smith
  • Shane Fuegel
  • Les Snyder
  • Amos Rifkin


Children Of The Morgue  
2024 Hell's Headbangers
  1. Destination: Morgue
  2. Children of the Morgue
  3. Turn to Wither
  4. Terrornaut
  5. The Reaper Is Nesting
  6. Uninvited Dirge
  7. The Grave Digger
  8. Eerie Wavelengths
  9. Fed to Mother Earth
  10. Skull with the Vacant Stare
  11. Brooding Lament
  12. Farewell (Taken to Forever)



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