Terry Butler
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Terry Butler | |
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Background information | |
Origin | Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
Genres | Death metal |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Instrument | Bass guitar |
Years active | 1986–present |
Member of | Obituary, Inhuman Condition |
Formerly of | Death, Six Feet Under, Massacre |
Terry Butler is an American bassist who currently performs with the death metal bands Obituary and Inhuman Condition. He was also a member of Six Feet Under, Massacre and Death.
He is married with three children[citation needed], and is brother-in-law of former Six Feet Under bandmate Greg Gall.[citation needed] On May 7, 2019,[1] Butler's then 27-year-old daughter, Jona Wright, died in a single-vehicle car accident after her car came off the road and was overturned multiple times, also leaving Butler's two grandsons, ages 6 and 10 at the time, who were also in the vehicle, with minor injuries.[1]
Discography
[edit]Death
[edit]- Spiritual Healing (1990)
Though Butler is also credited on Death's 1988 release Leprosy, he did not actually play on the album.[2] The bass was instead performed by sole member Chuck Schuldiner, with Butler joining the band after the album was completed; though Schuldiner defended Butler's inclusion on the album's credits, stating "Terry contributed to the songwriting as well".[3]
Massacre
[edit]- From Beyond (1991)
- Inhuman Condition (1992)
- Back from Beyond (2014)
Six Feet Under
[edit]- Haunted (1995)
- Alive and Dead (1996)
- Warpath (1997)
- Maximum Violence (1999)
- Graveyard Classics (2000)
- True Carnage (2001)
- Bringer of Blood (2003)
- Graveyard Classics 2 (2004)
- 13 (2005)
- Commandment (2007)
- Death Rituals (2008)
- Graveyard Classics 3 (2010)
- Wake the Night! Live in Germany (2011)
Obituary
[edit]- Inked in Blood (2014)
- Ten Thousand Ways to Die (2016)
- Obituary (2017)
- Dying of Everything (2023)
Inhuman Condition
[edit]- Rat God (2021)
- Fearsick (2022)
- Panic Prayer (2023)
References
[edit]- ^ a b DiVita, Joe (May 16, 2019). "Obituary Bassist Terry Butler's Daughter Killed in Car Crash". Loudwire. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ "Terry Butler - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives". www.metal-archives.com. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ High Spirits, Krgin, B., Metal Forces #47 Feb 1990, (retrieved February 13, 2013)
- 1967 births
- 20th-century American bass guitarists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American heavy metal bass guitarists
- American male bass guitarists
- Death (metal band) members
- Florida Republicans
- Guitarists from Florida
- Living people
- Massacre (metal band) members
- Musicians from Tampa, Florida
- Obituary (band) members
- Six Feet Under (band) members
- American bass guitarist stubs