Slowly We Rot is the debut studio album by American death metal band Obituary, released in 1989 through Roadrunner Records.

[6] Slowly We Rot is widely considered to be a landmark album in the development of the death metal genre, and its considered one of the first death metal albums ever recorded due to its guttural vocals, "breakneck speed", double bass drumming and blast beats.

Music journalist T Coles described Slowly We Rot as "the sound of being smashed to pieces by hammers, dropping the scalpel precision in favour of blunt trauma" as well as "a remorseless assault against the senses and body."

[7] The album has been said to have taken elements from early extreme metal bands Death and Possessed "to a new level of deathliness."

[...] These innovations don't seem so revolutionary now, given the innumerable death metal bands that arose during the '90s and beyond [...] But in 1989, Obituary were blazing a new trail, along with other Florida peers like Morbid Angel and, a bit later, Deicide, Malevolent Creation, and Cannibal Corpse.