Here are the 5 most brutal albums of all time, chosen by Fit For an Autopsy guitarist and veteran producer Will Putney.

For virtually 15 years, Fit For an Autopsy have been on the forefront of brutality, asserting themselves as one of the period’s most vital underground heavyweights. With one other album boasting 10 extra slabs of darkish, crushing excessive steel, we needed to know what fuels Putney’s affinity for bone-cracking riffs.

But first…

What You Need to Know About Fit For An Autopsy

From: Jersey City, New Jersey

First Album: The Process of Human Extermination (2011)

New Album: The Nothing That Is

“The Nothing That Is is a full realization of our identity and intention,” Fit For an Autopsy state about the forthcoming record, their seventh studio LP. “Every song on this record serves a purpose and it feels like our most dynamic and powerful album to date. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.”

It definitely is dynamic, evidenced by “Hostage” and its expansive moodiness.

“‘Hostage’ is an examination of the human trauma and grief one carries by means of life. The incapability to flee occasions of the previous mixed with the sensation of an more and more darkish future can weigh on an individual like nothing else. This tune is meant to seize that complicated and overwhelming emotion and conveys the adverse aspect of a sorrowed existence,” the group explains.

Fit For an Autopsy, “Hostage” Music Video

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This bleak, all-consuming darkness and Fit For an Autopsy’s masterful ability to envelop us in it is what this band does best.

The Nothing That Is, another triumph in the band’s catalog, boasts more distinctly heavy riffs from Putney and co. and the time has come to see his picks for the most brutal records ever, directly below.

Follow Fit For An Autopsy on Instagram, X and Facebook and visit their website to see all upcoming tour dates. ‘The Nothing That Is’ comes out Oct. 25 on Nuclear Blast — get your copy here.