Autopsy "severed survival"

I was around for the birth of death metal.  Not only was I around but I was paying attention.  Through an older hesher at school I was introduced to tape trading.  A culture of people copying and compiling casettes and trading them through the mail.  The older metal head gave me a couple of xeroxed contact lists and a cassette with morbid angel first demo and on the flips side a demo by the band Thantos.  It was my starter kit.  I went full bore: soaping and reusing postage stamps, copying covers at school when no one was in the office and stealing cassette tapes from my sister whenever possible.  I was introduced to a lot of awesome burgeoning metal bands.  Some destined for great things and some to remain in obscurity.  To quote a friend of mine: "I didn't know music could get this heavy!"  I received a demo by the band #autopsy during this time.  It was one of my favorites, when their full length was finally released it had different cover art than this reissue.  It had zombie surgeons peering down at the viewer who was the "patient" under medical lights.  Man, I loved that cover.  Their sludgey death metal still gets the hair to stand up on my neck.  Whenever people wax about "old-school " this is the stuff that I think of.  I think about all the loving effort and work that went into getting our hands on this stuff. It made the music that much cooler.