Effigy of the Forgotten is the debut full-length album by New York-based brutal death metal band Suffocation, released in 1991. The cover artwork was created by Dan Seagrave. Several of the tracks had appeared on earlier releases: "Reincremation" and "Involuntary Slaughter" were re-recorded from the Reincremated demo, while "Infecting the Crypts", "Mass Obliteration", and "Jesus Wept" appeared originally on the Human Waste EP. The album became very influential in the death metal and grindcore genres, and is credited with the establishment of many stylistic features which would come to typify the genre that came to be known as brutal death Read more on Last.fm.
