Dave Otero

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Dave Otero / Crutch

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Deadstate Serberus Dethroned

ex Aberrant

American musician, producer and studio engineer. Founder and owner of Flatline Audio, Denver, CO.

ALBUMS

The Ossuary Lens

Melodic Death Metal/Technical Death Metal

The Ugly Side Of Me

Vault Of Horrors

2024, Vinyl Red / Blue Merge [Sunburst],

Where The Cold Wind Blows

2023, Vinyl Oxblood,

Cattle Decapitation

2023, 2x Vinyl Purple Blend [Winds Of Solastalgia],

2022, 2x Vinyl Transparent Smoky Black Marbled,

Death Metal/Technical Death Metal

A New Found Rain

Bleed The Future

Doomed Heavy Metal

Nuclear Power Trio

A Clear And Present Rager

Return To Hemmersmoor

In The Company Of Serpents

Progressive Metal

Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation

Medium Rarities

2018, Vinyl Rare,

Death Metal/Grindcore/Goregrind

Manor Of The Se7en Gables

2018, Vinyl Red Black Marbled, Vinyl Red Black Marbled, All Media, CD,

2017, CD, Album, Not On Label (Tetrarch Self-released)

Khemmis / Spirit Adrift

Fraught With Peril

Act Of Defiance

Old Scars, New Wounds

Relentless Mutation

Native Daughters

Master Manipulator

2016, LP, Album, Ltd, Gre, Sailor Records (3)

A Pound Of Flesh And Nothing Less B/w We Aren't Stable

2015, 2xFile, MP3, 320, Not On Label (Ricochet (11) Self-released)

Pre-dating God Part 2

Pre-dating God Part 1

Cattle Decapitation

The Anthropocene Extinction

In The Company Of Serpents

Merging In Light

2013, CD, Album, Not On Label (Arcanium Self-released)

Tormented To Oblivion

2013, LP, Album, Red, Not On Label (Enemy Reign Self-released)

Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation

Monolith Of Inhumanity

Celebration For The Love Of Satan

By The Hands Of The Devil

Black Metal/Heavy Metal

Encounter The Monolith

2010, CD, Album, Not On Label (Martriden Self-released)

Cephalic Carnage

Misled By Certainty

Grindcore/Death Metal

The Breathing Process

Odyssey: (Un)Dead

Fragments Of Form And Function

2009, CD, Album, Not On Label

2008, CD, Album, Not On Label (AnaDies Self-released)

The Unsettling Dark

Flesh And Vengence

2007, CDr, EP, Not On Label (Morbus Deus Self-released)

Blood Reigns Over A Pathetic World

2007, CD, Album, Comp, Ltd, Fist Music

Satanic Grimoire: A Greater Black Magick

Another November

2005, CD, Album, Not On Label

Aggressive Persuasion

Prolonged Farewells

2005, CD, Album, Not On Label (Aggressive Persuasion Self-released)

2005, Vinyl Gold Marbled,

2004, CD, Album, Not On Label (AnaDies Self-released)

Stormbringer - Conjuration Of The Nighthorde

2004, CD, Album, Enh, Crash Music, Crash Music

Forth Yeer Freshman

2004, CD, Album, Not On Label (Forth Yeer Freshman Self-released)

2004, CD, Album, Not On Label

The Burning Horizon At The End Of Dawn

Postmortem Apocalypse

2002, CDr, Not On Label (Throcult Self-released)

2002, CD, Album, Enh, Crash Music,

Cephalic Carnage

Halls Of Amenti

Cephalic Carnage

Our Dying Grace

2001, CD, MiniAlbum, Enh, Not On Label (Serberus Self-released),

Call Of The Void

The Sound Of Burning Bridges

2014, CD, Album, Pando Records

The Life Forsaken EP

2009, CDr, Not On Label (Defeat The Lie Self-released)

Shadow Of Intent

Imperium Delirium

Suffer & Become

The Last Of Lucy

House Of The Black Geminus

Death And The Black Work + Rex Ex Ordine Throni

2023, 3xLP, Comp, Bla, Debemur Morti Productions

Infinite Terror

2022, File, AAC, Single, 256, Nuclear Blast

2021, Flexi, 7", Shape, S/Sided, Pic, Decibel Flexi Series, Nuclear Blast,

The Breathing Process

Vast And Infinite

2020, Flexi, 7", Shape, S/Sided, Decibel Flexi Series, Translation Loss Records

Heavy Metal/Death Metal/Math Rock/Progressive Metal/Technical Death Metal

The Lower Planes of Self-Abstraction

2019, LP, Album, Ltd, Cle, Silent Pendulum Records

Thrive On Neglect

Gods Without Name

Filth Ouroboros

Primitive Man (2) & Unearthly Trance

Primitive Man & Unearthly Trance

2017, CD, Album, Dark Descent Records

2017, Flexi, 7", S/Sided, Single, Ltd, Gre, Decibel Flexi Series

The Safety Abandon

2017, CD, EP, Not On Label

A Celebration Of Suffering

Act Of Defiance

Old Scars, New Wounds

In The Company Of Serpents

Gospels Of Scum

Death Metal/Black Metal

In The Company Of Serpents

Rendered Unto Ash

2015, File, FLAC, Not On Label (In The Company Of Serpents Self-released)

The Collapse of All to Come

2014, CD, Album, ENTELODON

Children Of The Iron Age

Ego Dominus Tuus

Cattle Decapitation

Monolith Of Inhumanity

Grindcore/Death Metal/Experimental

Complete Grindworks 2012

Nightbringer / Acherontas

The Ruins Of Edom

To Anabainon Ek Tes Abyssu

Hierophany Of The Open Grave

Of Serpent And Shadow

Engage The Mechanicality

Death And The Black Work

Technical Death Metal

2007, CD, EP, Not On Label (Cryogen (2) Self-released)

Cephalic Carnage

Grindcore/Death Metal

Looking For An Answer / Catheter

Miserable Realidad / Cancerous Growth

2006, 7", EP, Parade Records,

Fifth Sun Falls

Fifth Sun Falls

2006, CDr, Not On Label (Fifth Sun Falls Self-released)

Immortal Dominion

Awakening: The Revelation

2005, CD, Album, Cogent Productions

Security Threat

The Truth Is Out

2005, CD, Album, Selfmadegod Records

Cephalic Carnage

2004, CD, EP, Not On Label (Apathy (8) Self-released)

Birdflesh / Catheter

Time To Face Extinction

Catheter / F.U.B.A.R.

Conspiracy Control / Draw The Line

Burning The Born Again... (A New Philosophy)

2003, 7", EP, Selfish Fucker Records,

2003, CD, Album, Ltd, Not On Label (Apathy (8) Self-released)

Catheter / Unholy Grave

Grindcore Split EP

2003, Vinyl Clear,

Thrash/Grindcore

Black Market Fetus

Midwest Meltdown

Preamble To Oblivion

1999, CDr, Not On Label (Serberus Self-released),

Thrash/Death Metal

APPEARANCES +

Sowing The Seeds Of A Worthless Tomorrow

Sorceries Of Sanguine & Shadow

Oak, Ash & Thorn

2023, 7", Single, Ltd, Lost Future Records (2)

Sulphurous, Proscription

Below / The Midnight God

2023, 7", EP, Single, Desiccated Productions, Dark Descent Records

Anthropogenic Ruin

2023, CD, Album, The Metalhead Box

2022, 11xFile, AAC, Album, 256, Not On Label (Inebrians Self-released)

2022, File, AAC, Single, 256, Not On Label (Inebrians Self-released)

Thought Form Descent

All Virtues Ablaze

3rd Stage Of Decay

2021, File, AAC, Single, 256, Not On Label (Inebrians Self-released)

Cattle Decapitation

Cattle Decapitation

Fields Of Elysium

In Ancient Contemplation

2019, CD, Album, Ltd, Not On Label (Fields Of Elysium Self-released)

2019, File, MP3, 320, Not On Label (Worry (2) Self-released)

2019, File, MP3, 320, Not On Label (Worry (2) Self-released)

Kvlt Of The Ziox

2019, 5xFile, FLAC, MP3, EP, Not On Label

Atmospheres Of Desolation

Primitive Man (2) / Hell

Wisdom Through Shame

Debemur Morti / Servants Of Chaos II

2018, 2x Vinyl,

Black Metal/Atmospheric Black Metal/Experimental/Avantgarde/Post-Metal/Progressive Metal/Dark Ambient

Conqueror's Oath

Excavated For Evisceration

The Collapse EP

Ecliptic Butchery

Hymns From The Cellar

2017, Cass, EP, Ltd, Unspeakable Axe Records, Dark Descent Records

2017, File, MP3, 320, Not On Label (Worry (2) Self-released)

Echoes Of Dismemberment

2016, CD, Album, Unspeakable Axe Records, Dark Descent Records

Face Of Oblivion

Cataclysmic Desolation

Proponent For Sentience

Melodic Death Metal/Technical Death Metal

Putrisect Vs Scorched

Final State Of Existence

Only The Ruthless Remain

Home Is Where The Hatred Is

Elements Of The Infinite

The Path Of Apotheosis

Thorns Of Acanthus

The Ash In My Hands Will Salt My Wounds (EP)

Ego Dominus Tuus

Hessian (3) / Primitive Man

The Abyss Stares Back - Vol. II

Of Feather And Bone

Adorned In Decay

2012, 5xFile, MP3, Album, Not On Label (Stratagem Self-released)

Collapse (18) / Swells

Collapse / Swells

2011, 7", Ltd, Red, Ash From Sweat

CTTTOAFF* / Nesseria

CTTTOAFF / Nesseria

2011, Vinyl White, CDr,

Doom Metal/Grindcore/Death Metal/Hardcore

The Empire Shall Fall

Volume 1: Solar Plexus

2010, CD, EP, Car, Not On Label

Landfill Breastmilk Beast

2008, CD, EP, Profound Lore Records

Resurrection Of Reason

2008, CD, Album, Not On Label

Cephalic Carnage

Conforming To Abnormality

2007, CD, EP, Debello Recordings

Dethroned (4) / Excommunion

Dethroned / Excommunion

2006, CD, Album, Spl, Butchered Records, Sevared Records

Unholy Grave / Aberrant

Collapse EP / Wasted Future

2005, 7", EP, Gol, Selfish Fucker Records,

Grindcore/Death Metal

Aberrant (2) / D.H.I.B.A.C.

Aberrant / No Professionel

2004, 7", EP, Hombre Lobo Rec.

Iron Kind / Voodooshock

Lord Of Evil / Cordial Vicinity

2003, 7", Single, Ltd, Game Two Records, Psychedoomelic

Tyrants From The Abyss - A Tribute To Morbid Angel

Apathetic Feelings For A Pathetic World

2001, CD, Album, Not On Label (Apathy (8) Self-released)

Clusterfux + 4 Songs With Dave

CDr, EP, Not On Label (908 (2) Self-released)