The new album has 12 songs. It was produced by Obituary and Scott Burns and help-mixed by my live sound man, Big Shirt. So it's a combination of these that brought the production together. I was pretty excited about the new album because we've gone through a lot of shit, I think, using Morrisound every time, if you're familiar with it, if not, it's just a basic...we were...you know this is our fourth album using Morrisound and Scott Burns and a lot of people on the last album said they think we should have changed to try and make maybe a better album. We're really confident in our decision of going into Morrisound. We knew we had 12 songs for the new album, we went in there, we had quite a few different things ideas-wise, we had some samples that we have going throughout the songs, some songs that we wrote just for the samples, em, just a little different in, how can you say, in the song style, in the writing of the songs, there's maybe just a twist, a little more groove to the music and maybe just not so fast, maybe not a million-mile-an-hour bass drum but still songs that are very heavy but [that] are very easy to listen to for everybody in the crowd.
Donald Tardy / Obituary interview, July 1994
OBITUARY released their fourth album World Demise on this day in 1994 through Roadrunner.
The album was recorded a little bit more 'live', I think, because for one thing we didn't sample the snare drum and the toms and shit like we did on one of our albums. We did play live; I played my drums live in the studio, and the way we miked it has a lot of philosophy on what would sound good live. And we took that to the studio and really used that to the best of our ability to get a better production, I think, doing it that way.
Donald Tardy / Obituary interview, July 1994