Terry Butler

{{short description|American bassist|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{other people|Terry Butler}} {{distinguish|Geezer Butler}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2016}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Terry Butler | image = Obituary Party.San Metal Open Air 2023 17 (cropped).jpg | caption = Butler in 2023 | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} | origin = Tampa, Florida, U.S. | occupation = Musician | instrument = Bass guitar | genre = Death metal | years_active = 1986–present | current_member_of = {{flatlist| * Obituary * Inhuman Condition }} | past_member_of = {{flatlist| * Death * Six Feet Under * Massacre }} }}

'''Terry Butler''' is an American musician who is currently the bassist for the death metal bands Obituary and Inhuman Condition. He was also a member of Six Feet Under, Massacre, and Death.

He is married with three children{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}, and is brother-in-law of former Six Feet Under bandmate Greg Gall.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} On May 7, 2019,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=DiVita |first=Joe|date=May 16, 2019 |title=Obituary Bassist Terry Butler's Daughter Killed in Car Crash |url=https://loudwire.com/obituary-bassist-daughter-killed-car-crash/ |access-date=August 30, 2023 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}</ref> Butler's then 27-year-old daughter, Jona Wright, died in a single-vehicle car accident after her car came off the road and was overturned multiple times, also leaving Butler's two grandsons, ages 6 and 10 at the time, who were also in the vehicle, with minor injuries.<ref name=":0" />

==Discography== [[File:Obituary - 7.12.2012 - Music Hall, Geiselwind 02.jpg|thumb|Butler with Obituary in 2012]]

===Death=== *''Spiritual Healing'' (1990) Though Butler is also credited on Death's 1988 release ''Leprosy'', he did not play on the album.<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Death by Metal |date=2016|time=20 minutes 34 seconds}}</ref> The bass was instead performed by sole constant member Chuck Schuldiner, with Butler joining the band after the album was completed; though Schuldiner defended Butler's inclusion on the album's credits, stating "Terry contributed to the songwriting as well".<ref>[http://www.emptywords.org/MetalForcesissue47-02-1990.htm ''High Spirits'', Krgin, B., Metal Forces #47 Feb 1990], (retrieved February 13, 2013)</ref>

===Massacre=== *''From Beyond'' (1991) *''Inhuman Condition'' (1992) *''Back from Beyond'' (2014)

===Six Feet Under=== * ''Haunted'' (1995) * ''Alive and Dead'' (1996) * ''Warpath'' (1997) *''Maximum Violence'' (1999) *''Graveyard Classics'' (2000) *''True Carnage'' (2001) *''Bringer of Blood'' (2003) *''Graveyard Classics 2'' (2004) *''13'' (2005) *''Commandment'' (2007) *''Death Rituals'' (2008) *''Graveyard Classics 3'' (2010) *''Wake the Night! Live in Germany'' (2011)

===Obituary=== * ''Inked in Blood'' (2014) *''Ten Thousand Ways to Die'' (2016) * ''Obituary'' (2017) * ''Dying of Everything'' (2023)

===Inhuman Condition=== * ''Rat God'' (2021) * ''Fearsick'' (2022) * ''Panic Prayer'' (2023)

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