# Terry Butler

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{{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](/source/Tampa%2C_Florida), U.S.
| occupation        = Musician
| instrument        = Bass guitar
| genre             = [Death metal](/source/Death_metal)
| years_active      = 1986–present
| current_member_of = {{flatlist|
* [Obituary](/source/Obituary_(band))
* Inhuman Condition
}}
| past_member_of    = {{flatlist|
* [Death](/source/Death_(metal_band))
* [Six Feet Under](/source/Six_Feet_Under_(band))
* [Massacre](/source/Massacre_(metal_band))
}}
}}

'''Terry Butler''' is an American musician who is currently the bassist for the [death metal](/source/death_metal) bands [Obituary](/source/Obituary_(band)) and Inhuman Condition. He was also a member of [Six Feet Under](/source/Six_Feet_Under_(band)), [Massacre](/source/Massacre_(metal_band)), and [Death](/source/Death_(metal_band)).

He is married with three children{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}, and is brother-in-law of former Six Feet Under bandmate [Greg Gall](/source/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](/source/Obituary_(band)) in 2012]]

===Death===
*''[Spiritual Healing](/source/Spiritual_Healing_(album))'' (1990)
Though Butler is also credited on Death's 1988 release [''Leprosy''](/source/Leprosy_(album)), 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](/source/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](/source/From_Beyond_(Massacre_album))'' (1991)
*''[Inhuman Condition](/source/Inhuman_Condition)'' (1992)
*''Back from Beyond'' (2014)

===Six Feet Under===
* ''[Haunted](/source/Haunted_(Six_Feet_Under_album))'' (1995)
* ''[Alive and Dead](/source/Alive_and_Dead)'' (1996)
* ''[Warpath](/source/Warpath_(Six_Feet_Under_album))'' (1997)
*''[Maximum Violence](/source/Maximum_Violence)'' (1999)
*''[Graveyard Classics](/source/Graveyard_Classics)'' (2000)
*''[True Carnage](/source/True_Carnage)'' (2001)
*''[Bringer of Blood](/source/Bringer_of_Blood)'' (2003)
*''[Graveyard Classics 2](/source/Graveyard_Classics_2)'' (2004)
*''[13](/source/13_(Six_Feet_Under_album))'' (2005)
*''[Commandment](/source/Commandment_(album))'' (2007)
*''[Death Rituals](/source/Death_Rituals)'' (2008)
*''[Graveyard Classics 3](/source/Graveyard_Classics_3)'' (2010)
*''Wake the Night! Live in Germany'' (2011)

===Obituary===
* ''[Inked in Blood](/source/Inked_in_Blood)'' (2014)
*''[Ten Thousand Ways to Die](/source/Ten_Thousand_Ways_to_Die)'' (2016)
* ''[Obituary](/source/Obituary_(album))'' (2017)
* ''[Dying of Everything](/source/Dying_of_Everything)'' (2023)

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

==References==
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