Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American Death metal band founded in 1988. The band has since released 10 studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album. Although Cannibal Corpse had virtually no radio and television exposure, a cult following began to build behind the group with albums like 1991's Butchered at Birth and 1992's Tomb of the Mutilated.

Cannibal Corpse mostly draws influence from thrash metal bands, such as Slayer;[1] other death metal bands, such as Death, have also played a major role in establishing their sound.[1] Cannibal Corpse is known for their horror fiction-themed lyrics, and highly explicit album covers and song titles.

Biography

Cannibal Corpse formed from the ashes of three Buffalo-area death metal bands, Beyond Death (Webster, Owen), Leviathan (Barnes), and Tirant Sin (Barnes, Rusay, Mazurkiewicz). The band played their first show at Buffalo's River Rock Cafe in April 1989, shortly after recording a five-song demo tape Cannibal Corpse, aka Skull Full of Maggots. Within a year of that first gig, the band were signed to Metal Blade Records and their full-length, debut album, Eaten Back To Life, was released in August 1990.

Cannibal Corpse's music is known for its death grunt singing style. Like other death metal groups who have songs about rape, murder and necrophilia, the band's lyrics and the imagery on their album covers are often explicitly sexual and violent. Their albums were censored and banned in several countries; in Germany, they were not allowed to play any song from one of their first three albums in concert, not allowed to play at all in the state of Bavaria, not allowed to display the original cover images (drawn by Vincent Locke), nor to print the lyrics in their CD booklets.[citation needed] They were banned in Australia but were allowed to perform there for a 2006 Tour.[citation needed]

Much like directors who helm zombie horror films, Cannibal Corpse prides itself on its graphic imagery as nothing more than an extreme form of over-the-top entertainment. As vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher comments in the music documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, "it's art, just look at it as art. Yeah, it's disgusting, ... but go to the Vatican and look at some of the art there. That's real, that's representing something that's real, that could happen. This [artwork], you know, that's never going to happen ... monsters aren't going to rip out of people's bodies anytime soon".

Fisher also stated his frustration in an interview regarding the DADV of live performances of certain songs, saying "We can play 'Dismembered and Molested' in Germany but we cannot play 'Born in a Casket'. Which one sounds worse?" Song titles include "Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt", "Fucked With A Knife", "Meat-Hook Sodomy", and "Necropedophile". In May 1995, then-Senator Bob Dole mentioned the band by name and accused them of violating human decency. Cannibal Corpse also enjoyed a brief cameo in the 1994 Jim Carrey film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, performing their song "Hammer Smashed Face." (Carrey actually insisted that the band perform in the movie because he was a fan of the band.)[2]

In 1995, Chris Barnes departed from the band for musical differences (he is now the vocalist of Six Feet Under and Torture Killer) and was replaced with Monstrosity's vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, who is known for his record-long screams in songs such as "Devoured by Vermin" and "They Deserve to Die." Jack Owen left Cannibal Corpse in 2004 to spend more time on his second band, Adrift. He joined Deicide in late 2005. Jeremy Turner of Origin briefly replaced him as second guitarist on 2004's "Tour of the Wretched". Recently Rob Barrett, a former member of Cannibal Corpse who appeared on the band's albums Vile and The Bleeding rejoined the band to play festivals in the Northwest United States and Europe. Rob officially left Malevolent Creation and joined Cannibal Corpse. Their latest album, Kill, was released March 21, 2006 on Metal Blade Records.

Members

Current

* George Fisher - Vocals (1995-)

* Pat O'Brien - Guitar (1997-)

* Rob Barrett - Guitar (1993-1997, 2005-)

* Alex Webster - Bass (1988-)

* Paul Mazurkiewicz - Drums (1988-)

Previous

* Chris Barnes - Vocals (1988-1995)

* Bob Rusay - Guitar (1988-1993)

* Jack Owen - Guitar (1988-2004)

* Jeremy Turner - Guitar (2004-2005)

Discography

Eaten Back To Life

1. Shredded Humans

2. Edible Autopsy

3. Put Them To Death

4. Mangled

5. Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains

6. Born In A Casket

7. Rotting Head

8. The Undead Will Feast

9. Bloody Chunks

10. A Skull Full Of Maggots

11. Buried In The Backyard

Butchered At Birth

1. Meat Hook Sodomy

2. Gutted

3. Living Dissection

4. Under The Rotted Flesh

5. Covered With Sores

6. Vomit The Soul

7. Butchered At Birth

8. Rancid Amputation

9. Innards Decay

Tomb Of The Mutilated

1. Hamer Smashed Face

2. I Cum Blood

3. Addicted To Vaginal Skin

4. Split Wide Open

5. Necropedophile

6. The Cryptic Stench

7. Entrails Ripped From A Virgin's Cunt

8. Post Mortal Ejaculation

9. Beyond The Cemetary

(EP) Hammer Smashed Face

1. Hammer Smashed Face

2. Zero The Hero

3. The Exorcist

The Bleeding

1. Staring Through The Eyes Of The Dead

2. Fucked With A Knife

3. Stripped, Raped, And Strangled

4. Pulverised

5. Return To Flesh

6. The Pick-axe Murders

7. She Was Asking For It

8. The Bleeding

9. Force Fed Broken Glass

10. An Experiment In Homicide

Vile

1. Devoured By Vermin

2. Mummified In Barbed Wire

3. Perverse Suffering

4. Disfigured

5. Bloodlands

6. Puncture Wound Massacre

7. Relentless Beating

8. Absolute Hatred

9. Eaten From Inside

10. Orgasm Through Torture

11. Monolith

Gallery Of Suicide

1. I Will Kill You

2. Disposal Of The Body

3. Sentenced To Burn

4. Blood Drenched Execution

5. Gallery Of Suicide

6. Dismembered And Molested

7. From Skin To Liquid

8. Unite The Dead

9. Stabbed In The Throat

10. Chambers Of Blood

11. Headless

12. Every Bone Broken

13. Centuries Of Torment

14. Crushing The Despised

Bloodthirst

1. Pounded Into Dust

2. Dead Human Collection

3. Unleashing The Bloodthirsty

4. The Spine Splitter

5. Ecstasy In Decay

6. Raped By The Beast

7. Coffinfeeder

8. Hacksaw Decapitation

9. Blowtorch Slaughter

10. Sickening Metamorphosis

11. Condemned To Agony

Live Cannibalism (live)

1. Staring Through The Eyes Of The Dead

2. Blowtorch Slaughter

3. Stripped, Raped And Strangled

4. I Cum Blood

5. Covered With Sores

6. Fucked With A Knife

7. Unleashing The Bloodthirsty

8. Dead Human Collection

9. Gallery Of Suicide

10. Meat Hook Sodomy

11. Perverse Suffering

12. The Spine Splitter

13. Gutted

14. I Will Kill You

15. Devoured By Vermin

16. Disposal Of The Body

17. A Skull Full Of Maggots

18. Hammer Smashed Face

Gore Obsessed

1. Savage Butchery

2. Hatchet To The Head

3. Pit Of Zombies

4. Dormant Bodies Bursting

5. Compelled To Lacerate

6. Drowning In Viscera

7. Hung And Bled

8. Sanded Faceless

9. Mutation Of The Cadaver

10. When Death Replaces Life

11. Grotesque

12. No Remorse (bonus Track)

(EP) Worm Infested

1. Systematic Elimination

2. Worm Infested

3. Demon’s Night

4. The Undead Will Feast

5. Confessions

6. No Remorse

The Wretched Spawn

1. Severed Head Stoning

2. Psychotic Precision

3. Decency Defied

4. Frantic Disembowelment

5. The Wretched Spawn

6. Cyanide Assassin

7. Festering In The Crypt

8. Nothing Left To Mutilate

9. Blunt Force Castration

10. Rotted Body Landslide

11. Slain

12. Bent Backwards And Broken

13. They Deserve To Die

Kill

1. The Time To Kill Is Now

2. Make Them Suffer

3. Murder Worship

4. Necrosadistic Warning

5. Five Nails Through The Neck

6. Purification By Fire

7. Death Walking Terror

8. Barbaric Bludgeonings

9. The Discipline Of Revenge

10. Brain Removal Device

11. Maniacal

12. Submerged In Boiling Flesh

13. Infinite Misery