I love reading reviews for Cannibal Corpse albums. These wars are just endlessly entertaining. On one side, we have the wannabe tough guys who fail to realize that this music isn't for everyone, and think that anyone who doesn't like them is just a spinelss wimp. On the other side, we have the bible-thumping conservative tightwads who think CC's very existence is the downfall of society, and that anyone who listens to them is a horrible person just because they like the music.

I, on the other hand, occupy a seemingly extreme minority on the issue: the middle ground. As an open-minded music fan, who listens to a little bit of everything, including a lot of extreme metal, I find Cannibal Corpse to be fun to listen to one or two songs at a time, but in large doses, they tend to be rather cheesy and monotonous. I mean, they have around 10 albums, all of which are pretty much the same thing over and over. Much like AC/DC, it's a good listen in small doses, but I can only listen to the same thing over and over for so long.

And, the lyrics, I think, are quite obviously not meant to be taken seriously, in either a positive or negative sense. I mean, anyone who goes out and disembowels someone just because they listened to a CC song obviously has serious problems. But, if you're somehow greatly offended by graphic subject matter, and think that anyone who likes the band for whatever reason is automatically the scourge of society, you're really not much better off. If you take the lyrics at face value, and just dismiss them as goofy over-the-top gore, they really shouldn't get in your way. Sure, the image is ridiculous, but it's really nothing to raise a big stink over.

And btw, on that subject, there is a review for a CC album on this site that condemns the lyrical matter, and then the guy turns around that says "this band and it fans should be slaughtered". That was hilariously ironic. Ok, so slaughtering people is acceptable, but writing songs about it is despicable? Riiight...

So yeah, anyway, that's that. Continue the battle please, by all means. :P

This is Cannibal Corpse's best CD all the way! This album was a giant step up from "Eaten Back to Life". All of their new material is nothing compared to what this album was. Best songs on this album are Gutted, Covered with Sores, Vomit the Soul, & Innards Decay. All you people that say Cannibal Corpse sucks or that they ca'nt play have no idea what the hell real music is. Highly recommended for any true death metaller.

This CD is terrific: blunt vocals, unrelenting speed and pure anger. `Butchered' is served best with a steaming black cup of coffee an hour or so before a workout. This is perhaps the best of Cannibal's releases with Chris Barnes, even better than `Tomb' despite the lack of `Hammer Smashed Face.' And readers, please put aside the feigned outrage of the previous post from `metal fan' and others who post reviews and seem to never have listened to the discs or know any metal fans. I doubt any self-respecting metalhead would compare music to senseless shootings. It's a cheap copout and a lame excuse. Music doesn't cause crime, idiots do. Learn to spell and enter the real world.

I think a lot of people over-look this album. I also think a lot of people are naive and impressionable. Maybe the artwork is too offensive for your virgin death-metal eyes. Or maybe you think starting off an album with guitars that sound like revving engines is lame and boring. Didn't Carcass do that at the beginning of 'Inpropagation'? I always thought that this album came out in '91 and 'Necroticism'came out in '92. I must have been fooled by the dates on the back of each album. My bad.
The riffs during 'Innards Decay' are just plain boring and could never hold up to something say In Flames could do.
My advice for you is: Before you're through with the "Death-Metal Phase" do yourself a favor and pick up this album. You might eventually go on to listen to bands like Slipknot and Creed but at least you'll be able to say that you've heard a "true" metal album.

This may be the best way to describe this album. Brutal, unintelligible vocals(always a must-have for brutal metal), good fast-to-slow tempo changes, and ,of course, graphic depictions of carnage from the only group who could redefine the term "graphic art". This CD goes into the elite catagory of infamy because of its cover. The sales of this album are illegal in Germany, even though sales of all the other albums are not. Even here, various stores refuse to carry this album due to its graphic depiction of infanticide (that is baby killing for those of you unfamiliar with the word). As for the music, many people are wining about the vocals, even if they like the instumental part. They don't seem to understand that growled out vocals are essential to the music style. As for those who say CC has no talent, let's see someone like FONSECA or Beau Kendall growl like Chris Barnes. It's not easy. I can't even do it even though I'd really like to. And if you pay attention to the opening of "innards Decay", you will notice that it has some melodic actually. Plus, the speed of the songs changes a few times making it more listenable then various other bands, like Deicide. Plus Deicide lyrics have very little gore in them. They actually seem like nothing when you read CC lyrics, which actually hold no blasphamous or God-hating sentiment. Many people claim that Cannibal Corpse is a Satanic band when they see their art work,but these are people with no imagination who can't separate one form of contraversy from another. Many are people who don't know a thing about metal and insist on listening to the backstreet girls or n-stink. Listen to all the people here who know what they are talking about. And if you like BAB, get "The Bleeding". It is a little longer but has much of the same style riffing to it,as well as more solos. As for all the people criicizing CC for the Columbine shooting, they simply don't like them and are trying to place a guilt trip on them in a effort to publically humiliate them. It's naturally unsuccessful, because I have not seen any CC lyrics where they talk about killing some one with guns. It's always knives and beatings. As for those offended by the cover art, how can it be offensive if it does not offend, but rather enlighten, me?