Butchered At Birth - Cannibal Corpse

With its harsh sound, vile lyrics and gruesome artwork by Vincent Locke, Cannibal Corpse's second album is undoubtedly the beginning of the New York band's continued obsession with shock value over quality content, a habit they would only break momentarily with their subsequent release 'Tomb of the Mutilated.' When I describe this as "harsh," I don't mean that it's particularly extreme, at least not compared to other death metal, but that the sound quality is almost arrogantly poor to the point that the listening experience is painful for the wrong reasons, as the listener struggles to actually make out what's going on. Never mind that Chris Barnes' ...  Read the complete review