Hammer Smashed Face - Cannibal Corpse

'Hammer Smashed Face' is really the only Cannibal Corpse song anyone needs to hear, easily the band's best and one of their relatively few successful attempts to combine extreme (albeit indecipherable) gore lyrics with some solid death metal. The speed changes are enjoyable at first, before the predictable slips back into the slower groove become a little tiresome, and the guitars are hardly original, but it's still an enjoyable and important piece of death metal history, even if Cannibal Corpse have never been a particularly strong band even at this peak of their career. That brings us on to the remainder of the E.P., which is comprised of pretty good cover ...  Read the complete review