Wretched Spawn? - Cannibal Corpse

Formed in 1988, Buffalo born/Tampa raised Cannibal Corpse helped found, manipulate and transcend the very boundaries of death metal beginning with the scandalously controversial debut, Eaten Back To Life. Raising the eyebrows of inquisitive metal-heads and incensed parents and politicians, the record - produced by Scott Burns at the now renowned Morrisound Studios - was more extreme and confrontational than anything the metal genre had ever known. As a result of the band's brilliantly gruesome cover art, grisly lyrics and song titles like "Hammer Smashed Face," "Meat Hook Sodomy" and "Addicted To Vaginal Skin," follow-up ...  Read the complete review

'The Wretched Spawn' has been called the most technically proficient album Cannibal Corpse has released, leading to it occasionally being cited as a death metal masterpiece by people who have never heard anything else the genre has to offer. While it's clearly the band's best since Corpsegrinder came along in 'Vile' eight years earlier, it still shows all the signs of a band going through the motions and really offering nothing that hasn't been heard before. Corpsegrinder puts in an impressive vocal performance here, leading the way in songs like the narrative 'Decency Defied' but also occasionally seeming overbearing, as is the case for much of the opener ...  Read the complete review