Unkillable death metal final bosses Cannibal Corpse stay vicious on album number 15.
Words: Nick Ruskell
Realistically, there is surely no type of violence left unimagined by Cannibal Corpse. So grossed out were the guardians of decency in Germany by the content of the band’s gore-drenched first three albums that said albums were banned there, to the point that even playing tracks from them live decades after the fact remained a no-no. There’s been excessive surgery, zombies, decapitations, torture with blowtorches, stabbings, ejaculating blood, being eaten alive by rats, and having a butcher’s hook shoved up your arse. Sometimes it’s bordered on genius (Hammer Smashed Face is the most bluntly perfect death metal title ever), sometimes it’s been plain unnecessary (even if it exists solely for the sake of saying something unambiguously awful for shock, the world has never wanted for a song called Fucked With A Knife). And still, on their 15