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
Death metal -tyylisuunnan suosituin yhtye koko maailmassa,
Cannibal Corpse, julkaisee järjestyksessään 15. studioalbuminsa nimeltä ”Violence Unimagined” huhtikuun 16. päivä Metal Blade Recordsin kautta. Yhtyeen laulaja George ”Corpsegrinder” Fisher on antanut albumiin liittyen RRBG Podcastille haastattelun, jossa on pohtinut keikkojen palautumista normaaliksi koronapandemian jäljiltä. Corpsegrinder on haastattelussa todennut, että ihmisiä tuskin paljoa rajoitukset kiinnostaa siinä vaiheessa, kun bändin ikoninen ”
Hammer Smashed Face” -kappale alkaa soida. Corpsegrinder avasi omia ajatuksiaan keikkojen palautumisesta seuraavasti:
”I just think that people are gonna throw caution to the wind and say, ’Fuck it.’ I cannot see [if we play] ’
Hammer Smashed Face’ that people are gonna just stand there like zombies. They’re not gonna do it. There’s no way. People are gonna start slamming. They’re not gonna care.