In the early '90s, Cannibal Corpse acquired a small cult in the death metal underground by embracing some of the most gruesome lyrics the subgenre had to offer.
Thriving on shock value, the band inspires comparisons to GWAR and comes across as a parody of death metal and grindcore more than anything.
Like its previous album, the equally twisted Eaten Back to Life, Butchered at Birth addresses such lurid topics as dismemberment, torture, and masochism.
One will need the lyric sheet to know just how gross songs like "Under the Rotted Flesh," "Meat Hook Sodomy," "Covered with Sores," and "Rancid Amputation" are -- the grunting vocals are impossible to understand.
Some retailers refused to carry this CD because of its depiction of a woman being mutilated by zombies, and Cannibal Corpse wasted no time getting as much publicity as possible from the controversy.
The rockers are one-dimensional, but then, they never claimed to be anything else.
This band's obvious goal was to deliver the musical equivalent of B-movie horror flick, and on that level, the album is outrageously successful.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meat Hook SodomyChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 05:48 | 13 MB | 39 MB |
| 2 | GuttedChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 03:15 | 7 MB | 23 MB |
| 3 | Living DissectionChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 03:59 | 9 MB | 30 MB |
| 4 | Under the Rotted FleshChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 05:04 | 11 MB | 37 MB |
| 5 | Covered with SoresChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 03:17 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 6 | Vomit the SoulChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 04:29 | 10 MB | 33 MB |
| 7 | Butchered at BirthChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 02:44 | 6 MB | 20 MB |
| 8 | Rancid AmputationChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 03:16 | 7 MB | 24 MB |
| 9 | Innards DecayChris Barnes | Cannibal Corpse | Play | 04:36 | 10 MB | 34 MB |
| 36 mins | 83 MB | |||||
| 36 mins | 267 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian J. Ames | Design |
| 2 | Chris Barnes | Composer |
| 3 | Glen Benton | Vocals |
| 4 | Scott Burns | Engineer, Producer |
| 5 | Cannibal Corpse | Primary Artist |
| 6 | Albert Fish | Liner Notes |
| 7 | Baron Gilles | Liner Notes |
| 8 | Joe Giron | Photography |
| 9 | Eddy Schreyer | Mastering |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |