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Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed

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Format: CD
Label: MTB
Catalog: 14390
Rel. Date: 02/26/2002
UPC: 039841439021

Gore Obsessed
Artist: Cannibal Corpse
Format: CD
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DISC: 1

1. Savage Butchery
2. Hatchet to the Head
3. Pit of Zombies
4. Dormant Bodies Bursting
5. Compelled to Lacerate
6. Drowning in Viscera
7. Hung and Bled
8. Sanded Faceless
9. Mutilation of the Cadaver
10. When Death Replaces Life
11. Grotesque
12. Untitled - (hidden track)

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Gore Obsessed is Cannibal Corpse's 8th full-length studio album, will redive the Death Metal genre and reign as Cannibal Corp's most most accomplished and scrutinized recording to date.

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''Gore Obsessed'' is the eighth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse released in 2002 through Metal Blade Records.

There is also a Japanese version with "Compelled to Lacerate (LIVE)" as bonus track. - Wikipedia

Forming in 1996, with an average age of just 14 years old, Decapitated becamethe toast of their lunch table, and just four years later released their debutLP Winds of Creation. While charming in its no-frills, old school approach toPolish death metal, it's here with the follow-up, Nihility, that this quartethave blossomed into a true destructive force. Without the production work ofVader main man Peter there aren't quite as many nods to those fellow countrymenas showcased on Decapitated's debut. Instead Nihility completely hemorrhageswith ridiculously precise twists, turns, starts and stops that don't belongto any particular part of the world—the elaborate lead guitar lines ofVogg, in particular, recall both the disparate sounds and locales of early Meshuggahand James Murphy-era Obituary. But, ultimately, it's the sheer intricacyof the material that propels Decapitated, an accomplishment some bands twicetheir age have yet to realize.

Cannibal Corpse isn't such an outfit—at least now not anyway. Aftercrafting seven albums of very average, very American death metal before hittingtheir stride with 1999's Bloodthirst, the Buffalo-cum-Tampa connectionhasn't deviated much from the previous record's formula on LP eight,Gore Obsessed. With opener "Hatchet to the Head" the Corpse play itas ugly as they look, heaving a swirling mass of bloody metal chunks towardthe listener while frontman George Fisher continually treats his larynx as thoughit were a disposable organ. Surprisingly, one newie, "Pit of Zombies"decelerates the carnage and actually packs a terribly Sabbath-like groove. Notthat the ferocity of Gore Obsessed's remaining numbers are in any way tarnishedby their brutal predictability, but further deviations such as this and thelurching "When Death Replaces Life" might help flesh out their inevitableMillennium Collection.
        
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