on 2011-11-07 SolitaryMan Said:

I really never bothered with them in the past, which might reflect my impressions on this record. Far from spectacular, but certainly as good as good gets without being great. Some of the riffs from this album still haunt me to this day.
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on 2011-11-06 CharlesMartel Said:

Ever read "World War Z"? Great book, you ought to give it a go. It's an oral history of the Zombie Wars as told by the survivors. You see, I love zombies. They are the ultimate in horror movie villains. I mean, how do you kill something which is already dead? And what happens when the zombie is your girlfriend of your sister or your best mate who the zombies got earlier and zombified? How could you kill your girlfriend, except she's not your girlfriend any more? She's a sort of brain eating, unfeeling, uncaring dead thing who only looks like your girlfriend. All the essence that made her up is gone.

But then I get to thinking. If zombies are dead, that means that their digestive systems cannot process food and the blood doesn't circulate around their bodies. So how does food get processed into carbohydrate energy and circulated around their bodies? Come to that, their lungs don't work so how do they take in oxygen to burn that energy. But then, even if they did, the heart doesn't pump blood around the body so there's no way that these organic components could get to the cells. So, how come zombies move then, without energy, without a metabolism?

And why do they shuffle around and not run? And how do they groan if they don't have vocal chords (organic gas build up escaping through pressure perhaps)? And why the f**k do they eat brains? I mean, even if they could digest them, there is not a lot of energy in them. They'd be better off, from a physiological standpoint, eating livers. And, for the final question of this diversionary meandering into the world of the un-dead, why do Cannibal Corpse still exist?

I mean, let's be realistic, if you had given up on Cannibal Corpse ten years ago and returned to check out "Evisceration Plague" you would be relieved to find that you had missed nothing of any consequence. The band are still rabbiting on about death and killing and torture and other horrible things. The vocalist, if we can use that terms, still screams like a drunk locked in the cells for a night while some other guys thrash around with musical instruments. After over twenty years doing this sort of stuff you would have thought that they might have exhausted their original themes and moved onto something else. Sadly not.

Cannibal Corpse have become the personification of what they portray. Every once in a while, they are wheeled out, like zombies, and shuffle over to the studio for another round of screaming, groaning and mindless thrashing around. Okay, they probably survive on pizza and dope rather than brains, but when they have finished, they are entombed again until the next album needs releasing.

So how DO you kill zombies anyway?
Rating: 1/10

on 2009-08-16 Sinist3r Punk Said:

Wow, comparing BMTH to CC, I guess that could work.
Great review Kevin, and from what I've heard its a pretty good album.
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on 2009-08-16 MusicGuru Said:

This band is everything that is wrong with death metal. The lyrics about death, gore, and mutiliation, although fun, are extremely overdone. Cannibal Corpse has been making the exact same album since 1996. That's depressing, since they do have some class tunes every now and then. The band obviously have talent, but, they have yet to show me any of it in their music. Look at their early works with Chris Barnes as their vocalist, those were some very catchy songs. It seems that they're trying to cash in on that sound. I only recommend this to hipster idiots who only like to listen to BR00TAL music like Bring me the Horizon or garbage like that.
Rating: 1/10