Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration plague - the review
"The blackened city calls out, enter the temple of sin, you must enter the temple of sin, ..."
These are the first words of vocalist Corpsegrinder on the new Cannibal Corpse album called "Evisceration plague" in the song "Priests of Sodom". I always laugh at their lyrics, its pure brutality which has no limits. I admit that I can not imagine Cannibals without gore, killing, raping, putrefaction, guts and necrophiliac themes. But the eleventh album of this legend brings some new musical ingrediencies which exclude the symptoms of another boring death metal album. Direction is evident ! Technical and progressive elements make the music more inventive, heterogenous and it expresses by the typical death metal song structures somekind of musical evolution. The man who has the greatest inclination to mentioned musical skills is the bassist Alex Webster. I saw the visual documentation process of recording this album and talented Webster plays there breathtaking odd time signatures in song "Carrion Sculpted Entity". This guy collabored also with technical death metal project called Blotted Science which leads the Spastic Ink and Watchtower guitarist Ron Jarzombek. Cannibal Corpse members still hold the tradition of no keyboards in their music. Ex-guitarist Jack Owen used to said that keyboards bury the guitar music.
Songs on this album have very intellligent adjustment. Middle tempo thrash motives and then changing into higher tempo tremolo picking guitars and blast beats with slow tempo breakdown are used also in the same track. It is good point for this album. It often depends of production team how they make order of songs, five tracks in the same tempo consecutive can couse the boring effect. O'Brien and Barrett did not leave the frames of the cannibal guitar sound. I consider the riffs and solos better than on the previous album Kill. It is admirable likeFisher can create that monster growling in fact that he has not so low and deep voice, as I could listen in the documentary. Drummer Mazurkiewicz could do more creative work on the drums, otherwise his drumming left some impression in my ear. End of "A Cauldron of hate" is most memorable moment on this album. Next engrossing riffs starts after 2:13 in the "Priests of Sodom" and the beginings of "To Decompose" and "Skewered from Ear to Eye".
Rating: 8/10
Comparation of this "good musical plague" with old CC stuff? Nothing can reach oldies like The Bleeding (my favorite album from them) and Tomb of the mutilated, but if they will add still more technical, progressive and groovy stuff album after album maybe I change the actual opinion.
Visions for CC in future? They have strong portfolio and twenty one years old base in the underground metal stream, so if they are not going to follow the "dead band"In Flames, every new Cannibal album will gain a lot of intelectual death metal fans from new generations.
To the present day this album is with Pestilence "Resurrection Macabre" the best what have been released already in early 2009, but we are expecting the new albums from Atheist, Gorod, Carcariass, Dream Theater, Spawn of possession, Anata, Suffocation, Gory Blister, Martyr and many more. So these ones certainly shuffle the cards.
Evisceration plague song list
1. "Priests of Sodom" 3:31
2. "Scalding Hail" 1:46
3. "To Decompose" 3:03
4. "A Cauldron of Hate" 4:59
5. "Beheading and Burning" 2:15
6. "Evidence in the Furnace" 2:48
7. "Carnivorous Swarm" 3:36
8. "Evisceration Plague" 4:30
9. "Shatter Their Bones" 3:35
10. "Carrion Sculpted Entity" 2:33
11. "Unnatural" 2:22
12. "Skewered from Ear to Eye" 3:49
best songs on this album:
A Cauldron of hate, Beheading and burning, Evisceration Plague, Carrion Sculpted Entity
next review in preparing is Pestilence and Mastodon 2009 albums.
"The blackened city calls out, enter the temple of sin, you must enter the temple of sin, ..."
These are the first words of vocalist Corpsegrinder on the new Cannibal Corpse album called "Evisceration plague" in the song "Priests of Sodom". I always laugh at their lyrics, its pure brutality which has no limits. I admit that I can not imagine Cannibals without gore, killing, raping, putrefaction, guts and necrophiliac themes. But the eleventh album of this legend brings some new musical ingrediencies which exclude the symptoms of another boring death metal album. Direction is evident ! Technical and progressive elements make the music more inventive, heterogenous and it expresses by the typical death metal song structures somekind of musical evolution. The man who has the greatest inclination to mentioned musical skills is the bassist Alex Webster. I saw the visual documentation process of recording this album and talented Webster plays there breathtaking odd time signatures in song "Carrion Sculpted Entity". This guy collabored also with technical death metal project called Blotted Science which leads the Spastic Ink and Watchtower guitarist Ron Jarzombek. Cannibal Corpse members still hold the tradition of no keyboards in their music. Ex-guitarist Jack Owen used to said that keyboards bury the guitar music.
Songs on this album have very intellligent adjustment. Middle tempo thrash motives and then changing into higher tempo tremolo picking guitars and blast beats with slow tempo breakdown are used also in the same track. It is good point for this album. It often depends of production team how they make order of songs, five tracks in the same tempo consecutive can couse the boring effect. O'Brien and Barrett did not leave the frames of the cannibal guitar sound. I consider the riffs and solos better than on the previous album Kill. It is admirable likeFisher can create that monster growling in fact that he has not so low and deep voice, as I could listen in the documentary. Drummer Mazurkiewicz could do more creative work on the drums, otherwise his drumming left some impression in my ear. End of "A Cauldron of hate" is most memorable moment on this album. Next engrossing riffs starts after 2:13 in the "Priests of Sodom" and the beginings of "To Decompose" and "Skewered from Ear to Eye".
Rating: 8/10
Comparation of this "good musical plague" with old CC stuff? Nothing can reach oldies like The Bleeding (my favorite album from them) and Tomb of the mutilated, but if they will add still more technical, progressive and groovy stuff album after album maybe I change the actual opinion.
Visions for CC in future? They have strong portfolio and twenty one years old base in the underground metal stream, so if they are not going to follow the "dead band"In Flames, every new Cannibal album will gain a lot of intelectual death metal fans from new generations.
To the present day this album is with Pestilence "Resurrection Macabre" the best what have been released already in early 2009, but we are expecting the new albums from Atheist, Gorod, Carcariass, Dream Theater, Spawn of possession, Anata, Suffocation, Gory Blister, Martyr and many more. So these ones certainly shuffle the cards.
Evisceration plague song list
1. "Priests of Sodom" 3:31
2. "Scalding Hail" 1:46
3. "To Decompose" 3:03
4. "A Cauldron of Hate" 4:59
5. "Beheading and Burning" 2:15
6. "Evidence in the Furnace" 2:48
7. "Carnivorous Swarm" 3:36
8. "Evisceration Plague" 4:30
9. "Shatter Their Bones" 3:35
10. "Carrion Sculpted Entity" 2:33
11. "Unnatural" 2:22
12. "Skewered from Ear to Eye" 3:49
best songs on this album:
A Cauldron of hate, Beheading and burning, Evisceration Plague, Carrion Sculpted Entity
next review in preparing is Pestilence and Mastodon 2009 albums.
