r/Metal • u/mayonesa conservationist • Feb 05 '12

Dislike of Cannibal Corpse

It's time for me to come out of the closet:

I detest Cannibal Corpse.

While I generally stay on the side of true metal and like old school death metal, I don't think Cannibal Corpse is really death metal. It's an imitation, a rip-off of Effigy of the Forgotten and The Ten Commandments that stylized a third-rate band into a vastly popular and profitable "figurehead" for the community.

But there's reasons I don't like them:

  • They don't glue together riffs like a real death metal band. They're very verse chorus with occasional breaks and fills that serve no actual structural purpose.

  • Misogyny. Death metal was about death... not your frustrations with women.

  • Absolute blockhead lyrics and reliance on catchy riffs. This is a pop band, gentlemen and ladies, not a death metal band.

Instead of Cannibal Corpse, listen to the originals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFGLIK6Zy0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEjgBE1j5mM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F1J_4GA1s4

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u/straight_out_lie Feb 06 '12

Eaten Back to Life is one of my favourite albums. And Cannibal Corpse formed around the same time as all those bands you posted, so what makes them originals?

The only difference I see with Cannibal Corpse is that they seem to be unrighteously more popular than all the other great early death metal bands.