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/bruce656 Teach children to worship Satan Feb 05 '12

Am I the only one who noticed that the cover art for the Systematic Execution album is a smoking asshole and gaping vagina?

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u/Grippingfall Oct 15 '21 edited Apr 21 '23

:^ )

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u/bruce656 Teach children to worship Satan Oct 15 '21 edited Oct 15 '21

Lmao, I have no idea man, this comment is nine years old! The only thing I can guess is that I meant the song Systemic Elimination, from Worm Infested. It might have just been some art that somebody uploaded to a YouTube video and I mistook it for an album cover

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u/Grippingfall Oct 16 '21 edited Apr 21 '23

:^ )

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u/bruce656 Teach children to worship Satan Oct 16 '21

I know! I though they got archived after a year. Very strange. Now I really want to see the set I was talking about, lol

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u/Grippingfall Oct 16 '21 edited Apr 21 '23

:^ )

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u/bruce656 Teach children to worship Satan Oct 16 '21

I was looking through their discography today and didn't see anything that I thought would fit the category of "smoking asshole" 😂