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Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1988 (24 years ago). The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album. Although Cannibal Corpse has had little radio or TV exposure, a cult following began to build behind the group with albums such as 1991's Butchered at Birth and 1992's Tomb of the Mutilated. Cannibal Corpse reached over one-million in record sales worldwide in 2003 (9 years ago), including 558,929 in the United States, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time.

The members of Cannibal Corpse were originally inspired by thrash metal bands like Slayer, Kreator, and Sodom, as well as other death metal bands like Morbid Angel and Death. The band's lyrics and album art, which draw heavily on horror fiction and horror films, are highly controversial. At different times, several countries have banned Cannibal Corpse from performing within their borders, or have banned the sale and display of uncensored Cannibal Corpse albums.

Biography

Cannibal Corpse was made up of members from three earlier Buffalo-area death metal bands, Beyond Death (Webster, Owen), Leviathan (Barnes), and Tirant Sin (Barnes, Rusay, Mazurkiewicz). The band played their first show at Buffalo's River Rock Cafe in Apr. 1989 (23 years ago), shortly after recording a five-song demo tape, Cannibal Corpse. Within a year of that first gig, the band was signed to Metal Blade Records, apparently after the label had seen a videotape of a live show, and their full-length debut album, Eaten Back to Life, was released in Aug. 1990 (22 years ago).

The band has had many line-up changes over the years. In 1993 (19 years ago), founding member and guitarist Bob Rusay was dismissed from the group (after which he became a golf instructor) and was ultimately replaced by Malevolent Creation guitarist Rob Barrett. In 1995 (17 years ago), singer Chris Barnes was dismissed and was replaced by Monstrosity singer George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher. Barnes went on to perform with the band Six Feet Under, and later Torture Killer.

In 1997 (15 years ago), Barrett, who had originally replaced Rusay on guitar, left Cannibal Corpse to rejoin his previous band Malevolent Creation. After Barrett left, he was replaced by guitarist Pat O�Brien, who first appeared on Cannibal Corpse's 1998 (14 years ago) release Gallery of Suicide. Founding member and guitarist Jack Owen left Cannibal Corpse in 2004 (8 years ago) to spend more time on his second band, Adrift. He joined Deicide in late 2005 (7 years ago). Jeremy Turner of Origin briefly replaced him as second guitarist on 2004's Tour of the Wretched. Barrett rejoined the band in 2005 (7 years ago) and was first featured on the album Kill, released in Mar. 2006 (6 years ago).

Writing for the next album began in Nov. 2007 (5 years ago), as presaged in an interview with bassist Alex Webster. Evisceration Plague, Cannibal Corpse's eleventh studio album was released Feb. 3, 2009 (3 years ago), to a highly positive response from fans. The band will tour in support of the album in the spring of 2009 (3 years ago). Recently, bassist Alex Webster said, "We have never thought of being together for 20 years so we certainly don't plan to break up in the next 5 years, 10 years, or even 15 years."

Controversy and publicity

Australia
For more details on this topic, see Censorship in Australia.
As of Oct. 23, 1996 (16 years ago), the sale of any Cannibal Corpse audio recording then available was banned in Australia and all copies of such had been removed from music shops. At the time, the Australian Recording Industry Association and the Australian Music Retailers Association were implementing a system for identifying potentially offensive records, known as the "labelling code of practice".

All ten of Cannibal Corpse's albums, as well as the live album Live Cannibalism, the boxed set 15 Year Killing Spree, the EP Worm Infested, and the single "Hammer Smashed Face", were re-released in Australia between 2006 (6 years ago) and 2007 (5 years ago), or finally classified by ARIA and allowed for sale in Australia. However, they are all "Restricted", and only sold to those over 18 years of age. Some are sold in "censored" and "uncensored" editions, which denotes the change of cover art. Despite this, when displayed in some stores, even the "uncensored" editions are censored manually.

Germany
All Cannibal Corpse albums up to and including Tomb of the Mutilated were banned upon release from being sold or displayed in Germany due to their graphic cover art and disturbing lyrics; the band was also forbidden to play any songs from those albums while touring in Germany. This prohibition was not lifted until Jun. 2006 (6 years ago). In a 2004 (8 years ago) interview, George Fisher attempted to recall what originally provoked the ban:

� A woman saw someone wearing one of our shirts, I think she is a schoolteacher, and she just caused this big stink about it. So [now] we can�t play anything from the first three records. And it really sucks because kids come up and they want us to play all the old songs � and we would � but they know the deal. We can�t play 'Born In a Casket' but can play 'Dismembered and Molested.' �

United States
In May 1995 (17 years ago), then-US Senator Bob Dole accused Cannibal Corpse�along with hip hop acts like the Geto Boys and 2 Live Crew�of undermining the national character of the United States. A year later, the band came under fire again, this time as part of a campaign by conservative activist William Bennett, Senator Joe Lieberman, then-Senator Sam Nunn, and National Congress of Black Women chair C. Delores Tucker to get major record labels�including Time Warner, Sony, Thorn-EMI, PolyGram and Bertelsmann�to "dump 20 recording groups...responsible for the most offensive lyrics."

Cannibal Corpse also paradoxically enjoyed a brief cameo in the 1994 (18 years ago) Jim Carrey movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, performing an abridged version of their song "Hammer Smashed Face." Carrey is apparently a death metal fan and insisted that they perform in the movie.