Butchered at Birth [Import]

Cannibal Corpse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 12, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Blackend
• ASIN: B0002N6AKY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #831,808 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK pressing. Butchered At Birth is super-heavy Floridian Death Metal at it's best and features some intense songs on one of the most brutal albums ever created. The album opens up with 'Meat Hook Sodomy', a classic favorite amongst fans. As the song twists and turns metamorphing into many different time changes, vocal pattern changes, and cascading drum changes, one marvels at Cannibal's speed and technicality. Other titles, including 'Gutted', 'Living Dissection', 'Under the Rotted Flesh', 'Vomit the Soul' and 'Rancid Amputation' pretty much tell the story. This is the kind of stuff you listen to with the lights on. Not that it's easy to be scared. As the words are churned and ground to mere vocal road kill of their former selves by The Corpse Grinder (lead-singer), 'Butchered At Birth' was voted 'Cannibal Corpse's Best Album' on the Metal Blade website. 'Butchered At Birth' features some immense songs by the only band to feature in 'Ace-Ventura' for 30 splitting seconds! This album is worth a place in any good Death Metal collection. This album is worth a place in any good Death Metal collection. Blackend. 2005.

Customer Reviews

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40 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars hahahahaha, December 13, 2004

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The Wickerman (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butchered at Birth (Audio CD)

I love reading reviews for Cannibal Corpse albums. These wars are just endlessly entertaining. On one side, we have the wannabe tough guys who fail to realize that this music isn't for everyone, and think that anyone who doesn't like them is just a spinelss wimp. On the other side, we have the bible-thumping conservative tightwads who think CC's very existence is the downfall of society, and that anyone who listens to them is a horrible person just because they like the music.

I, on the other hand, occupy a seemingly extreme minority on the issue: the middle ground. As an open-minded music fan, who listens to a little bit of everything, including a lot of extreme metal, I find Cannibal Corpse to be fun to listen to one or two songs at a time, but in large doses, they tend to be rather cheesy and monotonous. I mean, they have around 10 albums, all of which are pretty much the same thing over and over. Much like AC/DC, it's a good listen in small doses, but I can only listen to the same thing over and over for so long.

And, the lyrics, I think, are quite obviously not meant to be taken seriously, in either a positive or negative sense. I mean, anyone who goes out and disembowels someone just because they listened to a CC song obviously has serious problems. But, if you're somehow greatly offended by graphic subject matter, and think that anyone who likes the band for whatever reason is automatically the scourge of society, you're really not much better off. If you take the lyrics at face value, and just dismiss them as goofy over-the-top gore, they really shouldn't get in your way. Sure, the image is ridiculous, but it's really nothing to raise a big stink over.

And btw, on that subject, there is a review for a CC album on this site that condemns the lyrical matter, and then the guy turns around that says "this band and it fans should be slaughtered". That was hilariously ironic. Ok, so slaughtering people is acceptable, but writing songs about it is despicable? Riiight...

So yeah, anyway, that's that. Continue the battle please, by all means. :P

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good fun, healthy outlet, great CD, April 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Butchered at Birth (Audio CD)

This CD is terrific: blunt vocals, unrelenting speed and pure anger. `Butchered' is served best with a steaming black cup of coffee an hour or so before a workout. This is perhaps the best of Cannibal's releases with Chris Barnes, even better than `Tomb' despite the lack of `Hammer Smashed Face.' And readers, please put aside the feigned outrage of the previous post from `metal fan' and others who post reviews and seem to never have listened to the discs or know any metal fans. I doubt any self-respecting metalhead would compare music to senseless shootings. It's a cheap copout and a lame excuse. Music doesn't cause crime, idiots do. Learn to spell and enter the real world.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best!, February 29, 2000

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"darkblasphemy" (Newport, Oregon U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butchered at Birth (Audio CD)

This is Cannibal Corpse's best CD all the way! This album was a giant step up from "Eaten Back to Life". All of their new material is nothing compared to what this album was. Best songs on this album are Gutted, Covered with Sores, Vomit the Soul, & Innards Decay. All you people that say Cannibal Corpse sucks or that they ca'nt play have no idea what the hell real music is. Highly recommended for any true death metaller.