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Eaten Back to Life

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Oh MAN this album is awesome.i wish i could have been into this band way back when this album came out.bob rusay and jack owen kill on the guitar and paul is an insane drummer.chris barnes has got to be the greatest death metal vocalist ever.you can actually understand what he says at some points.for those of you [female dog] about the lyrics, why were you listening to a band called cannibal corpse in the first place?yet you complain about not understanding what hes saying?.death metal vocals are hard, believe me ive tried.anyway you looking to get into death metal? start here. the best songs are shredded humans, edible autopsy, put them to death, scattered remains splattered brains, rotting head, bloody chunks, and the absolute killer track a skull full of maggots.any metalhead will love this album.cc kicks [rump].

Cannibal Corpse is an awesome band.Simply Put. This album is very brutal, talented, and it has well written lyrics about blood and gore. This album is a must for metal heads.So just buy it unless you have terrible musical tastes.

Any one who is new to cannibal corpse and is thinking about buying one of their cd's don't go neer the bleeding and don't even think about the god-awful wretched spawn! This is cannibal corpse with chris barns and(i know what your thinking)sounds nothing like six feet under! If you think chris is good in six feet under your dead wrong because before chris lost his vioce he was in a band that released shocking album's and brutal music and what will always be remembered as one of the best the best death metal vocalist of all time. Eaten back to life is a classic debute album that launch the new wave of death metal in the early 90's! And out of all the death metal bands in the early 90's cannibal corpse was the most heaviest,sickest,and offensive. Some people thought the gore lyrics and the offensive artwork was to shocking for them so they strived away from this band and never gave them a listen and stuck with other bands such as sepultera,obituary,morbid angel,(good bands)and others. Than were the people who thought they were childish to write music about killing and gore and just labled it as talentless noise(wich is 100% not true)or either they thought the music was to extreme or heavy for them. Well those people sure did miss out on what still is one of the greatest death metal albums of all time, The guitars aren't as technical as in later releases but who cares! They still made some sick catchy hooks and brutal riffs that aren't found in later releases. The drumming is top notch. This cd will just make you wanna sing along to chris roaring out those brutal tales of horror,bang you head till it hurts,and beat the living piss out of someone! This also contains some of cannibal corpse's most memorable songs. Shredded humans is a shocking story about a mad-man in a car trying to kill a family of five on there way home having enjoyed a day in the sun(there encounter with gore has just begun). I love it how the guitars just shredd along on the part were chris say roars out"HIS SEATBELT WAS USELESS FOR HOLDIN HIM BACK,IT SIMPLY JUST CUT HIM IN TWO,LEGS WERE CRUSHED,OUT LEEKED HIS PUSS AS HIS SPINAL CHORD TOOK OFF AND FLEW" and than goes "THE MOTHER TOOK FLIGHT THROUGH THE GLASS,AND ENDED UP IMPALED ON A SIGN,HER INTESTINES STRETCHED FROM THE CAR DOWN THE ROAD,and than menacingly says"FOR A QUARTER MILE!"<(THAT PART BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE EVERY TIME!) All right, i think I have said enough about this album! Cannibal Corpses first release is strait up death metal,with awsome head banding riffs,and sing along verses that every death metal fan MUST own!

Let me just say, you guys (or gals) who are giving this CD 1 star are no better than people who give it a 5 saying "It rocks!!!" But I think the people who rate it 5 stars are much closer to being right. Below is what I think of this album.

Music: 4 stars

The music for the most part is really good. The riffs are every bit as hard to play as any of the Metallica riffs that I can play on guitar, which include "Fight Fire with Fire" and "Ride the Lightnening" and also Slayer's "Angel of Death". I just think they could be more well writen, but are still good most of the time and even flat out amazing every now and then. The riff 2 minutes into "Born in a Casket" is my favorite, and one of the best guitar riffs I've ever heard. This band has talent. The vocals admittedly sound bad, especially in the beginning of "Shredded Humans", but are still decent most of the time, and even truely great sounding at times. Strangely enough, "Shredded Humans" also fetures some of the better sounding vocals on the album. They can really have a hair-raising sound at times. On "Edible Autopsy", when he says
"Skinned live...live...live...", it sounds especially creepy.

Lyrics: 5 stars

Why 5 stars? Is it because I'm a gore obsessed freak? (no pun intended) No, I'm just open-minded enough to give them credit for being able to write such grotesque, vile lyrics that no one else can come close to. Reading the lyrics made me like them even more. I simply cannot comprehend anything that's more violent and grotesque than their lyrics, and at the same time, their lyrics fit the beat of the songs well and rhyme a lot of the time, maybe most of the time. It was really a mind-blowing experience reading the lyrics of "Mangled" and "Shredded Humans" while the songs were playing. "Mangled" was so damn fast I still got lost the 3rd time through.

Closing Comments:

The truth is, I did get some satisfaction from the violence, but does anyone think that people listen to Nsync for the music? Well, partly, but it's obviously mostly their good looks. I liked the music before I even bothered reading the lyrics, so I listen to them for both reasons. I like their music, and the violence. But mostly the music. I only gave the lyrics a higher score because I think they have the most talent in that area. I hope this reveiw has been helpful.

Overall score: 4.5 stars

While many people hate early CC, but love later CC, more people hate all CC, including true Death Metal fans. CC will never get true exceptance, but their fan base is always growing and are probably the most popular DM band ever. People hate early Corpse cds because of the lack of the extreme technicality that bands such as Suffocation and Carcass were displaying. Also the lyrics appeared to be very cheesy to all who didn't like CC (and some who did!) but there were still those (idiots) who were actually scared of it.

While I'm not the 1st one to admit that anyone can create these kinda lyrics with a tad of a sick mind and minimal imagination. I mean, Chris Barnes must've written the whole album in an hour. While some people my read this and think I'm saying Chris Barnes has no talent, not true. The real focus is how Chris actually 'does' the lyrics. Chris Barnes is so brutal here its not funny. New fans won't recongise the p*ssy who fronts Six Feet Under and even those who don't have anything before The Bleeding will find it a shock that Chris sounded like this once.

All that being said, Chris Barnes gives a fantastic performance on this cd, lyrical gore bleeding from his mouth like he just had an acupuncture with 6 inch nails. While his lyrics are not hard to write, the are quite shocking, especially Shredded Humans, which I won't go into detail about. The rest of the band is obviously still developing their later skills, although Paul's drumming is already great. The guitar work is not up to CC standard, although Jim and crew create some absolutely sick riffs and hooks. The guitar work is fast, but not remarkably fast and is certainly not very technical. Production wise, you can hear everything very well and keeps a the 'raw charm' that many DM fans adore. The cd itself is very heavy, with the bass chipping in to create one of the heavier cds of its time. The bass is pretty good on this album, displaying some of that awesome speed, but not quite as much as later albums.

Every track on the album is worth a mention and the album is a fair length to boot. My picks would be Shredded Humans (one of my all time DM favs) and Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains. The much hated monotony, blandness and zero-progress is not present on this cd, but is something they should've worked on with later cds, so don't be scared if this will be your 1st CC cd.

The overall brutality and solidity of this Death/Grind cd would not allow me to give it any lower than 5 stars. This is a Cannibal Corpse classic and a Death Metal classic in general.
A must have.

This is a legendary debut from a great death metal band. Sure, it's rough, raw, and brutal. But that's the way it is supposed to be. I am not going to sit here and spend much time defending this album against all of the people who are complaining about it, their minds are made up (even though they are wrong haha)!

Cannibal Corpse has inspired countless death metal and gore metal bands, that is undeniable. The people who think that Cannibal Corpse are talantless are wrong in their assessment. I have played guitar for many years, and though I don't consider myself a virtuoso by any means, I can tell you first hand that much of their material is tough to nail down, especially on later albums. On this album, they weren't as tight and technical as they would eventually become, but the basics are still there. And this album is also chock full of classic songs....probably some of their best.

For those of you looking for raw and primitive death metal, pick this up. It's very much from the era where thrash metal was evolving into death metal. They just don't make em' like this nowadays.

Well needless to say that cc's debut eaten back to life is an amazing album with original lirycs back to its time and not to mention the most amazing fast & brutal sound to ever come out that i fell in love with... I remenber listinin to cc on my way to work and actullie being proud of Chris barnes...Well i cant say that any more because he turn into an poser and it is sad what money can do to some one... All i can sa y is? Buy this album if you haven't already its worth it!

yes i have already written a review of this album but it just such a brutal masterpiece that i have to write it again. this is the 1990 debut of one of the greatest death metal bands i have heard. for a debut, it is so greatly written that it simply shocks me. chris barnes' vocals are pretty raw on this album and he doesnt growl real low yet. bob rusay and jack owen crush everything with their brutal riffs and alex webster somehow keeps up with his insanely fast bass playing. and who can forget the drummer paul with his maniacal drumming? every song is brutal, fast, and easy to headbang to. shredded humans kicks things off with great intensity and its about a family who gets hit by someone in a car accident. you can totally see in your mind the family dying as chris bellows his guttural vocals. born in a casket is a classic, it starts out slow, then gets faster and heavier. you also gotta love scattered remains,splattered brains. i just dig that riff that plays during the chorus. you also have short one minute bursts like put them to death and bloody chunks, both fast and insane. and of course who can forget the death metal classic A SKULL FULL OF MAGGOTS? it is a short song barely clocking in at two minutes, but it is packed with so much insane playing you cant help but listen to it over and over again.

as for the lyrics, yes they are pretty sick, but from a band called cannibal corpse, what else would you expect? dont listen to the airheads that claim this is not talent, id like to see them play with half the speed these guys play at. plus, think about what they consider good, [stuff] like limp bizkit, linkin park, and avril lavigne. i rest my case there. these bands couldnt even IMAGINE music this fast...

This is what I imagine it would literally sound like if I had a working time machine, went back 150,000 years into Earth's past, found 5 of the brightest troglodytes and enticed them into my time machine with potato chips and beer, flux-capacitored to 1980 A.D., taught 3 of them how to play stringed instruments and one of them, to the best of his ability, English, then gave them 5 years to practice, then another 5 years to write 11 songs and practice them, and BOOM! this album debuts in 1990 A.D.!

This is the most primitive, basic, low-brow, and unsophisticated music I have ever heard! Notice I didn't say crap or bad. The genius here can be evasive if one listens to what it is not instead of what it is; hearing the genius depends entirely on listening without comparing it to other death metal, or even subsequent CC. And the genius is that this is Music for Your Inner Caveman; a unique death metal gem because of its extreme brute primitiveness. It is also kind of funny because of this, at least for me. Sort of a half joke half serious album. I mean, cavemen playing metal - it is absurd! I also like Morbid Angel, Deicide, Cryptopsy, Disgorge, Demilich, Suffocation, so what?

This is another important edition to my Cannibal Corpse collection. I brought it some time in the fall of 2002 along with the remastered versions of Butchered At Birth and Tomb Of The Mutilated and like all Cannibal Corpse releases, I had to have it.

Now before my review, I need to say some things that are very important. Those things have already been mentioned on the middle pharagraph of my revew for the original version of this album. For those who want to read it, just go to my review for the original version and you will find it. The version that I'm reviewing now is the remastered version.

Now for my review. Not much can be said about this album because I have already reviewed the original version. So for those who read the review, you know what I think about this album. This version however is a remastered version and is not that different from the original. Some things have stayed the same but the some things have changed or enhanced. Here are just some of the changes.

1. The Artwork And Layout - The album cover is pretty much the same but enhanced. It has the George Fisher album era albums logo on it. The layout, inner artwork and dialog have also been enhanced. There is also a short commentary by Jack own about the album. So those are pretty much some of the changes as for as the album cover and sleave are concerned but no trace of Chris Barnes' influences have been altered at all. So to the old Cannibal Corpse die-hards and Barnes Legions, not to worry.

2. The Music - The music is pretty much the same as the original and the sound and production has not changed much. The front of the CD however is enhanced. There's also a bonus track and it is a live version of Born In A Casket which can be played in regular audio and CD-ROM for your computer. This version sounds like some thing that never made it on Live Cannibalism.

So all in all, this is a very important edition to a true Cannibal Corpse collection. So buy it and get re-eaten.