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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Few other bands have the balls to do this., March 1, 2000
The Bleeding isn't even the roughest album they've done, and still people can't handle it. I'm not angered, but amused at all the bitchy reviews of Cannibal Corpse I've seen. Someone will claim to like death metal, then complain that they can't understand Chris Barnes' singing. Huh? Aren't unintelligible vocals a must for modern death metal? Hell, that's been the case since Bathory in '84. It's the sound of the singing that matters. And the complaints about the lyrics... people are too used to weak death metal lyrics just talking about piles of bodies and the like. Anything worse than that and they get offended. And of course we get the people saying straight out that the guys don't have any talent. Yeah, right. I'd like to see any one of those idiots try to beat on a guitar of drums even one thousandth that fast, or play that tightly with the others, something other death metal bands like Obituary can't even pull off. Cannibal Corpse has been banned from playing in Australia and Korea completely, among other countless cities around the world. They push the limits of not just decency, but sanity. They're a pissed off version Metallica on acid and speed. And they have thoroughly freaked out Pat Robertson and Bob Dole, which puts them even higher on my list. It's a hellishly graphic depiction of death and gore, with a great sense of humor to keep to the whole thing running.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you don't have a sense of humor, don't buy this album., February 17, 2000
The first thing you need to understand is that Cannibal Corpse is a novelty. Every lyric about rape and torture and mutilation is only there to push the boundaries of morality and convention. If you want an album that takes gore to an almost ridiculous extreme then look no further because The Bleeding is perfect. You and your buddies will laugh over the lyrics for hours just like mine are doing right now. Even though the lyrics are ludicrous and the vocals are indistinguishable, the musicianship on this album is surprising. Cannibal Corpse uses a lot of hemiola (rhythm tricks that make you wonder where the beat is) and surprisingly unusual guitar riffs. So far I am unimpressed by the guitar soloing though. The solos are at best energetic and strenuous, but there isn't a lot of depth to them. On the other hand, the BASS does a few very short, head turning solos. For a metal bass player Alex Webster is extraordinarily audible and always an important part of the sound. Pop this one in the stereo, crank it to one zillion, and bang your head until your face resembles the cover art, or read the lyrics and laugh until you cry. The fact that you're even looking at Cannibal Corpse CDs shows that you're the kind of person who would enjoy this, so buy it right this minute.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Chris Barnes' finest hour, August 3, 2005
This is possibly the best death metal album of the 1990's, and maybe the best death metal C.D. I own. It has great all of the great death metal qualities: it's short (36 minutes) and to the point, it has brutal music (booming/cascading/bludgeoning riffs and energetic drums which anchor the beat), monstrous vocals, and repulsive lyrics (although, thanks to Chris Barnes' vocal technique, you can't understand the vocals 90% of the time). Next, vocalist Chris Barnes was also very influential to the death metal scene. Barnes proudly bears the title of the "grandfather of death metal." He didn't invent the genre by any means, but he was one of the first to have true Cookie Monster vocals. Cannibal Corpse do use some influence from Slayer and Morbid Angel, but they stand apart from those bands; they're much heavier than Slayer, but slower than 1980's Morbid Angel. Plus, Corpse's vocals are more growly and their lyrics are much more violent and explicit.
"Staring through the Eyes..." opens with sludgy, almost grinding and throbbing riffs. The beat speeds up when the vocals begin and the drums (which were just filler at the beginning) become a lot faster. Several Slayer-esque guitar solos are tossed in at the end.
"F-cked with a Knife" is very fast paced. It begins with a crashing high hat, then jackhammer riffs and lurching drums. Some shrieks (which Chris would use later with Six Feet Under) are included, in between the usual death metal barks.
"Pulverized" features nice speed changes of drumming, but the real highlight here is the super fast guitar riff which shoots throughout this song. The guitarist (Rob) must work his fingers to the bone when they play this live.
"Return to Flesh" has a slow beginning, before it none-too-subtly changes gears and the beat rips and rockets downhill. It gradually slows down, and the riffs chug heavily, but there's a guitar solo which speeds the beat back up.
"She was Asking for It" opens with a wild guitar solo, but then the song chugs again and the riffs stop and start, while the drummer plays death metal blast beats. Chris whispers "Come to me," then he bellows it, and the song ends with more propulsive riffs and insane drumming.
"Force Fed Broken Glass" has another sprinting beat with annihilating riffs. These riffs, which pause only briefly, almost vibrate at times, and the drummer is doing his best to keep up with them. And around the two minute mark, Chris sounds like he's choking (on glass, maybe?)
So, this is a pretty great death metal record. Every metalhead should have some death metal, and you're just not metal unless you've heard Cannibal Corpse. If you only get one CC album, get this one. You're not likely to hear Corpse on the radio anytime soon, so if you want to escape from the mainstream, pick this up. And no death metal collection is complete without some Cannibal Corpse, so if you just want to have a complete metal collection, pick this up.
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