Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague - 02.03.09

Since their pioneering debut ‘Eaten Back To Life’ in 1988, Cannibal Corpse have arguably been the most consistent death metal act ever. Musically (and infamously) lyrically brutal, they’ve never strayed from their original path, every release staying strictly faithful to the pure death metal genre they helped rip open. Two decades later, and despite all kinds of trials and tribulations faced by the controversial band, they’re still spilling blood with album number eleven.

And any signs that they were straying after twenty years have been gloriously pulverised. ‘Evisceration Plague’ is as remorseless at it is technically brilliant, with sickeningly heavy riffs counterpoised with trademark shredding, leads and dive-bombs, huge sounding drums and the gut-wrenching bark of George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher; the picks of the bunch being the title track, ‘Evidence In The Furnace’ and ‘Shatter Their Bones’.

It may not be to the dizzying brilliance of ‘06’s ‘Kill’ but it’s the thickness of a Rizla paper away.

Pure death metal doesn’t get much better than this. The Godfathers are back in style…


Verdict:

JIM BURT