Customer Reviews
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth
if you are a fan of death metal then you need to get this album
to complete your canibal corpse collection.
Disgusting, Vile, Atonal...
. . everything that death metal was meant to be. Though many claim that death metal is uncreative and repetitive, it might be a result of the underproduction that most album of this caliber display. If you used the same kind of production that most metal albums of today got, then it would probably sound more or less the same, minus the melody, of course. But that's what death metal is all about: atonal, growling vocals, powerful guitar riffs, and intense drumming, definitely not the kind of metal you'd find your average high school teen headbanging too. What I'm really sick of hearing is people who claim that they listen to "the heaviest f**kin' death metal you'll ever hear", and those bands they speak of are mere metalcore outfits like Trivium and Atreyu (and occasionally Project 86. <---what the hell?). I think it's time these misguided youth get a taste of what death metal is; not that they should like it or anything, but at least give them the right information so that authentic metalheads such as myself don't look down on them. Bottom line: Project 86 = post-hardcore. Cannibal Corpse = death metal. Get your facts straight, people.
Now for the album. As far as death metal goes, this album is somewhat mediocre, especially when compared to other bands like Deicide and Morbid Angel, but a lot of the songs on here are enjoyable, like the track "Meat Hook Sodomy", which is the first death metal song that ever scared me (the opening vocals sound inhuman and the guitars have a strange, hypnotic tone about them that makes the song sound genuinely evil), as well as other, less frightening tracks like "Vomit the Soul" and the title track. Though you can't really decipher the unintelligible, guttural growling lyrics emanating from Chris Barnes' throat, just thinking of the theme of the band reminds you that those vocals invading your ear are intensely violent and gory.
In the end, Cannibal Corpse has done better than this in their following albums like "The Bleeding" and the recently released "Kill" (don't get angry, you damn purists, at least you can understand him and his voice doesn't sound like he's mouthing words as water from a showerhead sprays against his lips). But if you want some seriously frightening music, then you should pick this album up, along with the aforementioned ones. Also check out some death metal bands like In Flames (I highly recommend "The Jester Race") and Children of Bodom (start with "Follow the Reaper" for a good idea of them), and try not to act out any of the lyrics you read from this album. *sarcasm*
6/10.
beautifully inspirational and uplifting album...if you're a serial killer!!!
I liked LC because of the raw, blister and peel death metal and became an immediate fan of Cannibal Corpse. I listened to Butchered at Birth after my introduction to this band (live cannibalism). I then bought Gore Obsessed at Best Buy (it was the only CC album they had)and I thought it was great. Then I ordered Butchered because I had read that it was one of the band's best albums. I finally heard it and immediately fell in love with this album! The vocalist on this album is not "Corpsegrinder" Fischer. Fischer's vocals (on later albums)are more coherent, and he occasionally highlights the songs with a pyschotic (and from the sound of it, truly painful to perform)scream. But this guy Chris Barnes doesn't do that. His vocals cannot be understood at all (I listened to it first without the lyric sheet, and I could only recognize the words Bleed, Vomit, and suffer!). But his vocals are better because they are so much more morose sounding. Butchered made me realize that the later CC albums are pretty tamed compared to the Barnes-era. The songs on this album are good, and the low cost production they used for this album actually enhances this dyed in the wool ultra-traditional death metal. The music is steady, dual-guitar metal riffage with double kick pedal drums played pretty fast. My only complaint are the guitar solos. The solos on this album are really shallow and they feel like they dont't really add anything to the music. When you listen to Butchered at Birth, the album draws this image of this guy who works at some dirty porno shop on the side of the highway and mugs and kills people occasionly for supplementary income. Butchered makes you think of cold, rainy, miserable days. It makes you think of things like filthy apartment rooms and flourescent lights and that disgusting black and orange mold that shows up on the corners of your bathtub because the grouting has gotten too wet. In other words, Butchered at Birth is a really good death metal album! .
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