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"Gallery of Suicide" is the 6th full-length studio album by US death metal act Cannibal Corpse. The album was released through Metal Blade Records in April 1998. It´s the second album by the band featuring lead vocalist "George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher". One lineup change has occured since the release of "Vile (1996)" as guitarist Rob Barret left Cannibal Corpse to rejoin Malevolent Creation (He would return to the fold again in 2005). Barret is replaced here by Pat O'Brien, who had just come out of a stint with Nevermore.
The lineup change has little consequence on how the music sounds on "Gallery of Suicide". This is unmistakably the sound of Cannibal Corpse. Technically well played and brutal death metal with gore lyrics and imagery. Songtitles like "I Will Kill You", "Dismembered and Molested", and "Stabbed in the throat" should give you an idea of where we are in the lyric department. As always there is a furious intensity about the delivery of the band´s music, that is greatly admirable. Cannibal Corpse mean business and they are not afraid to break every bone in your body to prove it (yeah there is a pun here with reference to the songtitle "Every Bone Broken").
They don´t exactly reinvent themselves on this release, and to my ears it´s not their most memorable release either, but you can´t put a finger on the excellent musicianship or the brutal and raw sound production (which for the first time in the band´s discography isn´t handled by Scott Burns, but by Jim Morris). There are a few new ideas in the songwriting department too, but they are very few and the music is generally pretty one-dimensionally brutal. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.