CANNIBAL CORPSE — Gallery of Suicide (review)

CANNIBAL CORPSE — Gallery of Suicide album cover Album · 1998 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
metalmillennium
In my mind, this album is under-rated..the critics hated this album beyond belief, and to be honest I don't know why. Still carrying the shock-image persona that they culminated in the early 90s, the lyrics/cover art are gorier than a bullet wound to the head. On a musical aspect, Cannibal Corpse play a form of complex Technical Death Metal. The riffs are some of the best I've heard in Death Metal; they will stick to you like glue, which is the #1 attention getter.

Nearly every song is a highlight, though the first half is slightly better. "I Will Kill You" features brutal riffage layered around deep gutteral vocals from the "Corpse Grinder" himself. "Sentenced to Burn" and "Chambers of Blood" continue the fury with thrash-esque rhythm anthems surely to pound right through your eardrums. The top track, "From Liquid to Skin" really surprised me in that it's an instrumental (a rarity in Death Metal). Why Cannibal Corpse don't compose more instrumentals like this is beyond me! The fretwork amazed me on first listen, and it still does. Hardcore CC fans may not like this half as much as earlier material, but this album is just as good: 'not as monotonous as one might expect, the great variety in vocals and riffage are sure to keep you banging away in fine fashion. Better than The Vile, although not quite as intense as say Butchered at Birth, this is a fresh sounding Death Metal album that is still overlooked in the CC catalog.
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