CANNIBAL CORPSE — Gore Obsessed (review)

CANNIBAL CORPSE — Gore Obsessed album cover Album · 2002 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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"Gore Obsessed" is the 8th full-length studio album by US death metal act Cannibal Corpse. The album was released through Metal Blade Records in February 2002. "Gore Obsessed" features the exact same lineup who recorded both "Gallery of Suicide (1998)" and "Bloodthirst (1999)". This time the band have opted to record the album at Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, Texas with producer Neil Kernon (Nile, Nevermore...etc).

I don´t know if it´s the change of producer (Colin Richardson produced "Bloodthirst (1999)") or if it´s something else, but "Gore Obsessed" is just a much, much better album than both "Gallery of Suicide (1998)" and "Bloodthirst (1999)". Maybe it´s because the band spend more time writing "Gore Obsessed", because the songwriting is much more inspired than were the case on the last couple of albums. So with a better and more powerful sound production, and more well written and memorable material, Cannibal Corpse have redeemed themselves after a couple of more mediocre releases.

They come out full throttle with the opening track "Savage Butchery", which is the kind of death metal track that´ll beat you to a bloody pulp. There is so much passion and conviction behind the delivery here, that it´s hard not to be affected. As always the band are technically very well playing and everything is delivered with precision and great conviction. Both the really fast-paced sections and the brutal mid-paced grooves work very well this time around. An example of the latter type rhythm style is found in "Pit of Zombies" which features an absolutely killer mid-paced groove/riff. Lead vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher also delivers one of his most inspired and powerful performances. His deep growls are ultra brutal yet intelligible, and his higher pitched screams (which there are quite a few of on this album) are very well performed too and provide nice variation to the vocal department.

So all in all "Gore Obsessed" is a high quality death metal album. I think most of the band´s albums are quality wise in the better half of what is released on the scene, and even when they release a less inspired effort, it´s still a quality release. But some of their albums do stand out as something special in their discography, and I count "Gore Obsessed" among those albums. A 4 star (80%) rating is deserved.
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