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Cannibal Corpse is a United States death metal band, noted for its
controversial and ultra-violent lyrics and imagery, founded in 1988 by Chris
Barnes, Bob Rusay, Jack Owen, Alex Webster and Paul Mazurkiewicz. The band
is on the Metal Blade Records label.
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The band had a brief appearance in the movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Cannibal Corpse is noted as the most successful death metal band of the
Sound Scan era, having combined worldwide record sales of over one million
copies with virtually no radio or television exposure.
Cover of Gallery of Suicide, one of their more gory and controversial album
coversCannibal Corpse formed in Buffalo, NY, from the ashes of three area
death metal bands, Beyond Death (Webster, Owen), Leviathan (Barnes), and
Tirant Sin (Barnes, Rusay, Mazurkiewicz). The band played their first show
at Buffalo's River Rock Cafe in April, 1989, shortly after recording a five-song
demo tape. Within a year of that first gig, the band were signed to Metal
Blade Records and their full-length, debut album, Eaten Back To Life, was
released in August, 1990.
Cannibal Corpse's music is very fast, complex and is known for its violent
lyrics. Their albums are censored and banned in several countries, including
Germany, where they are not allowed to play any song from one of their first
three albums in concert, not allowed to play at all in the state of Bavaria,
not allowed to display the original cover images (drawn by Vincent Locke),
or print the lyrics in the CD booklets, etc. Vocalist George "Corpsegrinder"
Fisher stated his frustration in an interview, saying "We can play
“Dismembered And Molested” in Germany but we cannot play “Born In A Casket”.
Which one sounds worse?" Song titles include "Entrails Ripped From a
Virgin's Cunt", "Fucked With a Knife" and "Necropedophile". In May 1995,
then-Senator Bob Dole mentioned the band by name and accused them of
violating "human decency". Cannibal Corpse also enjoyed a brief cameo in the
1994 Jim Carrey film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. (Carrey actually insisted
to have the band perform in the movie because they were his favorite band.)
In 1994, Chris Barnes was kicked out of the band for musical differences and
was replaced with Monstrosity's vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher. Jack
Owen departed Cannibal Corpse in 2004 because he wanted to spend more time
on his second band, Adrift. Jeremy Turner of Origin briefly replaced him as
second guitarist on 2004's "Tour Of The Wretched". Recently Rob Barrett, a
former member of Cannibal Corpse who appeared on the band's albums "Vile"
and "The Bleeding" rejoined the band to play festivals in the Northwest
United States and Europe. Rob officially left Malevolent Creation and joined
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