Butchered at Birth is the second album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released in 1991 through Metal Blade Records. The album was banned in Germany until June 2006, due to the gory cover art made by artist Vince Locke, which featured a slaughtered mother-to-be being carved by a zombie, her baby apparently about to be slaughtered by a second zombie, and dead fetuses hanging from meat hooks and nooses. First pressings of the compact disc were wrapped in white butcher paper stamped with the band logo and album title in red ink. The cover art also Read more on Last.fm.
tin my opinion this is the best c.c album everything is about this album is brutal from the album art to the sick lyrics this is c.c’s best
Metal purists, the type that scorn the tongue in cheek aspects of the encompassing genre, tend to dismiss death metal gore rockers like Cannibal Corpse as nothing but a joke. In truth, Cannibal Corpse built the Tampa metal scene and were among the first to take on lyrical subject matter of the most vial and offensive. Musically, their din was a sort of devouring wall of power chorded gutter metal, rounded out by Chris Barnes throaty spill of a voice. They were proud fringe artists, kings of the underground. Their debut, Eaten Back To Life, was genre grower. It’s sequel is akin to Slayers Reign or Tallica’s Puppets. That sequel, Butchered At Birth, is a second helping of overtly offensive murder madness. It’s not even wise for me to throw out the titles. Which is just as well because it all sounds nearly the same…..but in a good way. Butchered is unpretentious, self aware and snarlingly un PC. I can’t go on. You just need to check it out. Reserve your pretenses. Let it offend you…..