Band: Cannibal Corpse
Title: Evisceration Plague
Label: Metal Blade records
Distribution: Rough Trade
Release date: 02/02/2009
Review: CD

It is almost incredible, but Cannibal Corpse exist for more than twenty years in mean time. More than two years after Kill, and shortly after the release of the 3-DVD box Centuries Of Torment, which was released as the band’s birthday present, the quintet (George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher-v, Alex Webster-b, Pat O’Brien-g, Rob Barret-g, and Paul Mazurkiewicz-d) releases their eleventh studio album, which was produced, mixed, engineered and mastered by Eric Rutan (Mana Recording Studios). As expected, the album goes on in the vein of Kill, and as a matter of fact more or less in the vein of every former release. Cannibal Corpse still bring extremely powerful, intense, overwhelming and technical Death Metal with a grinding edge and a massive sound. As from Priests Of Sodom on, this album drills as an earthquake, balancing between hyper-sonic moshing terror and slowly hammering. Every detail has been thought through: the rhythm, the tempo (+ -changes), the lyrics, the sound, the instruments + vocals, it’s like pieces from a puzzle brutally turning into bloody picture from the Dark Side. Evisceration Plague confirms Cannibal Corpse’s superiority when it comes to technical yet right-in-the-face-of-your-god Death Metal.

88/100

Ivan Tibos.