Butchered at Birth
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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. Butchered at Birth's cover also drew a complaint from the Ontario Provincial Police in Canada, which led to a warning to record stores being told not to sell the album to persons under 18.[citation needed]
"Rancid Amputation" was given a lounge music re-arrangement by Andrew Hansen of the Australian comedy team The Chaser.[1]
Reviews
"This band's obvious goal was to deliver the musical equivalent of B-movie horror flick, and on that level, the album is outrageously successful."- Allmusic[1]
"Chris (Barnes) took everything the public feared and entwined it into one big sickening mess, amping up the gore to obscene proportions. The depravity on this album has yet to be rivaled" "You can't truly appreciate death metal without first hearing this album."[2]
Track listing
All song lyrics were written by Chris Barnes, except where noted.
- "Meat Hook Sodomy" – 5:47
- "Gutted" – 3:15
- "Living Dissection" – 3:59
- "Under the Rotted Flesh" – 5:04
- "Covered with Sores" – 3:15
- "Vomit the Soul" – 4:29 (Feat. Glen Benton from Deicide)
- "Butchered at Birth" – 2:44
- "Rancid Amputation" – 3:16
- "Innards Decay" – 4:38
- "Covered with Sores" [live] – 3:59
The 2002 remastered edition features a live version of "Covered with Sores" as bonus track.
Personnel
- Chris Barnes - vocals
- Jack Owen - guitar
- Bob Rusay - guitar
- Alex Webster – bass
- Paul Mazurkiewicz – drums