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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Metal Blade
Salesrank: 493807
Released: October 11, 1994 |
| Our Price: $19.48 |
| Used Price: $4.58 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Butchered at Birth Track Listing:
1. Meat Hook Sodomy
2. Gutted
3. Living Dissection
4. Under The Rotted Flesh
5. Covered With Sores
6. Vomit The Soul
7. Butchered At Birth
8. Rancid Amputation
9. Innards Decay
Editorial Review:
UK pressing. Butchered At Birth is super-heavy Floridian Death Metal at it's best and features some intense songs on one of the most brutal albums ever created. The album opens up with 'Meat Hook Sodomy', a classic favorite amongst fans. As the song twists and turns metamorphing into many different time changes, vocal pattern changes, and cascading drum changes, one marvels at Cannibal's speed and technicality. Other titles, including 'Gutted', 'Living Dissection', 'Under the Rotted Flesh', 'Vomit the Soul' and 'Rancid Amputation' pretty much tell the story. This is the kind of stuff you listen to with the lights on. Not that it's easy to be scared. As the words are churned and ground to mere vocal road kill of their former selves by The Corpse Grinder (lead-singer), 'Butchered At Birth' was voted 'Cannibal Corpse's Best Album' on the Metal Blade website. 'Butchered At Birth' features some immense songs by the only band to feature in 'Ace-Ventura' for 30 splitting seconds! This album is worth a place in any good Death Metal collection. This album is worth a place in any good Death Metal collection. Blackend. 2005.
Butchered at Birth Reviews:
BRUTAL AS F@#K 
2008-02-08 - Main Entry: bru·tal
Pronunciation: \brü-tl\
Function: adjective
1: archaic: typical of beasts : animal
2: befitting a brute: as a: grossly ruthless or unfeeling b: cruel cold-blooded c: harsh severe
THIS IS THE SICKEST, SEEDIEST, MOST BRUTAL DEATH METAL RECORD EVER. At least, I think. Don't try and (or do) tell me anything about Suffocation, or any other major bands or records, I've heard 'em all. It took me a while to get used to this record; it's so brutal it was hard to listen to and the abundant canniblast put me off at first.
A couple years later I started listening to this again, and started to appreciate it.
And now I say: Cannibal Corpse reached the pinnacle of brutal death metal with this record, and all that was left for the genre to do was go in a more technical direction, every release being faster, more technical, more complex, more "brutal", meanwhile it didn't work, because more technical = less brutal/primitive. More technical = more sophisticated, and sophistication is the opposite quality of the brute.
This record is IT.
CANNIBAL F_CKING CORPSE
Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth
2007-05-07 - if you are a fan of death metal then you need to get this album
to complete your canibal corpse collection
Disgusting, Vile, Atonal... 
2006-06-09 - ...everything that death metal was meant to be. Though many claim that death metal is uncreative and repetitive, it might be a result of the underproduction that most album of this caliber display. If you used the same kind of production that most metal albums of today got, then it would probably sound more or less the same, minus the melody, of course. But that's what death metal is all about: atonal, growling vocals, powerful guitar riffs, and intense drumming, definitely not the kind of metal you'd find your average high school teen headbanging too. What I'm really sick of hearing is people who claim that they listen to "the heaviest f**kin' death metal you'll ever hear", and those bands they speak of are mere metalcore outfits like Trivium and Atreyu (and occasionally Project 86. <---what the hell?). I think it's time these misguided youth get a taste of what death metal is; not that they should like it or anything, but at least give them the right information so that authentic metalheads such as myself don't look down on them. Bottom line: Project 86 = post-hardcore. Cannibal Corpse = death metal. Get your facts straight, people.
Now for the album. As far as death metal goes, this album is somewhat mediocre, especially when compared to other bands like Deicide and Morbid Angel, but a lot of the songs on here are enjoyable, like the track "Meat Hook Sodomy", which is the first death metal song that ever scared me (the opening vocals sound inhuman and the guitars have a strange, hypnotic tone about them that makes the song sound genuinely evil), as well as other, less frightening tracks like "Vomit the Soul" and the title track. Though you can't really decipher the unintelligible, guttural growling lyrics emanating from Chris Barnes' throat, just thinking of the theme of the band reminds you that those vocals invading your ear are intensely violent and gory.
In the end, Cannibal Corpse has done better than this in their following albums like "The Bleeding" and the recently released "Kill" (don't get angry, you damn purists, at least you can understand him and his voice doesn't sound like he's mouthing words as water from a showerhead sprays against his lips). But if you want some seriously frightening music, then you should pick this album up, along with the aforementioned ones. Also check out some death metal bands like In Flames (I highly recommend "The Jester Race") and Children of Bodom (start with "Follow the Reaper" for a good idea of them), and try not to act out any of the lyrics you read from this album. *sarcasm*
6/10
beautifully inspirational and uplifting album...if you're a serial killer!!! 
2006-04-23 - I listened to Butchered at Birth after my introduction to this band (live cannibalism). I liked LC because of the raw, blister and peel death metal and became an immediate fan of Cannibal Corpse. I then bought Gore Obsessed at Best Buy (it was the only CC album they had)and I thought it was great. Then I ordered Butchered because I had read that it was one of the band's best albums. I finally heard it and immediately fell in love with this album! The vocalist on this album is not "Corpsegrinder" Fischer. Fischer's vocals (on later albums)are more coherent, and he occasionally highlights the songs with a pyschotic (and from the sound of it, truly painful to perform)scream. But this guy Chris Barnes doesn't do that. His vocals cannot be understood at all (I listened to it first without the lyric sheet, and I could only recognize the words Bleed, Vomit, and suffer!). But his vocals are better because they are so much more morose sounding. Butchered made me realize that the later CC albums are pretty tamed compared to the Barnes-era. The songs on this album are good, and the low cost production they used for this album actually enhances this dyed in the wool ultra-traditional death metal. The music is steady, dual-guitar metal riffage with double kick pedal drums played pretty fast. My only complaint are the guitar solos. The solos on this album are really shallow and they feel like they dont't really add anything to the music. When you listen to Butchered at Birth, the album draws this image of this guy who works at some dirty porno shop on the side of the highway and mugs and kills people occasionly for supplementary income. Butchered makes you think of cold, rainy, miserable days. It makes you think of things like filthy apartment rooms and flourescent lights and that disgusting black and orange mold that shows up on the corners of your bathtub because the grouting has gotten too wet. In other words, Butchered at Birth is a really good death metal album!
CC should have more respect from Music Lovers!
2006-04-19 - Cannibal Corspe is a band that gets no credit from anyone outside of the death metal world, and its really a shame. I will admit that it takes a certain type of ear to to listen to Death Metal, and thats why you dont see it on the pop charts. To get back to "Butchred at Birth" when you first absorb it, it really kinda throws you into a state of uncertainty, since it is so brutally fast, and yes, at times it can sound so repetitive, because your mind cant absorb what is going on. As I have listened to the album through the years, it gets better and better, and if you really take the time, and sit back, follow the lyrics in the insert, and listen to what is going on, you really will be amazed at how well everything is put together. This is probely one of the fastest "Death Metal" albums of all time, and even though it comes off a bit sloppy at times, there are moments of pure genius here. I cant reccomend this to everyone, as the first few listens might really leave you confused, but the more you listen, the more it grows on you, and it really reminds me of Gorguts, since they were another band, right around this time (1991) that threw me off guard, but as I listened, I saw the brillence in it. Just like all the great rock artist of our time, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Zepplin, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, and Rush, CANNIBAL CORPSE should earn there way into greatness, just like these other bands did, even though its not the norm, it doesnt mean that it sucks. ENJOY
