I think "The Bleeding" is the best of the Barnes era Cannibal Corpse Albums. Who agrees ?

I agree! I love this album!

butchered at birth \m/

although the bleeding is awesome

i agree with Cannibalism

call me Andrew...or cannibalism is fine

OK, "Butchered at Birth" is an awesome album no doubt, but better than "The Bleeding"..??? Why ?

i dont know...i just sorta like butchered because its fucking scary! he growls so fuckin good but in the bleeding theres like no growling...its all like pretty much yelling....i dont know.....the bleeding is awesome but butchered is my fav

OK fair enough. But how about the rest of the band ? Don't you think as a whole, the group sounds better on "The Bleeding" ?

Seeing as that's the VERY first album I bought from them, oddly enough for my time frame... that's a huge yes, and every positive reason brung to it I will almost completely agree with 99.9%.

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I say Eaten Back To Life. That album will always be one of my favorite death metal albums of all time.

i like Butchered more than the bleeding probably because it was one of the first real metal albums i ever bought and it freaked the shit outta me. for me Butchered is one of those albums i can sit down and listen to all the way through and never get tired and ive had it for a long time now and it still gets regular rotation. and its got some of my favorite CC songs on it too: Meat Hook Sodomy, Gutted, Living Dissection, Under The Rotted Flesh, Vomit The Soul, Rancid Amputation etc etc etc....

i think the band sounds better on butchered....somtimes its hard to hear the bass but the guitars and the drumming and all that is awesome

Without a dbout, Butchered At Birth, is the best barnz album (and the best cannibal corpse album)

they will never top this album.
they should try tho

-Necro

oh yeah!!!! For me best album ever!!!!!!!

THE BLEEDING is the shit.
cant get any more catchy and brutal at the same time. fuckin classic riffs.

Finally someone agrees with me! I was thinking everyone else liked "Butchered At Birth" the best. I just can't listen to "The Bleeding" enough lately. I've already listened to it four times this morning.

DUDE, THE BLEEDING IS HANDS DOWN THE BEST BARNES-ERA ALBUM. SORRY I HAVEN'T POSTED THIS YET TO BACK YA UP.....BUT I LOVE THAT ALBUM .SFU VOCALS WITH BETTER MUSICIANSHIP. -I- -I- -I-

Yes the musicianship is great, but Barne's performance is truly stellar. It makes me regret some of the harsh things I've said about Barnes before, but I really think "The Bleeding" is the best I've heard from Chris in Cannibal or SFU.

THE WIERD THING ABOUT BARNES IS THAT REALLY, HIS VOICE IS A CONSTANT. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW IT'S RECORDED/PRODUCED AS TO HOW IT COMES OUT. BECAUSE HE DID HIS THING WITH THE BLEEDING WHERE HE HIT HIGHS AND LOWS. THEN HE DID HAUNTED WITH SFU AND DID ALMOST ALL LOWS....AND GOOD CLEAR ONES AT THAT. FAST FORWARD TO WARPATH AND HE'S GOT THAT STRANGE, FUCKED UP INBETWEEN PITCH THING GOIN' ON. THEN DROPS IT DOWN AGAIN FOR MAXIMUM VIOLENCE.......AND THEN REALLY, REALLY DROPS IT DOWN FOR TRUE CARNAGE.......THEN BACK TO THE WARPATH SHIT WITH BRINGER OF BLOOD.......SOMEHOW HE'S DONE ALL OF THIS AFTER THE TOTAL INDECIPHARABILITY OF TOMB, BUTCHERED, AND EATEN. WIERD SHIT, MAN.

Ja ja, I will have to agree. Bleeding is a fucking classic, and you can't go wrong with classics!

You nailed it S.U.A.D. I agree also that its Barnes' best vocal performance. But I love it when hes really low like on Tomb and True Carnage. I think Bringer is the best SFU so far! I don't care what anybody else says, I love SFU!

i love sfu to

Yeah I love that album sooo much...

bleeding is the worst barnes album if you ask me, the production sucks, everything just meshes together-the only thing that stands out is the guitars!

best barnes albums in order;

butchered
tomb
eaten
bleeding

Butchered at Birth was my fav. barnes album sickest lyrics in all of death metal lowest growls of his career and to have benton's demonic vocals on vomit the soul was badass best vocals i ever heard barnes low benton high. best vocal track i say is innard decay

I also think "butchered at birth" is the best album with chris barnes. the growls are very low and its just great!!!

Now when I think about it, Butchered is his best!

Dude, I love 'Vomit the Soul' when Glen's voice pops up...so fucking creepy.

On a similar note, I was listening to 'We Are the Children of the Underworld' by Deicide on my CD walkman and Glen growled like a rabid dog...but I thought it was a real ferocious animal behind me! I about shit my pants!

In any case, my favorite vocal performance by Barnes is probably 'The Bleeding' (song, not the album)...he hits so many highs and lows on that song. My favorite Benton cameo song is 'Mangled.'

Eaten back to life is my favourite Barnes CD, it was the original and I think his growls sound particularly brutal on it.

id have to go with...the bleeding

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hmmm Yes the Bleeding, my favorite overall Cannibal Corpse album.

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BENTON WAS ON "MANGLED"? I CHECKED THE BOOKLET FOR THE DISC AND IT DIDN'T MENTION HIM ON THERE...........I'M CONFUSED. I KNEW HE DID "VOMIT THE SOUL" FROM B.A.B.

in my booklet it says guest vocals by glen benton on Mangled, but I only have the remastered one, you probably have the old one.

LOL...I HAVE THE REMASTER....I MUST BE BLIND..........

I've the remastered one too, let me go look.....lol

It's there SUAD, in JAck's interveiw. It does NOT say which track he's on either.

Yup, Glen shows up to do the backup vocals when they scream "MANGLED!"

First off this is a great question: allow me to try to give an indepth answer-

First things First, The bleeding is a killer album, its very hypnotic and has some of my all time favorite corpse songs, but at the same time the album has little depth.

while butchered at birth has tons of depth (and the most brutality not to mention the most technical drum and guitar work, and the vocals (as aforementioned))

So For best Barns album ill pick butchered at Birth,

bleeding has some really unique molments that no cannibal corpse fan should be without, like the tittle track and the sheer evilness of Stripped and pulverized...

but as much as i adore the bleeding, i must say Butchered takes it over the top that much more with such Deep lyrics, and a collective compleeteness the album provides, with a gut churning intro on Meat hook sodomy, to the vile groov of Gutted, and continuing to pound your skull with the Technical palm muting of Living Dissection, not to mention the ever evolving riffs in Under the rotted flesh, and the short burst of skull dammage that is Covered with Sores, to a climactic gore bloodbath on Vomit the Soul, as it winds down with the shorter yet brutal title track, and one of my favorite solos on Rancid Amputation, with the chilling shredding of Innards Decay

Take a closer look at butchered the songs feed off one another and flow into the next keeping the album dark and contiguoius

Bleeding while still technical lacks alot of the lyrical depth and alot of the synergy of a full album, you could take any track of the bleeding and play it in any order... while butchered you cant hear the first lines of Meat Hook Sodomy and not listen all the way through till your left with the last fade out of innards decay...

Anyway this is just my point of view

bleeding is prolly 3rd in my list of favorite barns albums


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yeah

well said

The Bleeding is my favourite CC album. Technically crushing, brutal and compelling.

If it wasn't for Tomb of the multilated's songs like "I cum blood", "Entrials ripped from a virgins cunt", I wouldn't really heard of them. I downloaded I cum blood then rushed to buy the first 3 cds at best buy.

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No doubt about it, The Bleeding kicks ass, but I gotta go with Tomb Of The Mutilated, as not only the best Barnes era album, but the best CC album of all time!

I think its Eaten Back To Life

well, after listening to all of the Barnes' era CC albums, i would have to say that The Bleeding is the best, it's the most developed musically of the four. although people say that production is crappy, i personally like the production, gives it a blunt feel to the album. and personally, i think it was Barnes best performace of all the albums (though i think Butchered is just as good)

They're all so good but all in all, by a VERY close margin, I like this one the best.

This is how I rank the Barnes era albums:

1. Tomb Of The Mutilated
2. Butchered At Birth
3. The Bleeding
4. Eaten Back To Life

I just ranked the officially released lp's, so that's why no Hammer Smashed Face ep. You can't really compare ep's to lp's imo.

Damn! All of those albums are so damn good.

Definitley! All of those albums are fucking GREAT!! Not much seperates EBTL from TOTM.

Absolutely not. I can put any album in and just be blown away from the pure fucking death metal. Not too many bands have released all good albums, but CC definitly did a fine ass job.

What do you mean by "Absolutely not"? Were you responding to me or someone else? In my last post in this thread I meant that all of the albums are so good that not much seperates them.

I was agreeing with you when you said that not much separates Tomb from Eaten. Sorry for that little mix up

i noticed after a lil while if ya wanna admit or not....there does seem to be "filler" songs that aint as good as what ude xpect....i noticed that really start after gallery...most all the cds be4 that there isnt much of a song i would skip...lol...but after that....i dunnno.......lloll.....just my view.....

dont get me wrong i stil enjoy most of it with out doubt....but ya know what im sayen.lol

No worries man!

I agree, Souless, but there are still some AMAZING stuff that has been released lately. I don't even need to be telling this to you.

I know what you mean dude.

I do. The last and the best ( judging by the vocals ). Its a very good album, it shows that Barnes is an extremely good vocalist. In this album we can see a very "mature" Barnes with many strong points in his vocals. Not only a very good album but also a very important album.I like the first album the most but this is my second favorite( its the album that got me into Cannibal Corpse 5 years ago ).
The only thing i don't like about this album is that it's Chris's last album with Cannibal. so it's a little strange for me.

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He went out with a bang..... that is how I think of it.

I agree. Chris Barnes definitley went out with a bang on The Bleeding!

When I listen to The Bleeding, I don't know what it is, but I just get this feeling of POWER!!! I still don't know what does it, but no other CC album does that for me, although they all do pump me up one way or another. That is why it is my favorite.

That's cool. For me The Bleeding ranks 3rd in my fav CC albums. It's a great album, but I like BAB and TOTM better.

1. TOTM
2. BAB
3. The Bleeding

Yes, after ToTM it's my favourite album by Cannibal Corpse. Reasons why I prefer ToTM? I Cum Blood has a freaking outro and it's my fave CC song and ToTM's cover artwork is way better

Imo ToTM has the best cover artwork of all the Cc albums.

Ditto

When I became a fan of Cannibal Corpse, the first album that was released after I became a fan was The Bleeding, and I have great memories of that time! I still remember the day I bought it and listened to it for the first time. The Bleeding will always be one of my favourite Cc albums.

i say either the bleeding... or ToTM.. hard choice idk. they both fuckin kick ass

Yes, the cover for The Bleeding is probably the worst of all CC albums, but the sound totally makes up for it. TOTM and BAB are amazing as well, and they rank right up there. Infact, those are probably my two favorites as far as covers, but BAB has by far the best at least in my opinion.

The Bleeding have always be my best CC album, the one that I have listend the most. I think it is one of the most energetic and fluid album.

Yeah! The energy just flows when you listen to this album. It just makes you feel so damn powerful! Combine this with 6 energy drinks and you're gonna be ready to destroy a town.

Definitley man! All of Cannibal's music makes me feel ultra powerfull, as does all great metal! Imo it's one of the many great things about metal in general! That surge of power that you get is such a great feeling! Imo Death and Thrash metal are EASILY the two greatest musical genres EVER created!!!!

One of the best albums of course, IMO.

It is certainly up there.

Death and thrash rule. A lot of people absolutely hate that shit, but they probably don't even know what it truly is.

its a very good album just like any other CC album. but it terms of gore, vocals and controversy tomb of the mutilated is better

i think i agree with "Guest" lol

that guest was me

again...

Hmm.. It´s one of their best albums for shure but i am a bit dissapointed at the mixing.. it´s to blurry and you can´t hear chris to good.. I think tomb is a better album when it comes to chris barnes

The drumming is the best on the bleeding, But im going to have to say TOTM is my fave barnes Era album.

Yeah TOM takes the cake IMO

Butchered At Birth. But, Chris Barnes best release would definately be 13. I know most of you won't agree with me, but I think 13 is easily better than The Bleeding I really do enjoy his short growls starting of songs like Return To Flesh and the title track. Although, Up against tracks like The Art Of Headhunting and Deathklaat I feel The Bleeding falls short. The 2 Cannibal Corpse albums that really stand out to me, as albums I enjoy every track on, would be Tomb of The Mutilated and Butchered At Birth.

"Butchered" and "Tomb" own the fuck out of The Bleeding IMO.

yes butchered and tomb

HELL YEAH!!! "The Bleeding" is my fav too!!

butchered fucking owns any SFU album and any other CC album (IMO)

I think The Bleeding is the best Barnes era CC disc too at least it's the one we listen to the most anyways

its just the best album period

IMHO Tomb... is my favourite in terms of songs, lyrics and its overall sound but for song writing, musicall skill and progression i vote the bleeding

Butchered at birth fucken awesome so is the shirt

best barnes era album imo is probably butchered,but for catchy songs and riffs probably the bleeding

Yeah, except its not, TOTM is

the bleeding is second place imo...

I just joined the forums yesterday and I think I named 'The Bleeding' as my favourite CC record. That was a total, careless mistake cos 'Butchered at Birth' will always remain my all-time fave CC album for tons of reasons. 'Tomb.....' is a mighty close second, maybe only a tiny sliver separating it from 'Butchered...' on my card. I've always loved the Chris Barnes-era CC quite a lot more than what followed with George in the latter days. But overall, I reckon I admire and enjoy highly, every single CC album I own and hear to this day.

'The Bleeding' leaves me all mixed up and rather annoyed and underwhelmed. I sure love the overall outstanding musicianship. The out-for-blood intensity with the guitars and drums and Chris's mesmerising vocal presence all over the record. Yet, it still rankles with me how there's just an excessive, overkill of the 'groovy' vibe throughout the album. I don't have a quarrel with the band experimenting and changing direction for their fourth record, but there's just too much groove on 'Bleeding....' for my tastes and hence I'm always gonna be very hot-n-cold on this Barnes-era album. Besides, I wasn't too excited or ever won over by Barnes's decision to go the 'decipherable' route on this album, and I was really pissed with his overdoing the high-pitched shrieks on virtually every song. These make 'The Bleeding' a bit of a minor let-down for me personally, more so cos I truly revere Chris Barnes and the major role he played in making Cannibal Corpse such a formidable force and frontrunner in the amazing world of Brutal-death metal---music that I love above and beyond all else.

Well , good music is supposed to make you " feel something " . Scared , happy , sad , angry , in love whatever - its gotta have some sort of emotion .

The bleeding , just oozes it , its cannibal 's most pure complete , pissed off record to date . And their is nothing fake about it , Its intensely real , scary , gloomy . The
high pitched screams i love , it resembles chaos , fear , dying , torture - whatever -its all good . Lyrically - its the most amazing record as well.........

screams kick ass....


lyrics.....ditto..

@DeadByDawn - dude I totally understand where you're coming from, but you know that "groove" thing you're talking about ? Well I kind of think thats what makes it the best of the Barnes Era.

The screams are awesome, but no comparison to the screams on Tomb.


The Bleeding used to be my favorite album. I just plain got sick of it, and I hear something better in Tomb now. Butchered at Birth I prefer as well, as it's lyrics are probably the best, and the vocals sound really cool.

your all fucked

What screams? Oh, you mean the screams buried in Tomb's mix???