Posted by Irate Nate - 07-10-08 00:08 - 8 comments
Gore metal godfathers Cannibal Corpse are celebrating 20 years of inarticulate bellowing, inhumanly fast drum beats and shredding guitars on Centuries Of Torment: The First 20 Years, a retrospective DVD extending to seven hours over three discs.
Revered as death metal's biggest and probably most controversial/influential act, Cannibal Corpse (guitarists Pat O'Brien and Rob Barrett, bassist Alex Webster, vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz) are renowned for such infamous and definitive albums as Butchered At Birth, Eaten Back To Life and Gallery Of Suicide.
Naturally, the Tampa, Fla. band are proud of Centuries Of Torment. It's beautifully — well, as "beautiful" as an embossed image of a zombie strapped to a chair of rotting flesh can be — packaged and features live renditions of such timeless classics as "Devoured By Vermin," "Dormant Bodies Bursting" and "Mummified In Barbed Wire." It's packed with live performances, a three-hour documentary and introspective features on everything from being banned in multiple countries to the group's shocking merchandise.
"We did work hard on both the documentary and DVD itself," Webster notes. "I know it seems long at first, but once you're watching it, you realize how hard it is to pare down 20 years of history — shows, albums, tours and everything else — into a couple of hours.
"You can only give so much attention to everything, and these great moments end up getting cut. But we're confident that what made it into the documentary will be entertaining to our fans."
While Webster is clearly stoked about Centuries Of Torment, he figures the most interesting element is that the documentary features original vocalist Chris Barnes, who resigned heatedly in 1995 due to friction with his bandmates.
"It is great that we even have Chris talking about the band in it. Most people thought we'd either skip over that or he'd want no part of it, but he was all for it. I think that because we ensured he's a part of things, fans will really appreciate the effort we put forth."
Webster is adamant that fans not see Centuries Of Torment as the group's swan song. On the contrary, he says it's a doorway between chapters in the Cannibal Corpse saga. Apparently the world still needs more songs about decapitation and mutilation.
"This DVD is more of a celebration of what we've accomplished so far as opposed to saying, 'That's all we have,'" he says. "This is by no means the end of Cannibal Corpse's prolific output.
"We're working with [Hate Eternal singer/guitarist] Erik Rutan on our next album that we hope to have out in a few months. This is a celebration of two decades of Cannibal Corpse. Hopefully the next two decades will be just as interesting."
WassssUUP! pplz I think cannibal corpse is the most imba, fat, grinding, heavy, old school underground metal band ever to walk the face of this earth, and George Fisher rules the universe of VOCALS.
Posted by RottingRoadie - 05-6-08 17:15 - 84 comments
Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years contains live and rare footage, interviews with members past and present, and loads of bonus material (see track listing below). Documentary and Bonus Footage Directed and Produced by Denise Korycki.
DVD 1: Cannibal Corpse History 3 Hour Definitive History of Cannibal Corpse as told by the band and the people who were there along the way.
1987-1995 Intro Demo Eaten Back to Life Butchered at Birth Tomb of the Mutilated The Bleeding
1995 - Present Vile Gallery of Suicide Bloodthirst Gore Obsessed and The Wretched Spawn Kill
DVD 2: Cannibal Corpse Performances With Full Force 2007 1. Unleashing the Bloodthirsty 2. Murder Worship 3. Disposal of the Body
Toronto 2006 4. The Time To Kill Is Now 5. Disfigured 6. Death Walking Terror 7. Covered With Sores 8. Born In a Casket 9. I Cum Blood 10. Decency Defied 11. Make Them Suffer 12. Dormant Bodies Bursting 13. Five Nails Through The Neck 14. Devoured By Vermin 15. Hammer Smashed Face 16. Stripped, Raped, And Strangled *Toronto Show directed by David Stuart and Nic Izzi www. myspace. com/thoughtharvestproductions
Party San 2005 17. Puncture Wound Massacre 18. Sentenced To Burn 19. Fucked With A Knife 20. Psychotic Precision 21. Pulverized 22. Pounded Into Dust 23. The Wretched Spawn
New York 2000 24. The Spine Splitter 25. Dead Human Collection
Jacksonville, FL 1996 26. Mummified In Barbed Wire
Nashville, TN 1994 27. Entrails Ripped From A Virgin's Cunt 28. Pulverized
Buffalo, NY 1989 29. Shredded Humans 30. Rotting Head
Music Videos 31. Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead Directed by David Roth 32. Devoured By Vermin Directed by David Roth 33. Sentenced To Burn Directed by David Roth 34. Decency Defied Directed by Austin Rhodes 35. Make Them Suffer Directed by Dan Dobi 36. Death Walking Terror Directed by Dan Dobi 37. Stripped, Raped, And Strangled 2007 With Trevor from The Black Dahlia Murder
DVD 3: Bonus Chunks Compelled To Illustrate Every Ban Broken Covered With Ink Maniacal Merch Relentless Touring Word Infested Sickening Metalocalypse Diverse Offerings Staring Through the Eyes of the Band Kill Crane
Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years was Directed and Produced by Denise Korycki and has a running time of 7 hours and 20 minutes.
Centuries of Torment The First 20 Years, due out July 2008.
Anyone know where to get some CC bootlegs from the early 90's? Mainly ones where they play some lesser-known songs from Tomb of the Mutilated (My favorite Barnes-era CC album)?
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