Former Members
Chris Barnes-Vocals Lyrics (for first four albums.) 1988-1995
Bob Rusay-Guitar 1988-1993
Jack Owen-Guitar (Now With Deicide) 1988-2004
Jeremy Turner-Guitar 2004-2005


Discography

Eaten Back To Life (1990)	Butchered At Birth (1991)	Tomb Of The Mutilated (1992)
The Bleeding (1994)	Vile (1996)	Gallery Of Suicide (1998)
Bloodthirst (1999)		Gor Obsessed (2002)
The Wretched Spawn (2004)	Kill (2006)	Evisceration Plague (2009)

About The Band

Cannibal Corpse is an American Death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album. Although Cannibal Corpse has had virtually no radio or television exposure, a cult following began to build behind the group with albums such as 1991's Butchered At Birth and 1992's Tomb Of The Mutilated. Cannibal Corpse reached over 1 million in record sales worldwide in 2003, including 558,929 in the United States, making it one of the top-selling death metal bands of all time.

The members of Cannibal Corpse were originally inspired by Thrash metal bands like Slayer, Kreator, and Sodom, as well as other death metal bands like Morbid Angel and Death. The band's lyrics and album art, which draw heavily on Horror Fiction and Horror Films, are highly controversial. At different times, several countries have banned Cannibal Corpse from performing within their borders, or have banned the sale and display of uncensored Cannibal Corpse albums

"If vomit were a movie, this would be the soundtrack," wrote one critic of Cannibal Corpse's music, some of the most extreme, violent death metal sounds and subject matter ever committed to tape. Reveling in splatter-horror imagery in their often indecipherable lyrics, the group's graphic album artwork and song titles like "Meat Hook Sodomy," "Entrails Ripped from a Virgin's Cunt," "Fucked with a Knife," and so on, have -- not surprisingly -- attracted a fair amount of controversy and sometimes resulted in their albums being banned. However, their over-the-top extremity has won them a rabid cult following and made them one of the most popular death metal bands of the '90s; sticking with what works, the band didn't alter or develop its style much over the decade, although fans didn't seem to mind.

Australia

As of October 23, 1996, the sale of any Cannibal Corpse audio recording then available was banned in Australia and all copies of such had been removed from music shops. At the time, the Autralian Music Retailers Association and the Autralian Music Retailers Association were implementing a system for identifying potentially offensive records, known as the "labelling code of practice."

As a result, until April 1, 2006, only one Cannibal Corpse album, Gallery Of Suicide, was listed in even the most explicit class of records allowed to be sold in Australia, and even that one disappeared from all legal classification after 2001. Thus, from at least April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2006, it was illegal for Australian music retailers to sell any audio recording produced by Cannibal Corpse. However, from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, it became legal to sell all ten of the studio albums that the band had recorded by then, as well as the live album Live Cannibalism, the boxed set 15 Year Killing Spree, the EP Worm Infested, and the single "Hammer Smashed Face."

Germany

All Cannibal Corpse albums up to and including Tomb Of The Mutilated were banned upon release from being sold or displayed in Germany due to their graphic cover art and disturbing lyrics; the band was also forbidden to play any songs from those albums while touring in Germany. This prohibition was not lifted until June 2006. In a 2004 interview, George Fisher attempted to recall what originally provoked the ban:

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A woman saw someone wearing one of our shirts, I think she is a schoolteacher, and she just caused this big stink about it. So [now] we can’t play anything from the first three records. And it really sucks because kids come up and they want us to play all the old songs — and we would — but they know the deal. We can’t play 'Born In a Casket' but can play 'Dismembered and Molested.

In May 1995, then-US Senator Bob Dole accused Cannibal Corpse—along with Hip Hop acts like the Geto Boys and 2 Live Crew—of undermining the national character of the United States. A year later, the band came under fire again, this time as part of a campaign by conservative activist William Bennett, Senator Joe Leiberman, then-Senator Sam Nunn, and National Congress of Black Woman chair C. Delores Tucker to get major record labels—including Time Warner, Sony, Thorn-EMI, PolyGram and Bertelsmann—to "dump 20 recording groups…responsible for the most offensive lyrics."

Cannibal Corpse also paradoxically enjoyed a brief Cameo in the 1994 Jim Carey film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, performing an abridged version of their song "Hammer Smashed Face." Carrey was apparently a death metal fan at the time and insisted that they perform in the movie.