Catchy, brutal, technical, well-recorded, and gore-a-riffic as anything the band have ever done, which means there are going to be a lot of happy longhairs.
Despite its tiresome themes of mutilation and zombification, this lives up to the band’s legacy by combining vicious technicality with bang-worthy stomps.
The album that birthed the Cannibal Corpse sound and image: Sexually-based gore lyrics, intense technical sparring, and “how much can you take?” artwork.
Gore Obsessed sees Cannibal Corpse continue their refusal to tone down, “musically progress,” or “experiment” with anything other than pure death metal.