Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed - guest review

Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed - guest review

Cover image of the reviewed item
Style
Death metal
Release date
February 26, 2002
Reviewer
6.5
7.2
Tracklist
01. Savage Butchery
02. Hatchet To The Head
03. Pit Of Zombies
04. Dormant Bodies Bursting
05. Compelled To Lacerate
06. Drowning In Viscera
07. Hung And Bled
08. Sanded Faceless
09. Mutation Of The Cadaver
10. When Death Replaces Life
11. Grotesque
Guest review by
June_The_Leper
November 04, 2025
To me, Gore Obsessed has always just been an awfully average death metal album. It doesn't really try anything new and stays pretty consistently bland throughout; to me, this album doesn't have an interesting enough style to be able to stand alone without any other notable ideas.

A problem I have with this album is that a lot of the songs are pretty forgettable and blend in with each other. There are a few songs on this album I do really like, "Pit Of Zombies" and "When Death Replaces Life" especially; however, there are quite a few songs on this album, such as "Hung And Bled" and "Dormant Bodies Bursting", which are just your basic gruesome death metal songs without anything to set them apart from other songs.

This album also isn't as gruesome as a lot of their previous albums. Of course, this isn't to say this album isn't brutal and gory; of course it is, with songs like "Sanded Faceless", but the lyrical content is nowhere as graphic as those on earlier albums such as Tomb Of The Mutilated.

To end this review, with a run-time of just 38 minutes, Gore Obsessed isn't terrible to sit through, and isn't painful to listen to by any means; however, it is a very bland and incredibly average listening experience. If you want to sit down and listen to a Cannibal Corpse album, maybe don't pick this one. Trust me, there are plenty more to choose from.
Rating breakdown
Performance: 8
Songwriting: 7
Originality: 4
Production: 6
Written by June_The_Leper | November 04, 2025
Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
Guest review by
Yanko
Rating:
6.5
Rating:
6.5
And here we go - the "gods of grindcore", as many people call them, unknown why to me and to the band itself, have launched the "Bloodthirst" follow-up. It is the major event, taking place at Metal Blade for the early 2002. Why not? It was a titanic band, which used to sell a lot. It was the first real band to succeed with provoking and shocking everyone and everything with its deadly covers and 1000-ton heavy music. So what? After the departure of Chris Barnes, mid-way through recording "Vile", Corpsegrinder was a surge of freshness into the stale-aired room of the Cannibal concept.

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