Label - Perseverance Music Group
Release Date -25th February 2022
Words- Tony Bliss
As the reigning kings of death metal for thirty three years and counting, there is little arguing that the modus operandi of Buffalo born standard bearers Cannibal Corpse has remained steadfast since day one; to make the most clinically savage, murderously violent music conceivable. Remaining as dogged and remorselessly proficient as ever, the band authenticate their status year on year with their myopic yet winning formula of skull shattering brutality, and so it is of little surprise that ‘Corpsegrinder’, the debut solo outing from CC frontman George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher, rips with the sort of gruesome impact we would expect from his legendary day job, but with a few left turns and a roiling vat of fun chucked in for good measure.
His acid-damaged bark ever front and center, Fisher tears through these ten tracks with that signature killing spree intensity, opener ‘Acid Vat’ setting the tone with its blistering pace and barbed hooks, and as the album progresses it is swiftly apparent that obvious curveballs are few and far between. What we do get however is half an hour of seriously high-grade death metal, with the likes of ‘On Wings Of Carnage’ wielding mid-paced groove and slo-mo horror to rib-caving effect, and closer ‘Vaguely Human’ a thrash ‘n’ hack grinder with a melodic guitar-driven mid-section to boot.
Indeed, Charlie Bellmore (guitars/bass) and Nick Bellmore (drums), both borrowed from Dee Snider, turn in a super charged display here, and every one of these cuts is a sustained barrage of riffs, whether it’s the pristine slam attack of ‘Devourer Of Souls’ or ‘Crimson Proof’ and its scattershot bounce. It could even be said, given the thunderous, street level thud present in most of these cuts, that ‘Corpsegrinder’ owes almost as much to concrete heavy hardcore as it does scaborous death metal. It’s all gleefully unpleasant and wilfully, thrillingly extreme mind you, and provides an always welcome dose of Corpsegrinder-y bile that will defy any underground devotee not to pull death metal faces at least once per song. After all, you weren’t expecting him to go country were you?
8/10
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