The Wretched Spawn

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The Wretched Spawn
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Studio album by
Cannibal Corpse
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2004 (2004-02-24)
RecordedOctober–November 2003
Studio Sonic Ranch, El Paso, TX
Genre Death metal
Length44:22
Label Metal Blade
Producer Neil Kernon
Cannibal Corpse chronology
Gore Obsessed
(2002)		The Wretched Spawn
(2004)		 Kill
(2006)
Censored cover
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn Censored Front.jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [2]
Metal Storm 8.5/10 [3]

The Wretched Spawn is the ninth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released on February 24, 2004 by Metal Blade Records. The cover art is by Vincent Locke. This is the last studio album to feature guitarist Jack Owen, one of the band's founding members, and up to the 2012 album Torture , the last with an album cover depicting violence and gore. The album was distributed with a making-of DVD produced by Nick Sahakian. The Wretched Spawn is Cannibal Corpse's fourth album to be named after one of the tracks on the album, after Butchered at Birth , The Bleeding and Gallery of Suicide .

Contents

Composition

"For songs like "Nothing Left to Mutilate", and "Decency Defied", I looked to friends for ideas they had. "Decency [Defied]" was based on a friend who had a nightmare that her tattoos were being torn off while she was still alive. "Nothing Left [to Mutilate]" was based on ideas from a friend who was studying pheromones in college, and told me all about how a woman's scent drives men crazy. So if my imagination doesn't kick in, I draw from other things. "Slain" was based on the Eastwood film High Plains Drifter . And "Festering in the Crypt" is my own idea of dealing with the finality of death."- Jack Owen [4]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Severed Head Stoning"Webster
  • O'Brien
  • Webster
1:45
2."Psychotic Precision"MazurkiewiczO'Brien2:56
3."Decency Defied"OwenOwen2:59
4."Frantic Disembowelment"MazurkiewiczO'Brien2:50
5."The Wretched Spawn"WebsterWebster4:09
6."Cyanide Assassin"WebsterWebster3:11
7."Festering in the Crypt"OwenOwen4:38
8."Nothing Left to Mutilate"OwenOwen3:49
9."Blunt Force Castration"MazurkiewiczO'Brien3:27
10."Rotted Body Landslide"WebsterWebster3:24
11."Slain"OwenOwen3:32
12."Bent Backwards and Broken"WebsterWebster2:58
13."They Deserve to Die"WebsterWebster4:44
Total length:44:22
Bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
1."The Making of The Wretched Spawn"58:40

Credits

Cannibal Corpse

Charts

ChartPeak
position
French Albums (SNEP) [5] 136
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [6] 74
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [7] 20
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [8] 27

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References

  1. ↑ Birchmeier, Jason. The Wretched Spawn - Cannibal Corpse at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin; Perri, David (2011). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 72–73. ISBN   9781-926592-20-6.
  3. ↑ Undercraft (May 1, 2004). "Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn review". www.metalstorm.net. Metal Storm . Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Interview with Jack Owen". The Metal Web. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn". Hung Medien.
  6. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts.
  7. ↑ "Cannibal Corpse Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard.
  8. ↑ "Cannibal Corpse Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard.
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