The Wretched Spawn | ||||
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Released | February 24, 2004 | |||
Recorded | October–November 2003 | |||
Studio | Sonic Ranch, El Paso, TX | |||
Genre | Death metal | |||
Length | 44:22 | |||
Label | Metal Blade | |||
Producer | Neil Kernon | |||
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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 .
"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]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Severed Head Stoning" | Webster |
| 1:45 |
2. | "Psychotic Precision" | Mazurkiewicz | O'Brien | 2:56 |
3. | "Decency Defied" | Owen | Owen | 2:59 |
4. | "Frantic Disembowelment" | Mazurkiewicz | O'Brien | 2:50 |
5. | "The Wretched Spawn" | Webster | Webster | 4:09 |
6. | "Cyanide Assassin" | Webster | Webster | 3:11 |
7. | "Festering in the Crypt" | Owen | Owen | 4:38 |
8. | "Nothing Left to Mutilate" | Owen | Owen | 3:49 |
9. | "Blunt Force Castration" | Mazurkiewicz | O'Brien | 3:27 |
10. | "Rotted Body Landslide" | Webster | Webster | 3:24 |
11. | "Slain" | Owen | Owen | 3:32 |
12. | "Bent Backwards and Broken" | Webster | Webster | 2:58 |
13. | "They Deserve to Die" | Webster | Webster | 4:44 |
Total length: | 44:22 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Making of The Wretched Spawn" | 58:40 |
Chart | Peak position |
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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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