re: The 25 Best Metal Bands of All-Time

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How do you figure? Death preceded Cannibal Corpse and influenced death metal far more than Cannibal Corpse could have ever hoped to. The gore-filled lyrics were a trademark of Scream Bloody Gore. By the time Cannibal Corpse began to perfect their brutal death metal, Death had already moved on to technical/progressive death metal (e.g. Atheist). Cannibal Corpse became a one-trick pony with their imagery and lyrical content. They are the Slayer of death metal. The reason why Slayer could never catch Metallica is because they limited themselves to a specific style and sound (e.g. the occult). Cannibal Corpse did the exact same thing (e.g. gore).

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Butchered at Birth is the Nevermind of death metal. Its the album that really brought the genre a whole new audience. Cannibal Corpse is the face and sound of death metal. They're the one death metal band everyone knows and they're proud of it. If you ask a casual music fan to name a grunge band they'll probably say Nirvana, but more serious music fans know The Pixies and Melvins had been doing that style for a few years already. Its the same with Cannibal Corpse. They may not have been the first but they're certainly the most well known. As for them being a one trick pony, so what? Their fans don't care. Extreme metal, and in particular death metal fans, don't want too much experimentation. Look at Morbid Angel's most recent album for an example. Everyone hated it. CC does one thing but they do it to perfection. They give the fans what they want and put out a consistently good product.