The Bleeding

This is a classic but definitely my least favorite of the early era, you can tell Barnes is beginning to lose it and the production isn't my favorite, it's a little loose and less heavy on the low end.

Staring Through The Eyes Of The Dead begins with a really nice twisty riff before getting into a more speedy structure, the slower parts that highlight the riff are the best. Decent track though. Fucked With a Knife is a quite fast brutal track that suffers from the production, nice ... read more

They seem to be getting better with every album, however I still have one criticism. Look, I appreciate Cannibal Corpse and alot of other metal bands around this era for being edgy, violent and crass, and I'm not really offended because it's 90's death metal, what do you expect? But can you seriously not write about anything else than killing and raping women?

Heavy, nasty, vile everything cannibal corpse aim to achieve is perfectly demonstrated here, would have been interesting to see what the future would have held if Chris Barnes remained vocalist. However, with hindsight a clear decline in his vocal capabilities is clear on this album, despite this it adds to the nasty grimy sound of this album

Feel it really shines in the second half.