CANNIBAL CORPSE

THE BLEEDING

1994 rolled around, the majority of the success underground metal built through the late 80s/early 90s had been wiped away by The Great Unwashed From The City Of Seattle., Cannibal Corpse paid no heed to the Cobains, Cornells, Vedders, Staleys and other tortured artists of the world and just, er, tortured. The album’s comparatively docile cover art may have initially led the public to believe they’d inexplicably joined in that chase, but once laser hit electronically coded piece of plastic, it became evident the band were not only defying the industry’s popular sway, but had become one of the definitive acts – if not the defining act – of a genre surviving by the skin of its teeth. A couple of months earlier, they’d also had a boost from their appearance in Jim Carrey’s .