Cannibal Corpse
Eats Moscow Alive

The Cannibal Corpse at the beginning of their career (we're talking about 1993, a year after the legendary "Tomb of the Mutilated") were totally different from what we see today. In this live show, they are young, pissed off like harpies and, above all, entertaining. We see them backstage, laughing and joking, we see the crowd (it's a strange effect, how young people back then were prepared for this musical proposition) squirming, not at Wacken with 60,000 people, but in a club.

After a brief introduction, the concert begins, sounds of bells and a brick wall... then the old bloody writing appears on the wall then the title "Eats Moscow Alive", starts powerful and fast like a punch in the stomach "Hammer Smashed Face", and we see them in one of their most beautiful, young, and fierce forms like few others, putting any extreme band to shame. Alex Webster is simply a continuous ecstasy while playing his bass, and looking at Chris Barnes, you realize how different they were. Chris is obviously a hidden character (but who makes himself heard a lot) among the band, while it seems evident to me that George is a person who totally immerses himself in his part. They perform songs excellently played one after another, "A Skull Full Maggots", "I Cum Blood", "Meat Hook Sodomy", they are all five blazing and absolute masters of the situation, convinced and leaders of a thrasher audience wanting to unleash their anger. Fierce like few, shocking and absolutely interesting, but at the same time terrifying for critics of that time, not yet completely ready for such a powerful and aggressive sound proposal (despite the advent of death and grindcore...). The audio quality is not excellent, but it makes every single riff understandable, those riffs from their first albums with a powerful bass and the cutting and full-bodied guitars of old school death metal.

These were the early Cannibal Corpse, not a name spoiled by pseudo-metalhead kids, and regardless of everything, the thing that truly changes about Cannibal Corpse is that now, if you name them, you get the usual fake metal poser kid telling you, "they rock so hard". If you used to say the name Cannibal Corpse, you left everyone speechless and wide-eyed, and that's what distinguished them from other metal bands of the time. Just watch them in this concert to understand it; they were convinced of everything they played and left other death metal bands pale, just like when you face an insurmountable and overwhelming enemy right from the start. They weren't a common band... but a true legend, terrifying and fierce like a hungry lion in the savannah (of metal, of course...).