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I wonder what I can tell you, as a fan of the genre, after listening to this 22-minute long MCD by Cannibal Corpse: it contains 3 unreleased tracks and 3 covers. A bit too little for my taste, but that's how it is. I question the point of it all, and I answer myself: commercial operation, period. We are light years away from the compactness of "Butchered At Birth", the disturbing sounds of "Tomb Of The Mutilated", and the "accessibility" of "Vile": here we have great songs, but paradoxically, it's their ensemble that doesn't hold together.
Let's skip over some "axe-cut" time changes (you may like them or not), the (unwarranted) chaos that the 5 Californians often generate, and let's focus on the individual tracks. The sonic devastation begins with "Systematic Elimination", ferocious and marked by a double bass so predictable it makes you yawn. The end of the track is sudden, and definitely unexpected: the only positive note. "Worm Infested" is a good mid-tempo, obsessive and "doom", characterized by the usual alternation between fast and slow parts: everything is always meticulously studied, never random. However, the feeling is of music made by the numbers. I quite appreciated the track "Confessions" (Possessed), obviously of primordial thrash-metal nature, not much "The Undead Will Feast", which I don’t understand why it’s here (since it’s from the first album). The peculiarity of this record lies in primarily demanding the listener’s instinctiveness, but also a minimum of attention from them. Attention directed to HOW the pieces are conceived, with guitars acting as a "sonic wall", blazing and technical solos (less than usual), dissonant rhythms, and the usual maximalism that characterizes the band’s sound. Probably the compositional skill of the O'Brien/Owen duo is higher than shown here, but credit must be given for their ability to decently play tracks like "Demon's Night" (originally by Accept) and especially "No Remorse" by Metallica, at times better than the original(!), if it weren't for Fisher's growling which will make many frown.
The lyrics: as you know, they are merely the classic detailed description of the worst conceivable atrocities, and I don't consider them noteworthy, except for a probable "cathartic" (?) effect on the more critical listener. All of this is not enough, from my point of view, to rate "Worm Infested" more than 2/5: especially considering that even their more recent production is 1000 times superior to this MCD. Not horrible, mind you, but certainly avoidable. Line-up: George Fisher - VocalsAlex Webster - BassPat O'Brien - GuitarsJack Owen - GuitarsPaul Mazurkiewicz - Drums
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Systematic Elimination (02:53)
Scurrilous, wide spread death
Punitive, stagnant mess
Rancorous killing spree
Punishing massacre
Eternal insanity fueling the need
To randomly vanquish mankind
The inception of ultra demise
Systematic elimination
Systematic elimination
Barbarous, genocide
Mutilate, withered lives, ominous
Systematic elimination
Systematic elimination
Die human thing rot eternally
One, one by one are left to bleed
Cries bellowing instant misery
Gone, life is gone lying in death's bed
The act of mudering so empowering
Exact number of dead will be unkown
Intact corpse are few and far between
One, one by one
Killing and killing at will
Methodic destruction must thrive
Values of horror instilled
Deep in a most sinister mind
Rancorous, barbaraous
Scurrilous, ominous
You will now die
Annihilate the populace
To conserate this earth as a grave
One, one by one
Systematic elimination
Systematic elimination
One by one rot eternally
04 The Undead Will Feast (02:53)
Undead feast, as they tear upon your weak flesh
Terror builds, as the thought of being dead
Prophecy of the wisemen of old
Now comes true, as the corpses break the soil
Ancient spell breaks the sleep of the dead
The dead awake, what the populace is fearing
Panic strikes as the nations run in fear
Oceans boil with blood of human victims
Suicide, the only way to avoid being eaten by the undead
Grave yards coming alive with zombies, hungry for living flesh
Psychotic, transmuted corpses, upsuring the population
Sickening disaster of epidemic proportions, devouring us
Tables turn as a victim I've become now
State of death only waiting to return
Vital signs that show I'm dead
This can't happen, I'm rising from my own grave
Hunger grows not nutritionnal but instinctual
Flesh becomes my only crave of this live
Unthinking state, a state of metamorphosis
Seeking food to keep me dead
Degenerate, a product of man's frustration for his error
Insatiable hunger for mankind, building with each kill
Seeking human victims to meet my fill
Cannibal I've become, what's happened to my brain
Feast on the corpse, suck out his brain
As its fluids drip down the drain
Chew on the bones, drink from its bladder
The vile stench only makes me madder
In through the mouth, out the forehead
Brains fall out, skin turns red
Violent surge, a spear through the skull
Felt the urge, now my heart's full
I crave gore, I'll eat your guts
I love gore, blood drives me nuts
I drink blood, I don't like water
Intestines my cud, I feast in the slaughter
Twist its neck, make it crack
Suicide, the only way to avoid being eaten by the undead
Grave yards coming alive with zombies, hungry for living flesh
Psychotic, transmuted corpses, upsuring the population
Sickening disaster of epidemic proportions, devouring us
Blood I want to drink, I want to suck
Brains I want to eat, the rest I'll chuck
Bones into a spear, I'll carve and kill
Hunger for the quest, I'll never fill
Blood I want to drink, I want to suck
Brains I want to eat, the rest I'll chuck
Bones into a spear, I'll carve and kill
Hunger for the quest, I'll never fill
I crave gore, I'll eat your guts
05 Confessions (02:56)
[Originally perfomed by Possessed] Crimes of passion Ruled his mind The anger inside Compassion he will never find The pain and pleasure Of the blade And he loved The screams she made Forgive me father For I have sinned Because the anger Burned within Unfaithful He saw it in her eyes They wouldn't hide Betrayal and her wicked lies Confessions From a dying man Listen now And understand Shadows In the night Pain That summons fright He looked Into her eyes And tells her Tonight she dies But to you I must confess That when she died She was the best
06 No Remorse (06:15)
[Originally performed by Metallica]
No mercy for what we are doing
No thought to even what we have done
We don't need to feel the sorrow
No remorse for the helpless one
War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
Blood feeds the war machine
as it eats its way across the land
We don't need the feel the sorrow
No remorse is the one command
War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
Only the strong survive
No one to save the weaker race
We are ready to kill all comers
Like a loaded gun right at your face
War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
Attack
Bullets are flying
People are dying
With madness surrounding all hell's breaking loose
Soldiers are hounding
Bodies are mounting
cannons are shouting to take their abuse
With war machines going
Blood starts to flowing
No mercy given to anyone hear
The furious fighting
Swords are like lighting
It all becomes frightening to you
Know death is near
No remorse
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