Cannibal Corpse: Butchered At Birth (picture disc) [BACK ON BLACK]

Why you'll love it

This limited picture disc keeps the original artwork, adds a live "Covered With Sores" as a bonus track and comes with a four-panel lyric booklet. Butchered At Birth is where the Buffalo band went from thrash-leaning beginnings to pure death metal.

This edition

• Limited edition picture disc
• Original artwork
• Four-panel lyric booklet
• Bonus track: "Covered With Sores" (live)

About the album

Cannibal Corpse wrote their second album in a Buffalo storage space, rehearsing four hours a day, five days a week, with drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz recalling months of "trying to be the most brutal band on earth." Then they headed to Morrisound Recording in Tampa, where producer Scott Burns, the man behind half the Florida death metal scene, helped them cut it in two weeks.

It came out on Metal Blade in July 1991, heavier and more extreme than their debut, with Chris Barnes' bottomless growl leading "Vomit The Soul" and the title track. Nile's Karl Sanders remembered people asking how a human voice could make that sound. It is the only picture disc in the shop we'd advise against displaying next to the till.

Tracklist

Listen

Out October 2, 2026 on Back On Black (cat# BOBV1330PD), a reissue of the 1991 album.