Cannibal Corpse: The Wretched Spawn (picture disc) [BACK ON BLACK]

Why you'll love it

A picture disc of Cannibal Corpse's ninth album, with Vincent Locke's original uncensored artwork and a four-panel lyric booklet. It's the last record with founding guitarist Jack Owen, and "Decency Defied" got a video.

This edition

• Picture disc with the original uncensored art
• Four-panel lyric booklet
• Clear plastic sleeve
• Thirteen tracks across two sides

About the album

Cannibal Corpse have been the gold standard of American death metal since the late 80s, and The Wretched Spawn, from 2004, shows them at their most precise. George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher growls, Alex Webster's bass rumbles through everything, and Jack Owen, a founding member, plays his last album with the band.

"Severed Head Stoning", "Decency Defied" and the title track are relentless, fast and tight as a drum, and Vincent Locke's cover art, the last of the band's famously gory covers until Torture, gets its full glory on the picture disc. It's not a record for the faint-hearted, and it doesn't pretend to be. We'd keep this one away from the kitchen table during dinner.

Tracklist

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Out September 11, 2026 on Back On Black (cat# BOBV1325PD), a reissue of the 2004 album.