Cannibal Corpse – Vile (1996)

April 1, 2022

Vile is the first Cannibal Corpse record without Chris Barnes on vocals. Fortunately, the history of metal has been kind to us, and metalheads will surely know that this means that Vile is the first record with the now-legendary George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher. This tidbit aside, it is unfortunately difficult not to compare this to what came before, especially considering Barnes left the band on such a fucking high, with the final record being The Bleeding.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Vile, but it just sadly suffers the fate of not being as good as what came before it. But, considering how astronomically legendary those early Cannibal Corpse records are, I find it hard to hold this fact against Vile. It’s a well produced, solid slab of death metal.