The Wretched Spawn

Infobox Album | Name = The Wretched Spawn
Type = studio
Artist = Cannibal Corpse


Released = February 24, 2004
Recorded = 2003 at Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, Texas
Genre = Death metal
Length = 44:27
Label = Metal Blade
Producer = Neil Kernon & Cannibal Corpse
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ypb1z87a4yvj link]
Last album = "15 Year Killing Spree"
(2003)
This album = "The Wretched Spawn"
(2004)
Next album = "Kill
(2006)"
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Background = lightsteelblue

"The Wretched Spawn" is a ninth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. The cover art is by Vincent Locke and like many Cannibal Corpse albums there is also a censored outer sleeve for "The Wretched Spawn". This is the last studio album to feature Jack Owen, one of the band's founding members. The album was distributed with a making-of DVD produced by Nick Sahakian. The Wretched Spawn is Cannibal Corpse's fourth album to be named after one of the tracks on the album.

Song meaning(s)

"For songs like "Nothing Left to Mutilate", and "Decency Defied", I looked to friends for ideas they had. "Decency" was based on a friend who had a nightmare that her tattoos were being torn off while she was still alive. "Nothing left" was based on ideas from a friend who was studying pheromones in college, and told me all about how a woman's scent drives men crazy. So if my imagination doesn't kick in, I draw from other things. "Slain" was based on the Eastwood film High Plains Drifter. And "Festering in the Crypt" is my own idea of dealing with the finality of death."- Jack Owen [v]

According to an interview with George Fisher, the song "They Deserve to Die" is based on the movie I Spit on Your Grave. [ [http://www.hmmagazine.com/says/archive/what_cannibal_corpse_says200404.php?page=all HM - So and So Says ] ]

Track listing

# "Severed Head Stoning" – 1:45
# "Psychotic Precision" – 2:57
# "Decency Defied" – 2:59
# "Frantic Disembowelment" – 2:50
# "The Wretched Spawn" – 4:09
# "Cyanide Assassin" – 3:11
# "Festering in the Crypt" – 4:38
# "Nothing Left to Mutilate" – 3:49
# "Blunt Force Castration" – 3:27
# "Rotted Body Landslide" – 3:24
# "Slain" – 3:32
# "Bent Backwards and Broken" – 2:58
# "They Deserve to Die" – 4:44

Line-up

*George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher - vocals
*Jack Owen - guitar
*Pat O'Brien - guitar
*Alex Webster - bass
*Paul Mazurkiewicz - drums

Chart Positions

Billboard Top Heatseekers: #27
Billboard Top Independent Albums: #20

References

External links

* [http://www.fabryka.darknation.pl/php-files_en/viewpage.php?page_id=136 Fabryka Industrial Rock webzine] Interview with Neil Kernon, the album producer (2006)