CANNIBAL CORPSE

Cannibal Corpse was formed in December 1988. They are considered an important name in the death metal genre, as well as one of the style's most commercially-successful bands.

Alex Webster came up with the name for the band, describing a Cannibal Corpse as "an undead corpse that's going to eat you" in the Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years DVD.

Chris Barnes was the vocalist, lyricist, and a large overall part of the band's creative force throughout their first four albums. He was asked to leave the band for the reasons of increasingly poor vocal performances as well as attitude issues. This is despite rumors saying it was for spending too much time on his side band Six Feet Under.

A common rumor regarding the original logo is that Chris Barnes, the first to illustrate it, claims rights to its use, and following his departure, a new logo had to be designed. This is why later reissues of albums featuring Chris Barnes often display the newer logo.

In Germany, due to various complaints made by teachers and parents claiming Cannibal Corpse to be a danger to children, the band was not allowed to play songs appearing on the first three albums in live settings. That ended in June 2006, however, for it was the roundabout date for the ban to be officially lifted. Nevertheless, several releases are still indexed/banned by the German Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons and include Eaten Back to Life, Tomb of the Mutilated, Hammer Smashed Face, and Worm Infested, all of which are considered harmful to minors and bars their purchase of them. Butchered at Birth, Vile, and Evisceration Plague are prohibited and may not be sold at all.

The band makes a cameo appearance in the 1994 comedy "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective". They appear in the scene where Ace goes to meet Woodstock and on stage playing their song "Hammer Smashed Face" is Cannibal Corpse. They're shown again in an extended scene where Ace, now shirtless and running from security, leaps onstage and performs a few vocal lines before crowd-surfing out of the venue. However, due to the song's explicit lyrics, television captions merely show Barnes "grr-ing!" repeatedly. The band is also incorrectly listed in the credits as the "thrasher band" Cannibal Corpses. Originally, the band that was programmed to appear was Pantera, but then changed ideas, because Pantera was getting popular in the 90's, so it would cost more money than Cannibal Corpse, which was an underground band. Naturally, the entire scene has been removed from German versions of the movie.

There is a parody Cannibal Corpse band called Cannabis Corpse.