ENCARTE: CANNIBAL CORPSE [3]

Primórdios do Cannibal Corpse e algum bastidor (ñ copiei tudo) das gravações do disco de estréia, “Eaten Back to Life” (1990), contados por Jack Owen, em minha versão remasterizada do mesmo (2002):

“After the December 1988 formation of Cannibal Corpse, the subsequent demo, and signing of the band to Metal Blade Records, it was finally time to record our first album for the label. Being a fan of Scott Burns because of his work on Sepultura‘s Beneath the Remains, we inquired about booking time with him at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, FL. In the meantime, we put the finishing touches on more material to fill the album. Up until then, we wrote songs that were an average of two minutes in lenght. Five of these songs were released on our demo to lure record labels into signing us. The five demo songs were, in order: ‘A Skull Full Of Maggots’, ‘The Undead Will Feast’, ‘Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains’, ‘Put Them to Death’, and ‘Bloody Chunks’. The longest of these songs clocking in at 2:46…

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With an early 1990 studio session booked, we solidified all the material by playing some local shows to try the material out on a live audience. The response was incredible, and our fan base began to grow by leaps and bounds. We packed my van, and Paul’s truck, and headed for Florida…

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The album also began our long relationship with artist Vince Locke, who we idolized for his work in the comic book ‘Dead World’. We couldn’t think of a better match for the band to get our visual perspective across to music fans everywhere, leading us to censorship problems throughout the globe.

The recording sessions was a bit of a blur due to being young and overwhelmed by being thrown under the studio microscope for the first time, but in my opinion, the album is still quite listenable to this day for me. It holds a lot of memories of the early days of the band that are special to all of us…

We loaded up the vehicles and headed north out of Florida only to run in a blizzard before reaching Buffalo. Little did we know that years later we would leave the arctic climate of the north, and realocate to Tampa to continue our quest to become better with each release…“