Cannibal Corpse - Vile [1996] (25 Aniversary Edition) + DVD (2007)

 

Vile is the fifth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released in 1996 through Metal Blade Records. It was originally titled Created to Kill (which is featured in the Cannibal Corpse Box set) and had partially been completed Chris Barnes on vocals. Before the album was released, Barnes was dismissed from the band, which then brought in Monstrosity vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher to finish the album's vocal work. Fisher Barnes's vocal tracks and the band released the album under the new title Vile. Vile also marks the last album featuring guitarist Rob Barrett until Kill, and features a brand new band logo, because the previous logo had been drawn by the departing Chris Barnes. During the Vile sessions, "The Undead Will Feast" from Eaten Back to Life was re-recorded with Fisher on vocals. This version of the song would first appear as the only bonus track on a Japanese import edition of Vile and then on the Worm Infested EP in 2003.

The album was re-released in 2006 with new liner notes and a bonus DVD (entitled "Vile Live") featuring a full concert from the Vile tour, during which many songs from the album are performed. Vile was the first death metal album to appear on the Billboard 200 chart, debuting at No.151.

It was also the last Cannibal Corpse album to feature Scott Burns as producer.

-Tracklist:

Vile:
CD-1     Devoured By Vermin     3:13
CD-2     Mummified In Barbed Wire     3:09
CD-3     Perverse Suffering     4:14
CD-4     Disfigured     3:49
CD-5     Bloodlands     4:21
CD-6     Punctured Wound Massacre     1:41
CD-7     Relentless Beating     2:14
CD-8     Absolute Hatred     3:06
CD-9     Eaten From Inside     3:43
CD-10     Orgasm Through Torture     3:42
CD-11     Monolith     4:25

    Live At The Berkeley Square February 3, 1997:
DVD-1     Perverse Suffering    
DVD-2     Stripped, Raped And Strangled    
DVD-3     Covered With Sores    
DVD-4     Monolith    
DVD-5     Addicted To Vaginal Skin    
DVD-6     Force Fed Broken Glass    
DVD-7     Fucked With A Knife    
DVD-8     Gutted    
DVD-9     Bloodlands    
DVD-10     Shredded Humans    
DVD-11     Staring Through The Eyes Of The Dead    
DVD-12     A Skull Full Of Maggots    
DVD-13     Devoured By Vermin    
DVD-14     Hammer Smashed Face    
    Live At The Berkeley Square February 4, 1997
DVD-15     Pulverized    
DVD-16     Puncture Wound Massacre    
DVD-17     Mummified In Barbed Wire    
DVD-18     Orgasm Through Torture.

 

-Line up:

• Alex Webster: Bass
• Paul Mazurkiewicz: Drums
    • Jack Owen, Rob Barrett: Guitars
     • George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher: Vocals.

Label: Metal Blade Records.

Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Recording,

Tampa, Florida.

Mastered at Fullersound - Miami, FL.

Remastered at Red Mastering.

 Co-produced by Cannibal Corpse.

Music video: - Devoured by Vermin.

  Artwork by Vincent Locke.

Disc 2:
Tracks 1-14 live at the Berkeley Square, February 3, 1997.

Tracks 15-18 live at the Berkeley Square, February 4, 1997.