History Music / CannibalCorpse

** While their artwork isn't as graphic as most, ''A Skeletal Domain'', ''Red Before Black'' and ''Violence Unimagined'' are considerably heavier than all their other albums, in addition to using dreadful high-pitch notes more frequently. ''Red Before Black'' is also more lyrically gruesome than usual for the Corpsegrinder-era albums (with "Remaimed" sticking out the most), although it's nowhere near the Barnes era's level.

** ''A Skeletal Domain'', ''Red Before Black'' and ''Violence Unimagined'' are considerably heavier than all their other albums, in addition to using dreadful high-pitch notes more frequently. ''Red Before Black'' is also more lyrically gruesome than usual for the Corpsegrinder-era albums (with "Remaimed" sticking out the most), although it's nowhere near the Barnes era's level.

** ''A Skeletal Domain'', ''Red Before Black'' and ''Violence Unimagined'' are considerably heavier than all their other albums, in addition to using dreadful high-pitch notes more frequently. ''Red Before Black'' is also more lyrically gruesome than usual for the Corpsegrinder-era albums (with "Remaimed" sticking out the most), although they're nowhere near the Barnes era's level.

** ''A Skeletal Domain'', ''Red Before Black'' and ''Violence Unimagined'' are considerably heavier than all their other albums, in addition to using dreadful high-pitch notes more frequently. The latter two are also more lyrically gruesome than the rest of the Corpsegrinder-era albums, although they're nowhere near the Barnes era's level.

** ''A Skeletal Domain'', ''Red Before Black'' and ''Violence Unimagined'' are considerably heavier than all their other albums. The latter two are also more lyrically gruesome than the rest of the Corpsegrinder-era albums, although they're nowhere near the Barnes era's level.

* ILoveTheDead: A common theme in their songs, such as with "Born in a Casket."

** This is also mentioned in "Inhumane Harvest".

* DestroyTheEvidence: "Evidence in the Furnace" and "Inhumane Harvest".

** The first album had a more thrash metal-esque tone to it, Chris Barnes' vocals were less guttural, and his lyrics were still gruesome but nowhere near as over-the-top as they were on the following three releases. This is because a fair bit of that album was comprised of leftovers from Leviathan and Tirant Sin that Chris, Paul Mazurkiewicz, and Bob Rusay had sitting around and wanted to use.

* LiveAlbum: ''Live Cannibalism''.
** ''Torturing and Eviscerating Live'' from their ''Dead Human Collection'' box set is a weird take on the trope. Instead of the tracks being sorted in the order the band played them, they were sorted by the chronological order of their albums. For example, Track 1 is from album 1, track 2 is from album 2, track 3 is from album 3, and so on.

* LoudnessWar: All albums since ''Kill'' have had little to no dynamic range.

* ZombieApocalypse: "Kill or Become".

* ContinuityNod: The TitleTrack of ''Red Before Black'' name-drops "Frantic Disembowelment" from ''The Wretched Spawn'' in its chorus.

'''Disemboweling frantically'''''

--> ''Intestines exposed by violent thrusts''
--> ''The innards removed, dissecting the guts''
--> ''To rip through the skin, tissue, and muscle''
--> ''Cartilage shredding, draining blood vessels''

** Glen Benton from Deicide does back-up vocals on "Mangled, "A Skull Full of Maggots" and "Vomit the Soul."

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Disfigured" -> "Bloodlands"
** "Hung and Bled" -> "Sanded Faceless"

-->--"Stripped, Raped and Strangled"

* GrossUpCloseUp: The censored cover of the album ''The Bleeding'' is that of the bloody chest of the man who's being zombified in the normal artwork.

* ''Chaos Horrific'' (2023)

->"They think they know who I am
->All they know is I love to kill!
->Facedown, dead on the ground
->Find me before another is found!"

* ManOnFire: The protagonist in "Disfigured" lights himself on fire because he loathes his appearance.