"Sadistic Embodiment" was released as a single in July, and all of the names of the songs on the forthcoming album were announced the same day. In February 2014, Cannibal Corpse announced that they had begun recording their thirteenth album, A Skeletal Domain, which was released on September 16. Cannibal Corpse released its twelfth studio album, Torture, in March 2012. They also released a live DVD in 2011 entitled Global Evisceration. Evisceration Plague, Cannibal Corpse's eleventh studio album was released February 3, 2009, to a highly positive response from fans. Writing for the follow-up to Kill (2006) began in November 2007, as indicated in an interview with bassist Alex Webster. Jeremy Turner of Origin briefly replaced him as guitarist on 2004's Tour of The Wretched Spawn. Founding member and guitarist Jack Owen left Cannibal Corpse in 2004 to spend more time on his second band, Adrift. Pat O'Brien, who first appeared on Cannibal Corpse's 1998 release Gallery of Suicide, replaced Barrett. In 1997, Barrett, who had replaced Rusay on guitar, left Cannibal Corpse to rejoin his previous bands Malevolent Creation and Solstice. Barnes went on to perform with the band Six Feet Under and, later, Torture Killer. In 1995, during recording sessions for a new album, singer Chris Barnes was dismissed because of personal differences with the rest of the band and was replaced by Monstrosity singer George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher. In February 1993, founding member and guitarist Bob Rusay was dismissed from the group (after which he became a golf instructor) and was ultimately replaced by Malevolent Creation guitarist Rob Barrett. Their full-length death metal debut album, Eaten Back to Life, was released in August 1990. Within a year of the first gig, the band was signed to Metal Blade Records, apparently after the label had heard the demo tape that the manager of the record store at which Barnes was working sent in. The band played its first show at Buffalo's River Rock Cafe in May 1989, shortly after recording a five-song thrash metal demo tape, Cannibal Corpse. Members from earlier Buffalo-area death metal bands Beyond Death (Alex Webster, Jack Owen), Tirant Sin (Paul Mazurkiewicz, Chris Barnes, Bob Rusay), and Leviathan (Barnes) established the band in December 1988. At different times, several countries, such as Germany and Russia, have banned Cannibal Corpse from performing within their borders, or have banned the sale and display of original Cannibal Corpse album covers. The band's album art (most often by Vincent Locke) and lyrics, drawing heavily on horror fiction and horror films, are highly controversial. The members of Cannibal Corpse were originally inspired by thrash metal bands like Slayer and Kreator and other death metal bands such as Morbid Angel and Death. They have had several lineup changes since their inception, with Webster and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz as the only constant members. īassist Alex Webster came up with the name Cannibal Corpse. As of 2015, they achieved worldwide sales of two million units for combined sales of all their albums, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time. The band has had little radio or television exposure throughout its career, although a cult following began to build after the release of the 1991 album Butchered at Birth and 1992 album Tomb of the Mutilated. Formed in December 1988, the band has released fourteen studio albums, two box sets, four video albums, and two live albums. Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York.