Cannibal Corpse-Cannibal Corpse [RARE!! Full First Demo '89]

(uploaded by Leonidas Daemon / leonidas.daemon )
First Rare demo of death metal GODS Cannibal Corpse!! Subscribe for more \m/
Formed: 1988
Release Date: May 2nd, 1989
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Type: Demo Cassette
Xeroxed covers. The first batch of 100 had a white cover with the band's logo, and the second 100 had a red cover with the band's logo. The cassettes were regular non studio tapes, and the lyrics were not included with the demo.
Recorded at Border City Recording by Dennis Fura.
Also known as "Skull Full of Maggots".
This is a very rare collector's item. The songs are available in their original version in the "15 Year Killing Spree" boxed set.
Tracklist:
1. A Skull Full of Maggots
2. The Undead Will Feast
3. Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains
4. Put Them to Death
5. Bloody Chunks
Line Up:
Chris Barnes Vocals
Jack Owen Guitars
Bob Rusay Guitars
Alex Webster Bass
Paul Mazurkiewicz Drums

[@kakstin]

Kinda strange to hear Barnes doing thrash vocals, but this is a pretty cool relic of the time.

[@TheMfmccarthy]

Honestly man it kind of gets me in the heart. He sounds like a kid. He reminds me of myself as an adolescent, and I wasn't so different, growing up in a different part of the depressed northwoods listening to Metallica and slayer and being inspired. He gave so much to this community and honestly it bums me out to see the way People talk about him online, as if hes not allowed to get old

[@hinjurock70]

@@TheMfmccarthy Yeah, that's not cool - Barnes pretty much set the template for guttural death metal vocals.

[@MarksBigOlHam]

@@hinjurock70 and then he set the template for gutteral dog noises and EEEEEE 😛

[@hinjurock70]

@@MarksBigOlHam 😄

[@JdjdbNdjdb]

YOUVE NEVER HEARD LEVIATHAN HEY? POSER

[@exhumedtribulation211]

chris's vocal style sounds like punk rock

[@ryangriswold5318]

very much so...

[@psychosinical9374]

I like it better

[@mauriciosilvacastro4069]

Noooo... is THRASH !

[@Filth777]

Death metal was derived through the fusion of hardcore punk and thrash along with some early era black metal (like Venom). Because of this, punkish vocal styles and drum tracks are common in the earliest pioneering death metal albums such as Death's "Scream Bloody Gore" and Possessed's "Seven Churches"

[@Ilkvomit]

Like GG Allin

[@thesabbath483]

Paul had been playing the drums for only 5 years at that time, and he is completely self-taught ! What a legendary drummer !

[@oatmeal710]

his parts arent really complicated, just fast, most people could play these songs this well after 5 years of practicing

[@andrewjacobs5579]

So. Metallica, AC/DC, & The Beatles have crappy drummers but are still legendary @@oatmeal710

[@richardypelaar7773]

Paul is the main reason I listen to this band

[@fentanylbuttplug]

@@oatmeal710 i could do this after a month of playing.. it takes like no skill lmao

[@rottenparts]

​@@oatmeal710Yeah, but could they compose them the same way based off a riff or during a jam session? That's the real difference.

[@jurgen3390]

00:00 A Skull Full of Maggots 02:10 The Undead Will Feast 05:09 Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains 07:47 Put Them to Death 09:39 - Bloody Chunks

[@psychosinical9374]

Jurgen 33 thanx

[@VulgrimOfficial]

Thank you my man

[@gbstrangelove2025]

Thank you as well

[@Pudimel]

Thanks

[@stephenkayes8981]

I'm an og Buffalo rager. Still have my copy of this. Was at their first show ever and seen them about 100 times since

[@hughbetcha436]

🤘

[@michaeldonovan5505]

nice job man i was at the tomb of the mutilated show the bleeding show and the first six feet under show for haunted in mtl. got to party on the bus with broken hope but chris barnes went to the back of the bus with some hot ass chick totaly sober while we smoked bud n did rips and drank which he did none of... a true pro bahahahahahahahaha

[@cjslay1039]

So what🥱

[@FizzySodaPop-nz2jq]

​so its pretty metal and he has a copy and went to original shows do you have a time machine you insect vermin?@@cjslay1039

[@jamesmiller6217]

This brings back a lot of good memories. I was at their first show when they opened for Dark Angel in early 1989. Amazing.

[@Butchered_AtBirth]

very lucky!

[@Kinsen77]

Sounds like old Sepultura

[@tanriverdininmeyhanesi462]

Mine is Chaos A.D. One of the best Groove albums ever made.

[@Slaughterofbitch666]

Schizophrenia era

[@matheusferreira3080]

Hi,I'm from Brazil. For me the Sepultura is one of the bands that represent Brazil the most to a side of Krisiun. But the Sepultura is the Sepultura even to Arise,after that a band sells brazilian music and creates Chaos AD which is more or less but never it will be more that weight band

[@adriantorres3601]

Morbid Visión /Bestial Devastation Álbum 🙂

[@hankworden3850]

​@@tanriverdininmeyhanesi462groove album? so lame

[@bill1388]

they gave me this at a slayer show at lamours in 89 for free, great guys amazing band

[@TheMfmccarthy]

Man that is part of Cannibal Corpse lore, they talked about that in one of the documentaries, how they went to the thrash shows in the area and handed these out. What a precious memory to have of this seminal band

[@FTW_666]

Was that the gig Quorthon attended? I have my timeline of those events possibly confused

[@rapcoremanx]

@@FTW_666 And knowing about Quorthon he probably showed up to the Slayer concert just after or before attending a Rangers or Isles game, bro was a big NHL fan

[@willmarcarias6777]

As much as I love barne's gutturals, I really like this early thras-y style of vocals

[@dESTRON76]

I just want a visual b/c I can't even imagine one. I am so used to his guttural delivery.

[@XenlightmentX]

@@dESTRON76exactly

[@joeytritten160]

Yes, before Chris Barnes it was Eric Cartman on vocals.

[@IpentagrammatonI]

Lolololol

[@FreneticZetetic]

Can’t unhear lmao

[@cokefacegrind]

“But Mooooom!”

[@putrescentvermin]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@rainbowsandcherries99]

We love him doing death metal vocals lol

[@patrickculhane1269]

A cannibal corpse Demo?!!!! I might just die Thank you for this post brother it's been 20 effin years since I seen them live Fridaynight just got real

[@WESwesleyWES]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqHUhJaKiNqYjKM

[@nyserkanoncel74]

I met them in Poughkeepsie, NY in 1995.

[@TheMfmccarthy]

This is truly the glory of the Internet. I was born in South America and spent much of my childhood in Bolivia and my earliest memories involved Bolivian folklore music. I recently rediscovered old material that was only ever released on vinyl in Bolivia and found it here on KZbin. It is truly the greatest library of human ideas Ever made

[@tomtrinchera8405]

First song they played at their first show in 1989 was Scattered/Splattered. That was one hell of a show, the pit was insane!!

[@BaronvonBlutwurst]

Hell yeah it was. The River Rock never recovered.

[@bill1388]

Yep I was there

[@07azrael]

i am glad that most of you enjoy this gem.. and all of the other demos that i have posted in my channel.. in order to share the music we love and show how the bands we love (famous , and others not so known) started. This is not to be compared with nowadays Death metal as we know it , and not even of 90's death metal albums.. This is a pre-Death.. Thrash/Death metal era , where most of all the bands at the time ( Malevolent Creation, Deicide (as Amon) Morbid Angel, Death) started playing and experiment..influenced by bands like Slayer..Sepultura.. Devastation.. Dark Angel..Demolition Hammer.. and the list go on and on..Music evolves..and Death metal in particular, nowadays includes all the sub genres that most of us love..Stay True and Brutal.. cheers \m/ \m/

[@mikereseigh]

+Leonidas Daemon I knew them during the Butchered at birth days up until the Bleeding. All the Detroit days.

[@ryangriswold5318]

yeah man thanks alot for these tapes . they would be lost without people like so thank you. seriously.

[@invisibledumpster5132]

Thank you so much for letting me enjoy music I have been searching for years to find, that cost me an arm and a leg to purchase.

[@07azrael]

Brotherhood of metal shall never Die!!!

[@rodoxxs6134]

I love Death Thrash Metal 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[@NikkoBauer]

Chris Barne's vocals evolved over time from 1988-1994. The Bleeding was such a disturbing album when you could highly understand what he was saying in the songs!!!

[@coytibbit6414]

Their music was just better on the first 3 albums. Everything after that is cool, but the first 3 were just in a universe of their own.

[@davidhooks6325]

Agreed. I always go back and forth about what my favorite Cannibal album is, that’s how good those first 3 are. They really were a special band back then

[@Staleyisnowinchains]

It's crazy that to me is exactly the opposite, I much prefer the mid and new CC, but I get your point. Their songs were much more darker, like a unholy labyrinth or maze, good shit.

[@michaelw4734]

Yes, there is simply nothing better than Butchered At Birth in the metal universe. Everything is perfect - vocals, cover, sound, material itself

[@07azrael]

Tracklist Timeline: 1. A Skull Full of Maggots 00:00 2. The Undead Will Feast 02:08 3. Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains 05:08 4. Put Them to Death 07:45 5. Bloody Chunks 09:39

[@child_of_Orion]

Barnes' vocals are more like punk and thrash, but consider this is among the very first death metal releases and the style is yet to be evolved and mastered. What later Chris became is the God of death vocals.

[@derrickkowalewski9239]

Cannibal Corpse was very influenced and worshiped hardcore/crossover thrash kings The Accused.

[@bustercherry8734]

The god of mic cupping

[@vonbl3]

@@bustercherry8734 Relax keed, on their first album those were some god-like non-guttural (mic cupping) vocals. His guttural game is untouchable too, you can easily hear when the vocals are cupped or not.

[@jeppyjep]

This was 89, bands like Death, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death, Obituary and many more had already use death growl and screams.

[@KrisSchwarz98]

I loved Morbid Angel's vocals on The Promised Land, shit was brutal when I first heard it as a preteen

[@iguanajoe9329]

For those who complain (and have no idea) : ●Death metal came from thrash, and thrash came from punk. (Not directly, but strongly influenced one another) ●Demos like these were received and praised, because obviously at the time they had to play, it was gonna sound a million times better ●Rough had nothing to do with "brutal". Rough relates to money. ●Associating yourself with a bad sound for "brootaln3ss"? You're gonna have a pretty bad time.

[@spiralmedula]

My thoughts the same, Sir. Well said.

[@The218nexion]

Sarkis Samuel It depends on the genre. If it has to many layers of music it needs better production. you got apreciate musicianship most of the time, not the production itself.

[@feliciamumper5521]

Sarkis Samuel I deffinatly agree with you there.for sure...

[@feliciamumper5521]

Damn you're the thrash encyclopedia... someone needs to teach the unknowing tho... I get irritated to easy to teach things that are obvious.

[@iguanajoe9329]

Felicia Mumper Go ahead. Enlighten us.

[@TurtleFL]

Two things I'm getting from this: One, they were tuned to E, and two, they already had fast complex riff writing down to a science.

[@lodke1697]

I think it's tuning is in d#

[@vladtheinhaler8476]

Masters of the craft, hard to play and heavy as hell

[@heathertiller3644]

@@lodke1697no it’s fu

[@FizzySodaPop-nz2jq]

This is like the only upload of this. Got to preserve it!

[@connormcnerney9277]

That tape-hiss is pure bliss.

[@ChristianBurrola]

I have to be honest, I do miss it a little bit.

[@TheMfmccarthy]

I know what you mean man. I feel like I'm in my best friend's basement in 1995

[@rainyhain5454]

thrashy corpse, who would've thought it

[@Losttracks2]

it's like a really extreme Black Flag that's obsessed with horror films. At this point, the protagonist of songs like Rise Above isn't just pissed off, he's psychotic and wants to see blood

[@BloodyArmourKnight]

Chris Barnes vocals are a mix between Morbid Saint and Dark Angel in this demo.

[@romanptushka9411]

What the Cryptic Slaughter?!! :)

[@Sflycomix]

+Роман Птушка I thought the same haha

[@neilvankanegan7253]

That background ambiance.

[@elyogito5621]

We had, jazz, blues, rock, punk rock, hard rock, HEAVY METAL, hardcore, thrash metal, and DEATH METAL crazy how things came to be :) in love with it all!!!

[@xor444]

how odd. very interesting to hear. thanks for posting... never would've imagined.

[@Riffrippinroddy]

Awesome demo! Impressing how much Barnes' vocals changed from this to Butchered at Birth and Tomb of the Mutilated. But still great

[@michaelpritchett9856]

Roddy Thrasher I'll name all my favorite Cannibal Corpse Songs chronologically from their 1989 demo the original version of Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains because it's the first song they ever played, from Eaten Back To Life 1990 Shredded Humans, from Butchered At Birth 1991 Meat Hook Sodomy, from Tomb Of The Mutilated 1992 Entrails Ripped From A Virgin's Cunt from Hammer Smashed Face Demo 1993 their version of Black Sabbath's Zero The Hero, from The Bleeding 1994 Fucked With A Knife, from Created To Kill Demo 1995 the original version of Devoured By Vermin, from Vile 1996 Monolith, from Gallery Of Suicide 1998 Chambers Of Blood, from Bloodthirst 1999 Unleashing The Bloodthirsty, from Gore Obsessed 2002 Pit Of Zombies, from Demons Night Ep Demons Night, from The Wretched Spawn 2004 They Deserve To Die, from Kill 2006 The Time To Kill Is Now, from Evisceration Plague 2009 Carnivorous Swarm, from Torture 2012 Crucifier Avenged and from A Skeletal Domain 2014 High Velocity Impact Spatter.

[@michaelpritchett9856]

Roddy Thrasher Sentenced To Burn's Corpsegrinder's wife Stacy's favorite Cannibal Corpse Song.

[@GoroStern]

A Skull Full of Maggots 0:00 The Undead Will Feast 2:08 Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains 5:08 Put Them to Death 7:47 Bloody Chunks 9:38

[@morrro97]

It reminds me of Jeff Hanneman demos but more thrashy...

[@preziveoklot]

We lost a Metal God in Jeff...may he rest in Piece....:(

[@666heavydeath]

Woo!! Old school rules!! /,,/.

[@juannegrette605]

Thanks for the upload of this demo

[@saidmagallon8367]

👹🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼☠️!!!

[@filip_one_note]

Amazing how well the songs were already thought out a year before Eaten Back to Live. Only thing missing is Chris’ guttural vocal style.

[@freddymartinezcolmenares9611]

Gracias por compartir brother !! desde Colombia

[@WayfaringStranger12]

Went to my 3rd Cannibal show in Dallas this year. Wish I was older and could've seen them in this era!! Cannibal for life \m/

[@Waachiye]

No matter the band name, demo's ALWAY'S sound better.

[@Me-eb3wv]

Tee Dee fr

[@Marchulonguis]

absolutely right

[@the_motherfucker]

Wrong

[@СоветскийЧеловек-о3ж]

я из Сибири , полюбил cannibal corpse с первой услышанной вещи в 90 ом году, и не разочарован по сей день. Всем добра.

[@juanitocarlitos77]

chris barnes tenia 23 años y ya cantaba brutal

[@possessedsoldierofwar1686]

He was 21 on this demo

[@TopFloorEricc]

Metal must have been so much more popular back then. A demo like this, even at better audio quality, wouldn't get you anywhere in today's industry. So many good death metal bands are struggling to get success and the sad thing is that many of these bands will never achieve success while a little teenage boy can do a decent singing cover on KZbin (JB) and somehow become the most famous person alive. The music industry has changed a lot for metal bands.

[@sylvaine7]

Instrumentals here are incredibly brutal for 89'

[@wakkthuu2065]

Glad we have this demo in net to listen. \m/

[@willkoestner242]

Anybody love this shit, and classical?

[@mickjaegerguano4809]

YES: Death metal, classical, 90s techno, 80s rap, blues, progressive jazz, rebel country, pink floyd, thrash. NO: modern country, 90s rap, smooth jazz, classic rock, soul.

[@Carlos-ql6bo]

the most unrehearsal demo of death metalll!!! lml

[@Horus-Lupercal]

Just raw as fuck man. I want this played at my funeral.

[@constantinoslazarou7439]

Oh man, check out rotting christ's ''Leprosy of death'' demo, that's what i call unrehearsed. \m/

[@Ozterkvlt]

wow, did max cavalera record vocals for this demo? lol

[@verve92]

+Punk Rock Brony Then these guys heard Chuck Schuldiner of Death, who had genre defining vocals already established.

[@ryangriswold5318]

+Punk Rock Brony agreed.

[@VultureLivesAgain]

I'd say that the NY bands, like Suffocation, Mortician, Baphomet, Incantation, etc. were doing guttural vocals before the Florida bands. Which is interesting 'cause Barnes was originally from NY, so you'd think that he would've caught on faster :) Then again, Bill Steer over in the UK was doing guttural vocals for Carcass in the late '80s, so there's always someone else you can point to who "did it first." But, I'll say that the NY bands were consistently doing the trademark guttural vocals before most.

[@wylerI]

Well CC did not even move to Florida until The Bleeding anyway, so their entire start was in Buffalo.

[@Vinnay94]

I'd say Tom G Warrior pioneered the Guttural. Ugh!

[@alancrust]

Thanks for uploading this one

[@patriciogonzalez7956]

El nacimiento de una leyenda!!!

[@franzdorregaray74]

Sadus to the vein!

[@psmurphy321]

CC's sound is all in the production, here they sound like a speed\thrash band, gonna see them again in Nov :)

[@v2d2]

Very interesting to hear Chris do thrash-like vocals, i can kinda hear the Possessed influence on this

[@matthewstephens5937]

Happy 25th birthday Cannibal Corpse demo!

[@Giranukuma]

The accused brought me here. Thank you, crossover.

[@Metal_Uploads_666]

this demo is sick!!

[@man66iac]

Yeah, that's the thrash sounding stuffs 🤟

[@sebastiannoisecore3365]

Que increíbles comienzos! La verdad que aquí Chris Barnes tiene una voz muy diferente antes del Eaten Back To Life como voz de Punk pero en serio que buen trabajo no esta nada mal y la verdad que ese sonido esta bien desgarrador apesar que no es tan bueno ya que es un como un Demo ensayo se lo podria decir pero lo importante que se aprecie mucho el ruido que hacen y así y la verdad si sorprende mucho por la voz muy diferente que uso el gran psicopatadd Chris Barnes en esta grabación este para mi en lo personal fue el mejor Cannibal Corpse con la enferma voz Chris Barnes y por el arte y letras bien bizarras y perversas a la vez que hacia el mismo por algo se le decía que era un psipata bien enfermooo! pero con gran amor ah al verdadero Death Metal 💕💗💕

[@deamon2107]

D.R.I for sure here!!

[@BoutThatAction]

Bro I'm 34 and saw this demo when I was like 13 and instantly fell in absolute love with DEATH FUCKING METAL. EATEN BACK TO LIFE FOR FUCKING LIFE!!! HAHA I was jackson 5 n Coolio all day before js

[@SkarredKage]

INCREDIBLE TY FOR THIS!

[@feliciamumper5521]

I think they should've stayed like this... how fucking raw and vicious...

[@wtftustduda]

sitting in my room starring at my mobile and listening to this historical piece of music. earlier this day, 45 minutes ago to be honest, I streamed violence unimagined...

[@alistairdimmick2886]

Scattered remains has a sick opening riff

[@rodbelding9523]

This is straight thrash metal and I honestly dig it

[@eustaquiomalandares8214]

Right! It sounds like some punk bands. 80's- 90's ones. I think ;)

[@morbidcorpse5954]

Lol. Sounds like Barnes' inner beast is trying to breakthrough the thrash metal vocals. The birth of his true vocals.

[@Androth12]

I actually, thoroughly enjoy this… wow!

[@wizun]

Thrash Metal!

[@NoOne-zl5mq]

Its like relax and chill music for metalheads

[@gwennnnnnnnnnnn]

yeah

[@damianandres]

Buenísimo! Saludos desde Monte Grande, Argentina!

[@karllmustapha5820]

Mantap lagu2nya....👍🏼🤘🏼🔥💥

[@CheesyCola1]

Who does the high screams in the chorus of Skull Full? They are insane!

[@ZvonTracy-g1g]

Possibly Alex, I remember he was bass and vocals on one of the original bands he was in but I forgot the name

[@Norrbottning]

Sweet

[@rodoxxs6134]

Fuck... I love this Demo of C.C.😻😻😻😻😻😻🪓🪓🪓🪓🪓🦴🦴🦴🦴

[@jayburton1387]

Totally different band, damn they kicked ass 👍 I was into a lot of old school but never got into CC. This is fucking killer.

[@leoalmeida3394]

Old Sepultura, Schizophrenia era.

[@deepcoma898]

GOLD!!!

[@andrewcunningham6957]

Sounds great. Digging Barnes's filthy vocals.

[@muhammadnizam8020]

good demo yearhhhhhhhh

[@nuclearswordofdamocles2902]

Nice! Vocals remind me of Dark Angel.

[@nathanlansford1882]

People bring up Sepultura, but I'm also hearing similarities with Necrophagia (pun intended?) & Repulsion...

[@АндрейСунцов-в9щ]

Ничего вроде, только качество паршивое

[@wok138]

Did not expect this at all, they sounded like other thrash/crossover bands from that era. They probably the only one that went completely the other way and becomes one of the biggest death metal band.

[@guilhermesouza8132]

Yeah !

[@riffnewb1285]

Chris Barnes! \m/

[@hailmetalforever]

This kickass \m/\m/!

[@Environmental-Time]

skull full of maggots lyrics: Lying there cold after a torturous death Your life ended fast you took your last breath Dead in a grave, your final place The maggots infest your disfigured face Pus through your veins takes the place of blood Decay sets in, bones begin to crack Thrown six feet down left to rot Brains oozing black down the side of your broken neck Skull full of maggots They enter your tomb, maggots, beginning to feast, maggots Crawling on you, maggots, now they eat you, maggots Rotting maggots, maggots, infesting your corpse, maggots Parasites of the dead, maggots, now dwell in your head Lying there cold after a torturous death Your life ended fast you took your last breath Dead in a grave, your final place The maggots infest your disfigured face Pus through your veins takes the place of blood Decay sets in, bones begin to crack Thrown six feet down left to rot Brains oozing black down the side of your broken neck

[@robertsalinas7623]

Es interesante escuchar al proto Cannibal corpse.. Es muy parecido al estilo de thrash metal agresivo de la banda sacrifice - torment in fire..

[@ThrashIsBack100]

reminds me of Sadus

[@shawnboogz7546]

I def get the morbid visions vibe...buffolo stand up!!!

[@seanmulvey1324]

I own one of these also they played there for show in 1989 opening up for dark Angel wish I was there guitar tech at the time I even have their first shirt I do believe

[@sweetypuss]

that shirt could be worth thousands. if you aren't lying, i hope you still have it

[@michaelpritchett9856]

I still wish Chris Barnes didn't trademark the original Cannibal Corpse Band Logo he designed back in 1988 then they could've kept it all along. I find it funny how I like the original Cannibal Corpse Band Logo better than the original one and the new Six Feet Under Band Logo better than the original one.

[@AUTOPSY666]

Sounds more like THE ACCUSED style vocals here.

[@andrewbuchanan2338]

Death punk is pretty neat

[@anthonyperkins5856]

awesom, RAW!

[@glennnorquay3960]

This sounds cool for early cc

[@DarkYoshiMonster]

I just bought the box set and lemme just say it is awesome. I got the comic book (gorey as FUCK) and poster. Fucking great! Love this band!

[@fleetdoesstuff3175]

Wait you get a comic with the boxset?

[@pavelzadansky1356]

🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾🦾

[@nickabramsen2773]

Cannibal Corpse we come to your house and throw the homework out

[@neilpye6089]

Cannibal corpse has a vegetarian drummer(oh the irony)