Recorded October–November, 2003 Release date 24 February 2004 | Length 44:22 | |
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Released February 24, 2004 (2004-02-24) Similar Cannibal Corpse albums, Brutal death metal albums, Other albums | ||
The Wretched Spawn is the ninth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. The cover art is by Vincent Locke. This is the last studio album to feature Jack Owen, one of the band's founding members, and up to 2012's Torture, the last with an album cover depicting violence and gore. The album was distributed with a making-of DVD produced by Nick Sahakian. The Wretched Spawn is Cannibal Corpse's fourth album to be named after one of the tracks on the album, after Butchered at Birth, The Bleeding and Gallery of Suicide.
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Song meanings
"For songs like "Nothing Left to Mutilate", and "Decency Defied", I looked to friends for ideas they had. "Decency [Defied]" was based on a friend who had a nightmare that her tattoos were being torn off while she was still alive. "Nothing Left [to Mutilate]" was based on ideas from a friend who was studying pheromones in college, and told me all about how a woman's scent drives men crazy. So if my imagination doesn't kick in, I draw from other things. "Slain" was based on the Eastwood film High Plains Drifter. And "Festering in the Crypt" is my own idea of dealing with the finality of death."- Jack Owen
Public reception
The Wretched Spawn was well received by the public. On Rate Your Music the album has an average rating of 3.26 of 5, based on more than 850 ratings, and on Sputnikmusic the album has a "great" average rating of 3.5 of 5, based on more than 500 ratings.
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Songs
1Severed Head Stoning1:45
2Psychotic Precision2:57
3Decency Defied3:00