BraveWords.com's Top 30 Metal Blade Releases Of All Time - #26
January 20, 2012, 12 years ago
To commemorate the fine 30th Anniversary of metal’s most venerable and storied label, Metal Blade Records, the writers of BraveWords.com have gotten their metalheads together and come up with a list of the Top 30 coolest, most legendary, rockingest, most influential, most deserving of fame and notoriety, releases founder/CEO Brian Slagel and crew have issued since forging the fire way back in mom’s garage in 1982. As has become tradition ‘round here, we are presenting them – through January and February – in reverse order, leading eventually to the penultimate slab of iron ever to carry an esteemed Metal Blade catalogue number.
By Aaron Small
Issued in 2006, Kill marked the return of current guitarist Rob Barrett, who had played on The Bleeding and Vile. For their milestone tenth album, CANNIBAL CORPSE ditched the gore-soaked cover art, hooked up with producer Erik Rutan (HATE ETERNAL), and let the skull-crushing music do the talking. From the furious ‘Make Them Suffer’, to the unforgiving ‘Five Nails Through The Neck’, and the blistering ‘Submerged In Boiling Flesh’, Kill delivers 13 precise tracks of pulverizing death metal. George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher’s unmistakable roar, combined with the band’s unmatched level of talent, equals the world’s best-selling death metal band, and justifiably so.
#30) FALCONER – Falconer (2001)
#29) KING’S X – Black Like Sunday (2003)
#28) LETHAL – Programmed (1990)
#27) SACRIFICE – Apocalypse Inside (1993)
#26) CANNIBAL CORPSE – Kill (2006)
