The Wretched Spawn

The Wretched Spawn
Album info
Release	February 24, 2004
Recorded	2003 at Sonic Ranch Studios in El Paso, Texas
Genre	Death metal
Length	44:22
Label	Metal Blade
Producer	Neil Kernon, Cannibal Corpse

The Wretched Spawn is the ninth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. The cover art is by Vincent Locke. one of the band's founding members, and to date, the last with a graphic album cover. 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.

Song meaning(s)

"For songs like "Nothing Left to Mutilate", and "Decency Defied", I looked to friends for ideas they had. "Decency" was based on a friend who had a nightmare that her tattoos were being torn off while she was still alive. "Nothing left" 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

Track listing

1. "Severed Head Stoning" (Pat O'Brien, Alex Webster) – 1:45
2. "Psychotic Precision" (Paul Mazurkiewicz, O'Brien) – 2:56
3. "Decency Defied" – 2:59
4. "Frantic Disembowelment" (Mazurkiewicz, O'Brien) – 2:50
5. "The Wretched Spawn" (Webster) – 4:09
6. "Cyanide Assassin" (Webster) – 3:11
7. "Festering in the Crypt" – 4:38
8. "Nothing Left to Mutilate"– 3:49
9. "Blunt Force Castration" (Mazurkiewicz, O'Brien) – 3:27
10. "Rotted Body Landslide" (Webster) – 3:24
11. "Slain" (Owen) – 3:32
12. "Bent Backwards and Broken" (Webster) – 2:58
13. "They Deserve to Die" (Webster) – 4:44
14. The Making of The Wretched Spawn [Bonus DVD]

Personnel

• George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher - vocals
• Rob Barrett - guitar
• Pat O'Brien - guitar
• Alex Webster - bass
• Paul Mazurkiewicz - drums