Vile (album)

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Vile

Studio album by Cannibal Corpse
Released	May 21, 1996
Recorded	1995 – 1996 at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida
Genre	Death metal
Length	37:40
Label	Metal Blade Records
Producer(s)	Scott Burns and Cannibal Corpse
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Cannibal Corpse chronology
The Bleeding (1994)	Vile (1996)	Gallery of Suicide (1998)
Alternate Cover

Alternate "clean" cover

Vile is the fifth album by Cannibal Corpse. It was released in 1996 through Metal Blade Records, and is considered one of the band's more controversial releases. It was originally titled "Created to Kill" (which is featured in the Cannibal Corpse Box set) and was recorded with founding vocalist Chris Barnes. Before the album was released, Barnes quit the band, which then brought in Mostrosity vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher to finish the album's vocal work. Fisher re-recorded all of the vocal tracks and the band released the album under the new title "Vile". Vile also marks the last album featuring guitarist Rob Barrett, and features a brand new band logo, because the previous logo was owned and copyrighted by the departing Chris Barnes. The artwork is a representation of the album's song, "Mummified in Barbed Wire." To add shock value, the corpse's rotted penis is showing. The edited album art shows only the corpse's head and face.