CANNABIS CORPSE was formed by MUNICIPAL WASTE bassist “LandPhil” Hall (bass/vocals) and his brother Josh “Hallhammer” Hall (drums) out of a mutual love of brutal Floridian death metal (CANNIBAL CORPSE, MORBID ANGEL, DEICIDE, OBITUARY) and weed. The bands earliest recordings (06's Blunted At Birth and ‘08's Tube of the Resinated) are primal homages to their influences; where relentless, jackhammer beats and sick, guttural vocals lay the foundation for twisted tales of crazed weed mayhem. Time has seen the band tour the world over, and grow into a more evolved harbinger of brutal US death. CANNABIS CORPSE’ forthcoming new album (2014) will undoubtedly see the death metal powerhouse step to the forefront of the worldwide extreme scene.
Review
No, your peepers are not playing tricks on you. There is indeed a group out
there called Cannabis Corpse, who are (rather expectedly, as judged by their
name) huge fans of death metal veterans Cannibal Corpse, and also of the green
bud. And as evidenced by their sophomore effort, 2008's Tube of the Resinated,
the group is still gleefully fusing both elements together. Picture Cannibal
Corpse grinding away, but instead of growling about scenes straight out of the
Apocalypse, the lyrics are all paeans to marijuana. And as evidenced by the
album's cover art (which sees tiny buds of marijuana taking over an old-time
Egyptian city), the song titles (“Mummified in Bongwater,” etc.), and the
bandmembers' nom de plumes (Weedgrinder, LandPhil, HallHammer, and Nikropolis),
the chaps certainly don't take themselves too seriously. And this stance works
well for the group – unlike your usual extreme metal band, Cannabis Corpse do
not take themselves way too seriously and wind up looking like goons in the
process. That said, without a lyric sheet, Cannabis Corpse sound like your
average, hard-hitting death metal band. Greg Prato – Allmusic