The Wretched Spawn

The Wretched Spawn
Controversial cover art image depicts three baby demons violently emerging from the naked woman surrounded by three other demons: One of three demons with wings seems to be bewitching the woman to get one of three baby demons emerge from her mouth, another one of them emerge from her belly and yet another one of them emerge from her vagina.
Studio album by
Cannibal Corpse
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2004 (2004-02-24)
RecordedOctober–November 2003
StudiosSonic Ranch, El Paso, TX
GenreDeath metal
Length44:22
LabelMetal Blade
ProducerNeil Kernon
Cannibal Corpse chronology
Gore Obsessed
(2002)		 The Wretched Spawn
(2004)		 Kill
(2006)
Censored cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarHalf star[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[2]
Metal Storm8.5/10[3]
Scream MagazineStarStarStarStarStar[4]

The Wretched Spawn is the ninth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released on February 24, 2004 by Metal Blade Records. The cover art is by Vincent Locke. This is the last studio album to feature guitarist Jack Owen, one of the band's founding members, and up to the 2012 album 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.

Music and lyrics

"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[5]

Other themes explored on the album include decapitation and stoning.[6]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Severed Head Stoning"Webster
  • O'Brien
  • Webster
1:45
2."Psychotic Precision"MazurkiewiczO'Brien2:56
3."Decency Defied"OwenOwen2:59
4."Frantic Disembowelment"MazurkiewiczO'Brien2:50
5."The Wretched Spawn"WebsterWebster4:09
6."Cyanide Assassin"WebsterWebster3:11
7."Festering in the Crypt"OwenOwen4:38
8."Nothing Left to Mutilate"OwenOwen3:49
9."Blunt Force Castration"MazurkiewiczO'Brien3:27
10."Rotted Body Landslide"WebsterWebster3:24
11."Slain"OwenOwen3:32
12."Bent Backwards and Broken"WebsterWebster2:58
13."They Deserve to Die"WebsterWebster4:44
Total length:44:22
Bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
1."The Making of The Wretched Spawn"58:40

Credits

Cannibal Corpse

Charts

Chart Peak
position
French Albums (SNEP)[7]136
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8]74
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[9]20
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[10]27

References

  1. ↑ Birchmeier, Jason. The Wretched Spawn - Cannibal Corpse at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin; Perri, David (2011). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 72–73. ISBN 9781-926592-20-6.
  3. ↑ Undercraft (May 1, 2004). "Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn review". www.metalstorm.net. Metal Storm. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Nørsterud, Bjørn (2004). "CANNIBAL CORPSE "The Wretched Spawn"". Scream Magazine (review) (in Norwegian). No. 85. p. 40.
  5. ↑ "Interview with Jack Owen". The Metal Web. Archived from the original on August 4, 2008. Retrieved April 25, 2009.
  6. ↑ "The 5 most gruesome Cannibal Corpse songs". Louder. November 10, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn". Hung Medien.
  8. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts.
  9. ↑ "Cannibal Corpse Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard.
  10. ↑ "Cannibal Corpse Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
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