During my practice hours, I spend a large amount of time listening to new music, and looking for new bands. One day I was looking up a band called Municipal Waste. I wasn’t a huge fan, but I wanted to learn more about them regardless. I’ve become interested in the recent uprising of new thrash bands, and Municipal Waste was one of the bands that came up. When I was looking at other bands that their members had been in and so forth, something caught my attention: The guitarist of Municipal Waste is also in a death metal side project called…..

Cannabis Corpse?!

You know when there’s a band called Cannabis Corpse, their song titles are going to be just as brutal as Cannibal Corpse. “Instead of Mummified in Barbed Wire”, we get “Mummified in Bongwater.” Instead of “Gallery of Suicide” we get “Gallery of Stupid High”.

I couldn’t stop laughing. Cannabis Corpse is simply a work of genius. According to their myspace, “Cannabis Corpse is a band that was born in the summer of 2006 as a way to express our love of smoking weed and listening to Cannibal Corpse.” I could easily see someone having a problem with a bunch of dead heads going and forming a jam band, because really, how cliche is that? But you can’t go wrong with a bunch of skilled extreme metal musicians getting together, smoking a ton of weed, and trying to sound like Cannibal Corpse. And you know what? They sound just like Cannibal Corpse, and in some ways even better.

The music ia much better than you would ever expect. It sounds like a combination of new and old Cannibal Corpse. Of course the solos aren’t as technical as those of say Pat O’Brien, but the riffs are just about as creative as those from when Jack Owen was in the band. And the drumming is far, far superior to that of Paul Mazurkiowicz. Every blast beat is much tighter and faster. As for the bass, it’s also comparable to that of Alex Webster(Although not nearly as technical). There are the same kind of awesome bass breaks in the songs that just have you tapping your foot along with the kick drum.

The vocals are very raw death grunts and screams, but neither of which sound like Corpsegrinder. In my humble opinion as a spectator of the Florida Death Metal genre, “Weedgrinder“‘s screams remind me more of the death vomit style of vocals, as delivered by Kam Lee and Chuck Schuldiner. His growls sound more like Chris Barnes on Butchered at Birth. Either way, this guy delivers some of the best old school death metal vocals I have ever heard, and for a parody band? Hands down the best.

I love the structure of their songs. They pay so much attention to the way the actual song progresses, instead of going the same route as many death metal bands today that will just try to get your attention, rather than keep it.

This is one of my new all time favorite death metal albums:

1. Tomb of the Mutilated- Cannibal Corpse

2. Symbolic- Death

3. Tube of The Resinated- Cannabis Corpse

4. Severed Survival- Autopsy

5. The Bleeding- Cannibal Corpse