Cannibal Corpse (Usa) - Evisceration Plague Debuts at #66 on Billboard Top 200!

February 12, 2009 (www.myspace.com/cannibalcorpse)

CANNIBAL CORPSE 1st week numbers for Evisceration Plague announced!
First week numbers are finally in for the FL death metal act CANNIBAL CORPSE’s eleventh studio album Evisceration Plague, the highly anticipated follow up to 2006’s KILL. We are pleased to announce that for the third time in the band’s career the mighty CANNIBAL CORPSE have landed on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. Evisceration Plague debuted on the BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART at #66 with 9571 units scanned!

BILLBOARD
#66 on the Top Current Albums (Top 200) chart
#7 on the Top Hard Music Albums chart
#22 on the Top Current Rock Albums chart
#6 on the Record Label Independent Current albums chart

"We are blown away by the amazing response to our new album Evisceration Plague. The chart positions that have been reported for this album are well beyond our expectations and the response from both critics and fans has been overwhelmingly positive. We want to say thank you to everyone at Metal Blade and Channel Zero for the great work they did on this release, and most importantly we want to thank our incredible fans, you are the reason for our great success. Thank you, you guys rule!!!!" Alex Webster bassist and founding member of Cannibal Corpse

In 2006 KILL debuted at #170 with 6049 units scanned and in 1994 Vile debuted at #151 with 6175 units scanned, making Evisceration Plague the highest selling debut in the bands career!!! With a confirmed spot on this summers Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival alongside Slayer, Marilyn Manson, and label mates The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth, Job for a Cowboy and Whitechapel, 2009 will definitely be the year of death metal!

The mighty Corpse didn’t stop in the US though with Evisceration Plague also decimating charts all over the world proving once again to be the leaders of the worldwide death metal scene. On top of all of this the band’s latest DVD release Centuries of Torment has just officially reached Platinum status in Canada!

Germany #42 (highest chart entry CANNIBAL CORPSE ever had in Germany!)
Austria # 41
Dutch Charts # 105
UK #22 Indie Chart
Canadian charts:
#38 on Top 200
#3 on Independent Charts
#3 on Hard Music Charts

"Evisceration Plague, the latest, and very possibly best, album by Cannibal Corpse." Decibel Magazine

“Cannibal Corpse have become more than just a band. They’re a culture unto themselves.” Metal Maniacs

“Delightfully gruesome and brutally relentless, Evisceration Plague is a masterfully made monstrosity of music created by one of this genre’s founding fathers at the pinnacle of their career. “ Fangoria.com

“Some of the best songs on Corpses’ latest, Evisceration Plague, are powered by riffs that most of the so-called “core” bands - even the ones that are legitimately talented - would eat their hearts out for…” MetalSucks.net

“…a standard of ultimate brutality and aggression…” Bass Player

“Cannibal Corpse has aged like a fine wine: Wine made of flesh and blood with notes of murder and a hint of entrails ripped from a virgin's cunt.” Lambgoat.com

“Cannibal Corpse’s brand of audio violence remains a driving force for metal as Evisceration Plague ensures their death metal crown in North America stays untouched.” BW&BK

“the biggest death metal band on the planet… Genius.” Total Guitar 4/5 stars

“In terms of brutal death metal, Cannibal Corpse continues to set the bar high.” ultimate-guitar.com

“The members of Cannibal Corpse are impeccable craftsmen, writing structurally perfect death metal songs like Shakers making austere, beautiful wooden furniture… Cannibal Corpse are the masters of their chosen idiom. Bow down.” The Cleveland Scene