“I shouldn’t speculate why we were singled out, other than because we were massively offensive”: how Cannibal Corpse became death metal’s first million selling band

Cannibal Corpse.

Cannibal Corpse are the most successful death metal band ever. Since forming in Buffalo, New York in the late 1980s, they’ve sold more than a million albums, generated plenty of mainstream controversy and even impressed Jim Carrey enough to appear in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. In 2012, as the band prepared to release their 12th album Torture, guitarist Alex Webster sat down with Metal Hammer to look back at a career drenched in blood, guts and provocation.

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