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
StudioSonic 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
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[2]
Metal Storm8.5/10[3]

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.

  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.