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In the book Choosing Death (history about death metal and grindcore), Angela speaks in the end about her huge impact on the death metal scene etc. and how much she hates Cannibal Corpse because it is about raping and killing women. She doesn't understand that women allows the boyfriends to listen to bands like that. After reading that I had no respect for her whatsoever. I'm pretty sure she doesn't like Anal Cunt for that mather.
So, raping women is the most brutal topic within Cannibal Corpse's lyrics? Interesting... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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If I was. Dating the new arch enemy. Singer hell I whould cooking steaks. Going hunting. Killing Bambi right. In front of her plus cooking him on the grill. I actually. Agree with. Some of there views like poaching. Dog fighting. Stuff. Doesn't make me turn. Vegan. Hell I whould eating a bacon cheeseburger right in front of. Them. That's. Why I'm a real man I eat meat

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If I was. Dating the new arch enemy. Singer hell I whould cooking steaks. Going hunting. Killing Bambi right. In front of her plus cooking him on the grill. I actually. Agree with. Some of there views like poaching. Dog fighting. Stuff. Doesn't make me turn. Vegan. Hell I whould eating a bacon cheeseburger right in front of. Them. That's. Why I'm a real man I eat meat
I'm all for humane treatment of animals, but that's no reason not to eat them. Besides the massive nutritional void veganism puts your body through, meat tastes good, and as part of the life cycle of all living things, other things are consumed for survival. Unless, of course, you happen to be a plant... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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So here the new video and song, featuring Alissa: InRMwptcgAo It's not really bad, singing is good enough for me. But the song on his whole is just average. Solo is great though.
Arch Enema strikes again, that was pretty bad. I think her vocals are even worse than Angela's, Angela was not very powerful and sounded like she was trying too hard only to not achieve much force, Alissa just sounds like a generic deathcore/metalcore growler with a really annoying tone. Add that to their lackluster power/melodeath sound of their last couple of albums and you have a pretty weak single hear. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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