''The Wretched Spawn'' is the ninth studio album by American

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. The cover art is by Vincent Locke. This is the last studio album to feature guitarist

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, one of the band's founding members, and up to the 2012 album ''

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'', 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 ''

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'', '' The Bleeding'' and ''

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''.

Song meanings

"For songs like "Nothing Left to Mutilate", and "Decency Defied", I looked to friends for ideas they had. "Decency efied was based on a friend who had a nightmare that her tattoos were being torn off while she was still alive. "Nothing Left o Mutilate was based on ideas from a friend who was studying pheromones in college, and told me all about how a woman's scent drives men crazy. So if my imagination doesn't kick in, I draw from other things. "Slain" was based on the Eastwood film '' High Plains Drifter''. And "Festering in the Crypt" is my own idea of dealing with the finality of death."- Jack Owen

Track listing

Credits

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– vocals * Pat O'Brien – lead guitar *

– rhythm guitar *

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– bass *

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– drums

Charts

References

External links

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