Review by Tobias on March 2, 2001.

Let me get something out of the way here, can all you up and coming musicians do me a favor and stop giving your bands names that are the metal equivalent of after-school specials? If I keep hearing names like Dead Silent Slumber or Eternal Tears of Sorrow… or Dismal Euphony (heretofore known as DE)… I swear people, I’m going to raise a giant army of monkeys and I will hunt your ass down and you will be butt-romp-(Godly Editor’s Voice to Atomic: Shut theeee hell up!)
Fine then. I liked when they were called The Headless Children (THC) much better. What the hell happened to that? What, too many W.A.S.P. similarities?

Let me tell you that I listened to this thrice before reviewing it. The first time I didn’t think much of it. Then I went to a party and returned to listen to it twice more. I’m still not sure if this band is meant to be taken seriously. Again, like W.A.S.P. , particularly the album The Headless Children (when they dropped the super gore fiesta showmanship), you’re not quite sure if the musicians are taking themselves seriously. In fact, I can sum this up in one sentence: Imagine what Green Jelly would be like if they took themselves seriously.

Perhaps DE founder Ole Hegesen and Blackie Lawless should play golf together.

I know that’s a fairly apathetic statement, so let me get to the highs and lows of this album.

The Highs: I think Magma is by far, the most successful song on the album. Though it’s one of the slower tempo songs, I think it really gives the listener a pretty good idea of what DE is about. There are times during this album that this band is so dead on that the proverbial “grandma’s cooking” couldn’t hold a candle to their musicianship.
(Godly Editor’s Voice to The Reader: Don’t worry, I’m not sure he knows what he’s talking about either.)
My personal favorite of the album is Fly In Eye. An unusual and twangy tune, with an enormous flavor for a surreal and upbeat old west with chorusing female vocals that sound like a drugged out hybrid of Missing Persons and Fleetwood Mac.

Another track worth mentioning is the well crafted and unusually well executed (for this album), Needles. While this track seems to be one of the more serious tracks on the album, some of the lyrical content on the rest of the album is very amusing in a campy way (hopefully intentionally). I also want to give a REALLY BIG “Hell Yeah!” for the inventiveness shown on this album.

The Lows: There are some concepts and some composing here that are just plain rough around the edges. Though lyrically entertaining, Plasma Pool seemed very sloppy. On that same card are the tracks Birth In Reverse and Python Zero. The energy is there, the desire is there… but it just doesn’t feel like the conviction or perhaps the required time was there.

I think the piece that really struck me as lame was the last 45 seconds of track numero uno, Critical Mass. What started out as one of the mid-to-lower points in DE’s song composition, quickly turned into a speed power-chord jam of little talent that reminded me of my 13 yr. old garage days.

The In-Betweens: The in-betweens are all over the place, like a suburban field of Chicago littered with goose shit in the spring. You’re not quite sure to make of where the band wants to go and what they’re really doing.

The Bottom Line: One word – GreenJellyTakingThemselvesSeriously! … and some really clever and evil monkeys that ar- (Godly Editor’s Voice to Atomic: Quiet, you!)

Rating: 6 of 10. Despite the sore spots, the ingenuity shown is pretty fabulous. I would love to see these guys grow, and I’d like to see a live show.

Review by Death8699 on October 25, 2019.

In aghast honesty, I've never been a huge fan of this band, but will say that I respect some of their work, especially this one. I like some brutal death metal which is what they represent - well established in the metal community for the past several years in existence. Gallery of Suicide captures their brutal death sound with chunk laden guitar activity whizzing all in various arrays of significance. From beginning to finish these guys hit home here with a solid, well put together album. They take their guitars and tune them down to B-flat, making that heavy, distorted sound with musical compositions that embrace you alongside Corpsegrinder's lyrical tyranny including a vocal onslaught.

What distinguishes this album from their previous others is the fact that it touches on major musical progression featuring compilations of sounds that include heavy palm-muted riffs with tremolo (fast) picking, tapping sequences on the fretboard, innovation of ideology in composing musical supposition and genuinely original extremity of idealization. Their earlier work featured more thrash-oriented licks alongside deeper vocals as there was a different vocalist (Chris Barnes) and they seemed to have experimented a lot; their first 3 albums were brutal death metal like this, but the musical style meaning their combining thrash metal guitar with death voice changed on The Bleeding and on here is different also. Not only did they change vocalists for the better, they thickened their whole entire sound.

The band I would say progressed, sort of regressed then progressed again especially on here. I didn't bother reading any of the current reviews of this album, just the ratings and my contention is that musically this album features something that is quite moving - a progression, not only with the music, but variation on the vocals as well. You get their thick and heavy sound which most songs here contain fast paced phenomenon, but also catch the listener off-guard with a slow instrumental. There is a combination of intensity, brilliance in the riff-writing, aggressive vocals spewing out gore lyrics, and drum-work that's tight which fits with the music as well as the final outro on the album.

Essence is key when writing successful albums -- here, Cannibal Corpse gives you that. The production quality was magnificent, and the music was entirely original. Taking influences on extreme music then conducting songs that seem to entice a number of listeners, making the fans look at brutal death metal in a whole different category... a category that is in a league of its' own. You can hear everything going on here including the guitars, the drums, the vocals and the sound in the recording came out triumphant. This is one underrated album. I don't see why the scores here are in the lower range because it deserves so much more. I'm not saying flattery, I'm saying recognition.

This one is NOT boring, but interesting. Lyrically it has no value to me, but musically it covers a heathen of dynamics and inspirational riffs especially for guitarists. This is one to own that will not, cannot be dull and if it is to that particular listener, then this band is not for you. The music on here captures all different avenues of musical triumph - originality, intelligibility, technicality and variety. I think this band with this album can inspire because the music is what is so owning to the listener. What exists in the brutal death metal community is Gallery of Suicide, a triumph in musical exploratory genius. These guys slay and this album should be owned by all fans because it's in a league of its' own!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Review by Jack on July 5, 2001.

I thought it was about time I pulled out some shit, and gave it the well-earned review it deserves. George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher and Co. certainly hit bottom of the pile in regards to “Gallery of Suicide”. I feel old George really is the missing link between man and ape, he really has learnt to grunt like a primate.

Death metal deserves better promotion than what these outspoken baboons attempt to grind with. Mutilating women with spanners and plungers is not a good lyrical topic, and will probably not invoke the kindest sympathies through the media. But of course this concept has not really occurred to these folks and thus you still have ‘GRRRRRRRRRRRRR...Behead the Innocent, pillage, rape and maim...GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!’.

This is the second album recorded since the departure of infamous vocalist (???) Chris Barnes. Does this make a difference to the music in the slightest? No, of course it doesn’t; Cannibal Corpse sucked with Chris and they certainly suck with George. Music consists of grinding guitars, fucked ape lyrical content and vocals, and heavy drumming and bass work.

Please, however note, that if you do see this CD for $2 or so, pick it up as the instrumental track: ‘From Skin to Liquid’ is actually a promising piece of work. Cannibal Corpse are remotely talented, they just play a shit brand of death, grind metal. If they ditched George, and follow the footsteps of death acts, like Hypocrisy they may actually be okay one day. However presently Cannibal Corpse, now suck and as a result “Gallery of Suicide” is an atrocious effort.

Bottom Line: Cannibal Corpse are the biggest sack of rubbish I’ve ever had the displeasure of reviewing. The only reason “Gallery of Suicide” scored two and half points is because of the reasonable instrumental in the track: ‘From Skin to Liquid’. Absolute crap.

Rating: 2.5 out of 10

Review by Death8699 on October 25, 2019.

In aghast honesty, I've never been a huge fan of this band, but will say that I respect some of their work, especially this one. I like some brutal death metal which is what they represent - well established in the metal community for the past several years in existence. Gallery of Suicide captures their brutal death sound with chunk laden guitar activity whizzing all in various arrays of significance. From beginning to finish these guys hit home here with a solid, well put together album. They take their guitars and tune them down to B-flat, making that heavy, distorted sound with musical compositions that embrace you alongside Corpsegrinder's lyrical tyranny including a vocal onslaught.

What distinguishes this album from their previous others is the fact that it touches on major musical progression featuring compilations of sounds that include heavy palm-muted riffs with tremolo (fast) picking, tapping sequences on the fretboard, innovation of ideology in composing musical supposition and genuinely original extremity of idealization. Their earlier work featured more thrash-oriented licks alongside deeper vocals as there was a different vocalist (Chris Barnes) and they seemed to have experimented a lot; their first 3 albums were brutal death metal like this, but the musical style meaning their combining thrash metal guitar with death voice changed on The Bleeding and on here is different also. Not only did they change vocalists for the better, they thickened their whole entire sound.

The band I would say progressed, sort of regressed then progressed again especially on here. I didn't bother reading any of the current reviews of this album, just the ratings and my contention is that musically this album features something that is quite moving - a progression, not only with the music, but variation on the vocals as well. You get their thick and heavy sound which most songs here contain fast paced phenomenon, but also catch the listener off-guard with a slow instrumental. There is a combination of intensity, brilliance in the riff-writing, aggressive vocals spewing out gore lyrics, and drum-work that's tight which fits with the music as well as the final outro on the album.

Essence is key when writing successful albums -- here, Cannibal Corpse gives you that. The production quality was magnificent, and the music was entirely original. Taking influences on extreme music then conducting songs that seem to entice a number of listeners, making the fans look at brutal death metal in a whole different category... a category that is in a league of its' own. You can hear everything going on here including the guitars, the drums, the vocals and the sound in the recording came out triumphant. This is one underrated album. I don't see why the scores here are in the lower range because it deserves so much more. I'm not saying flattery, I'm saying recognition.

This one is NOT boring, but interesting. Lyrically it has no value to me, but musically it covers a heathen of dynamics and inspirational riffs especially for guitarists. This is one to own that will not, cannot be dull and if it is to that particular listener, then this band is not for you. The music on here captures all different avenues of musical triumph - originality, intelligibility, technicality and variety. I think this band with this album can inspire because the music is what is so owning to the listener. What exists in the brutal death metal community is Gallery of Suicide, a triumph in musical exploratory genius. These guys slay and this album should be owned by all fans because it's in a league of its' own!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Review by Jack on July 5, 2001.

I thought it was about time I pulled out some shit, and gave it the well-earned review it deserves. George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher and Co. certainly hit bottom of the pile in regards to “Gallery of Suicide”. I feel old George really is the missing link between man and ape, he really has learnt to grunt like a primate.

Death metal deserves better promotion than what these outspoken baboons attempt to grind with. Mutilating women with spanners and plungers is not a good lyrical topic, and will probably not invoke the kindest sympathies through the media. But of course this concept has not really occurred to these folks and thus you still have ‘GRRRRRRRRRRRRR...Behead the Innocent, pillage, rape and maim...GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!’.

This is the second album recorded since the departure of infamous vocalist (???) Chris Barnes. Does this make a difference to the music in the slightest? No, of course it doesn’t; Cannibal Corpse sucked with Chris and they certainly suck with George. Music consists of grinding guitars, fucked ape lyrical content and vocals, and heavy drumming and bass work.

Please, however note, that if you do see this CD for $2 or so, pick it up as the instrumental track: ‘From Skin to Liquid’ is actually a promising piece of work. Cannibal Corpse are remotely talented, they just play a shit brand of death, grind metal. If they ditched George, and follow the footsteps of death acts, like Hypocrisy they may actually be okay one day. However presently Cannibal Corpse, now suck and as a result “Gallery of Suicide” is an atrocious effort.

Bottom Line: Cannibal Corpse are the biggest sack of rubbish I’ve ever had the displeasure of reviewing. The only reason “Gallery of Suicide” scored two and half points is because of the reasonable instrumental in the track: ‘From Skin to Liquid’. Absolute crap.

Rating: 2.5 out of 10