Cannibal Corpse is top-selling death metal band
Published November 18, 2003
From Blabbermouth.net
- Although the SoundScan numbers are generally indicative of the bands' overall popularity, they are misleading in the sense that many of the veteran death metal groups' early efforts were issued prior to the start of the SoundScan era (May 25, 1991).
The following are the total sales figures for several of the genre's forerunners, according to Nielsen SoundScan (all numbers include any DVD and VHS releases, where applicable):
CANNIBAL CORPSE: 558,929
DEICIDE: 481,131
MORBID ANGEL: 445,147
SIX FEET UNDER: 370,660
OBITUARY: 368,616
DEATH: 368,184
NAPALM DEATH: 367,654
CARCASS: 220,734
ENTOMBED: 198,764
The top-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era are as follows:
MORBID ANGEL - "Covenant" (1993): 127,154
DEICIDE - "Deicide" (1990): 110,719*
DEICIDE - "Legion" (1992): 103,544
OBITUARY - "The End Complete" (1992): 103,378
CANNIBAL CORPSE - "The Bleeding" (1994): 98,319
No big shocks, although Soundscan is probably not the best way to measure the sales of these bands. Most death metal albums don't get sold through large chain stores, so many of sales won't show up on the Soundscan charts. Plus, it only takes into account American sales. I know for a fact that both Cannibal Corpse and Napalm Death have worldwide sales of over a million each. I've also been told that Morbid Angel's Covenant and Domination albums have sold about 250,000 copies a piece. Also, I've often heard that Obituary's The End Complete is the top selling death metal album of all time, but I'm not sure if that was supposed to be worldwide or strictly in America. Still, considering that these bands don't exatcly play the most, uh, commercial music, their sales are pretty impressive.
- Cannibal Corpse is top-selling death metal band
- Published: November 18, 2003
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Hi Iacob,
Please sign me up for 2 parcels. May I please have them personalized and gift wrapped for my parents? Dig deep, as I want the good stuff!
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Eric/Phillip -- the PHP function to deal with this is wordwrap()
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and mix it with Faygo to make ... mud!
I can't believe Six Feet Under are up there, I thought they were very ordinary and just rolling on Barnes' name. NOt impressed by any of their albums, more like Obituary already been there done that.
I find their popularity inexplicable as well. I think they had one halfway decent album (Maximimum Violence, and then a lot of material that was either mediocre or just plain awful.
wat bout the melodic death metal bands like inflames and children of bodom?????????
they are all go death metal bands and six feet under does just have one good ablum of of them are good just as good as cannibal corpse and deicide they are all good bands.
they are all go death metal bands and six feet under doesn't just have one good ablum all of them are good just as good as cannibal corpse and deicide they are all good bands.
It is a shame that Death sold less then any of these "top" bands... No metal bands can compare their music to masterpieces Chuck Shuldiner created...How you can even compare Cannibal Corpse boring and repeated style to melodic and technical Death?
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