CD Review: Static X - Cannibal

Static X released their fifth album on April 4, 2007. Their new album is titled Cannibal. This is their follow-up album to Start A War, which was released in 2005.

Static X members on the latest album are: Wayne Static providing vocals, rhythm guitar, and programming. Tony Campos plays bass guitar and back-up vocals. Koichi Fukuda plays lead guitar and Nick Oshiro is on the drums.

This is their first studio album in almost two years. Static X's Cannibal has a total of twelve tracks. The total play time of the CD is thirty-seven minutes and three seconds. The tracks and song lengths on Cannibal are:

Cannibal - 3:13

No Submission - 2:41

Behemoth - 3:00

Chemical Logic - 3:51

Destroyer - 2:45

Forty Ways - 3:00

Chroma-Matic - 2:44

Cuts You Up - 3:26

Reptile - 2:30

Electric Pulse - 2:40

Goat - 3:48

Team Hate - 3:20The first thing that is noticeable about the album is the cover. The art work looks very cool. The cover is a skull with a bone in its mouth and it is surrounded by knives and forks. This Static X CD also has a parental advisory sticker on it for explicit content.

As for the actually music, when I first started playing the CD this Static X album it sounds more like their Wisconsin Death Trip CD. Cannibal has more of the industrial sound that Start A War.

Static X starts off the CD with the title track. With a lyric like "Chop it up peel the skin slow dissection." The title track is what you would expect a sound called Cannibal to be. Behemoth a part of the song goes "Wrecking, Dragging, Nagging, Sagging, Blocking." Part of the song No Submission is "Terminate it, Suffocate it, Spitting in your face, Accelerate, Exterminate." Those are some pretty intense lyrics. Static X does have some aggressive lines on Cannibal. All of the songs are very good. If I had to pick favorites then they would be Cannibal, Behemoth, Destroyer, and Forty Ways. The first video that Static X released off of Cannibal is for the song Destroyer. Destroyer is getting air time on shows like Hard Times. The album was produced by Wayne Static and John Travis. It was recorded and mixed by John Travis.

Static X is currently on tour to support the release of Cannibal. According to the official Static X website (www.static-x.com), the band will be touring up to August 30, 2007. They will also be part of Ozzfest in Kansas City on July 30, 2007.

Overall, this is a good CD from Static X. I recommend picking up Static X's latest album Cannibal. If you are a fan of the band, you will like it.