The Wretched Spawn
| The Wretched Spawn | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | February 24, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | October–November 2003 | |||
| Studio | Sonic Ranch, El Paso, TX | |||
| Genre | Death metal | |||
| Length | 44:22 | |||
| Label | Metal Blade | |||
| Producer | Neil Kernon | |||
| Cannibal Corpse chronology | ||||
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| Censored cover | ||||
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10 |
| Metal Storm | 8.5/10 |
The Wretched Spawn is the ninth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse. It was released on February 24, 2004 by Metal Blade Records. The cover art is by Vincent Locke. This is the last studio album to feature guitarist Jack Owen, one of the band's founding members, and up to the 2012 album Torture, 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 Butchered at Birth, The Bleeding and Gallery of Suicide.