History Music / CephalicCarnage

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "P.G.A.D.":
-->''How many times a day\\
Will you masturbate your stress away?\\
Sore, when you fill your order\\
Persistent genital arousal disorder.''

* SpecialGuest: They've had a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters LOT]] of guests on their albums over the years; some of the more famous ones include Ben Falgoust (Soilent Green, Goatwhore), [[Music/{{Crowbar}} Kirk Windstein]], [[Music/{{Disgorge}} AJ Magana, Diego Sanchez]], [[Music/CattleDecapitation Travis Ryan]], [[Music/NapalmDeath Barney Greenway]], Corporate Death (Macabre), [[Music/DyingFetus John Gallagher]], Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), [[Music/{{Immolation}} Ross Dolan]], [[Music/{{Skinless}} Sherwood Webber]], Blaine Cartwright (Nashville Pussy), and Alex Camargo (Krisiun). On the live front, [[Music/JobForACowboy Jon Rice]], [[Music/{{Gorguts}} Patrice Hamelin]], and Danny Walker (Intronaut) have all served as live fill-ins for Merryman.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Very common on their studio albums due to a fondness for guest vocalists.

* BaldOfAwesome: John Merryman. Steve Goldberg is also fast approaching this.

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!!The band contains examples of the following tropes:

* EarWorm: "Ohrwurm" is of course about this, being named after the German term for this trope. The character in the song suffers IncessantMusicMadness, and eventually, [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]] by a catchy tune.

** "Anomalies'' and ''Xenosapien''.

* BodyHorror: All over the place on the cover of ''Exploiting Dysfunction''. [[{{UncannyValley}} The longer you look, the worse it gets]].

** And if that wasn't enough, the track ends with the sounds of [[{{Squick}} a man presumably pleasuring himself]].

* DrivenToSuicide: The character speaking in "Ohrworm" has this trope due to IncessantMusicMadness from {{Ear Worm}}s:

** ''Lucid Interval'': "Scolopendra Cingulata" (1:35), "Fortuitious Oddity" (0:44), "The Isle of California" (1:21), "Friend of Mine" (0:08), "Zuno Gyakusatsu" (0:53), "Cannabism" (0:45), and "Misguided" (0:56).

** "Ohrworm": Referring to the {{Ear Worm}}s that cause the character singing to be DrivenToSuicide from IncessantMusicMadness:

** "Anomalies", their first 2005 album.
** "Xenosapien", their 2007 album.

* And if that wasn't enough, the track ends with the sounds of [[{{Squick}} a man presumably pleasuring himself]].

* {{Pastiche}}: "Dying Will Be the Death of Me" was made in the style of melodic metalcore as a diss track, while "Aeyuchg!" was the same for black metal.

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* DrivenToSuicide: The character speaking in "Ohrworm" has this trope due to IncessantMusicMadnessfrom {{Ear Worm}}s:

* TechnicalDeathMetal: A big part of their sound circa ''Xenosapien'', though it started creeping up as early as ''Lucid Interval''.

* EarWorm: "Ohrwurm" is of course about this, being named after German term for this trope. The character in the song is DrivenToMadness, and eventually, [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]] by a catchy tune.

Formed in Edgewater, Colorado in 1992 by Leonard "Lenzig" Leal (vocals) and Zac Joe (guitars) as a two-man experimental grindcore project, they put out the ''Scrape My Lungs'' demo and a split with Deprayved in 1994 before going on hiatus; 1996 saw their return with a full lineup that included Steve Goldberg (guitar), [[Music/{{Origin}} Doug Williams]] (bass), and John Merryman (drums). ''Fortuitous Oddity'', their second demo, came out that same year, and a promo followed the next year, along with a self-financed US tour. Williams stopped being able to do much by the band by 1998, however, which led to Joe and Goldberg tracking bass themselves on ''Conforming to Abnormality'', their debut full-length. Jawsh Mullen quickly filled Williams' spot, and by 2000, they had inked a deal with Relapse Records and released ''Exploiting Dysfunction'', their sophomore full-length. A significant amount of touring followed, and 2002 brought ''Lucid Interval'', their third full-length, as well as ''Halls of Amenti'', a one-song, twenty-minute sludge/doom metal EP. Bigger and bigger tours followed, and by the end of 2004, they went in to record ''Anomalies'', their fourth full-length. 2005 saw both that album's release and another round of touring, but by the beginning of 2006, Mullen had had enough and left to go back to school. [[Music/JobForACowboy Nick]] [[Music/{{Havok}} Schendzielos]] quickly replaced him, and after the standard set of tours, ''Xenosapien'' dropped in May of 2007. Three years came and went with no real deviation from the norm aside from Joe leaving and the band welcoming in Brian Hopp in his place, and by August of 2010, ''Misled by Certainty'' was out. During the touring cycle for this album, Schendzielos wound up also joining Job for a Cowboy after Brent Riggs left right before a tour, but this did little to affect his availability. Over the next couple years, they continued to tour, but after a European tour with Suffocation in 2013, that too dried up; John Merryman's ability to tour had been nonexistent for at least a couple years due to his need to take care of a newborn child (necessitating fill-ins), but after that tour, they turned into a fest band. Little has happened since then aside from festival appearances and the occasional assurance that a new album is coming.

Formed in Edgewater, Colorado in 1992 by Leonard "Lenzig" Leal (vocals) and Zac Joe (guitars) as a two-man experimental grindcore project, they put out the ''Scrape My Lungs'' demo and a split with Deprayved in 1994 before going on hiatus; 1996 saw their return with a full lineup that included Steve Goldberg (guitar), [[Music/{{Origin}} Doug Williams]] (bass), and John Merryman (drums). ''Fortuitous Oddity'', their second demo, came out that same year, and a promo followed the next year, along with a self-financed US tour. Williams stopped being able to do much by the band by 1998, however, which led to Joe and Goldberg tracking bass themselves on ''Conforming to Abnormality'', their debut full-length. Jawsh Mullen quickly filled Williams' spot, and by 2000, they had inked a deal with Relapse Records and released ''Exploiting Dysfunction'', their sophomore full-length. A significant amount of touring followed, and 2002 brought ''Lucid Interval'', their third full-length, as well as ''Halls of Amenti'', a one-song, twenty-minute sludge/doom metal EP. Bigger and bigger tours followed, and by the end of 2004, they went in to record ''Anomalies'', their fourth full-length. 2005 saw both that album's release and another round of touring, but by the beginning of 2006, Mullen had had enough and left to go back to school. [[Music/JobForACowboy Nick]] [[Music/{{Havok}} Schendzielos]] quickly replaced him, and after the standard set of tours, ''Xenosapien'' dropped in May of 2007. Three years came and went with no real deviation from the norm aside from Joe leaving and the band welcoming in Brian Hopp in his place, and by August of 2010, ''Misled by Certainty was out. During the touring cycle for this album, Schendzielos wound up also joining Job for a Cowboy after Brent Riggs left right before a tour, but this did little to affect his availability. Over the next couple years, they continued to tour, but after a European tour with Suffocation in 2013, that too dried up; John Merryman's ability to tour had been nonexistent for at least a couple years due to his need to take care of a newborn child (necessitating fill-ins), but after that tour, they turned into a fest band. Little has happened since then aside from festival appearances and the occasional assurance that a new album is coming.

Formed in Edgewater, Colorado in 1992 by Leonard "Lenzig" Leal (vocals) and Zac Joe (guitars) as a two-man experimental grindcore project, they put out the ''Scrape My Lungs'' demo and a split with Deprayved in 1994 before going on hiatus; 1996 saw their return with a full lineup that included Steve Goldberg (guitar), [[Music/{{Origin}} Doug Williams]] (bass), and John Merryman (drums). ''Fortuitous Oddity'', their second demo, came out that same year, and a promo followed the next year, along with a self-financed US tour. Williams stopped being able to do much by the band by 1998, however, which led to Joe and Goldberg tracking bass themselves on ''Conforming to Abnormality'', their debut full-length. Jawsh Mullen quickly filled Williams' spot, and by 2000, they had inked a deal with Relapse Records and released ''Exploiting Dysfunction'', their sophomore full-length. A significant amount of touring followed, and 2002 brought ''Lucid Interval'', their third full-length, as well as ''Halls of Amenti'' a one-song, twenty-minute sludge/doom metal EP. Bigger and bigger tours followed, and by the end of 2004, they went in to record ''Anomalies'', their fourth full-length. 2005 saw both that album's release and another round of touring, but by the beginning of 2006, Mullen had had enough and left to go back to school. [[Music/JobForACowboy Nick]] [[Music/{{Havok}} Schendzielos]] quickly replaced him, and after the standard set of tours, ''Xenosapien'' dropped in May of 2007. Three years came and went with no real deviation from the norm aside from Joe leaving and the band welcoming in Brian Hopp in his place, and by August of 2010, ''Misled by Certainty was out. During the touring cycle for this album, Schendzielos wound up also joining Job for a Cowboy after Brent Riggs left right before a tour, but this did little to affect his availability. Over the next couple years, they continued to tour, but after a European tour with Suffocation in 2013, that too dried up; John Merryman's ability to tour had been nonexistent for at least a couple years due to his need to take care of a newborn child (necessitating fill-ins), but after that tour, they turned into a fest band. Little has happened since then aside from festival appearances and the occasional assurance that a new album is coming.

Formed in Edgewater, Colorado 1992 by Leonard "Lenzig" Leal (vocals) and Zac Joe (guitars) as a two-man experimental grindcore project, they put out the ''Scrape My Lungs'' demo and a split with Deprayved in 1994 before going on hiatus; 1996 saw their return with a full lineup that included Steve Goldberg (guitar), [[Music/{{Origin}} Doug Williams]] (bass), and John Merryman (drums). ''Fortuitous Oddity'', their second demo, came out that same year, and a promo followed the next year, along with a self-financed US tour. Williams stopped being able to do much by the band by 1998, however, which led to Joe and Goldberg tracking bass themselves on ''Conforming to Abnormality'', their debut full-length. Jawsh Mullen quickly filled Williams' spot, and by 2000, they had inked a deal with Relapse Records and released ''Exploiting Dysfunction'', their sophomore full-length. A significant amount of touring followed, and 2002 brought ''Lucid Interval'', their third full-length, as well as ''Halls of Amenti'' a one-song, twenty-minute sludge/doom metal EP. Bigger and bigger tours followed, and by the end of 2004, they went in to record ''Anomalies'', their fourth full-length. 2005 saw both that album's release and another round of touring, but by the beginning of 2006, Mullen had had enough and left to go back to school. [[Music/JobForACowboy Nick]] [[Music/{{Havok}} Schendzielos]] quickly replaced him, and after the standard set of tours, ''Xenosapien'' dropped in May of 2007. Three years came and went with no real deviation from the norm aside from Joe leaving and the band welcoming in Brian Hopp in his place, and by August of 2010, ''Misled by Certainty was out. During the touring cycle for this album, Schendzielos wound up also joining Job for a Cowboy after Brent Riggs left right before a tour, but this did little to affect his availability. Over the next couple years, they continued to tour, but after a European tour with Suffocation in 2013, that too dried up; John Merryman's ability to tour had been nonexistent for at least a couple years due to his need to take care of a newborn child (necessitating fill-ins), but after that tour, they turned into a fest band. Little has happened since then aside from festival appearances and the occasional assurance that a new album is coming.

* ExperimentalMetal: "Experimental death metal" is probably the easiest label for them.