Editing Cannibal Corpse (section)

==Impact and legacy==
Alex Distefano of ''[[OC Weekly]]'' said Cannibal Corpse are "hands down, the undisputed kings of death metal."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-01 |title=The 10 Best Death Metal Bands – OC Weekly |url=https://www.ocweekly.com/the-10-best-death-metal-bands-6585015/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |language=en-US}}</ref> Quentin Thane Singer of ''[[Forbes]]'' said Cannibal Corpse are "by and large the face of the death metal sub-genre" and "one of metal’s most notorious and celebrated bands."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Singer |first=Quentin Thane |title=The 38 Greatest Heavy Metal Bands |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/entertainment/article/metal-bands/ |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> Cannibal Corpse has been called "one of metal's goriest, most vile outfits."<ref>{{Citation |title=Tomb of the Mutilated - Cannibal Corpse {{!}} Album {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tomb-of-the-mutilated-mw0000119495 |access-date=2025-01-02 |language=en}}</ref> [[Future plc|MusicRadar]] included the band on the site's list of the "scariest" bands or artists.<ref>{{Cite web |author1=MusicRadar Team |date=2013-10-31 |title=21 scariest musicians and bands |url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/21-scariest-musicians-and-bands-566363 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=MusicRadar |language=en}}</ref> Greg Prato of [[AllMusic]] said, "For the most part, as far as the genre of death metal goes, there is Cannibal Corpse, and there is a bunch of copycats."<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Bands known for emulating the band's sound during the 1990s have been dubbed "Cannibal Clones" by some publications. According to Chris Dick of [[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]], "I used to get alot of demos back then and 9 out of 10 bands clearly had listened to ''[[Tomb of the Mutilated]]''."<ref name=":2" /> Cannibal Corpse has been cited as an influence by [[extreme metal]] and [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] bands of numerous subgenres, including [[The Black Dahlia Murder (band)|The Black Dahlia Murder]], [[Disgorge (American band)|Disgorge]], [[Whitechapel]], [[All Shall Perish]], [[Suicide Silence]], [[Carnifex (band)|Carnifex]], [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]], [[As I Lay Dying (band)|As I Lay Dying]], [[All That Remains (band)|All That Remains]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=All That Remains: Overcoming and Remaining on Top |url=http://hpr1.com/music/article/all_that_remains_overcoming_and_remaining_on_top |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109141520/http://hpr1.com/music/article/all_that_remains_overcoming_and_remaining_on_top |archive-date=2014-01-09 |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=High Plains Reader}}</ref> and [[Escape the Fate]].

According to Jon Weiderhorn of [[Loudwire]], Cannibal Corpse was influential in the development of the "even more extreme" style of death metal, [[goregrind]].<ref>{{cite web |date=August 31, 2017 |title=Death Metal 101: The History of Death Metal |url=https://loudwire.com/heavy-metal-101-history-of-death-metal/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral |website=[[Loudwire]]}}</ref>