Artist: STATIC-X
Album: CANNIBAL (CD)

Release date: 2007
Media type: CD

Cannibal is the fifth full length studio album from American industrial metal band Static-X, released April 3, 2007 on Reprise Records. The first single from the album is "Cannibal". However, the song "Destroyer" was released as the first single to radio and a video was made for the song. When asked about the album, Wayne Static said - "I think it’s the most metal record we’ve ever made, and it’s arguably the heaviest record we’ve ever made. But with this record, I had a good time just getting back to balls-out screaming and challenging myself vocally, as well as in the songwriting. I felt like I was back working on Wisconsin Death Trip, where I focused on stripping away the excess as much as possible to write short, simple, catchy songs."

No Submission is additionally available on Saw III soundtrack. The title song Cannibal became available on iTunes on 5th February as a digital download single. Destroyer appeared later, on 13th February and appeared as an EP by 20 March. The music video for "Destroyer" premiered on the internet on April 6.

While the title song "Cannibal" was inspired by Wayne's vegetarian thoughts of people eating meat, "Reptile" is simply about being eaten alive by a huge reptile. On January 18th, 2007, a MySpace bulletin from the band revealed the track listing. Additionally, it is the first Static-X album without an "otsego" song on it.

The album is available in the standard 12-track edition (both clean and explict), special internet edition with the bonus track Get Up And Boogie,[1] Best Buy edition with two bonus tracks (Light It Up and I'm The One remix) and was breifly offered in limited supply with a booklet signed by members of the band. When downloading the album from iTunes store you get another bonus track called "Beneath, Between, Beyond", which is also the title of band's only compilation album, even though the song was written two plus years after the album was released.

The full album leaked onto peer-to-peer networks on March 26, 2007.

The album debuted at #36 on the U.S. Billboard 200 with sales of about 30,000.

TRACKLIST:

Cannibal - 3:12
No Submission - 2:42
Behemoth - 3:00
Chemical Logic - 3:51
Destroyer - 2:47
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 - 3:24

LINE-UP:

Wayne Static - Vocals, Guitar, Programming, Production
Koichi Fukuda - Lead Guitar
Tony Campos - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Nick Oshiro - Drums

John 5 - First Guitar Solo on "Cannibal"
Johnny B. - Drum Technician

John Travis - Production & Mixing
Tom Baker - Mastering