Hell yeah, my favorite pot-obsessed old school death metal band has returned with another blast of gutteral brutality! The mighty Cannabis Corpse is back with this four-song EP The Weeding, with members Weedgrinder, Hallhammer, Nikropolis and Landphil once again breaking out the early-90's death blitz and bestial denim-clad heaviness with their awesome, ultra-obsessive lyrics all about smokin' bud. They aren't the first metal band to sing exclusively about weed, but I can't think of anyone who has taken it to the imaginative extremes these maniacs have, combing both bizarre sci-fi marijuana narratives and direct references to Cannabal Corpse in the same breath, and incorporating this ridiculousness into a straight-faced death metal attack that sounds like it birthed somewhere right outside of Tampa in 1990. Part of this is an elaborate joke, of course, but the music is so crushing and legit that even the stoniest death metaller will be hard pressed not to love these guys. Comedic and crushing, the EP starts off with "Shit Of Pot Seeds", a raging dose of complex death metal, total Cannibal Corpse worship, but, you know, with lyrics about the toxic horrors of what happens to your gastrointestinal system after ingesting pot seeds, the song fulla sick changeups between thrashy DM and slower chugging breakdowns, loads of technical shredding, deep gutteral bellows, and some eerie dual guitar harmonies showing up towards the end. "Vaporaized" starts off more dirgey and atmospheric, but quickly enough launches into a furious speedy death metal assault with awesome evil soloing, putrid blasts of vocal slime, jackhammer blastbeats, and complex jagged riffing, followed by the punishing double-bass driven grooves of "Skull Full Of Bong Hits" and the slightly more melodic "Sickening Photosynthesis", which has more of those diseased guitar harmonies and lots of melodic bass work. And as always, no Cannabis Corpse release is complete without the fantastic full color artwork of Andrei Bouzikov, who delivers another eye-popping piece of sentient marijuana bud mayhem, with two battling bud-warriors engaged in mortal combat in some sort of Thunderdome-like scenario. Another killer fucking slab of THC-infested death metal brutality! And for those of you keeping score, the band also features members of Battlemaster and Municipal Waste.