"On the album that would become The Bleeding, Cannibal Corpse set to change their destiny from shock to substance. Under the watchful guidance of longtime Cannibal and legendary producer Scott Burns in November 1993, writing death metal songs that you couldn’t forget, what they later dubbed “death metal with hooks.” Cannibal, which spent a month in the studio trying to best themselves, answered the challenge with classics like “Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead” and “Stripped, Raped and Strangled.” Both songs have never left Cannibal’s setlist in the ensuing decades.

The Bleeding is more a methodical surgeon’s cut. The songs are linear and the musicianship is exemplary. The production is brighter and more nuanced than Cannibal’s earlier records. And the lyrics, while still horrific, are more about the psyche and psychology of horror than a militaristic assault on the senses —with a few notable exceptions." - Decibe