Maximum Violence

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Maximum Violence | type = studio | artist = Six Feet Under | cover = Sixfeetunder-mv.jpg | alt = | released = July 13, 1999 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Death metal | length = 37:13 | label = Metal Blade Records | producer = Brian Slagel | prev_title = Warpath | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Graveyard Classics | next_year = 2000 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r424012|pure_url=yes}} link]|}}

'''''Maximum Violence''''' is the third album by American death metal band Six Feet Under. The album goes back to Chris Barnes' roots in Cannibal Corpse with violent themes/lyrics. It was also the first Six Feet Under album to feature Steve Swanson on guitars and the first to be recorded in C Standard tuning (CFBbEbGC), which they've used ever since except for select occasions.

== Style == Steve Huey of AllMusic described the sound as "basically simple riffs alternat[ing] between slow and fast tempos, with ridiculously over-the-top vocals spewing tales of death, dismemberment, and other variations on gore and splatter themes."<ref name=":0">{{Citation |title=Maximum Violence - Six Feet Under {{!}} Album {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/maximum-violence-mw0000052029 |access-date=2025-05-10 |language=en}}</ref>

== Reception == Steve Huey of AllMusic wrote: "The main problem with the record is its lack of variety, in both style and subject matter -- one gets the impression that any riff or lyric could be moved from one song to another with no noticeable difference in the overall effect. Still, if you're a fan of this particular style of death metal, Maximum Violence does deliver the goods."<ref name=":0" />

==Track listing== {{track listing | all_lyrics = Chris Barnes | total_length = 37:13 | title1 = Feasting on the Blood of the Insane | length1 = 4:32 | title2 = Bonesaw | length2 = 3:08 | title3 = Victim of the Paranoid | length3 = 3:06 | title4 = Short Cut to Hell | length4 = 3:12 | title5 = No Warning Shot | length5 = 3:05 | title6 = War Machine | length6 = 4:27 | note6 = Kiss cover | title7 = Mass Murder Rampage | length7 = 3:10 | title8 = Brainwashed | length8 = 2:43 | title9 = Torture Killer | length9 = 2:43 | title10 = This Graveyard Earth | length10 = 3:27 | title11 = Hacked to Pieces | length11 = 3:40 }}

{{track listing | all_writing = | headline = Reissue bonus tracks | title12 = Wrathchild | length12 = 2:52 | note12 = Iron Maiden cover | title13 = Jailbreak | length13 = 4:08 | note13 = Thin Lizzy cover | title14 = War is Coming | length14 = 3:15 | note14 = Live }}

==Personnel== ;Six Feet Under *Chris Barnes - vocals *Steve Swanson - guitars *Terry Butler - bass *Greg Gall - drums

;Additional musicians *Paul Booth - Backing vocals on "Feasting on the Blood of the Insane" and "Bonesaw" *Chris Carroll - Backing vocals on "Bonesaw"

;Production *Produced by Brian Slagel *Engineered by Chris Carroll, Kieran Wagner and Luly Deya *Mixed by Brian Slagel and Chris Carroll *Mastered by Brad Vance ;Artwork *Cover art by Paul Booth *Graphics by Brian Ames *Photography by Joe Giron

==Trivia== *"Torture Killer" inspired the band Torture Killer. * The album cover art was illustrated by tattoo artist Paul Booth.

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20041026081310/http://www.sfu420.com/ Six Feet Under's Home Page]

Category:Six Feet Under (band) albums Category:1999 albums Category:Metal Blade Records albums