Who Rocks Harder?: Cannibal Corpse or Six Feet Under?

Everyone knows that Cannibal Corpse have been the leading force in gore-death metal since their 1990 debut Eaten Back to Life. But part of the band's early success was due to singer Chris Barnes, who remained with the band until the Corpse's fourth full-length, 1994's The Bleeding, after which he split and George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher stepped in to front the mighty Cannibal.

While Six Feet Under began as a side project to Cannibal Corpse, it became Barnes' main gig in 1995 when the group released its storming debut Haunted. For three years, Six Feet Under also featured Obituary guitarist Allen West, but after the group's second disc, 1997's Warpath, West bowed out and was replaced by Steve Swanson.

Since 1997, the Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under have been comparably prolific. Six Feet have released five studio albums of new material, two discs of cover songs and a live album, and Cannibal have issued five studio discs, an EP and a concert disc. And while Six Feet Under had have more mid-paced and less musically complex material than Cannibal, both have appealed to pretty much the same target audience of gore hound and death metal freaks. So we ask you, who rocks harder?