Editing Cannibal Corpse (section)

===Germany===
In Germany, numerous albums have been indexed by the [[Federal Agency for Child and Youth Protection in the Media]], which means that these albums may only be offered and sold to adults and must disappear from regular retail outlets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wie wirkt die Indizierung? |url=https://www.bzkj.de/bzkj/indizierung/was-bewirkt-die-indizierung |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Bundeszentrale für Kinder- und Jugendmedienschutz |language=de}}</ref>

* ''[[Eaten Back to Life]]'' (1990), on the index since August 1995<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Wurm |first=Gerald |title=Indizierung - Cannibal Corpse  |url=https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=IndexDocs&ID=2841&idid=1230 |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=www.schnittberichte.com |language=de}}</ref>
* ''[[Tomb of the Mutilated]]'' (1992), on the index since November 1995<ref name=":0" />
* ''[[Hammer Smashed Face]]'' EP (1993), on the index since November 1995<ref name=":0" />
* ''[[Worm Infested]]'' EP (2003), on the index since January 2005<ref name=":0" />
* ''[[Evisceration Plague]]'' (2009), on the index since April 2010<ref name=":0" />

The indexed songs may only be played in front of an adult audience and the organizer must ensure that no minors attend the event by means of an age check.

Some albums have even been confiscated by the courts and may no longer even be sold to adults.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p1392 | title=German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch – StGB) }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html#p1793 | title=German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch – StGB) }}</ref>

* ''[[Butchered at Birth]]'' (1991), on the index since October 1991,<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=IndexDocs&ID=2841&idid=1228|title=Indizierung - Cannibal Corpse|first=Gerald|last=Wurm|website=Schnittberichte.com|access-date=March 13, 2025}}</ref> confiscated since 1994<ref>Beschlagnahmebeschluss des Amtsgericht Stuttgart vom 3. September 1994, Az.: 21 Js 58315/94</ref>
* ''[[Vile (album)#Created to Kill|Created to Kill]]'' (2000, a bootleg release consisting of demo recordings), on the index since August 2011,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=IndexDocs&ID=2841&idid=1233|title=Indizierung - Cannibal Corpse |first=Gerald|last=Wurm|website=Schnittberichte.com|access-date=March 13, 2025}}</ref> confiscated since November 2012<ref>Beschlagnahmebeschluss des Amtsgericht Saarbrücken vom 25. Juli 2012, Az.: 7Gs 3248/12</ref>
* ''[[Torture (album)|Torture]]'' (2012), on the index since December 2012,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=IndexDocs&ID=2841&idid=1236|title=Indizierung - Cannibal Corpse|first=Gerald|last=Wurm|website=Schnittberichte.com|access-date=March 13, 2025}}</ref> confiscated since December 2013<ref>Beschlagnahmebeschluss des Amtsgericht Fulda vom 28. Oktober 2013, Az.: 27 Gs – 51 UJs 50930/13</ref>
* ''[[Vile (album)|Vile]]'' (1996), on the index since September 2015,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=IndexDocs&ID=2841&idid=1237|title=Indizierung - Cannibal Corpse|first=Gerald|last=Wurm|website=Schnittberichte.com|access-date=March 13, 2025}}</ref> confiscated since July 2017<ref>Beschlagnahmebeschluss des Amtsgericht Marburg vom 19.08.2016, Az.: 54 Gs – 1 Js 10068/16</ref>

In a 2004 interview, George Fisher attempted to recall what originally provoked the ban: "A woman saw someone wearing one of our shirts, I think she is a schoolteacher, and she just caused this big stink about it. So [now] we can't play anything from the first three records. And it really sucks because kids come up and they want us to play all the old songs&nbsp;— and we would&nbsp;— but they know the deal. We can't play 'Born in a Casket' but can play 'Dismembered and Molested'."<ref name=innerview>{{cite web|last=Falina|first=Melanie|title=Cannibal Corpse Just Wants to Sing About Ripping Apart Human Flesh in Peace|work=Chicago Innerview|publisher=Innerview Media, Inc|date=February 2004|url=http://www.chicagoinnerview.com/archives/feb04_cannibal_corpse.htm|access-date=February 5, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311003400/http://www.chicagoinnerview.com/archives/feb04_cannibal_corpse.htm|archive-date=March 11, 2009}}</ref>

In a 2019 interview with [[:de:Christa Jenal|Christa Jenal]], the teacher behind the numerous banning proceedings, spoke about the band: "I have been dealing with the potential for brutalization in society for decades. In this context, I came across the band around 25 years ago because, as a teacher, I saw pupils wearing T-shirts depicting babies on grappling hooks. They were freely available on the market at the time. I've been educating people ever since. Cannibal Corpse is not the only band, but I see it as symptomatic of how far things can go when state institutions turn a blind eye.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kreiszeitung.de/kultur/ausverkauf-moral-12753626.html | title=Cannibal Corpse spielt in Bremen – Lehrerin Christa Jenal hat damit ein Problem | date=July 2019 }}</ref>