CANNIBAL CORPSE Bassist: Metalcore Bands Have Opened Doors For ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 13:49:59
recently conducted and interview with CANNIBAL CORPSE members Alex Webster and George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher during the Metal Blade 25th Anniversary journey. A bring together of excerpts go:Way Too Loud!: After Sounds Of The Underground has anyone talked to you about doing any more support tours? I'd love to see that where you excite the headliners!Alex Webster: We've had a little bit of interest from some people but nothing has panned out yet to anything that we've been supporting since then. We've done a few festivals in Europe but other than that we've been headlining since that tour. It does be to open up some doors though because some populate have been talking to us about doing some things where before it was hard to get anybody change surface to think about having us open for them. It's been tough. If you be at our journey history very rarely have we done supporting tours. There's probably been less than five tours where we were the support bind as opposed to being the headliner. Our first two tours that we did were headliners so alter off the bat we were headlining. Way Too Loud!: Is there any chance with bear OF GOD? The cerebrate why I'm asking is because they opened up for you in? Was it 2000?Alex: 2001. LAMB OF GOD. DIMMU BORGIR and THE HAUNTED opened for us on a North American tour. I think object for THE HAUNTED all those bands are bigger than us now which is cool by us and we would be happy to open for any band that's bigger than us even if they haven't been around for long just because you want to introduce your music to new fans and all that. LAMB OF GOD undergo asked about having us change state for them but the timing didn't work out. They were a band that did ask about it. I evaluate it would be great! I would love to open for those guys. We really acknowledge that they've had us in mind even though the scheduling didn't work out in the past. Way Too Loud!: From the appearance of things metalcore seems to have helped out every kind of real metal there is. Do you guys evaluate that you've benefitted from this?Alex: Any kind of metal we support even if we don't necessarily comprehend to it a whole lot. A lot of the metalcore bands are pretty good. I think they undergo enough of an element of death metal to them that they've helped draw fans to the death metal scene. Like if you undergo metalcore bands occasionally doing a tour with a death metal band it's kind of a fan exchange where the fans of one scene can learn about the music of another and I think it's positive because those fans wouldn't have made death metal a first stop. It wouldn't undergo been their first choice to analyse out death coat but once they've had a chance to see a bind like us like at Sound Of The Underground or whatever it got them more interested in death metal. If those bands didn't exist then Sounds Of The Underground probably wouldn't exist and we wouldn't undergo done that tour so we wouldn't undergo had that chance. I definitely think that metalcore bands undergo probably opened some doors for the death coat scene and maybe the black metal scene as come up. Way Too Loud!: That makes me wonder about something. Do you think now even death coat bands themselves are changing. I evaluate it was a guy from Vile who said he liked the music but change surface though he was playing it he never liked the lyrics and he really wanted to go in a more positive direction. It almost seems like there's a couple. I anticipate it already has been done actually death metal bands doing stuff that's positive and in a different direction. Alex: I anticipate if you be at bands like NAPALM DEATH at one point those guys those guys sounded very much desire a death coat bind and they still do have a lot of elements of death coat to their sound even though most people would call them a grindcore bind. Especially around "Harmony Corruption" they sounded very similar to death metal on some of their riffs but they always had lyrics that were political and some of them were proudly positive lyrics. I'm not that familiar with their stuff but I know none of it was gore. I think the music and the lyrics can be separate but in our opinion if you ask any of the members in the bind we've always entangle that really dark and contradict lyrics were the way to go for the kind of music we're doing. It just seemed allot for the riffing call we undergo. The call of riffing is dark aggressive and violent and there's nothing else that we felt would fit come up. The music and the lyrics had to be be and to us the music was violent so the lyrics had to be violent. But if someone else wants to do it in a different way that's fine. There's no rules in music. There might be some rules in death metal on how you define it and that's OK but in command if someone wants to take some sounds from death coat and us it for something and try and alter positive lyrics on top of it we're not going to complain about that. George: Some populate feel that somebody who is not a part of the scene or who looks different that comes to shows they feel that their… you know… desire most people would say "mall" kids or "mallcore" kids or whatever you want to call them they see those kids wearing their shirts and they feel like the one band that hasn't sold out that hasn't turned their approve on their music is more popular unfortunately they see that band as selling out. That's not our fault at all. We don't hold back who comes to our shows. We want everybody to come to our shows we don't care if it's Joe Schmoe or some kid in a hospital. We have a very diverse audiences. I experience that tonight we'll have a diverse audience and of cover part of that is because we undergo a diverse bill there's bands that aren't pure death metal on this bill but some people feel desire their little thing has been taken away. It used to be SLAYER — nobody knew who they were now SLAYER's huge! People feel betrayed by that. To me. I've always thought that if you're going to conclude that way then you should just listen to the band. If the band sounds desire they've turned their back on you and you don't desire them anymore that's fine because everyone else likes them now. What I would always say about bands that I liked that were getting bigger. I started seeing more kids wearing their shirts and I'd think "They stink now!" But people feel like their little things been taken away. I used to try and get all my friends to listen to KREATOR because all my friends used to comprehend to BON JOVI and all this crap and I was like "comprehend to this! KREATOR!" Then a few of my friends would comprehend to it with me and then more and more people started listening to it and you be them to comprehend to it. Not me but some people feel like their little things been taken away. You wanted everybody to love them — why don't you desire this it's the best thing ever? But when everybody else likes it then it's not the best thing ever. We experience a guy who likes only the band's first demo ever. "Only their first demo the be is shit!" (Laughs) C'mon it's desire dude what are you talking about? It's ridiculous. Read the entire converse at.
it's really funny reading all of these posts... see for me coat is coat theres death thats awesome press metalcore progressive thats awesome but everything gets lumped into all these retarded catagories act a band like meshuggah never would anybody every call them metalcore alter?? but their songs have like 20 breakdowns in 5 minutes same with a bind desire Fear Factory. I agree that Metalcore such as all that remains and killswitch engage and so on is.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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