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Cannibal Corpse bassist and songwriter Alex Webster has obviously heard tons of comparisons between his band and other death metal acts, including ex-vocalist Chris Barnes' group Six Feet Under and vocalist George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher's former band Monstrosity. He has probably also taken part in at least a few heated conversations about which musicians are better than other musicians. In his first guest entry for HeadbangersBlog.com, Webster addresses why metal fans feel inclined to rank their favorites and why he has determined that such discussions are completely irrelevant.
As long as I've been a fan of music, I've always heard arguments about which band is the best, which musician is the best and so on. When I was young, these arguments would be among friends or maybe presented in a magazine by a writer, and of course now you can find them all over the internet. It's pretty hard not to run into a "who's the best" type argument on any music website that has a forum or allows comments. Read more...
Tampa, Florida death metal veterans Cannibal Corpse have just made their entire new album Evisceration Plague available for streaming.
The disc, the follow-up to 2006's Kill, comes out February 3 and was produced by Eric Rutan at Mana Recording Studios. Read more...
It's hard to believe that 20 years have passed since Cannibal Corpse first ascended from a graveyard in Buffalo, New York with the soul goal of taking death metal to a new level of ferocity, velocity and graphic intensity. The band's 1990 debut, which features songs like "A Skull Full of Maggots," "Shredded Humans" and "Scattered Remains, Splattered Brains," did just that and after moving to Tampa, Florida, Cannibal Corpse quickly became one of the main players in a vibrant scene that also featured Morbid Angel, Deicide and Malevolent Creation.
Lots of bands extreme bands soften up over time, but Cannibal Corpse remain as brutal and talented as ever. Their last album, 2006's Kill, included skulcrushers like "Five Nails Through the Neck" and "Brain Removal Device" that kept their fans' bloodlust sated, and their upcoming album, which they'll start recording soon with Erik Rutan promises to be more rhythmically complex and just as visceral.
During our podcast interview with Webster, Cannibal Corpse's main songwriter and bassist talks about the upcoming album, the band's seven-plus hour DVD set "Centuries of Torment" (which came out July 8 ) and the recent reconciliation with former lyricist Chris Barnes. Webster also discussed the seeming normalcy of serial killers, America's obsession with the macabre, the return of genuinely unnerving movies, the horrors of digital technology, the new generation of goregrind and more.
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Death metal veterans Cannibal Corpse will release the mammoth three DVD set "Centuries of Torment The First 20 Years" on July 8. The set features live and rare footage, interviews with members past and present, and loads of bonus material including all of the band's music videos. Click "more" to watch a clip from the documentary directed and produced by Denise Korycki, in which the band members talk about their first big tour, which took place in Europe in 1991. Read more...
