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Chris Barnes Talks About Cannibal Corpse Centuries Of Torment DVD

by Metal Martyr on August 21st, 2008

Chris Barnes, former Cannibal Corpse front-man recently talked to Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles Magazine (July Issue) about Cannibal Corpse’ Centuries Of Torment DVD. It was really cool because there wasn’t any trash talk about the current Cannibal Corpse and he said “I was really happy with the way they put it together”. The first disc features mainly the history of Cannibal Corpse and disk two features live performances. 26 live songs with Fischer and only 4 with Barnes.  “There is a lot more footage out there, but they probably didn’t want it to be the Chris Barnes show. It doesn’t disappoint me. It’s their band. The main thing for me was the history thing. I was very happy that they took that much time to be as honest and upfront about the whole thing. They didn’t downplay my role in things early on.” Barnes said.

On the question about a reunion: “I don’t think someone will get the idea that there will never be one by watching the video, ’cause I don’t think it’s really stated. But I’ll state it now - I don’t think that will ever happen.”, “If they asked me asked me to come up there and do a few songs, I’d be up to it.”, “If they ever ask me I’d love to, but I’m 100% sure it will never happen.” I don’t know if he was just stating the facts or if perhaps he was trying to throw some hints out there that he would really like to do it, hoping someone from the band would consider it.

I don’t dig Cannibal Corpse as much as I used to. I kind of lost interest after Barnes departure and I briefly had interest in Six Feet Under when they released Haunted. It wasn’t so much that I was disappointed that Chris was gone, because I honestly didn’t know he left (Got booted, whatever). There wasn’t any cool Internet sites back then like Metal Martyr that you could find out about that kind of shit. I found out when I went to see them live with Anthrax, The Misfits and Life Of Agony. When they came on stage I was like “Who the hell is this dude?” My interest in Cannibal Corpse kind of faded because I was drifting away a bit from the Death Metal Genre. It wasn’t something I was really in to at that time. I still own Eaten Back To Life, the very first Cannibal Corpse cd I ever bought, The Bleeding and Tomb Of The Mutilated, and I don’t have any “Corpse Grinder” era Cannibal Corpse.

In closing, I really don’t know where the hell I am going with this. I thought it was a cool article and interview and it has me a bit curious to check out the DVDs. If you have a chance to check out the interview, it’s on page 26 of the July issue of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles Magazine.

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