PAUL MAZURKIEWICZ Takes A Diplomatic Strategy To CANNIBAL CORPSE Altering Vocalists In 1995

In a latest interview with the Pod Scum podcast, Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz took a barely extra nuanced strategy to the band’s vocalist change in 1995.

Mazurkiewicz mentioned within the interview that he feels present vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher is the higher vocalist and that his presence has elevated the band, however that former vocalist Chris Barnes definitely has his place in Cannibal Corpse historical past. So principally not your regular “Chris Barnes sucks” rhetoric. Which is truthful – the man is part of dying metallic historical past regardless of his emotions on the fashionable day scene.

“And right here we’re larger than ever. It is a powerful to drag off. The early period, the ‘Barnes period’, what I suppose everybody calls it, that is the start of the band; that is what clearly began us out and the way we obtained going and all. And we had been doing pretty properly. We’re up the ladder right here. We’re shifting. We’re a pressure to be reckoned with now. So to alter a singer in the course of that appears a bit of loopy, but it surely needed to occur.

“You look again now, and all of us clearly really feel we have bettered the band; George is only a higher vocalist general. And we have moved ahead. And right here we’re — Jeez, Barnes has been out of the band how lengthy now? 25 years or so. However each eras, they imply one thing, after all. That is the start of the band, so that you’re gonna get these purists which might be gonna go, ‘I really like that period extra as a result of…’ Okay — no matter. I’ve obtained no downside with that. It’s what it’s. He was part of the band and we did do properly; it wasn’t like he was nothing or nothing was taking place with that point… It was an enormous factor to take care of, and fortunately we had been in a position to persevere and get by that and to be larger than ever.

“It is all the time gonna be debated, I suppose; there’s gonna be folks speaking about it. However that is the historical past of the band. Whether or not you prefer it or not, or whether or not we prefer it or not, it does not matter. He is part of the historical past of Cannibal, and any member that was within the band is. If it wasn’t for him, I suppose, the 5 unique members, properly, then the band would have by no means perhaps existed.

“So it was an necessary period and it might probably’t be ignored and the importance of the unique band and the beginnings of Cannibal Corpse. It is cool to have the ability to speak about it — a cool story that perhaps plenty of bands would not be capable of survive. And fortuitously we’ve got been in a position to survive and, like I mentioned, do higher than we ever thought we’d have, I suppose, by having George within the band.”