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CANNIBAL CORPSE – Skewered From Ear To Eye<\/strong><\/span>
\nAnthony Morgan<\/span>
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In July 2008, New York death metal merchants Cannibal Corpse issued three-disc DVD retrospective Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years<\/em>; including a definitive three-hour history of Cannibal Corpse chronicled through first-hand accounts from members past and present as well as live, rare and bonus footage, helming the documentary behind the director\u2019s and producer\u2019s chair was Denise Korycki of Wild Wind Productions. Almost three years later, Global Evisceration<\/em> marks the continuation of that relationship. \u201cThe Global Evisceration<\/em> DVD is something that we put together last year, and it features a lot of live footage from two shows that we did in the United States where we recorded multi-camera footage with professional sound quality,\u201d reveals bassist and co-founder Alex Webster. \u201cThose shows were recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Denver, Colorado, and then we also had the filmmaker Denise Korycki \u2013 she\u2019s the filmmaker who we had worked with on Centuries Of Torment<\/em> \u2013 come along with us to film a lot of behind the scenes footage on our American tour and also on one leg of the festival touring that we did last year throughout Europe. It ends up covering I believe ten countries, and it\u2019s pretty interesting I think. It\u2019s something different for our fans to see us doing, but that\u2019s generally it. It\u2019s a live DVD, but it also features a lot of behind the scenes footage and shows all the travelling and that sort of thing which goes into doing a tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be precise, the concerts in question were recorded at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, Colorado and the Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico on the 3rd and 8th of May 2010 respectively. \u201cFor the two shows where we did the multi-camera recording, the multi-track audio recording and everything \u2013 which were properly filmed live gigs for a live DVD \u2013 we picked Denver and Albuquerque for a few reasons,\u201d the mainman explains. \u201cFirst, it was important that both shows had to be in cities where we have a really good following and always have really good shows where the crowd is always really wild. You want to see a crowd that\u2019s active in a live DVD; you want to see them being loud and going crazy in the pit and everything else, and that always happens in Albuquerque and Denver \u2013 that was the goal there. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe crowds there are great and on top of that, both of those places were just about the right size for filming. They were both theatres, the Gothic Theatre in Denver and the Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque. Both are theatres, and they\u2019re pretty good size places for filming \u2013 not too big so that we were far away from the audience. It\u2019s a little bit harder anyway to interact with the audience if you\u2019re really far away from them, like at really big festivals. It\u2019s still fun, but for our style of band it\u2019s way better to be close to the audience. Those places were about as big as we could go without being too big, and it also just worked out well that the camera crew that Denise found to do the multi-camera shots I believe were based in Colorado. It was easy for them to go to both shows, so she was able to work with the same camera crew. To cut a long story shot, we filmed in Denver and Albuquerque for reasons of logistics and for the fact that both of those places have great audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Are there major differences in the setlists between those two filmed shows Alex? \u201cWe did make sure to have a little bit of difference between the two, but once you get to see the DVD you\u2019ll see that the main focus of this DVD is the behind the scenes footage actually \u2013 it\u2019s not like \u2018Bam, here\u2019s the whole Albuquerque show\u2019 and then \u2018Bam, here\u2019s the whole Denver show.\u2019 The songs themselves are interwoven into the storyline of us travelling, so there might be one song from Denver and then after five minutes of watching us do our thing \u2013 going to the airport or whatever we\u2019re doing, travelling \u2013 that\u2019s it for that particular segment. Then you\u2019ll see a song from the other city, so it\u2019s kind of mixed in there. The fact that the setlists were different isn\u2019t something you\u2019re really gonna notice, because we wouldn\u2019t put for example the same song on the DVD twice. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor the setlists for the two shows, we had all the standard songs that everyone expects us to play like \u2018Hammer Smashed Face\u2019 or \u2018Stripped, Raped And Strangled\u2019, songs like that. For each night we added a couple of different ones though, so we had lots to choose from. We had a pool of probably around 23 to 24 songs to choose from, and I believe that got pared down to about 15 songs or something like that that we wound up choosing between the two cities. It ends up mixing in really well with the behind the scenes footage, as you\u2019ll see. It\u2019s a credit to Denise that it all flows so well together, but yeah, that\u2019s what it is; it\u2019s a mixture of live and behind the scenes footage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite being their eleventh studio full-length, February 2009\u2019s Evisceration Plague<\/em><\/a> was warmly received in many quarters. \u201cWhen you play a new song that\u2019s slower and a little bit easier to follow everybody gets into it right away, like the title track \u2018Evisceration Plague\u2019,\u201d the bassist reflects. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty easy for everybody to follow, so they get into it right away. A song like \u2018Shatter Their Bones\u2019 or \u2018Evidence In The Furnace\u2019 though, those songs are pretty fast, so if a person\u2019s not familiar with them it\u2019s gonna be a little harder for them to jump right into the pit and get into them. Something like \u2018Evisceration Plague\u2019, just because it\u2019s fairly simple and straightforward everybody just jumps right in and gets into it, and they were doing that from the get go. When we first started the Evisceration Plague<\/em> tour back in 2009 people reacted to that song right away, and I think that was because of the simplicity of the style \u2013 it\u2019s just such a straightforward tune. The more tech songs it takes a little bit longer for people to get into.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having had the benefit of playing its tracks live, the members of Cannibal Corpse are \u201chappy with\u201d Evisceration Plague. \u201cWe\u2019re really happy with the record, but we\u2019re sure we can improve upon it the next time around,\u201d Alex muses. \u201cWe can make a better record this fall when we go into the studio. We\u2019re really happy with Evisceration Plague<\/em>, but we saw a few areas that we needed to improve upon with the songwriting and that sort of thing just to make things better. For us, when we say we\u2019re trying to make things better we\u2019re really trying to make the songs heavier and more powerful or whatever, and not better in a way that\u2019s polished and boring (laughs). When we wanna improve, we wanna improve in a heavier direction, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re setting out to do and we\u2019re pretty sure we can. There were some things on Evisceration Plague<\/em> that we were really psyched about, and then a few other things where we feel like we could\u2019ve done a little better. We\u2019ll try to do better the next time around.\u201d<\/p>\n

A clip spanning 86 seconds was uploaded to Metal Blade\u2019s official YouTube account on January 25th; filmed at Brussels airport, the clip captures an unlikely meeting between Cannibal Corpse and civil rights activist \/ Reverend Jesse Jackson. \u201cI believe that\u2019s not on the DVD, because at the time the deadline was for the DVD Jesse had not signed off to be on the DVD itself,\u201d the group\u2019s co-founder notes. \u201cYou have to get a person\u2019s permission for them to be on your DVD and so forth, but I think it\u2019s ok to put it online because you\u2019re not being paid or whatever. No-one\u2019s making money by it being released for free online, but if we were selling it I believe we would\u2019ve had to get written permission from him to use that. It was such an unusual thing for us to bump into him \u2013 it was just completely a random meeting. If you go to enough airports, eventually you\u2019re going to bump into a few other people that do a lot of travelling (laughs). Politicians, actors, musicians and so forth, the kind of people that end up travelling a lot. <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we were standing around on the curb. We had just unloaded our gear and were getting ready to get in line to check in at the airport. Jesse just came walking over and started talking to us, and he was a really nice guy. It was one of those things. We were just barely awake. I\u2019m sure he was in the same position too. It was maybe 5:30am, maybe 6:00am when we met him, and we\u2019d only slept a couple of hours so it was a really quick meeting. He was very nice though, and when he left we were all thinking \u2018Wow, did that really happen? Did we really just meet Jesse Jackson?\u2019 I don\u2019t know how famous he is over there, but in the United States he\u2019s extremely famous. On the political scene it\u2019s almost like being the President, a very famous Senator or something like that. It was cool, something interesting. Denise was there with the camera, and she has the instinct to film when something like that\u2019s going on so she caught the whole thing. It was cool. I guess they put it online just because it was interesting for people to look at, but it\u2019s not actually in the DVD itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Was Jesse Jackson aware of Cannibal Corpse? \u201cNo, we didn\u2019t tell him the name of our band,\u201d Alex chuckles. \u201cHe just came up real quick. It was cool to him that we were a band, and we just said \u2018Oh yeah, we\u2019re flying to Italy today \u2013 we just played in Belgium yesterday.\u2019 We met him at the Brussels airport; he was in Brussels to meet people about a few different things, but the one thing I believe that was happening was a celebration for Congo\u2019s independence from Belgium. I believe it was some anniversary of that, and then he was also meeting with people talking about the situation in Haiti which is obviously an ongoing thing. It\u2019s very dire, so I think he was trying to see how he could help out with that. He was over there for political reasons and he told us a lot about that, but we didn\u2019t mention that we were in Cannibal Corpse (laughs). It didn\u2019t come up actually. We were all so stunned that he\u2019d spoken to us in the first place, so it didn\u2019t really occur to us to start talking about what we were up to a whole lot. I imagine if he found out we were in Cannibal Corpse he might\u2019ve thought \u2018Oh jeez, what kind of band is this?\u2019 (laughs), because I\u2019m sure that there\u2019s a good chance that we aren\u2019t normally what he would listen to. Anyway though, he was extremely kind to us and very polite and it was fun to meet him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s all kind of cool because we went to a lot of different places on that tour,\u201d the mainman continues. \u201cLike I said, we met Jesse Jackson in Belgium. Each tour that we do we all consider a part of the greater Evisceration Plague<\/em> tour, which took place throughout 2009 and 2010. This little leg of the tour though where we flew over to Europe, did a bunch of shows and then flew back, this was a particularly interesting portion. We went to three different countries that we had never played before, and those three were Malta, Israel and Turkey. We played shows there, met people there and checked things out. Then also the other countries we went to we had been to before, but it was still kind of interesting I think, like going to Russia, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Finland. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s all kind of cool because we went to a lot of different places on that tour,\u201d the mainman continues. \u201cLike I said, we met Jesse Jackson in Belgium. Each tour that we do we all consider a part of the greater Evisceration Plague tour, which took place throughout 2009 and 2010. This little leg of the tour though where we flew over to Europe, did a bunch of shows and then flew back, this was a particularly interesting portion. We went to three different countries that we had never played before, and those three were Malta, Israel and Turkey. We played shows there, met people there and checked things out. Then also the other countries we went to we had been to before, but it was still kind of interesting I think, like going to Russia, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Finland. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the countries that were covered, and of course the United States because we filmed some other footage there and Denise road along with us for about a week. Between the Denver show and the Albuquerque show there was about a weeks worth of shows there, so she came along with us for those as well. The bulk of it was from that one European run, but then she was also with us on the run that we did with Skeletonwitch and 1349 and we got some good footage from that one too. I think it\u2019s mostly the kind of footage where you see what it\u2019s like to travel \u2013 you get to see what it really is. I\u2019m not sure everybody understands exactly how it works out there, like whether we have people taking care of our stuff or are we actually just carrying everything ourselves, and that\u2019s what it is. We carry everything ourselves at the airport and load everything up (laughs), and we end up spending hours and hours, waiting in lines at airports and not getting hardly any sleep on these tours. That ends up being something you see a lot of, and how we deal with it in humorous ways (laughs). Like falling asleep wherever we can; there\u2019s one scene of me sleeping in a really unusual position (laughs). I was sleeping and looked like I was dead or something, but when you\u2019ve only gotten a couple of hours sleep here and there you\u2019re gonna fall asleep wherever you sit. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some funny things like that in there that we deal with. Just the day in and day out stuff of doing a tour where you\u2019re flying every day, and all the things that go along with that. Another thing about the DVD is because there were a lot of festivals on that particular run \u2013 we played Graspop and With Full Force and a few others \u2013 we ended up running into a lot of bands we were friends with. There\u2019s a lot of footage of us hanging out with our friends and other bands and that sort of thing, so I think the fans will find that pretty interesting. I know that I would find it more interesting than a standard live DVD where there\u2019s basically just live performances. This DVD has both; it\u2019s got plenty of live performances, but it also has a whole lot of behind the scenes footage.\u201d<\/p>\n

In my opinion, Cannibal Corpse are one of the hardest touring bands in the underground metal scene. It seems as though the group is touring all the time, unless a new album is being written and recorded. So with being said, how do you view life on the road Alex? Do you enjoy it? Does it get hard sometimes? \u201cI think it\u2019s most difficult when you\u2019re doing the kind of touring that you\u2019re gonna see on this DVD. I do really enjoy it; I love to travel and I\u2019ve always enjoyed travelling, but when you have to fly every day that\u2019s when it becomes difficult. Especially when you\u2019re flying between countries because that means you\u2019re pretty much gonna have to deal with customs and immigration everywhere you go, and that can get sticky in some of these places that are a little more strict with things and really double-check everything security-wise and that sort of thing so the lines are long and slow. <\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s a great deal of fun but I would love to be able to do it in such a way that I could sleep between six to eight hours a night. That\u2019s not how it is though; it\u2019s more like maybe two to four hours a night if you\u2019re lucky, and some nights just none because you finish your show and sometimes you\u2019re not able to get back to your hotel until 2am and then you have to be down in the lobby to go to the airport at 4:30am \u2013 so we\u2019re deprived of sleep. That\u2019s the only real complaint any of us have, because of course being able to travel the world and play your favourite kind of music and see other bands play and meet all these great fans and have such a great time is just about the perfect job. Dealing with not being able to sleep a few weeks out of the year (laughs) in order to do something that cool is worth that minor inconvenience really. Yeah though, if there was a way we could do it where we could zonk out for a full night\u2019s sleep every night that would be spectacular, but we\u2019ll take what we can get. We\u2019re still having a great time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Have any problems at airports arisen, where airport staff have possibly asked Cannibal Corpse their occupation, and then the name of the group? \u201cWe don\u2019t go anywhere where it\u2019s illegal to be this kind of band,\u201d the bassist states. \u201cWe don\u2019t play in any country that\u2019s so religiously conservative that we could actually get in trouble for being in Cannibal Corpse, not that we\u2019re an anti-religious band \u2013 we don\u2019t comment on religion in our songs really. If we went to Iran to try to play for example, that would probably be a bad idea (laughs). I don\u2019t have to explain that \u2013 people understand how the government is over there. It\u2019s a shame too because there\u2019s a whole lot of death metal fans in that country, but it doesn\u2019t look like we\u2019ll be playing there anytime soon. Most of the places we go though are quite liberal when it comes to music, so we don\u2019t have a problem with that. What they\u2019re looking for is illegal stuff, which we don\u2019t have. They\u2019re gonna look through everybody\u2019s stuff though, and the thing is when you have a ton of gear that\u2019s just that much more to look through if they decide they wanna look through it. It\u2019s just lugging it around really; that\u2019s more of a pain in the neck than even immigration, just lugging the stuff from here to there and everywhere. With some of these places, you get dropped off at one spot and where you check in is a quarter of a mile away. You\u2019ve got all this heavy stuff, and sometimes they make you pay for the carts or there\u2019s no carts around. It\u2019s just those little things. You don\u2019t think about it until it\u2019s actually happened, but it\u2019s like \u2018Wow, this is really inconvenient\u2019 (laughs). Like I said though, these minor inconveniences are not really anything that would deter us from doing what we love. It\u2019s still kind of interesting I think for the viewer. I think the people who see the DVD will find it interesting, but we definitely didn\u2019t make the DVD with the idea of \u2018Ok, here\u2019s a huge bunch of stuff that we find annoying.\u2019 No, that\u2019s not it at all. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s mostly good stuff, but there\u2019s a few things where we\u2019re like \u2018Shit, this sucks.\u2019 For example, the first day leaving for the tour there was a tornado that hit the city we were connecting with \u2013 we were supposed to fly from Tampa to Philadelphia and then from Philadelphia to Brussels. Well, there was a tornado in Philadelphia so they kept us in the air for a long time and then had us land in a different city in Baltimore. We then ended up finally getting to Philadelphia too late to catch our flight, so we were like \u2018Wonderful, this is just great.\u2019 Now we had to sleep overnight in Philadelphia. We had our management find us a hotel to stay in because we had missed our flight to Brussels, and the only flight that they could find us to get into Brussels in time was going through Manchester, England. We end up having to fly from Philadelphia the day of the show now, because originally we were supposed to arrive the night before the show so we could kind of adjust to the European schedule. Instead we end up flying from Philadelphia to Manchester and then from Manchester to Brussels, and have to deal with getting our bags and everything else. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe go straight from the airport to the show, and within a couple of hours of getting off the plane \u2013 without us getting any sleep after this long 12, 13, 14-hour journey from the United States \u2013 we just went right onstage in front of 15-20,000 people at the Graspop Festival (laughs). I don\u2019t think anybody in the crowd knew what we had gone through to get there. It was a lot of stress because we were also working with a roadie we had not worked with; normally we would have had time to explain to him \u2018Here\u2019s our guitar\u2019, \u2018Here\u2019s the tuning\u2019, \u2018We like the amps to be set this way\u2019 and so on, but instead we just basically showed up at the gig, got ready and played. It went well, and nobody was probably none the wiser that we were having a bit of a dilemma going on travel-wise. It was something that could\u2019ve turned out a lot worse, but it turned out pretty good and that is all documented on the DVD. I think people will probably enjoy seeing that one because there was a little drama there. We would\u2019ve preferred the drama not to be there, but because it\u2019s there and it\u2019s on film it\u2019s interesting to look at I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Death metal is an intense experience, especially within the live setting. Cannibal Corpse still manage to maintain that intensity however, headbanging and swaying hair back and forth at every given opportunity \u2013 not a small feat for an outfit whose members are all in their early 40s. \u201cThat\u2019s just something that you have to… You really have to pay attention to your health I suppose, like getting enough sleep, which as I said for these shows where you\u2019re flying every day you don\u2019t get enough of,\u201d Alex clarifies. \u201cWhen you\u2019re travelling on a bus, you just sleep the night on the bus while the driver gets you to the next city no problem. Yeah though, when you\u2019re flying every day for a week or two that starts to wear you down, so it\u2019s important not to party too much. I mean, not when you\u2019re our age. We\u2019re all in our 40s now. The things that you can get away with when you\u2019re in your 20s… Being drunk all night and everything else and then only sleeping a couple of hours, and you wake up the next day feeling spectacular. You don\u2019t feel so great when you do those kinds of things to yourself 20 years down the road (laughs). <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just nature; most people need a little more time to recover from strenuous activity, be it partying or whatever. We really try to take it seriously because the most important thing for us is to perform well. When we\u2019re on tour, it\u2019s not important for us to party \u2013 that\u2019s completely cut out of the equation. I really don\u2019t party. I\u2019m completely focused on getting enough rest and taking care of my health so that I can go out there and give a show where I can try to recreate the intensity \u2013 or at least come close to the intensity that I had \u2013 when I was 20-years-old as far as the headbanging and getting into the songs. I want it to be at that same level and in order to do that you just have to take care of yourself, and I think we all do that pretty well for the most part. George probably parties a little more than he actually should (laughs), but at the end of the day it\u2019s one of those things where once you start and after you\u2019ve had a few beers, it\u2019s hard to tell yourself to go to bed (laughs). I think that\u2019s the problem he has, but I don\u2019t want to speak for him. Partying and whether it\u2019s a good idea actually gets covered in the DVD as well, so I won\u2019t give too much away.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In terms of its career Alex, where do you feel Cannibal Corpse is at? Is it in the middle its career? Is this the twilight of its career? \u201cI definitely don\u2019t think twilight because things are really rolling, so I\u2019d say maybe middle or something. Middle or maybe about two thirds of the way done or something like that. If we\u2019ve been around 20 something years, I can see it being at least another ten \u2013 a minimal of ten more years, I would say. We\u2019ll just keep evaluating as we go along. You can think that in ten years you\u2019ll be ready to quit, but in ten years maybe I won\u2019t. Maybe we\u2019ll all be sitting here still having a great time doing it and enjoying what we do and we\u2019ll still have fans. We\u2019ll keep going on as long as people want to see to us and as long we enjoy it. I don\u2019t see an end in sight; we don\u2019t know when it\u2019s gonna end, but it doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019ll be anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given Cannibal Corpse\u2019s two-decade career, the age of its members and death metal\u2019s intensity, it\u2019s plausible to assume that the group will scale back its touring commitments as the years roll on. \u201cThat is a possibility, definitely,\u201d the co-founder admits. \u201cIn some ways we\u2019ve already done that, although the past two years definitely wouldn\u2019t give anyone that impression (laughs). We did a whole lot of shows in 2009 and 2010, but if you look at a tour schedule from say 1996 when we were all in our mid-20s our tour schedule was even that much more gruelling than what we\u2019re doing now. For example, I believe we did 63 shows in the US back then. We played 30 headlining shows in a row with no day off, and those kinds of things we just wouldn\u2019t do now \u2013 we want to space the touring out a little bit. We may end up playing the same amount of shows, but it\u2019ll take us longer to do it. For example, in the old days we might\u2019ve done 250 shows in a year. Now it might take a year and a half to do those same 250 cities, so that way we\u2019ve got a little more time to recover and a little more time to be at home with our family, that kind of thing. <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I mean at some point… This is very physical music; we\u2019re up there banging our heads and putting lots of pressure on our spine. Paul our drummer is working incredibly hard, more or less running a half-marathon or whatever playing all that fast double-bass (laughs). It\u2019s physical and it\u2019s athletic \u2013 death metal is athletic music. A lot of extreme metal is very athletic music, and as an athlete gets older, who knows? We\u2019ll have to see where things go. Right now we feel fine, but can we do this kind of music when we\u2019re 55? We don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll see when we get there, but it\u2019s definitely physical. I can see it becoming a little bit of a problem once we get really old. It\u2019s a shame because we never would want to stop, but at some point age will possibly catch up with us. We\u2019ll see. We\u2019re gonna do everything we can to fight that, but reality is reality. It\u2019s pretty tough to fight nature I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

One casualty of metal\u2019s intensity is Slayer<\/a> vocalist Tom Araya, who in early 2010 underwent surgery to remove three compressed discs in his neck which compressed his nerves, affecting the left side of his body. Such stories aren\u2019t lost on the Cannibal Corpse bassist. \u201cYou see what Tom had to deal with with his neck,\u201d Alex concedes. \u201cMy neck hurts frequently and George\u2019s does as well, and Rob too. It doesn\u2019t hurt enough to make me wanna go to the doctor, but at some point it might. We think about it, definitely. I can say for sure that it\u2019s on our minds sometimes, the fact that this can be tough on your body. We think about it, definitely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Global Evisceration<\/em> was released on March 15th, 2011 through Metal Blade Records.<\/p>\n

Interview published in March 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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