In a Cameo video message requested by certainly one of his followers, former CANNIBAL CORPSE and present SIX FEET UNDER frontman Chris Barnes commented on the fan’s collection of CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s “The Bleeding” (1994) and SIX FEET UNDER‘s “Most Violence” (1999) as his two favourite dying steel albums of all time. Chris stated partially (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, that is fascinating. These two albums, ‘The Bleeding’ and ‘Most Violence’, to me, are… Every part I do, I discover essential — I assume in any other case I would not launch it or work on it — however these albums, they’re anchored in a unique place for me, as a result of each albums sort of marked a brand new starting for 2 bands. ‘The Bleeding’ being the primary [CANNIBAL CORPSE] album after [guitarist] Bob Rusay, and ‘Most Violence’ being the primary [SIX FEET UNDER] album after [guitarist] Allen West. They’re actually impressed albums, and you discover that occurs if you deliver somebody new right into a band. And that is all the time been one thing that I’ve sort of famous myself. I put that behind my head, like, every time a band I am working with picks up a brand new member, a most important songwriter, like Steve Swanson was [in SIX FEET UNDER], it simply modifications gears and brings a brand new dynamic into the music itself, which is one thing I thrive to hunt for within the music of SIX FEET UNDER particularly.”
Chris continued: “In CANNIBAL CORPSE, with ‘The Bleeding’, these guys as musicians had been actually eager to progress the band musically in a method. I might sort of say why — I believe they had been eager to, in a method, show themselves as well-skilled musicians. And I assumed they all the time had been, as a result of it was all the time very fascinating music, the preparations and stuff in CANNIBAL CORPSE on the primary three albums. However I believe they needed to essentially hyper focus their abilities and weren’t ready to try this. And I simply was alongside for the experience, man. I can write to something. It was actually difficult to me. And I actually appreciated ‘The Bleeding’ too. I appreciated what we had been doing with Bob. I did not need Bob to depart the band, and I did not need him to be compelled out of the band, and neither did Jack [Owen, then-CANNIBAL CORPSE guitarist]. So it sort of was a wierd factor with that entire scenario, however it did deliver a few good album with ‘The Bleeding’. And ‘Stripped, Raped And Strangled’ might be my favourite track that I’ve written. And ‘Hammer Smashed Face’ might be probably the most profitable track that I’ve written. However one thing about ‘Stripped, Raped And Strangled’, to me, it confirmed one thing with the band that by no means appeared once more with any of their albums after that, even ‘Created To Kill’. [Editor’s note: ‘Created To Kill’ was the original title of CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s 1996 album ‘Vile’, which was partly completed before Barnes was dismissed from the band due to creative differences.] However that could be a purposeful factor. I used to be advised by one of many members I’ll by no means write one other track like that, which I assumed was a giant mistake. So it is a particular track to me in that method, and I like that track. I will play that track endlessly.
“You picked two nice albums to be your favorites,” Barnes added. “I imply, in all probability fairly shut for me too. I sort of have a tendency to essentially like [CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s] ‘Butchered At Beginning’ ‘trigger that is what actually introduced us out of the woodwork, so to talk, and precipitated loads of controversy and likewise gave us actually our first actual step up. And the music and the whole lot on that — the band was simply hitting on all cylinders. There was not an excessive amount of rigidity within the band, though there was some. There was all the time rigidity on a private stage in that band once I was within the band, and doubtless largely my fault [laughs], so I will be the primary to confess it. However, yeah, these are nice albums that you simply picked there. I am glad you want these rather a lot. They’re essential, essential, essential albums to me, too.”
Barnes fronted CANNIBAL CORPSE from its inception in 1988 till his exit in 1995, one 12 months after the discharge of the band’s “The Bleeding” album.
After Barnes left CANNIBAL CORPSE, he shaped SIX FEET UNDER, whose present lineup additionally contains one other former CANNIBAL CORPSE member, guitarist Jack Owen.