مصاحبه Metal Eaters با Alex Webster، بیسیست گروه Cannibal Corpse
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? Nelly: You've released your 12th studio album, “Torture" in 2012. What is different about this album
Alex Webster: I think, with Cannibal Corpse, we've always tried to keep the direction of the band the same. It’s a death metal band. It was in the beginning and still is now. And the lyrics were always about some sort of horror, kind of topic you know, some usually violent horror but event it’s not horror it’s still something dark. But I think the progression is just something that’s going to happen naturally. As you grow as a musician, you learn more about song writing, u learn more about how to play and it just come up with different idea as time goes by. I would like to think that it’s all stay very through to the original goal of the band but we had a progression just because hopefully we’ve become better of what we do over the years. We are not going to play exactly like what we did in first albums because we could play better now! Our music changed a little bit but it’s not so different. When we do a concert we normally play at least one song from every album that we’ve done and they all sink very well next to each other in the set. None of them seem out of place with each other so I think you could listen to every album we’ve done and it’s all death metal and it’s the same each time but there is a progression hopefully in a good direction.
? What kind of music inspired you when you were getting the band together
Our music was inspired by the bands we listened to. Our idea was based on albums like “kreator”: Pleasure to kill, “slayer”: Raining blood, “Dark angel”: Darkness descends and stuff like that. Those kinds of albums were what we were listening to, when we getting the band going. So I think a lot of our idea of what good Death metal music should sound like, comes from the really extreme and darker side of Thrash, you know, not the Thrash band that were a little bit slower and singing about poetic and stuff but Thrash band that they were almost death metal and that sang about evil things like Satan or horror. Really that stuff are almost Death metal. Like the album of “Kreator”: Pleasure to kill, maybe not the vocal, but the music, it was kind of Death metal music that we wanted to play. And also some old Death metal, you know, like Scream bloody gore by “Death” was a big inspiration for us. So you could see for, our band, a lot of fast stuff and a lot of stuff that had a fast Thrash beat was an inspiration and I think that those inspirations shaped the kind of Death metal music we made. For lyrics it’s all basically like horror movie and this kind of stuff. We try to use our own creativity to come up with these lyrics but we never tried to copy a source directly and none of the lyrics that I’ve ever done was based on an actual thing that happened.
You collaborated with “Vincent Locke” for the design of the artwork. He designs his art works on his own or does every cover, flow from a close collaboration between the group and the artist?
It’s different for each cover. Sometimes we’ve gone to “Vincent” with a fairly specific direction we want it to go and another time we just give him the name of the album and say think of something. And because “Vincent” comes from the horror comic book background and we’d work with him in a long time, we know that he’s going to make something that we’ll like. What he does is just coming up with a few different sketches based on the song title or the album. He sends us some different sketches and says hey, which of these do you like or is there anything you like me to change me in a different direction? We’ll choose our favorite between one or two sketches he gave us and he goes on that direction. But usually the most ideas are he’s. Most of the time it’s just him coming up with basic of our song titles and using his own creativity. Vincent is an excellent created artist and he is a very important part of our band’s imagery. For a long time we just had a business relationship with him but the past couple of years we become friends. Vincent is a great guy and a great artist and he’s been a very important part of the visual presentation of Cannibal Corpse’s music.
The lineup of Cannibal Corpse is eventually, rather stable compared to others. Is the osmosis really idyllic in the band?
Yeah, actually we’ve only had 3 lineup changes! We kicked out “Bob Rusay”, we kicked out “Chris Barnes” and “Jack Owen” quite. There are only 3 guys that used to be in Cannibal Corpse. 4 if we include “Jeremy Turner” who was the guitar player who played with us on one tour when “Jack” left, before we got “Rob Barrette”. The lineup that we have now, we’ve been together since 2005. “Rob” left for a while and “Patrick O'Briener” placed him and when “Jack” left, “Rob” came back. So I think for a 5 main band, to be around for 24 years until we had only 3 lineup changes. It’s ok!
Eleven albums, all under the leadership of metal blade records. After all this time, what do you think of the evolution of your relations with the label?
It’s been great you know. “Metal Blade”, we’ve been with them since the beginning and we become such good friends with them over the years. I mean, they were really very friendly to us even when the very beginning but as times goes by we have a many more relationship with them. “Brian Slagel” is a very great guy. It’s his label from the very beginning and he is always hired the very cool people there. We never say never about anything but it’s pretty much 99 percent that we’ll never record with another label. Cannibal corpse is a “Metal blade” band.
In your opinion, what is the reason that fans of Cannibal Corpse like this kind of lyrics and this kind of style of music you play?
You know it’s hard to say. Certainly in interesting horror and violence is something there is a lot more people interested in death metal. If you look at horror movies like “Saw” and that whole series of Saw movies, that’s certainly much popular than all the most popular death metal bands together. You are interested in things that are frightening. It doesn’t mean you like them but you find it interesting. So I think it’s probably a normal thing, just judging by how popular horror movies are. Death metal is just one kind of horror entertainment. There is a lot. I think human in general, at list a lot of human, are interested in horror but I don’t know why (laughing)
Most structures of your songs are very complex. So with such a high degree of concentration, is it easy to enjoy on stage and to communicate with audience?
It’s not so bad, I mean, there are a couple of complex songs in the set but you just have to memorize, you know. We practiced for four days a week in a month and always practicing these songs so it’s just something you don’t really need to think about on the higher level to be conscience when you play it. You can think about something else and still play the song because you played it so many times. it’s difficult for me to explain but the brain works that way. I don’t know exactly how it works but it works if you practice enough.
?! “Jim Carrey” is one of your biggest fan
That was 1993 and that was obviously one of the strangest things we’ve ever done! Jim was really nice; he said he was familiar with our music. I don’t know if he’s really a fan or something but I think he thought it was interesting that our band do this kind of music and it was something that he wanted in to the movie so we did it. I’ve never seen him since then, you know what I mean. He is a pretty busy guy. I think he’s got many other thing to do than hang out with bands (laughing). That was a great experience. There are probably people all over the place that like Metal and maybe you don’t realize it first. Just because they don’t necessarily have a traditional heavy metal appearance doesn’t mean they don’t like the music.
? Any advice for young musicians who are in this kind of music and are influenced by Cannibal Corpse
(بلا به دور!:D)
when I look at the career we had, I don’t really think that there would be a way to have planned it. You just do things day by day and try to make the best decision you can. It seems that we made a lot of right decisions. Maybe we’ve made some bad ones too, but I don’t know about it, you know what I mean. Our career is great but maybe it could be even better if we decided to do something else, I don’t know. But when you make a big decision, you have to do really what’s right for your heart. When we kicked out “Chris Barnes”, we knew it was the right thing to do. It was a dangerous decision for the business point but for us we had to do it musically and it was so important for us to get somebody who could sing in a different way like how “George” sings. “Chris” is a good friend of ours, and he is a great singer in his own way, but we wanted somebody who sings like “George”. We knew it’s going to be a challenge to replace somebody as important as “Chris” was, and it was a big decision. We could have taken the safe road and just kept “Chris” in the band but I don’t think that we would be happy in a long term. you know, in those kind of really difficult decisions, you just have to don really what you want to do because if you’re playing music and you’re not happy when you’re doing it, it’s going to eventually hurt your career. So you have to play just the music you love and with the people you want to play and hopefully you had a great career too!
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