Table Of ContentCannibal Corpse
You're gonna interview them again,
right?
No. They're washed up.
Washed up?
Does the world really need
another mediocre black metal
album?
It is always a lot of fun to interview George Corpsegrinder.
Dark Funeral rules!
Unfortunately we only had a half hour to get these pressing questions out
Rules what? You don't even
like black metal! What are you
of the way, and that meant that there was no time for the ritual in
talking about?
I love Dark Funeral!
which I use every tactic imaginable to get him to sing “Mary had A Little
You love them as people.
Lamb” on tape, which he ultimately ends up doing (because no one can
You've got to draw the line,
George.
resist my will) - but for some reason there is ALWAYSa problem with the
Of what?
recording device and I end up never actually having his “song” on tape !
See, I like your personality,
and I also like Cannibal Corpse.
If I didn't like Cannibal Corpse, I
Interview with Corpsegrinder What's that?
Conducted by Bill Zebub
You posed for some pic-
Why are you doing the inter- tures with them.
views for the new album? No. (pause) I might have.
I'm not the only one doing the
interviews for this new album. I took them! You were
smiling so innocently, and
But why are you doing inter- they gave you the finger.
views for this album? Don't you You probably just made it
think that's wrong? look like that. You doctored it
What do you mean? up!
Didn't Glen Benton do the I swear I didn't.
vocals? You know what their nick-
On this album? name is for me?
Yeah! What the hell?! Did he Stupid American?
say that you can speak on his No - it's gaygrinder. Ahriman
behalf? calls me that.
He's doing vocals on this album?
That's news to me! What does the singer call
you - you know, the guy who
What are your influences? looks like a fat alcoholic
Vocally? housewife?
They all call me Gaygrinder.
Dude, I'm kidding.
Hey man, you never know, com- I can't believe that you
ing from you! went around in the press
and called him the fat Bo
Did anybody ask you that, by Derek.
the way? I know you've been Me? I didn't say that.
doing phoners all day with
cliché' people. Yeah you did, when he got
I almost couldn't believe that you those gay braids in his hair
asked me that. It's like, you should like Bo Derek, and the flow-
get a prize for being the millionth ers. You said that the only
person to ask that question. But way he would be a "10" is if
you never know with you. the scale is from 10 to 2 bil-
lion.
Did you squash that war you Look man, I'm not taking
had with Dark Funeral? none of this seriously. You
What war? I don't have a war. know I didn't say that.
You've got to read up on the I made it up, actually.
press. I've got evidence that But I was serious about
they don't like you. them calling me Gaugrinder.
have to look black. Are you back in time to when Mary was
planning to get your nose pregnant with Jesus, how would
flattened? you talk her into getting an
My nose is already big, but abortion?
it's not flat. It points out. Well, as his head came out, I
would push it back in.
Do you have a black ass?
I have a big booty. For the second coming out of
the closet of Jesus, what would
Have you been practic- his new boyfriend be like?
ing? One of those queer eye for a…
Practicing what?
One of the Dark Funeral guys?
Mary Had a Little Lamb. No! It's that show, Queer Eye for
Do you know it by now? a Straight Guy! You know what I'm
I was ready to do it at the talking about!
L'Amours show, but you didn't
show up! I had no idea that Dark Funeral
has a television show.
There's always a problem. It's some show!
I swear! This is the curse of
the lamb! Every time that SOME show? You seem to
you actually sing it, either know quite a lot about it.
the tape magically stops Ah! I'm gonna get hung for this!
recording, th batteries die,
or something even more Actually, "queerbashed" is the
bizarre happens! I'll get punishment for being gay.
you on tape one of these Hanging is for black people.
days! Fags just get queerbashed, they
Come to any show on this don't get hung.
tour. I'll do it. I'm not queer!
Will you wear a costume? Then why do you watch that
What kind of costume? show?
I don't! My wife watches it!
Mary?
The blessed virgin? Your wife is a guy?
No! My wife watches the show!
I guess she would be the
Mary, since she had a lamb, You're still married, huh?
and they are mindless fol- Yeah.
lowers. If you could go
would tell you. You have to be a
man.
No, no, no - I like Dark Funeral!
I saw the way Pat manhandled
you. You're just afraid of big tall
metal people.
I am not! I'll kick all their asses!
Are you afraid of me?
I am. Can you hear me shaking?
But seriously, dude, this is the truth
- if you ever talk to Lord Ahriman,
ask him about the song he's writ-
ing about me.
Get out of here!
I'm serious.
Michael Jackson must be kick-
ing himself in the head because
he had surgery to make himself
look white so that he could sell
albums, but these days you
Is he like a girl who
got dumped and wants
to know all about the
new girl? Does he play
that same game with
you? Does he want to
know what you have
that he doesn't have?
Who knows what he
wants?
Maybe he wants to
be black. He's almost
there with those
dreadlocks. Are you
going to do any
Cannibal Corpse cov-
ers?
(indecipherable, but I
remember him specify-
ing the kind of songs
that Cannibal Corpse
would NEVER cover)
Will you perform
Mary Had a Little
Lamb when you play in
Brooklyn, just for me?
Absolutely not! I want-
Even after your tour activities? your female wife? ed to tell you, people have been
What tour activities? Missionary. It's totally different Are you really mad at Sharlee asking me about that!
now that I did all that other stuff. D'Angelo and Peter Steele
Weren't you going to put out a because they are considered to See? Are you aware of my
video of Cannibal Corpse What was the reason why you be more handsome than you? influence?
groupies? punched Warrel Dane in the Look at me! I rock! Yeah! When I first did it, I didn't
No, but there's nothing wrong face? I heard that Nevermore think much of it, but then people
with tits. couldn't play that night! Yeah, but you're married. Girls started asking me to do it.
We just saw those guys. don't like that, or are you after
I would never put tits in a the naughty house-wrecking Would you do it if the front row
video, personally. Really? Did he forgive you? girls? chants it?
Yeah, like you don't have any tits I didn't see him. (indecipherable) The rest of the guys don't know it.
in your movies! I've seen them!
So getting back to how your Have you ever had a stalker? Would you do it when you hear
So what's the secret of the parents escaped the concentra- Uh… that I am dead, as a tribute to
long-term relationship? How do tion camp, you have a song me?
you keep your sex life alive? about the Nuremberg trials on Did you have to get a restrain- I would drink a beer and piss in
Do you pretend she's somebody the new album. ing order against Chris Barnes? your name. (cid:48)
else? Which song? (indecipherable)
No,
Blunt Force Castration.
When you are having sex, do That's not about that.
you ever call out Ahriman's
name? I read in David Duke's book,
No. (indecipherable) "My Awakening" that the Nazi
war criminals, if the term "war
Do you ever use the Oyster as criminal" really makes any
an aphrodisiac? sense, especially since the
Don't fuck with the Oyster! Allies committed atrocities
too… anyway, I heard the Nazi's
Have you ever performed were forced to confess, and
anal? many of them had their testi-
With Ahriman? cles smashed beyond repair. I
just think that it's bold to side
No, with the female wife. with a guy like David Duke. Most
(indecipherable) metalheads just want to keep
their white supremacy ideas a
I'm just curious because secret. You are the first to
you're a role model. So what's come out of the closet.
the most bizarre sexual posi- Come on! I don't have anything to
tion you ever performed with do with any of that shit!
Die Verbannten Kinder Evas well as the orchestra sounds, will be more
polyphonic and complex. This time we will still
use the lyrics from Shelley and Dowland, but in
addition we will add some lyrics from a friend
of us from Siberia who is a very talented poet
Love of operatic vocals can make an otherwise bland album some- and really understood the atmosphere of
DVKE. But there is a song of the black metal
thing pleasant to hear. That works very well for the many styles band “Summoning” existing where you can
hear my voice. This song is called “Where
of metal.. If you first tasted operatic vocals within the heavier Hope And Daylight Die” and it can be found on
the CD named “Stronghold”.
spectrum of music, perhaps the gateway led you to other forms. If
After repeated listening, I was able to
you are such a wanderer, then find yourself soothed on these shores. open up the CD booklet to discover what
the lyrics were. I had not done this earlier
because your voice was all that mattered
When I first heard your voice I lost the I absolutely agree with you that that for certain to me - and of course your music was too
world. I felt a pain in my chest and my kinds of music it is very important to create the intense for me to sit and read along. So I
breath was caught in the cage of my lungs. right atmosphere to be able to understand the read the lyrics when the music was not
My hand stopped the song, and I prepared feelings inside of it. Of course it is even more playing, and I fell into deeper admiration
to hear you again in a more fitting way. important to create such an atmosphere when I for you when I learned your words. Let me
Plugging in the most expensive head- sing and interpret a tune with as much passion cite some for the readers of this inter-
phones on the market, turning off the as possible. Music is for me a kind of valve view: "The color from the flower is gone,
lights, and laying on my bed, I closed my where I can let of all the pain I feel inside of me which, like thy sweet eyes, smiled on me.
eyes and heard you again. Your voice sometimes. While I sing a tune I really forget the The odor from the flower is flown, which
touched me deeply. Yes, you are schooled world around me and only the tune becomes breathes of thee and only thee. A with-
in the art of singing. But beyond the tech- reality. Some people act out their feelings and ered, lifeless, vacant form - it lies on my
niques that you have sharpened, there is in sorrows by aggressions or sports, but music is abandoned breast and mocks the heart
your voice a sorrow that has drawn me. my way to deal with this. For me sad and depres- which yet is warm, with cold and silent
Please tell me that this sorrow you bear is sive music is the best way for this; in opposite to rest. I weep, my tears revive it not. I sigh,
real, and not an act. You affected me more the common opinion that depressive music it breathes no more on me. Its mute and
than you can ever know. I would like to hear makes a person depressive I think that it is the uncomplaining lot is such as mine should
that my emotions were drawn by an honest best form of music to get ride of those negative be." How fitting for me to read this, for
lure. Tell me that your voice is more than thoughts. In contrary happy, commercial music you did not intend for me to fall in love
melody. Tell me it is a soul that I hear. makes me depressive, because it is just a fake with you, but that is what I feel, and
mask in front of a crying face. although your voice is my heaven, love for
you is also painful for me to bear, and I
Ionly have "In Darkness Let envy stones and anything barren of
Me Dwell" - but I crave every- thought, for they can never carry the woes
thing that has your voice. Your now laid upon me. The lyrics were written
voice is beauty. It is no exag- by an unknown person, correct? I am try-
geration to say that I often ing to discover the origins. Were the
found myself not breathing, words that you put into music by the
frozen in emotion. I am para- 1600's by Donland? Is there an opera
lyzed. If only I could remain in based on these words? No matter the
your spell forever. You take answer, please tell of the path these
me away from time. So now I poems have taken. You chose your lyrics
ask if there is anything else well.
that I can buy. Everything that I agree with you that the words from the song
you have done I want to own. I “On A Fade Violet” are really amazing and
would pay with my life if that is touched my heart very much; but you are
the price, so long as I could wrong, these words are from Percy Bysshe
hear you as I die. I have writ- Shelley, the husband from Mary Shelley who
ten in a secret place that if wrote Frankenstein, and the text is taken from
there is a funeral service for a poem with the same name as the song. We
me, it is your music that must really search for a long time to find the perfect
be played while I lay in the cas- lyrics for the music of DVKE, and we were real-
ket. Even those who hate me ly happy to discover the works of Shelley in an
would be made to weep. So old dusty book in the shelf of the parents of my
tell me, what can I buy from partner. By the way. Shelley died in the same
you that I do not already have? place in Italy where I am going to spend my
Sorry but for now there is only next holidays in a few weeks. I wouldn’t
one DVKE CD existing where I describe me as a poet, but as a musician, so I
sing, but you will be able to hear need the help of talented poets to create the
my voice on the new CD of DVKE right symbiosis between music and lyrics.
which is already composed but
yet not recorded. This CD will be In the CD booklet there are no lyrics for
called “Dusk And Void Became "From Silent Night" - is it possible to
Alive” and it will be even more obtain them?
pathetic and deep. The vocals,as This time the lyrics are from “Downland” who
