All the Reasons Why Cannibal Corpse Guitarist Quit Headbanging

No one can match George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher on the subject of headbanging. Being bested by his bandmate is not the one motive longtime Cannibal Corpse guitarist Rob Barrett stop headbanging a number of years in the past, nonetheless, having revealed various explanation why in a brand new interview.

From the stage, Corpsegrinder routinely toys with the gang, declaring, “Attempt to sustain with me… you will fail,” with regard to his unmatched endurance for windmill headbanging. It is actually a spectacle to behold as the person they name “The Neck” does this evening after evening, tour after tour, yr after yr, decade after decade, even at 53 years previous.

The 54-year-old Barrett does not see the necessity to carry on doing it although, acknowledging on the Riffhard podcast (hosted by Daath’s Eyal Levi) that he began to faucet out again in his 40s.

“You may have to pay attention to your skills,” admits Barrett (transcibed by Blabbermouth), “It is the identical as an athlete — you do not see any championship athletes nonetheless doing it of their 50s on the stage that they did at their 20s. So you actually need to be good about making an attempt to take care of that stage so long as you possibly can.”

Barrett, who was within the legendary loss of life steel group from 1993 to 1997 and returned once more in 2005, divulges that he stopped headbanging “4 or 5 years in the past” and that he had carried out it lengthy sufficient.

“I simply grandfathered myself in and I used to be, like, ‘Hey, Tony Iommi ain’t headbanging.’ I believe in case your riffs are adequate, you needn’t show your self bodily and visibly like that.”

Onstage, he is surrounded by different vigorous headbangers as nicely, so “I simply felt like I did not have to do it anymore,” he says, noting that he is a greater guitarist stay because of this. “Now I am simply centered on the guitar and never having to do one thing else together with it.”

We’ll typically hear that musicians had to surrender headbanging as the results of harm or extended injury to their physique, however that is not the case with Barrett.

Visually, the guitarist confesses that it does not all the time look good onstage both.

“Typically, for those who do not headbang on the proper tempo or one thing, it simply does not look proper, and I believe I felt like I used to be attending to that time. I would see movies and I would be, like, ‘Wow, I am beginning to look dumb doing that.’ So I simply stopped doing it,” provides Barrett, who says he began to really feel the fatigue of headbanging as he entered his 40s. “I used to be nearly, like — not dreading it, however simply, like, ‘Fuck, right here we go. I’ve gotta fucking headbang once more.”

He additionally takes inventory of Corpsegrinder’s personal livid headbanging and the way that provides sufficient of a visible dynamic stay. “Whenever you’ve bought Corpsegrinder subsequent to you doing these loopy headspins, no one’s me anyway,” he causes, “I would somewhat be heard, not seen.”

Cannibal Corpse in 2024

This spring, Cannibal Corpse will hit the highway with headliners Amon Amarth and extra help acts Obituary and Frozen Soul. They will be supporting their newest album, Chaos Horrific.

See all of the upcoming dates right here.