CANNIBAL CORPSE To Enter Studio In September

Rocksins recently conducted an interview with bassist Alex Webster of Florida death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Rocksins: CANNIBAL CORPSE have been together now for over 20 years, what keeps you guys motivated after all these years?

Alex: We still really love to play this kind of music. Of course, we need to make a living as well and this band is our career so that's a motivator, too, but our love of death metal is still the strongest driving force. We really feel that we have yet to make our best album, and we won't be satisfied until we have made something that we can consider our masterwork. We may never get there, but we'll keep trying.

Rocksins: At the moment, you currently have no tour plans for 2011; can we expect something to be announced soon?

Alex: Most likely not. We have no plans to tour in 2011. We are currently home in the Tampa Bay Area writing our next album, we'll record it in September so that will leave us with an early 2012 release. So, we'll probably wait to tour until the album is released.

Rocksins: You have a new DVD coming out in February called "Global Evisceration". Can you tell us a bit about that?

Alex: The DVD was filmed in several different countries that we visited on the "Evisceration Plague" world tour. It has lots of concert footage as well as behind-the-scenes footage. Denise Korycki, the filmmaker behind our "Centuries Of Torment" DVD, also made this one, and once again we feel she has done an excellent job.

Rocksins: The last two CANNIBAL CORPSE albums have been a lot less graphic in terms of the album art. Has this been a conscious decision or something that has naturally happened?

Alex: A little of both I guess. We prefer darker and more ominous covers these days as opposed to the bright, graphically violent splatter themes of our older covers. It seems to fit the music we're currently making a bit better. Also, having a less graphic cover helps to ensure it will be available in record stores. These days many record stores are out of business, so if we can't get our album into the few that remain there would be little point in releasing a physical product. The way around this problem that works out best for us and our fans is to have two pieces of art for the album. A darker, less graphic cover and then something more violent and graphic inside. The censors seem to ignore the interior artwork so the problem of being banned from record stores is avoided. Also, our fans seem to enjoy getting two pieces of art instead of just one.

Read the entire interview from Rocksins.