Metalunderground.com caught up with CANNIBAL CORPSE mainman George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher on the Decimation Of The Nation 2 Tour and he discussed touring, the new album, and World Of Warcraft. Here's an excerpt:

Q: Some of your albums and artwork have been banned in a few countries because they’re so graphic, of course. Do you think that that could happen with anything else you write or was that because of a certain time?

A: "Well, it’s possible. Look, we had a problem in Germany for a while; we couldn’t play songs from our first three albums, a bunch of stuff. We just played I think it was in Munich, and the same thing happened. 'You can’t play this, you can’t play this, you can’t play that.' We couldn’t do it, you know? I think that, if they dropped it and said, 'We don’t care anymore,' and they have. Since we had the problem is when I got on the band in ’97 or ’98, something like that, that’s not when I got into the band, but around that time, they came to us with the papers with us to sign saying 'we won’t play this, we won’t play that.' It’s ridiculous. But, we signed those papers, and 10+ years I think it was, we weren’t allowed to play anything from the first three records, period. That was it. So we were like, 'Okay, so we can’t play 'Buried in the Backyard', but we can play 'Dismembered and Molested'. You know what I mean?"

Q: How do you choose your setlist?

A: "Well, we start with 'Hammer Smashed Face' ‘cause we know that’s always gonna be in and then we just sort of mix-and-match. We know what songs people like; there are still some songs outside of “Hammer” that are classic like 'Fucked With A Knife' and 'Make Them Suffer', 'I Cum Blood'. It gets harder because there are some songs that are maybe more obscure that really die-hard fans will know that we want to pick. Especially on a tour like this where we’re not playing to just our fans only. There’s going to be different people here that listen to HATEBREED and know who they are, and probably only know our name and have never heard us. We want to put songs on that are more current and, also, we want to play to the old-school people that are coming who have been with us for years, they’re gonna come see the shows. It gets harder and harder; obviously, the more songs you have to choose from. 'Hammer Smashed Face' is the only untouchable song."

Q: This tour started this month and ends in December, and then you tour South America in February. That’s ridiculous! How do you keep up with all that time on the road?

A: "C’mon, this is what we do. I’m not gonna say it’s easy, but I don’t want to make it seem like it’s the hardest thing we’ve ever done because we’ve done similar things where we’ve done tours close together. We were definitely younger then; I’m sure that fuckin’ was better for us. I don’t know. We’re road warriors; we can handle it. It gets difficult. After this tour, we are going to have almost two months off before we go to South America, so

there will be plenty of time to relax, play some Warcraft."

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Interview with George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher from Emily Hingle on Vimeo.

Interview with George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher from Emily Hingle on Vimeo.