Chad Bowar of About Heavy Metal spoke to CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster recently. A few excerpts from the chat follows:

Chad Bowar: You've been with Metal Blade for 25 years. What makes them such a good label?

Alex Webster: "Metal Blade is a label that’s dedicated to metal. We have a close personal relationship with the people we work with. You can get on the phone with the very top people if you need to. We have a good relationship with the staff there from top to bottom. They're all dedicated to metal. Brian Slagel, the boss there, makes sure to hire metalheads. It's a metal label, and we really like being on a label that's dedicated to metal."

Chad Bowar: You re-released Vile not too long ago with some bonus material. Was there any remastering done as well?

Alex Webster: "I think there was some remastering, and then the DVD was shot by our friend Jesse Schoppert and some of his friends. He's filmed a lot of our shows up in San Francisco and I knew he had some good footage from that tour. A couple of songs from a different camera angle had appeared on another video we did. The people at Metal Blade asked us if we had any good live show footage from that time because they wanted to make a special re-release. I got in touch with Jesse, and he said a few people filmed that show. He got in touch with them and they edited that together and it came out really well for something that's totally bootleg. It actually turned out quite good. We're very pleased with it. It makes it more worth it for people to buy the album if they get a free DVD, especially if they already have it."

Chad Bowar: Do you have any other re-releases planned?

Alex Webster: "I don't know. It's really up to the label. They're the ones that decide to do this stuff anyway, because if it were up to us we probably never would have never re-released any of them. That a just not the kind of idea that us guys in the band would have had. It's something that the label came up with. We agreed to it. They seem to re-release one every couple of years, so I wouldn't be surprised if they re-released Gallery of Suicide in two or three years. Who knows?"

Chad Bowar: What's your timetable for the next Cannibal Corpse studio album?

Alex Webster: "I've already started writing riffs to get ahead of the game. Our tour cycle for this album has been longer than usual. Normally we would already be writing a new album around now. But we’re still going to be touring for this record until October. We're doing another US tour in September and October. We're doing some shows in Brazil after that tour. We have a lot going on until October. November is probably when we'll get serious about the writing. We'll bring songs in starting in December or January to start working on them together. We would like to be recording no later than the summer of 2008 so we can get the album out by the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009."

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