CANNIBAL CORPSE Bassist Alex Webster - "I Think That Metalcore Bands Have Probably Opened Some Doors For The Death Metal Scene"
November 25, 2007, 16 years ago
In an interview recently conducted by Metalhammer.co.uk with CANNIBAL CORPSE members Alex Webster (bass) and George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher (vocals) the band claim that metalcore has opened doors for death metal in gaining new fans. An excerpt from the chat follows:
Metalhammer.co.uk: From the appearance of things, metalcore seems to have helped out every kind of real metal there is. Do you guys think that you've benefited from this?
Webster: "Any kind of metal we support, even if we don't necessarily listen to it a whole lot. A lot of the metalcore bands are pretty good. I think they have enough of an element of death metal to them that they've helped attract fans to the death metal scene. Like if you have metalcore bands occasionally doing a tour with a death metal band, it's kind of a fan exchange, where the fans of one scene can learn about the music of another, and I think it's positive because those fans wouldn't have made death metal a first stop. It wouldn't have been their first choice to check out death metal, but once they've had a chance to see a band like us like at Sound Of The Underground or whatever, it got them more interested in death metal. If those bands didn't exist, then Sounds Of The Underground probably wouldn't exist, and we wouldn't have done that tour, so we wouldn't have had that chance. I definitely think that metalcore bands have probably opened some doors for the death metal scene, and maybe the black metal scene as well."
