For Cannibal Corpse followers, frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher‘s windmill headbanging is as synonymous with the band as their ugly lyrics and face-melting riffs. Significantly, we won’t start to grasp how he does it, present after present, 12 months after 12 months, like if his neck was made from some indestructible alien materials.
And whereas George‘s hair continues to spin all around the stage between his vocal traces, one in all his bandmates, Rob Barrett has revealed in a latest interview with the Riffhard podcast, that he is hung up his metaphorical neckbrace, choosing a extra centered stage presence.
“You’ve got to concentrate on your talents. 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 should be good about making an attempt to take care of that stage so long as you possibly can.” Barrett defined.
“I finished headbanging most likely 4 or 5 years in the past,” Barrett admitted. “I simply felt like I would carried out sufficient of it, ? Like, why show myself bodily when the music speaks for itself?” He cites legendary Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi as inspiration, noting that even with out headbanging, Iommi instructions the stage together with his iconic riffs.
“I used to be, like, ‘Hey, Tony Iommi ain’t headbanging.’ I feel in case your riffs are adequate, you need not show your self bodily and visibly like that. And other than that, all the opposite guys in my band are headbanging like loopy round me. So I simply felt like I did not want to do it anymore.”
However there’s extra to the story than only a well-earned break from neck pressure. Barrett’s determination has truly boosted his onstage efficiency. Free of the synchronized headbanging duties, he is laser-focused on his guitar enjoying: “And I play higher stay as a result of I am not midway centered on, ‘Oh, I must headbang at this velocity throughout this half.’ It is such as you’re driving a stick shift — you have gota change gears with riffs. Now I am simply centered on the guitar and never having to do one thing else together with it.”
“I feel I did fairly effectively at the very least as much as my 30s. As quickly as I hit my 40s, although, it was simply sort of, like, ‘Rattling, man.’ I used to be nearly, like — not dreading it, however simply, like, ‘Fuck, right here we go. I’ve gotta fucking headbang once more.’ I nonetheless love enjoying guitar, however the headbanging turned one thing that I did not actually wanna do anymore. I imply, once you’ve received Corpsegrinder subsequent to you doing these loopy headspins, no one’s taking a look at me anyway… I would moderately be heard, not seen,” he added.
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