- When
- Sat, October 26 2019
- Where
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Ace of Spades
1417 R St. - Time
- 7:30 pm
Description
Official website: Cannibal Corpse, Thy Art is Murder
Facebook: Cannibal CorpseThy Art is Murder
Formed in 1988, Buffalo born/Tampa raised Cannibal Corpse helped found, manipulate and transcend the very boundaries of death metal beginning with the scandalously controversial debut, Eaten Back To Life. Raising the eyebrows of inquisitive metalheads and incensed parents and politicians, the record – produced by Scott Burns at the now renowned Morrisound Studios – was more extreme and confrontational than anything the metal genre had ever known. As a result of the band’s brilliantly gruesome cover art, grisly lyrics and song titles like “Hammer Smashed Face,” “Meat Hook Sodomy” and “Addicted To Vaginal Skin,” follow-up records Butchered At Birth (1991) and Tomb Of The Mutilated (1992) were met with further contempt by the likes of such organized censorship leagues as the PMRC. In just three years, the sale of Cannibal Corpse merchandise was (temporarily) prohibited in Australia, Korea and New Zealand (in fact, the sale of Butchered At Birth and the performance of those three records is still forbidden in Germany). But dissuaded they were not.
Proving technical dexterity, diabolic vocal grunts and a penchant for serial killers, zombies and gore of all shapes, sizes and textures, Cannibal Corpse won over the hearts of many a metal extremist and have since become a harrowing household name. Since the bands inception they have sold millions of albums world wide and show no sign of slowing or bowing down to the ever changing metal genre. Massive tours throughout the U.S. and Europe as well as Australia and South America only underscored the band’s staying power…and all this with zero commercial radio presence and minimal video play (although the band did appear in the Hollywood blockbuster, Ace Ventura – Pet Detective).
The momentum continued with the 1996 release of Vile, the first Cannibal record to feature former Monstrosity throat George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher following the departure of Chris Barnes. Any skepticism over the new voice behind the mighty Corpse was quickly put to rest. Simply put, Vile slayed from beginning to end and became the first ever death metal record to enter the prestigious Billboard charts. Over the next few years, relentlessly touring, bolstered musicianship and progressively more potent recordings saw the band increase in popularity within the underground and beyond.
Older, wiser, and as malevolent as ever before, the time to Kill is now!
Rare is it for a band to live up to their name so profusely. Since their formation in 2006, New South Wales’ Thy Art Is Murder have made killing their business… and as ol’ Dave would say, business is good. Their nightmarish void is one where resistance is futile – you can but sit helplessly as the relentless blastbeats and gut-ripping guitars pummel you sideways. In the best possible way, of course.
With 2012’s riff-shitting monolith, Hate, the Aussie death crew made history: being the first ever extreme metal band to crack the top 40 on home soil, and in the process sit proudly at the top of the Australian Independent Record chart. It was a cycle that would see them play a colossal 342 dates around the world, butchering crowds in each corner of the globe and touring the US more times than every other Australian band out there. Their appearances on touring megafest Summer Slaughter – as well as dates with Suicide Silence, Born Of Osiris and Emmure – soon became the stuff of legend. Like we said, resistance is futile…
“The one thing the metal scene is lacking right now is… Holy War,” continues Andy, with a devilish grin. “Seriously, we’re trying to fill in the gap of what we’re not getting out of metal. We create a sound we wish we could hear from other bands. Between all our members, the only other bands we can all agree on are Decapitated and Behemoth! Other than that… there’s not much out there that excites us. I maintain that kids can smell a fake, industry-pushed or backdoor-moulded project en masse! ‘Your label gave you a million dollars or someone else wrote your music or you don’t play everything live … we don’t like you anymore, next!’ We write everything, don’t use backing tracks or take large sums of money… we paid for our records with cash in brown paper bags! It’s real shit and I think the kids know that.” He’s definitely not one to mince his words. Just one glimpse at the lyrics to Holy’s War title track, and there’ll be little doubt as to what grim disturbia the band took influence from. Deeper levels of human suffering, indeed. And perhaps that is the most standout thing about Thy Art Is Murder – beyond all their technical brilliance, visceral brutality and frontman CJ McMahon’s signature barbaric roar – their music comes from a very real place. It’s the nightmare we all share. The one we are all living in. The social, political and environmental injustices of the world we are destroying, one day at a time…
“We’re the kind of people that have questions to ask,” admits the guitarist. “Whilst most others choose to avoid religion, politics or money. So Holy War has songs about religion, a break up I had last year, animal rights, the environment, child abuse (like Reign Of Darkness on our last album), misinformation from all the click bait on the internet… all the things we feel passionately about. No one else is talking about religious nutters killing all these kids! And our fans can tell that from how we are as people, the music we write, how angry we are when we play. I see other bands writing with other people, phoning it in and not even being ashamed of doing it! And you know what? Anyone that understands us will know we will never do that.”
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