Chris Barnes (musician)
| Chris Barnes | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
December 29, 1967 Buffalo, New York |
| Genres | Death metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | Metal Blade |
| Associated acts |
Six Feet Under Cannibal Corpse Tirant Sin Torture Killer IHATE |
| Website | www.sfu420.com |
Chris Barnes (born December 29, 1967) is an American musician mainly noted for his deep-throat vocals and explicitly violent lyrics. He was the founding vocalist and lyricist of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse (from 1988 to 1995), later working as part of Six Feet Under, and has appeared on the Finnish death metal band Torture Killer's second album Swarm!. Barnes designed the original Cannibal Corpse logo, the Six Feet Under logo and also created the artwork for Warpath, released in 1997.
Barnes had started his extreme metal career at the age of 19. His first band was a death/thrash band called Tirant Sin, which was formed in 1986 in his' hometown of Buffalo. Other members of Tirant Sin included Paul Mazurkiewicz (drums), Bob Rusay, Cam V and Joe Morelli (guitars) and Rich Ziegler (bass guitar). In 1986, Barnes left Tirant Sin to join another New York-based death/thrash metal band named Leviathan that recorded the four-track demo "Legions of the Undead" in 1987, re-released on the 2005 Six Feet Under box set A Decade in the Grave.
Tirant Sin recorded three demos, all privately released: "Desecration of the Graves" in February 1987, "Chaotic Destruction" in fall 1987 with Dennis John on vocals, and "Mutant Supremacy" in 1988. Barnes appeared only on the third demo, when he re-joined Tirant Sin in January 1988.
Barnes wrote all of the lyrics on the albums Butchered at Birth through The Bleeding and wrote the lyrics on Eaten Back to Life with the rest of the band helping.
When asked in an interview what was his favorite Cannibal Corpse album that he had worked on, he commented, "I love them all, I really do. I really enjoyed them all." In the same interview when he was asked about his time with the band, he responded, "I look back on it with a lot of fond memories. It was pretty much my starting point – it wasn't exactly my starting point, but it was as a professional musician. I think that it really helped bring about a certain style of music, and with that band I really outlined what most people think death metal vocals sound like – I'm part of that. I'm really proud of the imagery, and the lyrical stories that I put together on all those albums. We set out to conquer the world though, and I think we did as far as our corner of the world was concerned."
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