Hardcore and thrash run at the very core of the record, traditional death metal stylings working to enhance the sound, rather than being the foundations. But this isn’t just a bonus CANNIBAL CORPSE album, minus 80% of the band. Blast-beats, double bass, distorted break-neck riffs and blitzing solo work can all be found across his solo debut in abundance. On a casual listen, you would never accuse Fisher of moving outside his comfort zone with CORPSEGRINDER. I throw it away… I always look at my voice as another one of the instruments – I would never say I’m a composer.” But I’ll sit and try to write some shit, if something’s pissing me off or I want to write about Warcraft or something, I’ll sit and write and I just hate it. I’ve written a few songs, wrote a song in MONSTROSITY, I wrote lyrics for a song in PATHS OF POSSESSION, I’ve contributed here and there and I’ve written a few things, especially early on, in CANNIBAL CORPSE. it’s probably not a secret that I don’t ever view myself as a lyricist at all. “Oh, no, Jamey wrote the lyrics, and Jamey and Charlie Belmore wrote the music. So the idea behind CORPSEGRINDER may have come from Jamey Jasta, but was this a chance for Fisher to flex his creative muscles? Famously, Paul Mazurkiewicz and Alex Webster have been the two main songwriters and lyricists in CANNIBAL CORPSE for decades, so did this offer Fisher a chance to to put pen to paper and tell his own stories, or try his hand at a bit of riff-magic? Obviously we did Violence Unimagined before I recorded the CORPSEGRINDER record, but I did the CORPSEGRINDER vocals maybe two months after we did Violence Unimagined, so it’s been it’s been around. ’ The next thing I know, he was sending me songs and we booked some studio time. If you want to write some music or lyrics, it’s up to you but I’d like to call it CORPSEGRINDER. You’ll write some songs, lyrics, whatever. “I didn’t know exactly the particulars, Jamey just said ‘Look, I want to do this album. He came to me with the idea of doing a record with me, and because They Want Your Soul turned out so great I was like ‘Yeah, of course man!’”
“ Jamey wanted to call it CORPSEGRINDER because if we called it something else, it mighty not be seen as a solo record – but with CORPSEGRINDER being on it, you know it’s 100% a solo record. It turned out so good, the reception was great for that song, and a few months later he sent me a text and said ‘Hey, look, I have an idea.’” Fisher begins, telling the story of how his solo record came to be. “Basically Jamey and I did a song on his solo record, They Want Your Soul. īut how did CORPSEGRINDER, the project, come to be? What inspired Corpsegrinder, the artist, to go solo? Turns out, as with so many things in heavy music over the last decade, HATEBREED ’s Jamey Jasta is at the heart of it. His most recent vocal offering comes as something a little bit special, though – his new solo project and it’s self-titled debut: Corpsegrinder. and former THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER sticksman Shannon Lucas, and countless guest appearances in between. The indomitable frontman joined legendary death metal pioneers CANNIBAL CORPSE in 1995 and has remained at the helm ever since, helping to take the band from one of the biggest outfits in death metal to one of the biggest outfits in metal as a whole.ĭespite creating 11 LPs behind the mic with CANNIBAL CORPSE and the rigorous touring schedule that comes with a band at the top of the genre, Fisher hasn’t shied from lending his distinct, guttural roar to a host of other albums and projects over the years from Tampa melodic death metal outfit PATHS OF POSSESSION to SERPENTINE DOMINION with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ’s Adam D.
There’s few names as unequivocally synonymous with death metal as George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher.
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