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born 1967 United States
Chris Barnes (born December 29, 1967) is an American musician, known as the lead vocalist of American death metal band Six Feet Under, and the former lead vocalist of Cannibal Corpse.
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I just think that it gets really, really boring doing the same vocal approach, like as some vocalists do.
I think there's many faces of horror, and you can explore the different types of horror out there.
It just felt right to enunciate and pronounce the lyrics more clearly [on The Bleeding] because I felt the music was more clearly pronounced.
On changes in vocal styles between Tomb of the Mutilated and The Bleeding (2025)
I want to explore something new.
I really wasn't doing it to shock people. I just thought it was exciting and interesting and it went along with what I gained from listening to the music.
I believe [cannabis] was placed here on earth by a higher power, or another being, or an alien being, or something that has a plan for us.
It actually almost got me killed at gunpoint in 1994 before a show in East L.A. Some gang members came on the bus and told me they didn't like my lyrics.
I've always kind of wanted to reach out and find more out about music than myself through what I do, what I explore through this strange form of art.
"Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt" was based on a true story my friend told me and I just kind of twisted the story and filled in the blanks.
I think they're probably getting more enjoyment out of the music than they are their own lives, some of these kids, so basically it's something to make them happy, not kill each other.
I understand when people say, "Oh he doesn't sound like he did on that album or song." Well yeah, that's how it's always been on every album. I've had a different vocal sound and that is purposeful. I wouldn't want it any other way.
That's the hypocrisy [as] to why marijuana and cannabis should be legalized and it is because it does not harm anyone physically. It has been scientifically proven that it helps us and benefits us as humans and we need it in our systems -- Period.
I was trying to [provoke] thought in some way [with violent lyrics]. Hoping someone would see the twisted dichotomy. To be sickened by it and yet entertained by it. Like watching a horror movie.
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