Chris Barnes has called out CANNIBAL CORPSE for allegedly being involved in “price gouging” after a fan complained about the cost of tickets to the band’s upcoming tour.
On Saturday (January 29), a fan tweeted out his dismay of the fact that Live Nation is apparently selling tickets to CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s March 10 show at Ace Of Spades in Sacramento, California with WHITECHAPEL, REVOCATION and SHADOW OF INTENT for more than a hundred dollars apiece. “Damn didn’t know METALLICA was playing”, the fan wrote. “How the fuck is it $105 per ticket for CANNIBAL CORPSE, WHITECHAPEL, REVOCATION and SHADOW OF INTENT at Ace Of Spades in Sacramento Mar 10th? Where do you get reasonable tickets?”
A short time later, Barnes — who fronted CANNIBAL CORPSE from its inception in 1988 until his exit in 1995, one year after the release of the band’s “The Bleeding” album — took to his Twitter to weigh in: “Yikes! Price gouge much lol”. He also included a couple of crying laughing emojis.
Earlier this week, Barnes made headlines when he said that watching a recent video discussion about the state of death metal featuring some of the genre’s top vocalists, including his CANNIBAL CORPSE replacement, George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher, made him “physically ill.”
After Barnes left CANNIBAL CORPSE, he formed SIX FEET UNDER, whose current lineup also includes another former CANNIBAL CORPSE member, guitarist Jack Owen.
Five years ago, Barnes spoke about the possibility of SIX FEET UNDER and CANNIBAL CORPSE one day touring together, telling “The Chainsaw Symphony” radio program: “That would be a tough one to put together, my friend. [Laughs] You wouldn’t have any problems from my side of things, but I don’t think other people would be agreeable to that.”
He continued: “I don’t think there’s animosity [between us]. I think there’s just protecting other people’s feelings. I think that everyone knows certain things about everything and they’d like to see things a certain way, and that wouldn’t portray things a certain way that they would wanna portray them. So… I’m being very general and trying to be diplomatic about it.”
Barnes also talked about the circumstances behind his departure from CANNIBAL CORPSE. He said: “I just didn’t like being around them, because I was being ridiculed, and I just didn’t feel comfortable being in the same room with people that weren’t very nice to me personally. And I was part of that too, so we had all of our own type of differences, personally, and I don’t think it was gonna be able to be worked out. You know, mutual respect goes a far way when it comes to being in close quarters with people.”
He continued: “I’m sure we’d do things differently [today] — I mean, I know we would. It’s just the way things worked out. And I don’t have any animosity towards those guys at all, and I don’t think they do towards me. It’s just that… It would be too confusing for things [if we were to tour together], I think, from their perspective.”
Barnes added: “I’d do anything. I just like to see a lot of people out there with smiles on their faces; that’s the only thing that’s important to me, man. Like, seriously, if I see a big crowd of people that everyone’s smiling, like, ‘Oh, yeah! This is what we’ve been waiting for,’ I’m ready then, man. If I see a small room of people that are just fired up to go, man, it just gets me going on stage, you know. And that’s all I’m there for — that feeling, that sharing of energy, man. And I’ll go for it any which way to get that any way I can with any person I can get it with. And if it gets to that means to an end, that’s all that’s important, man — that transference. And some people just don’t see it that way, man, and it’s cool.
“I’m not gonna be mean to anybody, and I never wanted to be. I’m my own person, and sometimes I’m put at fault for that, and I think we all are in our own way. And that’s just life; those are the things we deal with as people.”
SIX FEET UNDER‘s latest album, “Nightmares Of The Decomposed”, was released in October 2020 via Metal Blade Records.
Fisher‘s solo album, titled “Corpsegrinder”, will arrive on February 25.
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