Chris Barnes has had just a few writing companions in Six Toes Below over time, from unique guitarist Steve Swanson and Chimaira‘s Rob Arnold to Phil Corridor of Municipal Waste and even Barnes‘ former Cannibal Corpse bandmate Jack Owen (who’s nonetheless within the band). In a brand new interview with Chris Garza, Barnes talked about all of the alternative ways he is approached writing vocals over time, together with not having to very a lot on Six Toes Below‘s newest file Killing For Revenge.
Oh, and there is already a brand new Six Toes Below file able to go regardless of Killing For Revenge not being a full yr outdated. How, you may ask? As a result of Owen is a fucking behemoth in the case of writing.
“It was attention-grabbing doing that one as a result of it was the primary album I’ve ever carried out the place I did not write the lyrics. What occurred was I mentioned ‘you realize Jack, why do not you let me know in every music the place you need vocals.’ As a result of as a vocalist, I will typically put vocals the place the guitarist or the author would not anticipate them to. I keep in mind [former Six Feet Under guitarist Steve Swanson] telling me ‘I did not anticipate you to place vocals in that half.’
“After which I’ve had guys that I’ve written with like Rob Arnold that he would street map it out for me. You understand, he’d put the time like ‘1 minute to 1 minute 30 vocal half blah blah blah ‘ and do this for every music. In order that was attention-grabbing to me, that was a brand new solution to write for me.
“So I requested Jack I am like simply you realize, inform me the place you need vocals as a result of I do know I will write it someplace totally different that you just won’t prefer it. I used to be like, even should you put a scratch monitor of like gibberish like and present me the place you need the [vocals]. That is what I did on Crypt Of The Satan. Phil Corridor mapped it out like that. He simply did a bunch of gibberish and did a monitor of it after which I wrote from that, which was method totally different to make lyrics from gibberish.
“For this album, I mentioned [how I’ve worked with other songwriters in the past] to Jack. Impulsively Jack sends me a music demoed out with vocals, full lyrics that he simply wrote. It is like ‘wow, nicely geez this sort of takes makes it simple for me you realize?’ I used to be like, ‘possibly go away me one music that I can write lyrics for.’ However I went again and edited and rewrote some stuff to make the story strains sort of come collectively.
“Proper after he bought carried out with [Killing For Revenge], then he despatched me an entire new album with lyrics and all the pieces already carried out. I imply, we might have got here out with one other album 5 minutes later as a result of it is already carried out. It is simply sitting there. He is actually prolific. He is an ideal author, nice lyricist. You understand, even again to [Cannibal Corpse‘s 1990 record] Eaten Again To Life, he wrote the primary a part of ‘Shredded People’ and mentioned ‘okay end it off.'”
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