“We knew Chris Barnes had to go. We phoned him on the road and said, ‘Dude, you’re out.’ It was as simple as that”: How Cannibal Corpse made 90s death metal classic Vile and ended up in the US charts

Cannibal Corpse posing for photographs in an industrial estate in 1996.

Cannibal Corpse may have garnered notoriety with original singer Chris Barnes, but it was his departure and the arrival of replacement George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher for 1996’s Vile album that helped turn them into the biggest-selling death metal band of all time. In 2007, drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz looked back on the making of the album that put them in the US charts for the very first time.

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