We Need To Talk About Chris Barnes... 

HELLO EVERYONE! Slight correction: its been confirmed that the Chris Barnes Facebook account does not actually belong to him, and thus Barnes himself did not say "every death metal singer sucks except for me". ...HOWEVER, Barnes at the very least does not entirely disapprove of the statement, as he has yet to truly comment on the matter. It's fair to assume he has no real issue with the statement itself, especially when considering the rest of the information surrounding this controversy. Therefore I still stand behind everything I said in this video. Cheers.

Imagine if Chris Barnes was still in Cannibal Corpse and we'd never been blessed with Corpsegrinder, that would be such a dark timeline

Pretty sad to see him fall so hard. Tomb of the Mutilated is definitely one of my favorite albums of all time. He was an absolute monster. Clearly his ego is still living in the past.

"They said my vocals have died I still feel their lyin' I won't believe they're fried I still sing through these...EEEEEEEEEEEEEES"- taken from "Singing Through The Eeee's of the Dead" off the 1994 album "The Whining"

I only listened to a few moments on the last Six Ft Under album, but Barnes' vocal performance was bordering on parody, and instantly made every major DM vocalist better.

“This is literally how he sings across the album EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! He brags about himself and blocks people who criticize him. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

If you don't have anything nice to say don't say it at all or prepare to get skewered in places you didn't know you had. You can't challenge an entire community that lives and dies with passion and committment to music.

I really respect your closing statements about the matter. Sure it's genuinely annoying that Barnes is such a tool that he can't look at himself in the mirror and swallow his pride and admit that he's wrong, but it's best to just move on and let him do his thing. Plenty of great death metal out there, including bands performing the old-school style that he's hung up on. Fetid, Cerebral Rot, Witch Vomit, 200 Stab Wounds, Frozen Soul, Worm, just to name a handful of bands.

I’ll say this Chris deserves the love and respect for his influence on those 1st 4 CC albums especially with the bleeding. Many bands got introduced to death metal with Hammer Smashed Face or maybe their appearance on Ace Ventura or the controversy But Barnes with those comments really has become Death metal’s Gene Simmons. He is an absolute joke now. It’s best to leave Barnes and SFU behind. Modern Death Metal is killing it imo especially with bands like Hooded Menace, Venom Prison, Creeping Death, Beyond Creation, Cadaveric Incubator, Triumvir Foul, Temple of Void, Archspire, Dungeon Serpent, Worm, Fulci, Horrendous etc…..

Voivod is sick bro. Also I lived in Tampa for about eight years and was a part of it's underground scene in the mid 2000s. A lot of the local death metal legends hung out at the same places I did. Regularly saw all the guys from Corpse, Steve Asheim from Deicide, all the guys from Obituary and Malevolent Creation etc. It came to a point where I took more note of who I didn't see but knew lived nearby and Chris was one of them. He had a reputation for being a complete douchebag and wholly uninterested in metal in general at least locally. For the most part it was kind of a dream come true to see so many guys I looked up to for so many years just hanging out shooting the shit with guys but Chris definitely wasn't one of them and the word was I was better off for it.

Most relatable intro ever. In fact I’ll grab my beer right now

It's almost like Barnes is just trolling us.

I always thought Barnes was way too stoned to get angry at all. Now look at this!

Chris Barnes is the Kanye West of death metal

I got the block hammer. Although it was warranted and I was happy to have it happen. I basically told him said vocalists on that podcast outshines him and buries him. Never have I ever seen a man who is the EPITOME OF A SNOWFLAKE! Great video buddy! Well done!

I find him to be quite hilarious and had wondered if that was what he was trying to do... provide comedy to the genre. So I asked him to be on my channel for comedy hour and he blocked me. So confirmed: he is not trying to be a comedian.

He seemed like a cool guy on the Cannibal Corpse DVD. He was even hanging out with current members in it

The truth of the Matter is while I prefer the older styling of death metal, death metal and deathcore vocalists in particular are objectively better nowadays. The old style of vocalists had that stereotypical cookie monster style now they have much stronger and more controlled guttural approaches and stronger in just about every style of death metal vocals due in a big way to a far more trained approach, maybe with the exception being John Tardy and Chuck Schuldiner who very much had there own style and strong vocals anyway back when death metal was in its infancy anyway. And for Chris Barnes of all people to come out with this is insane, has he not listened to himself over the past few six feet under albums, he's not only the worst vocalist in death metal but probably any other genre of music period. I meen this is just an opinion so it's completely subjective some of my thoughts, but what isn't subjective is that his vocals are done

I had a conversation about this with my mother, along with talking about Clapton, Cooper, etc. I called them relics, in that we can be impressed with their impact in the past, but really shouldn't consider them relevant anymore. (My mom called them all dinosaurs that need to stop talking lol)

Tribal Gaze, Sanguisugabogg, Maggot Gag, Disentomb, Glorious Depravity, Corpsessed, Skeletal Remains, Frightful... yeah Modern Death Metal sure be kicking major ass and it is physically making Chrissy Barnie ill! Can I get a Death Metal Hoorah!?

the sense of humor in your other videos and your way of speaking was making me a fan... then I saw the Voivod shirt and that sealed the deal

*EEEEEEEEEE* *VOMIT NOISES* -Chris Barnes

"You thought it was over, It's not over, I came back, I sing real bad!" *Switches to EEEEEE flat* "You thought it was over, it's not over, I'd fight back, but I broke my ass!"

Chris Barnes meet Archspire Archspire meet Chris Barnes.

The closer to this was so on point. I'm going to not support Barnes the best way possible by supporting modern death metal

Chris Barnes, more like Based Barnes

I agree with you about it being everywhere. I was in Walmart at the checkout when a 70 year old couple held up the line talking to the cashier about Chris Barnes.

As a harsh vocalist for the past 14 years and a fan of early Cannibal Corpse, this guy is just a laughing stock now. I listen to Six Feet Under when I want to have a laugh!

Dude, imagine if he found out about Eskimo Callboy…. He’d be so done with metal music in general😂😂

You had me subbed at "irregardless." Great fucking content.

"Irregardless" of him becoming the guy whose yard you didn't want your ball to go into in your neighborhood, let me "once again reiterate" Barnes did it better than anyone for a long time. Elvis may have ended up a bloated junkie in sequined jumpsuits in a lounge in Las Vegas, but it was still Elvis.

In the past year there are 2 bands that have really stood out to me vocally. Slaughter to prevail and Brand of sacrifice. Both great vocalists Also been impressed with Reily from Allegaeon expanding his vocals and doing more clean singing. There was 1 song on the last album "Demons of the intricate design" I think the song is called and there was one part where he sounded like Nergal from Behemoth.

Don't let Chris hear this, he might sick his roadies on you while he hides on his tour bus

Whenever I hear words like "Inclusion" and "Progressive" I think of the Establishment, the metal scene is no longer Anti-Establishment.

Kinda want to look more into this issue 😂 Also nice to see that you have been changing up your filming location every now and then as of recently

I love 90s and early 2000s Barnes. Dude was a beast. That last SFU album I liked the instrumental work but yeah the vocals were not for me.

I watched that death metal round table yesterday and I spent the rest of the night listening to Corpsegrinder era CC, TBDM and Undeath while I played Ninja Gaiden Sigma….. it was a great fucking night dudes!

Do you prefer Brutal Technical Death Metal or Technical Brutal Death Metal?

That intro ASMR is far too similar to what my Friday evenings sound like 😂

On a sidenote love the Voivod t-shirt, man.

A very adult way of handling his child-like immaturity. Good on you bro!

I listened to two songs on Nightmares of the decomposed, Amputator and The Rotting. And let me tell you it made me so sad to hear how deteriorated his vocals were, because he's one of my death metal inspirations. I think the best performance he did in his Six feet under career was on either True carnage or Commandment those low growls sounded good imo. But it's such a shame to know how badly damage he's voice is now, and what he did to other people online. I do not hate Chris Barnes, I just don't understand why he'd block people when they did literally nothing to offend him. Anyway's. I agree with the points you make in this video. Good job!

I toured with 6FU back in 2005 through Europe as a support band. it was with 6FU, born from pain, debauchery and Kat. It was on the height of their success. I was just 18 and a huge Barnes fan. But what I saw was so obnoxious. This guy would constantly flip the bird to the other bands watching 6FU from the side of the stage. I saw him kicking guys jumping on stage in the knee. He sucker punched a guy in Austria (Dornbirn) for asking him to sign a CD, knocked him out cold and would always send his bodyguard to keep people away from him. A total scumbag. But the rest of the band was very nice! Greg, Steve and terry were the coolest guys despite me fanboying through the tour. That being said… I still have mad respect for what he has done until 2004… but I think his brain just started to suffer from all the marijuana ever since.

Seeing dudes like Chris Barnes fuck up so badly just makes me wish bands like Type O Negative were still around. Miss Peter. 🖤💚

It worked out for the best. The odd time signatures of the Fisher era would not have existed, as Barnes either can't or won't do odd rhythms. Nearly every Fisher era song has odd time signatures and the few that don't have sophisticated and precise syncopations.

Theres definitely great death metal, hell just yesterday I discovered Burial in the Sky a jazz influenced progressive techdeath band with some of the best saxaphone ive heard this side of new orleans

Question. Not completely related to to video but is any of Six Feet Under's early work any good. Or is any of their work good? Just asking because I haven't gone too deep in that part of metal yet mainly being an casual listener of either underground Grunge or alternative rock like Nirvana, Slint, American Football, and Foo Fighters or Very heavy metal bands like Slipknot and Lamb of God. And Black metal bands like Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, and Bathory.

To be fair to Chris he doesn’t pretend to actually write the music, he writes lyrics.

Oh I've got some memes on the way, they'll be in the discord server

barnes didn’t actually say that it was a fake account omg

Hey bro, just a video edit suggestion, throw some screenshots on screen of the Twitter exchanges and tweets. Cheers.

I agree fully with "Let's enjoy modern death metal instead." ...Liiiiiiiike this new Venom Prison album that just released!

needs more views

Nah nah nah I'm a kid from back when Death Metal was a thing in the early 90s I don't give a fuck about new shit at all. I saw cannibal corpse with Chris Barnes that's the cannibal corpse I love. Barnes is the king of that vocal style. My favorite bands from back in the day are pestilence Gorefest morbid Angel carcass pungent stench old obituary old Death old cannibal corpse old malevolent creation old school only death metal is trash nowadays has been since the late 90's well Chris Barnes said is the truth It really is like dude come on death metal nowadays it's a joke

Barnes didnt Said that everyone sucks , was a fake account

Industrial grade shelving is truly the metal of kitchen furniture

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEE"!!!! - Chris Barnes

"Instead of fighting fire with fire, let's fight fire with water". 👏👏👏 It's kinda funny that a lot of people were shocked and taken aback by Chris's comments, when he's proven multiple times that he is a total fucking goober(in addition to being a horrible musician). I'll admit, it is kinda funny to make fun of him and his nonsense, but at the end of the day, it is to be expected of him. This whole situation is gonna be forgotten in a matter of days, until we find another excuse to make fun of him. The weel is gonna keep turning. On the flip side we got another Meltdown rant out of it wich never fails to be entertaining 🤘(and not in an ironic way like Six Feet Under).

Why tell us to listen to modern death metal when Chris Barnes and SFU is all about old school death metal?

Seth Putnam was right

Chris got handed a huge glass bong on stage in Portland OR on the first SFU tour - he took a rip then went onto WARPATH

When I first saw the article about this my reaction was "who fucking cares". I stand by it.

I love barnes man he cracks me up

Nice shirt!

"TNT watch me explEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Everything by Gatecreeper is 10× better than anything barnes has ever done

are you an undercover cop?

The most stupid part about this video is that all those other extreme death metal bands wouldn`t exist without Cannibal Corpse in the BARNES era. They were the first band that made death metal almost popular. After Barnes left, Cannibal went more into their instruments, experimenting, and no matter how good they still are, they lack the poetry and groove that Barnes brought. Tomb of the mutilated had the most brutal death metal voice you can hear. Since 1992. Beat that, and express yourself on the matter after.

I used to think Chris Barnes was the shit when i was a kid. Turns out now he has elevated beyond the "the" to just "shit".

For the next video where you review every album by a artist series,I have a suggestion, avenged seven fold, of course if you care to lol. I just see you’ve been reviewing popular metal bands lately when you’ve been doing that series is all.

I tried following him, immediately denied my follow request! I’ve tried 20+ times lol. Now I just troll him with gifs/memes. Hammer Smashed Meat

This guy sounds like he could be voice acted by Patton Oswalt.

Fun Fact: there is a Japanese Game Director called Hideki Kamiya who blocks everyone on Twitter and in a 2019 video posted by Nick Robinson he showed that he blocked nearly 20.000 peoples. I don't know why i said this but...that's what Chris Barnes Actions reminds me of. But the difference here is, Hideki Kamiya does this because he hates the internet, Chris Barnes does this because he's a Brat who can't accept any form of criticism, and the fact that he said he's the best death metal singer and everyone else sucks (which side note: By that logic George Fisher also sucks, yet he's been with Cannibal Corpse for almost 25 years and everyone, including peoples who don't like Death Metal, likes George Fisher) really is just The Pot calling the Kettle Black, hell at this point, the guy who voices the Cookie Monster from Sesame Streets unironically would make a better Death Metal singer than Chris Barnes is. Im honest to God Surprised nobody has kicked him out of Six Feet Under yet, and im honestly surprised none of the band members spoke out, even in defence for him.

As much as I hate Barnes and his new music, I have been following this closely...and apparently the "every death metal vocalist sucks except me" post came from an account that is verified to be not his. The back and forth with Jasta on Twitter...that was him, but the last Facebook post was a mock account. Doesn't change Barnes being a douche and terrible vocalist but truth needs to be spoken

Six feet under went down hill after Swanson left. No idea where he is now. If anyone knows if he’s with a new band please let me know. Swanson is a beast and I’ve loved every riff he’s written

Two things: 1. You're feeding a troll that's trying too hard to remain unforgotten in a modern death-metal scene. 2. Honestly man, why do you give a shit? Just play/listen to the music you like and, in your words to Chris Barnes, "sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up." His viewpoints aren't changing anything. It is literally not that serious to where a video rant is needed lol

Cool voivod shirt mate

I wonder if Chuck would of had the same thoughts about DM today as Chris.

Is Barnes being serious or is that whole album a giant troll to "modern" DM???

I'll just listen to Cannabis corpse instead of this sentient weed bud. Actually fuck it I'm about to form the band Six feet above.

People being imposters on Twitter and Facebook is not 'someone managing PR' xD I came here expecting nothing, but I go away from here disappointed. Don't believe everything you see. Gullible people everywhere.

it's not Irregardless, it's just regardless lol

I mean, I'm a grumpy old man, myself. I love death'n'roll.

Shwooo! That was close. I shall have that fantastic funking day. But it was close.

Bravo!!!! Well put Bro - What kinda gin was that?

By the time Cannibal Corpse hit the scene death metal's best days were already behind us.

Really? That's it? LMAO. I guess he's finally smoked his last two braincells out of existence and gone full on insane. At least we can be glad he's not trying to argue about politics or some deep social issues like the guys from Trapt or Skillet.

Don't spill the bean on my upcoming folklorist disco death core album!

Been waiting for this one😂 need more alcohol

We really don’t

Man, I really wish Seth Putnam was here to see this. I'd love to see what he'd have to say about it

so I've been listening to a lot of late 80s and early 90s death metal. turns out he's right.

Can’t forget the sub genre”slam death metal” with kick ass bands like internal bleeding and dehumanized

Chris Barnes aside, what doesn't change stagnates, and whether or not any of us like the direction it takes it will change anyway. That's why past music is called "old school". Once, old school was the new school and everyone was up in arms about the direction it was headed, and we were the young ones saying "If it's too loud you're too old". Are we really going to emulate our parents now? "Grumble, grumble, kids these days..." No amount of fighting against change is gonna stop it so why not just listen to what you like and leave them the fuck alone to like what they like? That being said, everyone knows Chris Barnes has been a dick for 20+ years now. People fuck with dicks. Enough said.

Regularily

2:12 I hate to say it, but post-new wave disco death thrash metal does exist. It's called Illud Divinium Insanis by Morbid Angel.

Chris is my favorite death metal singer but the last thing he put out I liked was in 2006

Regularily??

I m the only one who likes nightmares of the decomposed

Play Torment or NOTD over GG Allin's Brutality & Bloodshed For All. Its like when two of the same pedestrian spawn in GTA in the midst of complete chaos