CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher recently spoke about the band that initially got him into metal.
Speaking to the guys over at Chaoszine, George said: “Probably when I was a kid, probably before I was even 10 years old. Black Sabbath was the first thing that I really heard that made me be like ‘Wow!’ ‘Cause that’s the first metal band. My parents listen to music, my father loves Hank Williams Senior, old country music, he likes Rolling Stones and AC/DC, a lot of rock and hard rock.
He continued: “I’m sure it was through him or one of my uncles that I heard Black Sabbath for the first time when I was seven or eight. Might have been even before then, I was probably scared of that. You listen to the song ‘Black Sabbath’… When I first heard that, I was like, ‘Shit, this is evil.’ But yeah, probably around then it would be Black Sabbath. And it pretty much changed my whole outlook on things.
Speaking about his parents musical tastes, George said: “My mother listened to Elvis, Frankie Valli and Waylon Jennings, and old country music like Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson stuff. So my parents listened to music. They weren’t avid, like all day long listening to music, but they listened to it so I was familiar with all types of music. But when I heard Black Sabbath, that was the changing of everything. That was the beginning of me wanting to be like… Eventually my mentality being that I want to do this for my life.”
Corpsegrinder went on to say that KISS had the look of what BLACK SABBATH sounded like, stating: “Black Sabbath looked more just like some kind of hippie dudes” back in the day.
CANNIBAL CORPSE are just wrapping up their current U.S. headlining tour with Metal Blade labelmates WHITECHAPEL and REVOCATION.