Six Feet Under Frontman Chris Barnes Talks About His Sobriety in New Interview
Current Six Feet Under frontman and former Cannibal Corpse frontman Chris Barnes explained in a recent interview why he hasn’t partaken in the Cannabis Corpse in nearly two years. In a recent interview with This Day in Metal which was reported on by Metal Injection, the vocalist talked about being about a year and a half without alcohol or cannabis and explained his reasons for getting sober.
“I don’t smoke cannabis anymore. I haven’t for about a year and a half. But previously, I would use it in all aspects of my daily life. And it was a wonderful meditative tool to use to write lyrics to, of course, yeah. I enjoyed that a lot.
“No, it’s actually beneficial to your health, so I wouldn’t say that was any part of it. It was just, I guess, something I just wanted to do personally… [It’s been] year and a half [of] no cannabis, no alcohol. So it’s kind of changed gears a little in my life.”
How that change in gears affected the Six Feet Under sound remains to be seen, with their new album Killing for Revenge is out May 10 on Metal Blade Records, but if the first single “Know-Nothing Ingrate” is any indication, the band is still putting out high quality material.
2025 will mark the 30th anniversary of Six Feet Under’s debut album Haunted and, when asked in the interview if the band would be doing anything to celebrate the anniversary, Barnes more or less shrugged off the question with an unenthusiastic “Meh.”
“No there’s nothing planned like that. I mean we did a ’21 Years of Haunted’ in Europe few years back, did a tour, and we played the whole album. It’s kind of a common thing people do and I’ve done it already – it really didn’t mean too much at the time, so it’s kind of like, yeah. Probably [nothing].
“It’s really nice that we’ve been around this long. This is my this actually my 35th year on Metal Blade records, so I’m really proud of that and that to me is a huge milestone. So that’s really where I’m at with that stuff.”
Pre-orders of Killing for Revenge are up at Metal Blade Records.
