It doesn’t matter who you are or what kind of music you play: if you tour through 40 countries and five continents in two years, you’re going to hurt. Death metal titans Cannibal Corpse are big enough to warrant a decent tour bus and the occasional limo but, as this two-hour road documentary shows in painful detail, the combination of no sleep, poor food, unwashed clothes and separation from family members can make life a miserable experience for any gigging band.
Fortunately, Cannibal have their mesmerisingly powerful music to give them an energy boost when they require one, and the heart of this DVD (named after their last album, Evisceration Plague) is two live performances from Colorado and New Mexico. Over the course of the film, frontman George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher emerges as the Warcraft-obsessed court jester, guitarists Rob Barrett and Pat O’Brien as the stalwart generals leading the battle, and the rhythm section of Alex Webster and Paul Mazurkiewicz as the brains behind the outfit who are desperately trying to stop it all imploding. It’s a surreal, sometimes nightmarish exposé of life behind the scenes of a touring, mid-level metal band, with plenty of fart jokes 106 Record Collector and missing luggage. Essential for anyone into unsociably violent music and airports.
