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Macabre is a musical entity all of its own. Sure, the Chicago-area group pens songs about the most notorious killers in history. Their music often shares characteristics of death metal, and they often tour with death metal bands. However, death metal is an erroneous tag. Aspects of grind and thrash are also apparent in the band’s music, but their use of other genres besides rock music to create a black-humored concoction known as “murder metal.”

Obviously, the murder metal tag became when the group named their album that in 2003, but the idea of utilizing other forms of music to accentuate their metal songs goes back much further. The “Sinister Slaughter” album from 1993 featured saloon-style piano notes (“Vampire of Düsseldorf”) and a campfire, sing-a-long acoustic (“Mary Bell"). The group took it even further on their follow up full-length “Dahmer.” A musical based on the life of convicted cannibal killer, Jeffry Dahmer, said album featured the Blues (“Jeffry Dahmer Blues”), a parody of the Umpa lumpa song featured in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (“Jeffry Dahmer and the Chocolate Factory”) and several nursery rhymes like “Grandmother’s House” and “Scrub a Dub Dub.”

The contrast of musical styles—metal meets nursery rhyme and so forth—gives Macabre comic qualities. Even though they write songs on taboo subject matter, their songs guarantee sing-a-longs. The group’s latest album, “Grim Scary Tales,” offers more necromantic nursery rhymes. Guitarist/singer, Corporate Death chatted with Metal Underground about his sordid subjects, using non-metal forms of music and a new album in the works.

Darren Cowan (Rex_84): Macabre has embarked on several tours in support of “Grim Scary Tales.” Is this the most the band has toured?

Corporate Death: Actually, in ’94 we did a two-and-a-half month tour through Europe and through Israel. We’ve toured quite a bit, now. In November and December, we toured with Napalm Death. We did six weeks in Europe. Then we did three weeks in April and May. We toured ten shows in Canada, and then went back to Canada for this tour. This year is probably going to be our most touring year. Death: No, that was part of this tour. For two weeks, we were direct support for Exhumed. Now, we are doing the last, I don’t know how many shows, as headliner. All together, I think this tour lasts for three-and-a-half weeks. It was good with Exhumed and Cephalic Carnage. We played good shows in Canada and some good shows in California. It all went pretty good. I can’t complain. Death: I like them both. I liked the amount of people at festivals. There is a big party atmosphere there, a lot of people. We’re kind of rushed, though, for sound checks at the festivals. It’s hard to say, but I probably like the festivals better when you’re doing a big one because you get to see all the bands. The intimate shows are cool; too, you get to be closer to the crowd. I like it all. Death: The last time we played it wasn’t that big of a festival. I don’t know what it will be like this next one, but it was fun. I was carrying stuff in when we got there. There was a stage that broke off into this step they have and I think I may have broke my arm on it. I played, but my whole arm was bruised. I got some painkillers right away and I was like, “Give me some pain killers, dude, I don’t know if I will be able to play!” He was like, “Alright, I’ll see what I can do.” He said, “What can I do for you right now?” I said, “Give me a double shot of Makers Mark and find me some Vicodin.” He found me some Vicodin. I made it, but I still had to do seven shows after that. My whole arm was bruised. I think I broke it. I never went to the doctor for it. My elbow still cracks from that (illustrates by extending elbow). Death: Lizzy Borden was a real killer. She was never convicted. I think she probably did it. What you’re probably talking about is more like legends, like these guys changing into werewolves, vampires and stuff like that. These guys were real-life vampires and drank blood. Did people really change into werewolves? I don’t know. I think they probably tore their victims apart and ate them like a werewolf would do. That’s probably what you’re talking about—legends, because these characters were real people. Death: The movie guy is a myth—the guy who flies around as a bat and sleeps in a coffin, but that’s not what the one of legend did or Countess Bathory, although they did other things that were bad enough. They weren’t myth. There are a lot of legends around them. Media back then didn’t have the recording stuff to record or spread the information like they do today, so you get a lot of legends in there along with the facts.

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