This is why Cannibal Corpse won’t reunite with Chris Barnes — according to Barnes himself

Former Cannibal Corpse and current Six Feet Under singer Chris Barnes was asked in a recent interview with Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio if he would be open to performing with Cannibal Corpse once more if the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame began to accept death metal acts and Cannibal Corpse was inducted, as per Blabbermouth.

Oh, yeah. I’ve always been ready to do that. They wouldn’t do that, though, because that’s just how they are. I mean, they wouldn’t ask me and Jack to go up on stage with them at all. They wouldn’t. It wouldn’t happen. They would exclude us from it. And they might invite us up on stage with them, but they would never want me and Jack to play a song with them or anything like that.

Chris gave this response when asked why he believed it to be the case.

I think it’s a part of they don’t like me and they also feel… Not to be boastful or conceited at all — I’m just being truthful — they feel threatened by my presence as far as a vocalist and my contribution to the band. They’ve always tried to marginalize that. They’ve always tried to ignore it, and they’ve always just not been very kind to me as far as that has gone, because my contribution to the band has always been a shadow to what they’ve tried to keep going and take on themselves. And that’s what they wanted to do. That’s why I was fired from the band, which I’m fine with. I’ve never had a problem with that. I’ve never been bitter about that at all. I’ve just stated my story and the facts that I know, and I’ve always said it, that the greatest blessing that’s come my way has been Six Feet Under and my putting this band together because it was my way out of that band, ’cause I wasn’t happy being in that band at a pretty early point. Six Feet Under was the best thing that ever happened to me. Getting kicked out of Cannibal Corpse was really — it was awesome when that happened. And Alex will even tell you, when he called me up to tell me that I was out of the band, I kind of laughed a little bit. I was, like, ‘That’s awesome. Thank you,’ basically.

Chris responded as follows when asked if “creativity” was the primary cause of his discontent with Cannibal Corpse.

No. That was nothing to do with it at all. I mean, maybe in their minds, as far as the last recording session went, because I went on tour with Six Feet Under instead of finishing that album the way they were commanding me to finish it, and they knew I was not going to; I was sticking to my guns as far as those songs that I had written. And I guess I didn’t see that the way they wanted me to see it, so that might’ve been a creative difference. But for me, the most part was I just didn’t wanna be around those guys. I had never had a problem with Jack. It was Alex, Paul and Rob that I just didn’t wanna be in the same room with. So that’s really why I started Six Feet Under. A lot of people were, like — the party line was it was a side project. It wasn’t a side project for me — never once. It was really my escape pod. I went along with the party line, but it was never that for me. It was my way out.”