Cannibal Corpse - Comment On Cancelled Russian Shows
Even before Cannibal Corpse began their Russian trek, they had Russian Orthodox Church activist organizations trying to ban the shows. The truth is that three of the shows were cancelled. The death metal band recently completed their tour of Russia, a place they have played previously many times with no issues. Unfortunately, this tour did not go as planned. The group has now released a statement addressing these cancellations. Basically, they weren't allowed to perform at some shows.
Here is their statement: "A message to our Russian fans: As you all are certainly aware by now, our concerts in Ufa, Moscow, and St. Petersburg were cancelled. We were present in these cities and ready to perform each of these shows but were not permitted to. In Ufa the power was turned off shortly before the show (we were told because the venue was late on rent), and in Moscow and St. Petersburg we were told that we did not have the correct visas and that if we attempted to perform the concert would be stopped by police and we would be detained and deported (prior to the tour we had been told that we did have the correct visas and that all of our paperwork was in order).
"Our show in Nizhny Novgorod also had problems. In that city we performed half of our set before being stopped by police. We were told the police needed to search the venue for drugs and that the show had to be terminated. These are the reasons for the cancellations as far as we have been told. On the brighter side, we had a fantastic time performing in Krasnodar, Samara, Chelyabinsk, and Yekaterinburg. We were able to play our full set in all four of those cities.
"We came to Russia excited and prepared to play all of the scheduled concerts, and we apologize that we were not able to do so. It was beyond our control. We are extremely disappointed. We have played in Russia many times and we love our Russian fans. Hopefully someday the situation for us in Russia will be different and we will be able to return."
Cannibal Corpse's European tour with Revocation and Aeon continues today in Finland. Hopefully, no other problems such as these will happen.
Here is their statement: "A message to our Russian fans: As you all are certainly aware by now, our concerts in Ufa, Moscow, and St. Petersburg were cancelled. We were present in these cities and ready to perform each of these shows but were not permitted to. In Ufa the power was turned off shortly before the show (we were told because the venue was late on rent), and in Moscow and St. Petersburg we were told that we did not have the correct visas and that if we attempted to perform the concert would be stopped by police and we would be detained and deported (prior to the tour we had been told that we did have the correct visas and that all of our paperwork was in order).
"Our show in Nizhny Novgorod also had problems. In that city we performed half of our set before being stopped by police. We were told the police needed to search the venue for drugs and that the show had to be terminated. These are the reasons for the cancellations as far as we have been told. On the brighter side, we had a fantastic time performing in Krasnodar, Samara, Chelyabinsk, and Yekaterinburg. We were able to play our full set in all four of those cities.
"We came to Russia excited and prepared to play all of the scheduled concerts, and we apologize that we were not able to do so. It was beyond our control. We are extremely disappointed. We have played in Russia many times and we love our Russian fans. Hopefully someday the situation for us in Russia will be different and we will be able to return."
Photos: police raid photo from Nizhny Novgorod, paddy wagon in St. Petersburg
Cannibal Corpse's European tour with Revocation and Aeon continues today in Finland. Hopefully, no other problems such as these will happen.
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62032  |
Putins hand, his order, ppl don't be bind to this case  we all know patriarch and putin works togehher ... moe why us flag and nato symbols are anthems of rebellion
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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Account deleted Written by Bad English on 15.10.2014 at 21:53 Monkey brain... Why is this strange to you? US and EU rushed with sanctions against Russia, this is just consequence....
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62032 |
Written by [user id=111071] on 16.10.2014 at 01:29 in some point I knew you're a serb banning metal band wont do anything and besides Moscow , peter ppl are more less into Europian culture non needs Put and slavianic idea about purity and bushtit, same as we don't need medieval Catholicism and todays islam what dictates us what to do Mecca, Moscow under VP controll , US and that Tripper Gore who was senators Gore wife (don't remember his last name) , society in 60's what so ever conservativism is same Why they don't ban Bayern muchen players when entered , US hockey team in 2016 WC , UK from enter WC... why so non important metal band what is anti system and non important at all ... Europe don't need Rus ,we have where to go they need us much more, VP is playing loosing game his ideas about ussr and same time patriar kyril or what was his name about purity is out of date , sooner or later they will loose, if pro Europian forces will come , church will lose power.... same should happen in Greece and Serbia as well ...
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Hex_Omega Gem Seeker Posts: 1178 |
Written by [user id=111071] on 16.10.2014 at 01:29 But who started this man, who started...
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
I just think it's terrible to the fans. I would hate to live in a country where this would happen. Luckily, in Portugal we might have few shows, but at least we can watch the bands we want without them being threatened.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071  |
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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| angel. Evil Butterfly Posts: 2419  |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 17.10.2014 at 15:01  Yeah off-topicness annoys the hell outta youWritten by Hex_Omega on 17.10.2014 at 18:45 I can't help laughing at these statements
---- The Fangirl.
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| Marcel Hubregtse Grumpy Old Fuck Elite Posts: 40071 |
Written by angel. on 17.10.2014 at 20:34 it is someone's blind hatred for anything US and the West and his screaming blatant anti-semitism on a par with that of Hitler and how brainwashed the guy himself is that annoys the hell out of me. If there is one very dumb kid posting here it is clearly our Serbian 'friend'.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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| angel. Evil Butterfly Posts: 2419 |
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 17.10.2014 at 21:03 I think he's going too far, but some parts of his statements are not that far from what's actually happening, I repeat some parts of them, but totally his approach is kinda antagonistic. And hey just because someone criticizes some wrong policies the person is not necessarily anti-semantic and holding blind hatred for US AND THE WEST, tagging people with some stereotypes and labels is easy.
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| Hex_Omega Gem Seeker Posts: 1178 |
Written by angel. on 17.10.2014 at 20:34 Am I lying Mary? Sure, many times they are fighting for oil... Nothing in this world is for free. But at least they are trying to establish democracy in other countries, many times they failed... But some countries are simply not ready for democracy (middle-east). And about Syria well... that 'Islam country' or whatever that is... that is something 'evil' and needs to be stopped. If you do not agree with me, tell me why.
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| angel. Evil Butterfly Posts: 2419 |
Written by Hex_Omega on 17.10.2014 at 22:20 Well at first glance it sounds like what you say, humanitarian aids of US army to a land under pressure of extremists, great ! But going deeper into the issue, it's not even just oil ! The most recent example is what is happening in Kobani, there is an absolute genocide of Kurds there and hey look how US army this time is just watching the whole disaster, so why no humanitarian aid this time ? ! Isn't it paradoxical ? I suggest you one thing, watch Dirty Wars movie, you'll get more of it. It's not just helping these countries to reach democracy, however, it's not a good place here to go on with this debate, let me know when you watch the movie in pm  Edit : Also Prophets of War and I must add that democracy in idea fails already, if you read some about it as John Stuart Mill explains in On Liberty, philosophical book, democracy is not even the ultimate solution as all people think it is.
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| D.T. Metal Staff Posts: 4193  |
Soooo, now that I had to read thru all of those "history" lessons - warning WILL be handed out and non-topic related post will be deleted; meaning almost most here. For crying out loud peoples ... I don't care who fights who and why and where - this was an article about how the fans in Russia got denied watching Cannibal Corpse. Kudos to Sword_Chant - you were a breath of fresh air with your on-topic comment. 
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| TheMAGAmvm Soycrusher Posts: 1086  |
Written by Hex_Omega on 17.10.2014 at 22:20 Good luck in trying to establish democracy in a tribal society with a different mentality. You know... one of the big faults of the US and Western society is that they are always trying to impose their political regime everywhere they go. Probably this is why China's popularity is growing, because when they go to a country to negotiate trade relations, they do not give a fuck about what political regime is there, if the country respects free trade or human rights. In contrast, the US as well as Western society itself pretends that it despises dictatorship, but they did not have any qualms when it came to cooperate with Saudi Arabia, which is an absolutist monarchy reminiscent of the 16th century, Libia under Gaddafi (talking about France under the Sarkozi administration), South Korea before democratization and many, many more autoritarian regimes. They basicaly detest a type of dictatorship, the one that is not in their advantage. 'Cause if it is, they do not give a fuck about it. You have to understand that democracy is not for fragmented societies that need a strong iron arm to be held together. You can't pretend to implement democracy in Iraq and to top it all, to succeed in doing so, when Iraq is divided between ethnic and religious groups (sunni, siit, kurds). Afghanistan is the same thing... Syria the same thing. Libia is ruled even today by a couple of tribes that wage war one against another for power. Gaddafi attained power because he defeated all the other tribes and seized control, he was the guy that kept the country together. Bring him down, you create a vortex of chaos that affected not only Libia, but the whole Northern, Central and Western Africa (Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Algeria, etc.). As an ultimate conclusion, all this mess was created by Europeans. When they abandoned the African colonies, they drew borders without taking into consideration ethnic issues. In the Middle East as well, they brought death upon the Ottoman Empire that kept the region calm for centuries, and they were not capable of drawing borders in order to avoid future conflict. What's even more gruesome, is that they created false states that are conveniently used to cause tensions in the area (Kuwait, Iraq, Lebannon). What we have now in the Middle East is the legacy left by the fall of the Ottoman Empire and what happens today there is the sign that borders are bound to be redrawn.
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