Alex Webster (born October 25, 1969) is an American musician who is the bassist and a co-founder of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.

Webster’s father was partially of Scottish descent and played in a bagpipe band, performing in carnivals in various small towns.

[citation needed] On the first two Cannibal Corpse albums, Webster played a Fender Precision Bass that was purchased for him by his mother for his 19th birthday.

[6][7] Webster's five all-time favorite albums are (in descending order) Accept's Restless and Wild, Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness, Metallica's Master of Puppets, Iron Maiden's Powerslave and Slayer's Reign in Blood,[8] and, in a 2006 interview with LambGoat.com, Webster named his five favourite albums of the past five years as Spawn of Possession's Cabinet, Necrophagist's Epitaph, Aeon's Bleeding the False, Hate Eternal's I, Monarch, and Spastic Ink's Ink Compatible.

[9] Webster named the Morbid Angel album Altars of Madness one of his all-time favourites, citing "Chapel of Ghouls", "Immortal Rites", and "Visions from the Darkside" as his favorite tracks in particular; though prior to naming these three tracks, Webster states that "that whole album is so amazing, it's hard to choose [a favourite]".

[citation needed] Aside from metal, Webster has also expressed a liking for Ohio New Wave band Devo,[7] and, when asked what a musical guilty pleasure of his was, he replied "there's some good songs from the first No Doubt album".

[11] Luke Parry, one of the scientists who described the species, said of the name, "Mats and I are both massive metalheads and think Alex Webster is a monstrously good bass player... (He) just seemed like the perfect fit for a giant worm with saw-like jaws.