CARCASS Announces North American Spring Tour

February 1, 2023

CARCASS Announces North American Spring Tour w/MUNICIPAL WASTE, SACRED REICH & CREEPING DEATH

Following a monumental late fall run with Amon Amarth, UK extreme metal legends CARCASS have announced their return to North America for a 2023 spring tour with labelmates MUNICIPAL WASTE with additional support from SACRED REICH and CREEPING DEATH. The tour kicks off on March 31st in Santa Ana, CA and will culminate on April 30th in Los Angeles, CA. Local ticket pre-sales take place Thursday, February 2nd at 10:00AM Local Time with general tickets on-sale Friday, February 3rd at 10:00AM Local Time. Purchase tickets at https://bnds.us/iwu4h1.

CARCASS are currently on tour in support of their critically lauded 7th studio album, "Torn Arteries," which is available for purchase and stream at https://bfan.link/Carcass-TornArteries.

Providing direct support will be Richmond's hard-charging, metal maniacs MUNICIPAL WASTE who are on the road in support of their latest and greatest, "Electrified Brain," which can be purchased and streamed here: https://municipalwaste.bfan.link/electrified-brain.

MUNICIPAL WASTE vocalist Tony Foresta comments on the tour:

"We are beyond excited to be going out on tour with one of our all time favorite death metal bands. We’re looking forward to and planning on fully punishing Jeff and Bill on a daily basis. Not to mention how great Creeping Death and Sacred Reich are. Going to be a banger run for sure."

CARCASS Tour Dates w/MUNICIPAL WASTE, SACRED REICH & CREEPING DEATH
March 31 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory
April 1 - Mesa, AZ - The Nile Theater
April 3 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
April 4 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater
April 5 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
April 7 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
April 8 - Tampa, FL - The Orpheum
April 11 - Raleigh, NC - The Ritz
April 12 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage
April 13 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
April 14 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
April 15 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda
April 16 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
April 18 - Chicago, IL - Metro
April 19 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
April 20 - Lawrence, KS - The Granada
April 21 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
April 22 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
April 24 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
April 25 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
April 26 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
April 28 - Berkeley, CA - The UC Theatre
April 29 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park
April 30 - Los Angeles, CA - The Belasco

About CARCASS:

About MUNICIPAL WASTE;
Since 2001, MUNICIPAL WASTE have uncompromisingly stuck to their guns as hard-partying and even harder-hitting torchbearers of 21st century thrash metal. The Richmond, VA quintet—Tony Foresta [vocals], Ryan Waste [guitar], Philip “Landphil” Hall [bass], Dave Witte [drums], and Nick Poulos [guitar]—have transformed from a cult favorite into metal mainstays for a generation. Along the way, Decibel touted "The Art of Partying" in its coveted “Hall of Fame” and asserted it “revved up interest in thrash and inspired a fresh wave of youthful new bands.” Metal Hammer christened "The Art of Partying" one of “The 50 Greatest Thrash Metal Albums Ever,” while Loudwire pegged "The Art of Partying" as “The Best Thrash Album of 2007” and "Hazardous Mutation" as “The Best Thrash Album of 2005.” The guys have sold out countless shows on multiple continents and piled up tens of millions of streams in the process. 2017’s "Slime and Punishment" bowed in the Top 3 of the Billboard Heatseekers Albums Chart, and "The Last Rager" EP only accelerated their momentum in 2019.

Municipal Waste maintain course as vicious and vital as ever on 2022’s "Electrified Brain" [Nuclear Blast] as heard on tracks like "Grave Dive," "High Speed Steel" and "Crank The Heat." Recorded during the pandemic in Philadelphia with producer Arthur Rizk [Power Trip, Code Orange], the sessions would be the first time the band reunited in person after a year. Together, they achieved “a thicker and heavier sound.”

Follow MUNICIPAL WASTE:
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CARCASS ANNOUNCES SPRING 2022 US TOUR DATES

March 23, 2022

UK extreme metal legends CARCASS have announced plans for a U.S. headline tour this spring with direct support from labelmates IMMOLATION and openers CREEPING DEATH. The tour kicks off on May 12th in Austin, TX and will culminate on May 27th at Maryland Deathfest in Baltimore, MD. Tickets go on-sale Friday, March 25th at 10:00AM Local Time at https://bnds.us/iwu4h1.

CARCASS' long-awaited return to the U.S. is in support of their recently released, critically exalted 7th studio album, "Torn Arteries," which is available from Nuclear Blast.

New York death metal giants IMMOLATION will be on the road supporting their newly released 11th album, "Acts of God," that's also available from Nuclear Blast.

Purchase "Torn Arteries": https://label.nuclearblast.com/carcass-tornarteries
Stream "Torn Arteries": http://nblast.de/CarcassTornArteriesDSP

Purchase "Acts of God": https://www.immolation.info/acts-of-god
Stream "Acts of God": https://immolation.bfan.link/acts-of-god

CARCASS Tour Dates:
May 12 - Austin, TX - Oblivion Access+
May 14 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
May 15 - Tucson, AZ - 101 Toole
May 16 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory
May 17 - Roseville, CA - Goldfield Trading Post
May 20 - Colorado Springs, CO - The Black Sheep
May 21 - Omaha, NE - The Slowdown*
May 22 - Madison, WI - The Majestic
May 23 - Indianapolis, IN - Vogue
May 24 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
May 25 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere^
May 26 - Worcester, MA - Palladium Upstairs^
May 27 - Baltimore, MD - Maryland Deathfest
+ No Immolation or Creeping Death
* No Creeping Death
^ No Immolation

Ferocious and uncompromising in their execution, CARCASS’s ability to intricately dissect the innards of death metal, and display them for us to sonically understand has been their point of excellence for over three decades. In 2019 the band released their first single in over 5 years “Under The Scalpel Blade,” followed by a 4 song EP entitled Despicable (October 2020), setting a potent precedent for the full length album coming in September: "Torn Arteries." With the album title itself referencing an old demo created by original drummer Ken Owen back in the 80’s, "Torn Arteries" sits as a bookend on the modern side of the CARCASS discography, connecting directly back to where everything began over 30 years ago.

The album artwork also rings reminiscent of the grotesque photography that appears on classic CARCASS album covers like "Reek Of Putrefaction" of "Symphonies of Sickness." Artist Zbigniew Bielak traveled outside his normal wheelhouse to bring forth a time lapsed set of photos showing vegetables shaped like a heart, rotting over time upon a white plate. This form of artwork was influenced by Japanese Kusôzu, meaning: ‘painting of the nine stages of a decaying corpse.’

“It’s very clean, white, which we’ve never done before,” explains vocalist and bassist Jeff Walker, “it doesn’t look evil, or typically death metal, but I like how clean it is; almost like a coffee table book.” This new album presents images, lyrics, and sounds that so distinctly scream CARCASS, but ferry us into a new era of production, songwriting, and art all together.

“I think as our 7th album, it does stand out from the others both sonically and stylistically,” says Walker. “You can definitely tell that it’s CARCASS; when you drop that needle on the vinyl, when you hear that guitar tone, you can tell it’s Bill Steer, but each album is always a product of its time.”

With "Torn Arteries," each track stands unique from the rest in its approach to guitar, bass, vocals and drumming, along with all the finer details. Filthy and dominating guitar work creates thick layers of tone and melody, piling on top of each other like the weight of dead flesh in tracks like “Kelly’s Meat Emporium.”

“The working title for Kelly’s was originally ‘Stock Carcass,’” laughs Walker. “We knew that one was a real meat and potatoes track for the album.” Meanwhile the elevated speed and catchy beat in “Dance of Ixtab” tell a robust and airier story, one that is certain to get a reaction from live crowds. “We built this song around the beat. We had an approach to each song that was a definite idea. It’s all about ‘what haven’t we done before?’”

Recording and Production for "Torn Arteries" wasn’t as simple as sitting down for a few weeks and knocking it all out, but rather spread out over the course of approximately 1 year bouncing back and forth between England and Sweden. Initially, drummer Daniel Wilding did session work in Sweden at Studio Gröndahl with David Castillo while guitars were recorded at The Stationhouse with James Atkinson in Leeds, England. Eventually needing some form of residential location to finalize vocals, bass, and other guitarwork, the band headed back to studio Gröndahl in Sweden to continue work in a very relaxed atmosphere with Castillo. “There was no real big plan to do it this way, the process just organically grew on its own,” says Walker.

Most will find that the only real struggle when indulging in "Torn Arteries" is fighting the desire to start it over the second it finishes. It covers substantial new ground for a band with such a reputation, while still retaining that addictive, time honored CARCASS sound that has come to represent the face of true death metal.

CARCASS is:
Bill Steer - Guitars
Jeff Walker - Bass/Vocals
Daniel Wilding - Drums
Tom Draper - Guitars

CARCASS DISCUSS "TORN ARTERIES" IN FINAL ALBUM TRAILER

October 8, 2021

English extreme metal legends CARCASS have released their final album trailer today, in which they discuss the new record, "Torn Arteries," as a whole.

Watch Album Trailer #7: The New Album

More from "Torn Arteries":

"The Scythe's Remorseless Swing" - Music Video: https://youtu.be/kkE-o-5RqwM
"Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstances March No. 1 in B)" - Music Video: https://youtu.be/34uxC0cfQc4
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Visualizer: https://youtu.be/hdcfhccjk78
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Drum Playthrough: https://youtu.be/bYnJpfL4DW4
"Under the Scalpel Blade" - Audio Track: https://youtu.be/fT24YUVzI5I
"Torn Arteries" Episode 1: "Kelly's Meat Emporium": https://youtu.be/q2WaI-a_Chc
"Torn Arteries" Episode 2: Artwork: https://youtu.be/MeXbHn2UKe0
"Torn Arteries" Episode 3: "Dance of Ixtab": https://youtu.be/ncqqWc2_dd0
"Torn Arteries" Episode 4: Evolution fo the Carcass Sound: https://youtu.be/7vqDmOK8Ri8

"Torn Arteries" Episode 5: Songwriting: https://youtu.be/hTF-WL0K8IE
"Torn Arteries" Episode 6: "The Scythe's Remorseless Swing": https://youtu.be/oLbMotMMmiQ

"Torn Arteries" is available for purchase now in a variety of bundles and formats, including CD, Box Set and limited edition vinyl pressings. Purchase here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/carcass-tornarteries

CARCASS is:
Bill Steer - Guitars
Jeff Walker - Bass/Vocals
Daniel Wilding - Drums
Tom Draper - Guitars

September 25, 2021

"Torn Arteries" is a simple reassertion that for every clone and wannabe that came along in the years following the band's initial hiatus — and have continued to poke their heads out of the mud following their return — CARCASS remains better than almost everyone else at generating a sense of sinister brutality with every riff and every lyric." - Blabbermouth.net

"...they continue to push the genre forward and put out music that rivals their most classic work" - BrooklynVegan.com

"Carcass spew forth a career-defining record in Torn Arteries. It's one of their finest moments since Heartwork, and an easy contender for album of the year." - MetalInjection.net

"If I thought I could get away with just posting a GIF of Beavis and Butthead thrashing around in their living room for this review, I would... This really has it all: insanely complex riffs, growl-along choruses, wryly funny lyrics, and even a nine minute song that doesn’t feel it." - MetalSucks.net

"...there are more riffs than most bands come up with in a lifetime..." - PunkNews.org

"Torn Arteries is ready-made for the band's hardcore fans — and splattered with traces from Carcass' fabulously fetid legacy." - RevolverMag.com

"Torn Arteries is a dynamic record that revels in every style the band has ever explored, from melodic death metal to breakneck grind-thrash." - WeAreThePit.com

After a year of pandemic delays, English extreme metal legends CARCASS have finally released their grotesque masterpiece and one of 2021's most anticipated albums, "Torn Arteries," that's out today from Nuclear Blast Records. Featuring 10 blood-soaked tracks like "Kelly's Meat Emporium," "Dance of Ixtab" and "Under The Scalpel Blade," the band's 7th record is a fusion of "the best elements of virtually every era of the extremely varied Carcass back catalog and simultaneously raise the resulting amalgam to another, higher level of deftly rendered melodic brutality" (Decibel, Oct 2021).

Today, CARCASS has revealed a new music video for their latest gory single, "The Scythe's Remorseless Swing," which can be viewed below.

Feast upon the CARCASS!

Purchase "Torn Arteries": http://www.nuclearblast.com/carcass-tornarteries
Stream "Torn Arteries": http://nblast.de/CarcassTornArteriesDSP

"THE SCYTHE'S REMORSELESS SWING" OFFICIAL VIDEo

More from "Torn Arteries":

"Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstances March No. 1 in B)" - Music Video: https://youtu.be/34uxC0cfQc4
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Visualizer: https://youtu.be/hdcfhccjk78
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Drum Playthrough: https://youtu.be/bYnJpfL4DW4
"Under the Scalpel Blade" - Audio Track: https://youtu.be/fT24YUVzI5I
"Torn Arteries" Episode 1: "Kelly's Meat Emporium": https://youtu.be/q2WaI-a_Chc
"Torn Arteries" Episode 2: Artwork: https://youtu.be/MeXbHn2UKe0
"Torn Arteries" Episode 3: "Dance of Ixtab": https://youtu.be/ncqqWc2_dd0
"Torn Arteries" Episode 4: Evolution of the Carcass Sound: https://youtu.be/7vqDmOK8Ri8
"Torn Arteries" Episode 5: Songwriting: https://youtu.be/hTF-WL0K8IE

Ferocious and uncompromising in their execution, CARCASS’s ability to intricately dissect the innards of death metal, and display them for us to sonically understand has been their point of excellence for over three decades. In 2019 the band released their first single in over 5 years “Under The Scalpel Blade,” followed by a 4 song EP entitled Despicable (October 2020), setting a potent precedent for the full length album coming in September: "Torn Arteries." With the album title itself referencing an old demo created by original drummer Ken Owen back in the 80’s, "Torn Arteries" sits as a bookend on the modern side of the CARCASS discography, connecting directly back to where everything began over 30 years ago.

The album artwork also rings reminiscent of the grotesque photography that appears on classic CARCASS album covers like "Reek Of Putrefaction" of "Symphonies of Sickness." Artist Zbigniew Bielak traveled outside his normal wheelhouse to bring forth a time lapsed set of photos showing vegetables shaped like a heart, rotting over time upon a white plate. This form of artwork was influenced by Japanese Kusôzu, meaning: ‘painting of the nine stages of a decaying corpse.’

“It’s very clean, white, which we’ve never done before,” explains vocalist and bassist Jeff Walker, “it doesn’t look evil, or typically death metal, but I like how clean it is; almost like a coffee table book.” This new album presents images, lyrics, and sounds that so distinctly scream CARCASS, but ferry us into a new era of production, songwriting, and art all together.

“I think as our 7th album, it does stand out from the others both sonically and stylistically,” says Walker. “You can definitely tell that it’s CARCASS; when you drop that needle on the vinyl, when you hear that guitar tone, you can tell it’s Bill Steer, but each album is always a product of its time.”

With "Torn Arteries," each track stands unique from the rest in its approach to guitar, bass, vocals and drumming, along with all the finer details. Filthy and dominating guitar work creates thick layers of tone and melody, piling on top of each other like the weight of dead flesh in tracks like “Kelly’s Meat Emporium.”

“The working title for Kelly’s was originally ‘Stock Carcass,’” laughs Walker. “We knew that one was a real meat and potatoes track for the album.” Meanwhile the relaxed tempo and catchy beat in “Dance of Ixtab” tell a robust and airier story, one that is certain to get a reaction from live crowds. “We built this song around the beat. We had an approach to each song that was a definite idea. It’s all about ‘what haven’t we done before?’”

Recording and Production for "Torn Arteries" wasn’t as simple as sitting down for a few weeks and knocking it all out, but rather spread out over the course of approximately 1 year bouncing back and forth between England and Sweden. Drummer Daniel Wilding recorded the drums in Sweden at Studio Gröndahl with David Castillo and afterwards Steer's guitars were recorded at The Stationhouse with James Atkinson in Leeds, England. Eventually needing some form of residential location to finalize vocals, bass, and other guitarwork, the band headed back to studio Gröndahl in Sweden to continue work in a very relaxed atmosphere with Castillo. “There was no real big plan to do it this way, the process just organically grew on its own,” says Walker.

Most will find that the only real struggle when indulging in "Torn Arteries" is fighting the desire to start it over the second it finishes. It covers substantial new ground for a band with such a reputation, while still retaining that addictive, time honored CARCASS sound that has come to represent the face of true death metal.

CARCASS is:
Bill Steer - Guitars
Jeff Walker - Bass/Vocals
Daniel Wilding - Drums

CARCASS DISCUSS THE SONGWRITING FOR "TORN ARTERIES" IN NEW ALBUM TRAILER

September 17, 2021

Only days remain until English extreme metal legends and pioneers of goregrind and death metal CARCASS release their massively anticipated album, "Torn Arteries," that's out this Friday, September 17th from Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band has revealed a new trailer in which they discuss the songwriting behind the record. Watch below.

Watch Album Trailer #5: Songwriting: below

More from "Torn Arteries":

"Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstances March No. 1 in B)" - Music Video: https://youtu.be/34uxC0cfQc4
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Visualizer: https://youtu.be/hdcfhccjk78
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Drum Playthrough: https://youtu.be/bYnJpfL4DW4
"Under the Scalpel Blade" - Audio Track: https://youtu.be/fT24YUVzI5I
"Torn Arteries" Episode 1: "Kelly's Meat Emporium": https://youtu.be/q2WaI-a_Chc
"Torn Arteries" Episode 2: Artwork: https://youtu.be/MeXbHn2UKe0
"Torn Arteries" Episode 3: "Dance of Ixtab": https://youtu.be/ncqqWc2_dd0
"Torn Arteries" Episode 4: Evolution fo the Carcass Sound: https://youtu.be/7vqDmOK8Ri8

"Torn Arteries" is available for pre-order in a variety of bundles and formats, including CD, Box Set and limited edition vinyl pressings. Pre-order here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/carcass-tornarteries

CARCASS is:
Bill Steer - Guitars
Jeff Walker - Bass/Vocals
Daniel Wilding - Drums
Tom Draper - Guitars

CARCASS DISCUSS EVOLUTION OF BAND'S SOUND IN NEW ALBUM TRAILER

September 9, 2021

English extreme metal legends and pioneers of goregrind and death metal CARCASS have released a new album trailer today, in which they discuss the evolution of their sound over their celebrated 35 year career. The clip comes less than two weeks from the release of their massively anticipated album, "Torn Arteries," due out September 17th from Nuclear Blast Records.

Watch Album Trailer #4: Evolution of the Carcass Sound below:

More from "Torn Arteries":

"Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstances March No. 1 in B)" - Music Video: https://youtu.be/34uxC0cfQc4
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Visualizer: https://youtu.be/hdcfhccjk78
"Kelly's Meat Emporium" - Drum Playthrough: https://youtu.be/bYnJpfL4DW4
"Under the Scalpel Blade" - Audio Track: https://youtu.be/fT24YUVzI5I
"Torn Arteries" Episode 1: "Kelly's Meat Emporium": https://youtu.be/q2WaI-a_Chc
"Torn Arteries" Episode 2: Artwork: https://youtu.be/MeXbHn2UKe0
"Torn Arteries" Episode 3: "Dance of Ixtab": https://youtu.be/ncqqWc2_dd0

"Torn Arteries" is available for pre-order in a variety of bundles and formats, including CD, Box Set and limited edition vinyl pressings. Pre-order here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/carcass-tornarteries

CARCASS is:
Bill Steer - Guitars
Jeff Walker - Bass/Vocals
Daniel Wilding - Drums
Tom Draper - Guitars