This year heralds CANNIBAL CORPSE’s 25th year as a band and the band plans to celebrate all year long! Metal Blade Records will be releasing one picture disc a month from the band’s expansive catalog (Eaten Back to Life, Butchered at Birth, Tomb of the Mutilated, The Bleeding, Vile, Gallery of Suicide, Bloodthirst, Gore Obsessed, The Wretched Spawn, KILL, Evisceration Plague, Torture). A total of 12 pictures discs will be released, covering all of the band’s full-length studio albums, some of which have never been released on picture disc. The next picture disc available for preorder is Tomb of the Mutilated, which was released in 1992, and can be found HERE. Additionally, fans in the US can enter to win a copy of the picture disc now at metalblade.com/us/contests.
CANNIBAL CORPSE Decibel Magazine Tour w/ Napalm Death, Immolation
05/10 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
05/11 Dallas, TX Trees
05/12 San Antonio, TX Backstage Live
05/14 Tucson, AZ The Rock *
05/15 Ramona, CA Ramona Mainstage *
05/16 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory *
05/17 Oakland, CA Oakland Metro *
05/18 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom *
05/19 Seattle, WA El Corazon *
05/21 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom **
05/22 Calgary, AB MacEwan Ballroom **
05/23 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room **
05/24 Regina, SK Riddell Centre **
05/25 Winnipeg, MB The Garrick **
05/26 St. Paul, MN Mill City Nights **
05/28 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge **
05/29 Detroit, MI Harpos **
05/30 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom **
05/31 Toronto, ON The Phoenix **
06/01 Montreal, QC Club Soda **
06/02 Boston, MA Royale **
06/04 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place %
06/05 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg %
06/06 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer %
06/07 Cleveland, OH Peabody’s %
06/09 St. Louis, MO Pops %
06/11 Atlanta, GA Masquerade %
06/12 Orlando, FL Beacham % * w/ Cretin ** w/ Beyond Creation % w/ Magrudergrind
Marine Crepiat of Stalker magazine conducted an interview with vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher of Florida-based death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE when the band played at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland on February 11. You can now watch the chat in two parts below.
CANNIBAL CORPSE will release a box set to commemorate their 25th anniversary: “Dead Human Collection: 25 Years Of Death Metal”. The box contains: all 12 full-length studio albums in a 12-CD foldout case with new artwork, “Torturing And Eviscerating Live” on CD and LP picture disc recorded in Tampa, Florida in 2010 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2012, plus new exclusive images by Vince Locke, 12″ x 12″ graphic prints of all 13 original album covers, and a 2013 CANNIBAL CORPSE calendar. The box will be in stores on March 16 and will be available for pre-order soon, along with the previously announced series of CANNIBAL CORPSE picture discs, at metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse.
After a bloody successful maiden voyage in 2012, Decibel magazine is doubling down on veteran star power for their second annual national tour. This spring, the plague spreads as Decibel brings you three living legends of death metal and grindcore: the preeminent gore institution CANNIBAL CORPSE; rabble-rousing U.K. grind icons NAPALM DEATH, and NYDM stalwarts IMMOLATION.
While occultism permeated last spring’s inaugural Decibel tour — featuring exclusively European headliners in BEHEMOTH, WATAIN, THE DEVIL’S BLOOD and IN SOLITUDE — they looked (mostly) to North America for this year’s unholy assemblage. Three of Decibel‘s favorite underground powerhouses will take on this year’s rotating opening slot: demented Bay Area death-grinders CRETIN, Canadian tech-prog upstarts BEYOND CREATION and Beltway grind/powerviolence crushers MAGRUDERGRIND. And the time is ripe to see the new bleed into the old: three of the six artists performing are expected to have new records detonating during the tour.
Kicking off in May, this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour gauntlet will last a full week longer than its 2012 counterpart, spanning over 30 North American dates. Presented by Metal Blade, IndiemerchStore.com, Nuclear Blast, Lace Pickups, Century Media and Season Of Mist, the 2013 Decibel Magazine Tour will bring together the kind of globally-renowned, boundary-pushing innovators that have made it possible for the magazine to continue thriving for over 100 issues. Coming off a tour noted for BEHEMOTH frontman Nergal‘s triumphant return to the States following his battle with leukemia — which culiminated in an explosive sold-out closing gig in New York City — Decibel had no choice but to go bigger and even more badass.
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Marine Crepiat of Stalker magazine conducted an interview with vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher of Florida-based death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE when the band played at Nosturi in Helsinki, Finland on February 11. You can now watch the chat in two parts below.
CANNIBAL CORPSE will release a box set to commemorate their 25th anniversary: “Dead Human Collection: 25 Years Of Death Metal”. The box contains: all 12 full-length studio albums in a 12-CD foldout case with new artwork, “Torturing And Eviscerating Live” on CD and LP picture disc recorded in Tampa, Florida in 2010 and Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2012, plus new exclusive images by Vince Locke, 12″ x 12″ graphic prints of all 13 original album covers, and a 2013 CANNIBAL CORPSE calendar. The box will be in stores on March 16 and will be available for pre-order soon, along with the previously announced series of CANNIBAL CORPSE picture discs, at metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse.
After a bloody successful maiden voyage in 2012, Decibel magazine is doubling down on veteran star power for their second annual national tour. This spring, the plague spreads as Decibel brings you three living legends of death metal and grindcore: the preeminent gore institution CANNIBAL CORPSE; rabble-rousing U.K. grind icons NAPALM DEATH, and NYDM stalwarts IMMOLATION.
While occultism permeated last spring’s inaugural Decibel tour — featuring exclusively European headliners in BEHEMOTH, WATAIN, THE DEVIL’S BLOOD and IN SOLITUDE — they looked (mostly) to North America for this year’s unholy assemblage. Three of Decibel‘s favorite underground powerhouses will take on this year’s rotating opening slot: demented Bay Area death-grinders CRETIN, Canadian tech-prog upstarts BEYOND CREATION and Beltway grind/powerviolence crushers MAGRUDERGRIND. And the time is ripe to see the new bleed into the old: three of the six artists performing are expected to have new records detonating during the tour.
Kicking off in May, this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour gauntlet will last a full week longer than its 2012 counterpart, spanning over 30 North American dates. Presented by Metal Blade, IndiemerchStore.com, Nuclear Blast, Lace Pickups, Century Media and Season Of Mist, the 2013 Decibel Magazine Tour will bring together the kind of globally-renowned, boundary-pushing innovators that have made it possible for the magazine to continue thriving for over 100 issues. Coming off a tour noted for BEHEMOTH frontman Nergal‘s triumphant return to the States following his battle with leukemia — which culiminated in an explosive sold-out closing gig in New York City — Decibel had no choice but to go bigger and even more badass.
Metal Blade has announced that the Brutal Death metal act HOUR OF PENANCE are confirmed as the new opening act on the CANNIBAL CORPSE/DEVILDRIVER tour. HOUR OF PENANCE are replacing WINDS OF PLAGUE who canceled their participation in the tour.
CANNIBAL CORPSE will be finishing all mainland European shows while DEVILDRIVER will finish the UK dates. Catch them all here:
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+ DEVILDRIVER + THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
* HOUR OF PENANCE
09/02/13 – FI – Oulu – Teatrie Oulu
10/02/13 – FI – Tampere – Pakkahuone
11/02/13 – FI – Helsinki – Nosturi
13/02/13 – SE – Stockholm – Göta Källare
14/02/13 – SE – Gothenburg – Brewhouse
15/02/13 – DK – Copenhagen – Amager bio
16/02/13 – DK – Aarhus – Train
17/02/13 – DE – Hamburg – Grünspan
19/02/13 – NL – Tilburg – 013
20/02/13 – DE – Köln – Essigfabrik
21/02/13 – DE – Karlsruhe – Substage
22/02/13 – DE – Geiselwind – Music Hall
23/02/13 – BE – Antwerp – Trix
24/02/13 – FR – Paris – Le Bataclan
26/02/13 – IT – Milan – Alcatraz
27/02/13 – CH – Lausanne – Les Docks
28/02/13 – CH – Zurich – Komplex 457
01/03/13 – DE – Chemnitz – Südbahnhof
02/03/13 – CZ – Ostrava – Garage Club
03/03/13 – DE – Berlin – Columbia Club
05/03/13 – DE – München – Backstage
06/03/13 – DE – Saarbrücken – Garage
07/03/13 – UK – London – The Forum
08/03/13 – UK – Nottingham – Rock City
09/03/13 – UK – Manchester – HMV Ritz
10/03/13 – UK – Glasgow – ABC
2013 marks death metal juggernauts, CANNIBAL CORPSE’S 25th year as a band and CANNIBAL is going to celebrate it all year long! The logo has been updated to reflect the monumental occasion and will be used on all things CANNIBAL, from merch to packaging, throughout 2013. There is also a Best Of album in the works for the most extreme CANNIBAL CORPSE fan, which is expected to drop in spring – details coming soon!
METALLICA‘s debut album, Kill ‘Em All, is turning 30 years in 2013. Metal Hammer Germany calls for a celebration!
The album, A Tribute To Kill ‘Em All, features all songs of the original Metallica album performed by a different artist. Among them: MOTÖRHEAD, ANTHRAX, CANNIBAL CORPSE and PRIMAL FEAR.
A Tribute To Kill ‘Em All also premieres two exclusive tracks, being ‘(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth’ performed by EISREGEN and THE VISION BLEAK, and ‘Jump In The Fire’ performed by German thrashers DUST BOLT.
Tracklisting:
‘Hit The Lights’ – BLACK TIDE
‘The Four Horsemen’ – BURDEN OF GRIEF
‘Motorbreath’ (live) – RAGE
‘Jump In The Fire’ – DUST BOLT (exclusive)
‘(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth’ – EISREGEN and THE VISION BLEAK (exclusive)
‘Whiplash’ – MOTÖRHEAD
‘Phantom Lord’ – ANTHRAX
‘No Remorse’ – CANNIBAL CORPSE
‘Seek & Destroy’ – PRIMAL FEAR
‘Metal Militia’ – DEW-SCENTED
Special Anniversary Logo, Picture Disc a Month, and North American Headline Tour to be Announced Shortly!
2013 marks death metal juggernauts, CANNIBAL CORPSE’S 25th year as a band and CANNIBAL is going to celebrate it all year long! The logo has been updated to reflect the monumental occasion and will be used on all things CANNIBAL, from merch to packaging, throughout 2013. There is also a box set in the works for the most extreme CANNIBAL CORPSE fan, which is expected to drop in March – details coming soon!
In addition to the updated logo only being used this year and the box set, Metal Blade Records will be releasing one picture disc a month from the band’s expansive catalog (Eaten Back to Life, Butchered at Birth, Tomb of the Mutilated, The Bleeding, Vile, Gallery of Suicide, Bloodthirst, Gore Obsessed, The Wretched Spawn, KILL, Evisceration Plague, Torture). A total of 12 pictures discs will be released, covering all of the band’s full-length studio albums, some of which have never been released on picture disc. The first picture disc available for preorder is Eaten Back to Life, which was released August 17, 1990, and can be found HERE. Check back each month to get a glimpse of the next picture disc available for preorder.
Stay tuned to MetalBlade.com and Facebook.com/CannibalCorpse for news on a full North American headline tour featuring one of the best death metal lineups a fan could ever ask for.
CANNIBAL CORPSE’S latest release, Torture, landed the band at #38 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart upon its first week of release, making it the highest debut in CANNIBAL CORPSE history! Torture landed at #7 on the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart, #4 on the Billboard Top Hard Music Albums chart and #32 Billboard Top Current Albums Chart. Produced by Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan, Torture continues to reap critical accolades from critics and fans around the globe and is yet another testament to CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s permanent allegiance to shrewdly arranged, pile-driving death metal madness.
CANNIBAL CORPSE guitarist Rob Barrett and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz will reunite with their former band, TIRANT SIN, at a special show to celebrate Rob’s wedding to Irina on January 11th at Club Infinity in Williamsville, NY.
Also scheduled to perform at the event is another pre-Cannibal Corpse group, LEVIATHAN, which features Rob Barrett and Jason Blachowicz (MALEVOLENT CREATION), along with MANIC JASPER, MONARCH, VILE VINDICTION, AXEMEN and MAD POSTURE. There will also be a special cover band performing with Rob Barrett on guitar, and Malevolent Creation’s Brett Hoffman on vocals.
Florida death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE have issued the following update:
“Next year marks our 25th year as a band and we are going to celebrate it all year long! Keep an eye out for special releases, new merch designs and announcements! For now, you can check out our 25th-anniversary logo [see below] which will appear as a sleeve print on all our merch printed in 2013. You can pre order shirts with this print now along with our 2013 calendar that features the uncensored Vince Locke art from our 12 releases and marks all of our release dates, birthdays, our favorite horror film release dates and more! Everything can be found here. We never would have made it 25 years without all you die hard fans, get your horns up and blast your CORPSE records all year!”
CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s twelfth studio album, “Torture”, sold 9,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band’s previous CD, “Evisceration Plague”, also opened with 9,600 units to land at No. 66. That was more than 50 percent higher than the opening tally of CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s 2006 CD, “Kill”, which entered the chart at No. 170 after shifting more than 6,000 copies.
“Torture” was again produced by HATE ETERNAL‘s Erik Rutan at his own Mana Recording Studio in St. Petersburg, Florida as well as Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and features the maniacal cover art by longtime CANNIBAL CORPSE artist Vincent Locke.
May The Rock Be With You recently conducted an interview with bassist Alex Webster of Florida death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
May The Rock Be With You: 24 years and 12 albums the band has been in existence for. How much do you feel the way you tackle songwriting has changed?
Alex: It’s changed gradually over what’s been a long history of the band, and it has been a gradual change. It was very, very collaborative in the beginning, where we would basically be in the practice room and nobody had done any homework and we would just show up and start writing together. That did work out well, but some of those songs really did show that lack of direction. I guess we were really just winging it and a lot of them seem like one riff after the other because that’s basically what they were. But we felt that, lately, having one person writing an entire song works really well and having them prepared in advance, rather than working on a song in the practice room; that’s been working better. But that’s not to say we aren’t open to still doing a collaborative type of song where a couple of us might write it on the fly at practice. The song “Scalding Hail” off “Evisceration Plague”, that was a song collaborated between Rob [Barrett, guitar] and I, so we’ve had some of that stuff in our recent history, but most of it now is written by individuals at home.
May The Rock Be With You: In the genre of death metal, CANNIBAL CORPSE seems to have consistently remained at the forefront. What do you consider to be the key things that you guys as a band have done to maintain that vital relevance of the band in extreme music?
Alex: For sure, I think consistency, and that’s consistency on a few different levels. We are not a band that has ever quit for a period of time and never had more than a couple of months layoff. We are always practicing together and we’ve always maintained a constant cycle of albums and touring for us. There hasn’t been any broken points in that cycle or hiatuses for us. Most other bands have had that, although there are a handful of other bands such as MALEVOLENT CREATION that came out around the same time as us as well. But the vast majority have had a layoff of a few years. I think with us keeping going, we’ve never been that far out of people’s minds. People forget about you if you’re gone from the scene for five or six years, you know. Then also is that we are consistent artistically. We’re a death metal band, every album we do is going to be a death metal album with horror-oriented lyrics, and people can always count on that.
May The Rock Be With You: I guess also another factor I must say has been your relentless preparedness to tour the world consistently and take your music to the fans.
Alex: Yes, there’s that, too — touring is something we enjoy doing and not every band does. I look at some other bands’ tours and they’re, like, maybe 15 to 20 shows long. Ours are usually 25 to 30 shows and then we will back up a couple of them in a row. We just did a 33-show tour, had a week and a half off, then went out and did a 31-show tour. This year we’ve already done around 120 shows and we will still do another 30 or so before the year’s done. That makes around 150 shows for 2012, which is a lot. We’ve kept that going for every album we do, and I think that’s the key. The bands that do a lot of touring are the ones who have a more personal connection with their fanbase and are the ones who stick around. That’s the key, I think. If people get a chance to see you perform live, it sets you apart from all the bands they can only just listen to on an album.
Death metal icons, Cannibal Corpse, have confirmed that they will be spending most of the month of October this year in the eastern hemisphere. This will be the band’s first time in many of these cities, which include Jakarta, Tokyo, Perth, Seoul, as well as a show in Hawaii on their way back into the western hemisphere. The entire confirmed schedule can be seen below.
This tour, once complete, will leave few stones left unturned for Cannibal Corpse in the realm of international touring, as they completed a thorough tour of Eastern Europe in 2010 in which they performed in 10 countries in 18 days and met some random characters along the way. That experience was documented and released as the Global Evisceration DVD, which is available on-line HERE. Updates from the band’s trek this October will be available (pending internet connectivity, of course) via the band’s twitter account (@CorpseOfficial), bassist Alex Webster’s twitter account (@AlexCannibal), and the official Cannibal Corpse facebook page.
CANNIBAL CORPSE are touring in support of their critically lauded, impossibly brutal full-length, Torture, released through Metal Blade Records earlier this Spring. On the twelfth studio offering of their inspiring twenty-four year career, the Floridian quintet have never sounded so vital, the album building upon the wealth of powerful, dark, and memorable songs comprising 2006′s Kill and 2009′s Evisceration Plague and pointedly upping the ante at every turn. The record landed the band at #38 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart upon its first week of release, making it the highest debut in CANNIBAL CORPSE history! Torture landed at #7 on the Billboard Top Independent Album Chart, #4 on the Billboard Top Hard Music Albums chart and #32 Billboard Top Current Albums Chart. Produced by Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan, Torture continues to reap critical accolades from critics and fans around the globe and is yet another testament to CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s permanent allegiance to shrewdly arranged, pile-driving death metal madness.
CANNIBAL CORPSE
10/04 Adelade, Australia Flowers
10/05 Melbourne, Australia Billboards
10/06 Sydney, Australia Metro
10/08 Brisbane, Australia Hifi
10/09 Perth, Australia Capitol
10/11 Bangkok, Thailand Hollywood Awards
10/12 Jakarta, Indonesia Plaza Selatan Senayan
10/13 Solo, Indonesia Manahan Sports Center
10/15 Tokyo, Japan Club Quatro
10/16 Osaka, Japan Club Quatro
10/17 Nagoya, Japan Club Quatro
10/19 Seoul, South Korea Ax Hall
10/20 Beijing, China Yu Gong Yi Shan
10/21 Taipei, Taiwan The Wall Livehouse
10/24 Honolulu, HI Hawaiian Brian’s
Jo Schüftan of Horns Up Rocks! conducted an interview with guitarist Rob Barrett of Florida death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE at the August 8 stop of the Summer Slaughter Tour at Irving Plaza in New York City. You can now watch the chat below.
CANNIBAL CORPSE and DEVILDRIVER will join forces for a European co-headlining tour in February/March 2013.
CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s twelfth studio album, “Torture”, sold 9,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band’s previous CD, “Evisceration Plague”, also opened with 9,600 units to land at No. 66. That was more than 50 percent higher than the opening tally of CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s 2006 CD, “Kill”, which entered the chart at No. 170 after shifting more than 6,000 copies.
“Torture” was again produced by HATE ETERNAL‘s Erik Rutan at his own Mana Recording Studio in St. Petersburg, Florida as well as Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and features the maniacal cover art by longtime CANNIBAL CORPSE artist Vincent Locke.
While “Torture” marks the latest progression in the band’s sound, it also witnesses a return to what drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz accurately terms “the frenzied attack of ‘Butchered At Birth’ (1991) or ‘Tomb Of The Mutilated’ (1992),” infusing the band’s advanced musicianship with the raw savagery that haunted their earlier releases, and in the process conceiving the definitive CANNIBAL CORPSE record.