Chicago legends of Murder Metal/Death Metal MACABRE released their second full-length album Sinister Slaughter in 1993 via Nuclear Blast. This April marks the 30th anniversary and what better way to celebrate than reissues of the iconic album available in CD, 3 vinyl variants, and a red cassette? Don’t miss your chance to add the physical format to your collection on April 14th!

Pre-order your copy of Sinister Slaughter 30th anniversary reissue here: https://bfan.link/Macabre-SinisterSlaughter

Watch the Sinister Slaughter product teaser video here: 

Sinister Slaughter 30th Anniversary Edition will be available in the following formats:

• CD Jewel Case
• Vinyl
  • Sinister Splatter
  • Blue/Red Solit w/ Black Splatter
  • Orange In Red W/ White Splatter (Band Exclusive, limited to 300)
• Red cassette

Below is the tracklist for Sinister Slaughter:
01. Night Stalker
02. The Ted Bundy Song
03. Sniper In The Sky
04. Montreal Massacre
05. Zodiac
06. James Pough, What the Hell Did You Do?!
07. The Boston Strangler
08. Mary Bell
09. Mary Bell (Reprise)
10. Killing Spree (Postal Killer)
11. Is It Soup Yet?
12. White Hen Decapitator
13. Howard Unrah (What Have You Done Now?)
14. Gacy’s Lot
15. There Was A Young Man Who Blew Up A Plane
16. Vampire Of Dusseldorf
17. Shotgun Peterson
18. What’s That Smell?
19. Edmond Kemper Had A Horrible Temper
20. What The Heck, Richard Speck (Eight Nurses You Wrecked)
21. Albert Was Worse Than Any Fish In The Sea

Chicago legends of Murder Metal/Death Metal MACABRE released their demented, heinous bloodbath of an album, “Carnival Of Killers” in November 2021 via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band releases an animated music video for ‘Richard Speck Grew Big Breasts’.

In 1996, award-winning news journalist, Bill Kurtis, debuted a series on Chicago’s WBBM-TV displaying video clips of Richard Speck and two other inmates in a staff training area inside the maximum-security Stateville Correctional Center. The footage included Speck detailing how he was enjoying himself in prison by engaging in sexual acts as well as showing the use of illegal substances. Speck‘s appearance was noticeably altered as he had used illicitly supplied female hormones to grow breasts.

MACABRE’s Corporate Death comments, “I started getting the idea to write this song after seeing the Speck videos on Channel 2 News here in Chicago. We played it out a few times soon after including an appearance on the top-rated Mancow’s Morning Madhouse radio program but only recently has it been properly recorded and released for our “Carnival Of Killers” album. I wanted to give it a punk rock feel, I was going to a lot of club shows then and was inspired by Dayglo Abortions, 7 Seconds, MDC, and vocally by D.I..”

Watch the animated video for ‘Richard Speck Grew Big Breasts’ at this location.

The band also has a new double-sided Richard Speck shirt. Order the Joe Wapo created shirts exclusively on http://www.murdermetal.com

Order your copy of “Carnival Of Killers” in the format of your choice here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/macabre-carnival

Two weeks ago, Chicago legends of Murder Metal/Death Metal  MACABRE  released their demented, heinous bloodbath of an album, Carnival Of Killers via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band reveal the video for “Joe Ball Was His Name” which was created by Sweden’s Amanda Odenlid who previously made MACABRE MINSTELS (Macabre unplugged) videos for “The Cat Came Back,” “Found A Peanut,” “The Geins,” & “Tom Dooley”.

Watch the animated video for “Joe Ball Was His Name” here:

MACABRE’s Corporate Death comments, “Joe Ball was a serial killer called the Alligator Man. I started writing this song around our Grim Scary Tales era, but never actually finished it until getting things in place to record Carnival Of Killers. Reading more about him and his evil deeds from way back in the 1930’s I tried to give the song an old-time ragtime feel. I hope you like it, it’s a little different, but so are we.

Amanda Odenlid quote: “I made the Macabre Minstrels videos just for fun, back when my interest in true crime had really taken off full force (thanks to discovering Macabre, actually).
The “chibi”-style I used first saw the light of day when I started making a sort of tongue-in-cheek webcomic about Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer living together. I like the style because it is simple but expressive, and I also like the clash that occurs between the cartoony VS the grotesque and morbid. Having listened to Macabre for 10+ years has made me realize that, while morbid, there is also quite a lot of dark humor in their music as well. Kind of like my own art, in a way.
As for this new video about Joe Ball; making it basically forced me out of an art-block I’d been having, also making me rediscover how fun it was to draw in this old chibi-style of mine. I went from only having heard of Ball’s name somewhere, to almost knowing everything about him that there is to know (except his exact body-count). Despite the grim subject-matter, it was really fun to learn something new and to revisit my old passions for drawing and video-making!”

ICYMI:
‘The Lake Of Fire’ OFFICIAL VIZUALIZER: https://youtu.be/ApRiOdfq9wE
‘The Wheels On The The Bug’ OFFICIAL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/IcyVqbVy1fE
‘The Ted Bundy Song’ OFFICAL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/D-VTYzMjvuY
‘Your Window Is Open’ OFFICIAL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/qHsgGk09gAM

Order your copy of Carnival Of Killers in the format of your choice here: http://www.nuclearblast.com/macabre-carnival

Chicago legends of Murder Metal/Death Metal are proud to release their demented, heinous bloodbath of an album, Carnival Of Killers on this fitting Friday the 13th. In the usual MACABRE fashion and staying true to their name, they offer fans the perfect road trip sing-a-long coupled with a visually disturbing video for the single “The Wheels On The Bug” which chronicles the Ted Bundy murder spree.

MACABRE’s Corporate Death comments, “In our music, we tell true stories about different killers and you will gather information from our songs. It is like reading a newspaper article about these people but we tell stories via our music. I like to call it creative story telling about very bad people.
My mother used to buy me children’s records, from an early age, she saw that I liked to sing along. ‘The Wheels On The Bug’ is based on a song from a record my mother bought for me when I was young. I used to sing that song on the school bus. It must have stuck with me, as all these years later I’m still singing it, only we changed it up and made it more MACABRE.”

Watch and sing-a-long to “The Wheels On The Bug” here: https://youtu.be/IcyVqbVy1fE

The band also restocked their “Bundy” shirt which can be purchased on the band’s webstore: http://murdermetal-com.3dcartstores.com/

The video was helmed by award-winning filmmaker, Ryan Oliver who’s previously directed the MACABRE music video for “Your Window Is Open” as well as videos for The Atlas Moth, Bill & Phil, Child Bite and Lair of the Minotaur. The video was produced in hand with his colleagues at The Rot Shop, a fabrication and FX shop in Chicago where the same group has previously made props and FX for many artists including MINISTRY and METALLICA. Visit http://www.DeathBlowProductions.com & http://www.ChicagoRot.com for more information.

“Carnival Of Killers” was recorded and mixed by Tomek Spirala of Studio1134 with the exception of drum tracks as he recorded them at Kiwi Audio with the help of Mark Walker. The mastering of “Carnival Of Killers” was handled by J.F. Dagenais at JFD Studios in Dallas, TX. The “Where’s Waldo” meets serial killer album artwork was created by Corporate Death (lead singer | guitarist Lance Lencioni) and artist Laz Gein and highlights the album’s most memorable references.

Order your copy of “Carnival Of Killers” in the format of your choice here: http://www.nuclearblast.de/macabre-carnival
Save the album to Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer here: nblast.de/MacabreCarnivalPreSave