CANNIBAL CORPSE will release their new album entitled “Torture” on March 13 in North America.
See the press release below:
America’s reigning kings of brutality, CANNIBAL CORPSE, will unleash their twelfth studio offering this March via Metal Blade Records. Aptly titled Torture, the follow-up to 2009’s Evisceration Plague offers up 12 tracks of maniacally precise, soul-searing death metal. 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, viewable here:
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. Adds bassist Alex Webster on the outcome of the record: “We’re extremely happy with how Torture turned out. Erik Rutan did an amazing job with the production, and the songwriting and performances may be our strongest yet. We can’t wait until our fans get to hear the whole thing!”
Witness the gutting sounds of “Demented Aggression,” the band’s first single, as well as studio footage, at the official CANNIBAL CORPSE landing page, at THIS LOCATION.
Torture Track Listing:
01. Demented Aggression
02. Sarcophagic Frenzy
03. Scourge of Iron
04. Encased in Concrete
05. As Deep As the Knife Will Go
06. Intestinal Crank
07. Followed Home Then Killed
08. The Strangulation Chair
09. Caged…Contorted
10. Crucifier Avenged
11. Rabid
12. Torn Through
As a precursor to the release, CANNIBAL CORPSE will perform a special one-off show at the Culture Room in West Palm Beach, Florida on January 22nd then head to the seas to take part in this year’s edition of the 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise. The band will get a short break before a near month-long march through Europe on the Full Of Hate 2012 tour with label mates BEHEMOTH.
European tour dates:
2012-02-09 DE – Hamburg Markthalle
2012-02-10 DE – Oberhausen Turbinenhalle
2012-02-11 DE – Stuttgart LKA Longhorn
2012-02-12 NL – Enschede Atak
2012-02-13 FR – Paris Bataclan
2012-02-14 DE – Saarbrücken Garage
2012-02-15 CH – Pratteln Z7
2012-02-16 IT – Milan Live Club
2012-02-17 AT – Wien Arena
2012-02-18 DE – München Backstage
2012-02-19 BE – Antwerpen Trix
2012-02-21 IT – Bologna Estragon
2012-02-22 SK – Bratislava Majestic Music Club
2012-02-23 CZ – Prague KD Vltavska
2012-02-24 AT – Linz Posthof
2012-02-25 DE – Geiselwind Music Hall
2012-02-27 SE – Stockholm Munchenbryggeriet
2012-02-28 SE – Gothenburg Traedgarn
2012-02-29 DK – Aarhus Voxhall
2012-03-01 DE – Berlin Postbahnhof
2012-03-02 DE – Leipzig Hellraiser
2012-03-03 DE – Gießen Hessenhalle
2012-03-04 NL – Tilburg 013
CANNIBAL CORPSE:
Alex Webster – Bass
Paul Mazurkiewicz – Drums
Rob Barrett – Guitar
Patrick O’Brien – Guitar
George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher – Vocals
