Carcass unveils second single, “Dance of Ixtab” from upcoming album
Carcass will release new album “Torn Arteries” out on September 17th via Nuclear Blast Records. Today they release the official animated music video for the second single “Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstance March No. 1)” English extreme metal legends Carcass have revealed their long-awaited, massively anticipated 7th studio album.
When the British metal band Carcass formed more than three decades ago, its members had a fairly straightforward aim.
“We were just three teenagers that wanted to cause havoc,” guitarist Bill Steer says, looking back on the group’s 1988 debut, Reek of Putrefaction. “We were priding ourselves on having made a very offensive album. We wanted everything about it to be unpalatable: music, lyrics, cover. I guess we achieved it.”
Around 35 years after starting Carcass, both Walker and Steer seem fully content in having set aside their early mission of assaulting eardrums, eyeballs, and all notions of common decency — and leaving that to the hundreds, if not thousands, of younger bands who now wave the goregrind banner. “There are so many bands doing extreme music now,” Steer says. “If somebody doesn’t get what they want from a Carcass album, they will easily find it elsewhere.”
Reflecting on the decades-long evolution that has led Carcass to “Torn Arteries”, and the career that the band stumbled into by accident, Walker sounds humble and charmingly conservative for a guy often credited with raising the bar of extremity in metal. At this point, it’s clear that old-fashioned songcraft is what interests him most. The band’s symphonies of sickness have given way to something like death-metal earworms.
“We haven’t took the easiest path from A to B with a song, but we are definitely trying to embed hooks in there, or memorable things, or things that please people,” Walker says of the band’s latest batch. “We want people to hear it and want to listen to it again. There’s got to be some kind of long-term value listening to this record.”
Torn Arteries Tracklist
- 1. Torn Arteries
- 2. Dance Of Ixtab Psychopomp & Circums (Tance March No. 1)
- 3. Eleanor Rigor Mortis
- 4. Under The Scalpel Blade
- 5. The Devil Rides Out
- 6. Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment Limited
- 7. Kelly’s Meat Emporium
- 8. In God We Trust
- 9. Wake Up And Smell The Carcass / Cav (Eat Emptor)
- 10. The Scythe’s Remorseless Swing
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- Jeff Walker – lead vocals, bass guitar
- Bill Steer – lead guitar, vocals
- Daniel Wilding – drums
- Tom Draper – guitar
