Cannibal Corpse Drops Gory Video for " Vengeful Invasion', as North American Tour with Amon Amarth Draws Near

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Death metal icons CANNIBAL CORPSE are pleased to unleash a video for “Vengeful Invasion.” The track comes by way of the band’s critically-adored Chaos Horrific full-length, released last Fall via Metal Blade Records.



The video was directed and edited by Zev Deans and shot by Brendan McGowan with SFX makeup by Nina Carelli, AI footage manipulation by KingCon2k11, and stars Actually Huizenga from the band Patriarchy. With “Vengeful Invasion,” a human trafficking revenge tale spirals into grotesque phantasmagoria in the spirit of Japanese horror classics. 

Watch CANNIBAL CORPSE’s “Vengeful Invasion” video HERE.

Watch CANNIBAL CORPSE’s previously released videos for “Chaos Horrific” HERE, “Blood Blind” HERE, and “Summoned For Sacrifice” HERE.

Since 1988, CANNIBAL CORPSE has remained at the forefront of death metal, shaping and defining the genre. In 2021, they raised the stakes again with their Violence Unimagined full-length. In 2023 they returned with its successor, the equally monstrous Chaos Horrific, consequently beginning the next chapter in their legacy. Produced again by guitarist Erik Rutan, who has now produced six of the band’s albums, Chaos Horrific is, without question, a full-on, CANNIBAL-style death metal outing, straight down to the themes, which include zombie warfare, resetting the human race through mass mutilations, and the violent revenge of victims of human trafficking, and its cover art by longtime collaborator Vince Locke.

Chaos Horrific slaughtered Billboard charts upon its first week of release, earning the #7 position on the Billboard Album Sales chart, #2 on the Hard Music Albums chart, #3 on the Rock Albums chart, #5 on the Independent Label Albums chart, and more!

The record is available on digipak CD, cassette, and digital formats as well as vinyl in multiple limited color variants.

Secure your copy today at the CANNIBAL CORPSE store at: cannibalcorpse.store and Metal Blade at: metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse.

This April, CANNIBAL CORPSE will join labelmates Amon Amarth on the Metal Crushes All Tour. The journey runs from April 21st through May 25th and includes performances at the historic Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver as well as arena stops in Portland, Vancouver, Quebec City, Asheville, Tampa, and Anaheim. Additional support will be provided by Obituary and Frozen Soul. See all confirmed dates below. 

CANNIBAL CORPSE w/ Amon Amarth, Obituary, Frozen Soul:

4/21/2024 Revel Entertainment Center – Albuquerque, NM

4/22/2024 Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Denver, CO

4/24/2024 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT

4/26/2024 Alaska Airlines’ Theater Of The Clouds – Portland, OR *

4/27/2024 PNE Forum – Vancouver, BC *

4/29/2024 Edmonton Convention Center – Edmonton, AB

4/30/2024 Grey Eagle Event Center – Calgary, AB

5/03/2024 Steelhouse – Omaha, NE

5/04/2024 The Sylvee – Madison, WI

5/05/2024 GLC Live At 20 Monroe – Grand Rapids, MI

5/07/2024 Rose Music Center At The Heights – Huber Heights, OH

5/09/2024 The Wellmont – Montclair, NJ

5/10/2024 Toyota Oakdale Theater – Wallingford, CT

5/11/2024 Videotron Centre – Quebec City, QC *

5/13/2024 The Fillmore Philadelphia – Philadelphia, PA

5/14/2024 The Fillmore Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD

5/16/2024 ExploreAsheville.com Arena – Asheville, NC *

5/17/2024 House Of Blues – Myrtle Beach, SC

5/18/2024 Yuengling Center – Tampa, FL *

5/20/2024 Bayou Music Center – Houston, TX

5/21/2024 Boeing Center At Tech Port – San Antonio, TX

5/23/2024 Arizona Financial Theatre – Phoenix, AZ

5/24/2024 Pearl Concert Theater At Palms Casino Resort – Las Vegas, NV

5/25/2024 Honda Center – Anaheim, CA *

* arena show

“Chaos Horrific manages to be easily digestible while also being honeycombed with nuance and is a nearly perfect record.” – Decibel Magazine

“Chaos Horrific is a better, more diverse and memorable version of its predecessor… CANNIBAL CORPSE won’t release the scabrous crown any time soon…They are still the best of the best.” – Blabbermouth

“It’s as if the chords and arrangement were calculated specifically to keep the moshpits churning, with breakdowns and tempo changes piggy-backing off one another in a cascade of brutality.” – Consequence on “Summoned For Sacrifice” (Heavy Song Of The Week) 

“They’re one of the hardest working bands in the game, their sound has never gotten a drop less brutal, and their coolness factor has never waned.” – Revolver

“It’s simply amazing how HEAVY this record is. I know that sounds superficial, I mean … come on, it’s a death metal record. But seriously, the way Erik dials in the guitar tone and syncs it up with Alex’s bass and Paul’s kick drum and snare just makes for a totally lethal combination.” – Metal Injection

“This band is an imperious, tweaked-to-perfection wrecking machine at this point… as they prove again, within the opening seconds of ‘Overlords Of Violence,’ CANNIBAL CORPSE are still the hardest hitters in the business.” – Metal Hammer

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Cannibal Corpse's 16th Studio Album "Chaos Horrific" to be Released Sept. 22nd via Metal Blade, New/ Video Single Released, & North American Tour Mayhem Announced!

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Watch CANNIBAL CORPSE’s “Blood Blind” video HERE.

Death metal icons CANNIBAL CORPSE will unleash their sixteenth studio album, Chaos Horrific, on September 22nd via Metal Blade Records, today revealing the record’s artwork, pulverizing first single, and preorders!

Since 1988, CANNIBAL CORPSE have been at the forefront of death metal, shaping and defining the genre. In 2021, they raised the stakes again with Violence Unimagined. And in 2023, the band’s thirty-fifth anniversary, they return with its successor, the equally monstrous Chaos Horrific, starting a new chapter in their storied legacy.

Written shortly after the conclusion of the Violence Unimagined sessions, echoes of that album exist in Chaos Horrific. “To me, this album feels sort of like a continuation of Violence Unimagined,” says bassist Alex Webster. 

The band have always been noted for technicality and complex songwriting, but that doesn’t define where the writing process takes them. “I believe that our songwriting has progressed in a manner where every song paves its own path, whether it’s a straightforward or technical song,” notes guitarist Rob Barrett. “Sometimes it’s a mix of both, so there’s no preconceived idea that we want to be more technical. The music just sort of takes its own course.”

Webster concurs, “I don’t think there was any conscious effort to make things more technical, so if it wound up that way it would just be a natural result of us trying to write the heaviest songs we could.”

CANNIBAL CORPSE had no master plan, approaching each track with an open mind. “I never go into a record thinking about anything, I just let the writing flow freely with no limitations,” says guitarist/producer Erik Rutan. “But this time, I knew I wanted to push the envelope a bit in a different direction than Violence Unimagined; expand the dynamics, explore new territory without departing from what CANNIBAL CORPSE is and always shall be.”

Rutan has now produced six CANNIBAL CORPSE albums, starting with 2006’s Kill, and this is Rutan’s second release as a full-fledged member, since officially joining in 2020. Tracking at Rutan’s Mana Studio in Florida, the band’s home state, was comfortable for all involved, who were at the top of their game and ready to give it their all. Things went smoother than ever, particularly on the guitar front thanks to Barrett and Rutan having “custom guitars built with longer scale necks to hold the proper intonation necessary for lower tunings,” says Barrett.

Drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz named the record and his cohorts felt it was a great representation of the band. Subjects covered include fighting off hordes of zombies (“Chaos Horrific”), the selection of a random individual to be dismembered and sacrificed (“Summoned For Sacrifice”), and the violent revenge of victims of human trafficking (“Vengeful Invasion”). The album artwork by longtime collaborator Vince Locke is also suitably CANNIBAL CORPSE-esque, featuring a chaotic tangle of the living and the undead, evoking the lyrics of the title track.

In advance of the record’s release, today the band unleashes their first single and accompanying video for “Blood Blind.” Elaborates Mazurkiewicz, “‘Blood Blind’ is about mass mutilations to reset the human race in a genocide that was embraced by the masses.”

Adds Rutan, “‘Blood Blind’ was the first song musically that I wrote for Chaos Horrific. It all started with that funeral march of a first riff floating around in my head and it took off from there. Heavy and disturbing, it worked its way into an aggressive smorgasbord of depth and swirling darkness! I thought it would be great to collaborate so I had Paul add his lyrical stamp to it…”

Watch CANNIBAL CORPSE’s “Blood Blind” video, directed by David Brodsky of My Good Eye, at THIS LOCATION.

Chaos Horrific will be available on digipak CD, deluxe box set (Dried Blood Marbled vinyl, 24p 12" booklet, puzzle, pin, poster and art print - limited to 1500 copies), cassette (limited to 500 copies), digitally, and on vinyl in the following variants:

- 180g Black (EU exclusive)

- Burned Flesh Marble (EU exclusive)

- Slate Blue Marble (PIAS exclusive - limited to 600 copies)

- Charcoal Brown Marble (Sound Polution exclusive - limited to 500 copies)

- Pearl Violet Marble (EU exclusive - ltd. 500 copies)

- Bloodsun Marble (EU exclusive - ltd. 500 copies)

- Clear Red & Yellow Splatter (EMP exclusive - ltd. to 300 copies)

- Clear & White/Blue Splatter (EU exclusive - ltd. to 300 copies)

- Turquoise & White Splatter (Napalm exclusive - ltd. 300 copies)

- Clear Orange & Red Splatter (Nuclear Blast exclusive - ltd. 300 copies)

- Clear Blackdust (Eyesore exclusive - ltd. 300 copies)

- Red Blackdust (Metal Blade Shop exclusive - ltd. 300 copies)

- Fog Marbled (US exclusive)

- “Charred Remains” (US exclusive)

- Orange/Red Inkspots (US exclusive)

- Black & Brown Marble (US Band store exclusive)

- Silver w/ Red Streaks (US Band store exclusive)

- Electric Smoke (US tour exclusive)

Find preorders at the CANNIBAL CORPSE store at: cannibalcorpse.store and Metal Blade at: metalblade.com/cannibalcorpse.

Chaos Horrific Track Listing:

1. Overlords Of Violence

2. Frenzied Feeding

3. Summoned For Sacrifice

4. Blood Blind

5. Vengeful Invasion

6. Chaos Horrific

7. Fracture And Refracture

8. Pitchfork Impalement

9. Pestilential Rictus

10. Drain You Empty

 

Coinciding with the release of Chaos Horrific, CANNIBAL CORPSE will embark on a month-long North American co-headlining tour with Mayhem. The journey begins September 22nd in Nashville, Tennessee and runs through October 21st in Louisville, Kentucky. Support will be provided by special guests, Gorguts and Blood Incantation! Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 23rd at 10:00am local time. See all confirmed dates below.

 

CANNIBAL CORPSE w/ Mayhem, Gorguts, Blood Incantation:

9/22/2023 Marathon Music Hall - Nashville, TN 

9/23/2023 The Fillmore - Charlotte, NC 

9/24/2023 The Mill & Mine - Knoxville, TN 

9/26/2023 Stage AE - Pittsburgh, PA 

9/27/2023 Rebel - Toronto, ON 

9/28/2023 L'Olympia - Montreal, QC 

9/29/2023 The Palladium - Worcester, MA 

9/30/2023 Brooklyn Steel - Brooklyn, NY 

10/02/2023 The Royal Oak - Detroit, MI 

10/03/2023 Hard Rock Live - Gary, IN 

10/04/2023 The Fillmore - Minneapolis, MN 

10/06/2023 Mission Ballroom - Denver, CO 

10/07/2023 The Depot - Lake City, UT 

10/09/2023 Temple Theatre - Tacoma, WA 

10/10/2023 Knitting Factory - Spokane, WA 

10/11/2023 Knitting Factory - Boise, ID 

10/13/2023 The Warfield - San Francisco, CA 

10/14/2023 SOMA - San Diego, CA 

10/17/2023 The Aztec Theatre - San Antonio, TX 

10/18/2023 The Factory - Dallas, TX 

10/20/2023 The Eastern - Atlanta, GA 

10/21/2023 Paristown Hall - Louisville, KY

 

CANNIBAL CORPSE:

George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher – vocals

Erik Rutan – guitar

Rob Barrett – guitar

Alex Webster – bass

Paul Mazurkiewicz – drums

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Cannibal Corpse/ Thy Art Is Murder Live at Warsaw - Brooklyn, NY 11/22/19

On November 22, 2019. death metal legends Cannibal Corpse played a fucking killer show at the Warsaw in Brooklyn, New York and yours truly was on-hand to bring you all the brutal details.

When I got there, it was mere minutes before deathcore masters Thy Art Is Murder came onstage, From the get-go they played a savage and merciless set. Full of energy and brutality, they had the fans and the pit going. At about two or three songs into the set, their singer, Chris "C.J." McMahon, got off the stage and went into the crowd. It seems as their were problems with him hearing things well. The result was awesome, as a pit formed around him as he played the rest of the entire set among us fans. This was a surprise and one of the coolest moments in a concert, that I have ever seen, in person!

Setlist:

Death Squad Anthem

Make America Hate Again

Fur and Claw

Slaves Beyond Death

Holy War

No Absolution

Human Target

The Son of Misery

New Gods

Reign of Darkness

Puppet Master

As the time drew closer for Cannibal Corpse to hit the stage you could feel the anticipation of the fans, and then when they hit the place went fucking nuts. Throughout their set there was a sick pit and people flying as they crowd surfed. The fans let their love for these legends be fucking known! 

And, Cannibal Corpse more than proved that after all these years, they are still without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest death metal acts in all of death metal. As they gave us a heavy, unrelenting, and brutal performance.

It was also really fun, especially with their front-man George " Corpsegrinder" Fisher, who is cool as fucking hell. He and the rest of the band a have shit load of energy, headbanging hard as fuck. I don't think anyone can keep up up with Fisher, least of all his sick-ass windmils. Even, though he dared us to keep up with him, as they ripped through the classic "I Cum Blood"!

They played both classics and newer songs, off of their killer and most recent release Red Before Black. If it was up the audience they would've played all fucking night. But, alas, all good things must come to an end. Still, even though Fisher told the audience that the brutal, and my favorite song of theirs, "Stripped, Raped, and Strangled" was the last tune, he lied! Nope, it was actually the classic "Hammer Smashed Face"! What a killer way to end a killer show!

Setlist:

Code of the Slashers

Only One Will Die

Red Before Black

Scourge of Iron

Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead

The Wretched Spawn

Devoured by Vermin

Unleashing the Bloodthirsty

Gutted

Kill or Become

A Skull Full of Maggots

Evisceration Plague

Firestorm Vengeance

Death Walking Terror

I Cum Blood

Make Them Suffer

Stripped, Raped and Strangled

Hammer Smashed Face

Where any of you at this show? Or did catch Cannibal Corpse on this tour? If so, let me know in the comments section below!

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The 20 Best Hard Rock & Metal Albums of 2017, Pt. 1: 20-11

2017 was a fucking awesome year for heavy music. Especially, for those into death metal, as it was rightfully declared the "Year of Death Metal" by Decibel magazine. Both new and old death metal bands put forth some great material. But, it was also another great year for thrash metal. As always making this list took a lot of thinking and, of course, the hearing of a lot albums. So let us not waste anymore time and get to it!

Honorable Mentions

Kobra and the Lotus- Prevail I

Overkill- The Grinding Wheel

Terrifier- Weapons of Thrash Destruction

Municipal Waste- Slime and Punishment

20. Necrot- Blood Offerings- An old school death metal album by a new band, that results in the best debut of 2017. My full review: http://themastergio.blogspot.com/2017/06/necrot-blood-offerings-album-review.html

19. Fit For An Autopsy- The Great Collapse- Fit For An Autopsy have delivered an angry and driving deathcore that showcase the subgenre at its very best. The music has a powerful and crushing grove and sounds like the soundtrack to complete and utter destruction.

18. Satyricon- Deep Calleth Deep- Heavy, hateful, and dark, this almost hypnotically sounding piece of black metal is best album of this style for 2017. Featuring the slow and driving sound that band has perfected in their last couple of releases it is the perfect music to listen as you are being dragged you into the very depths of hell!

17. Obituary- Obituary- The latest album from these death metal gods is one of their best in years. It features some great riffs that are catchy and have a really great groove to them. Some of these songs rank among the fastest and catchiest songs, the band has written in many a moon.

16. Kreator- Gods of Violence- The latest offering from Germany's greatest thrash metal export is crushing and devastating music. Some of the year's very best and most memorable songs come from here including the driving "Satan Is Real" and the anthemic  "Hail to the Hordes". Gods of Violence is one that I played a lot since the moment that I got it.

15. Winds of Plague- Blood of My Enemy- It's great to see a band genuinely seen as being rather silly, by some, like Winds of Plague mature and grow. Especially when the end result is the very best album of their career, thus far, and then some. Blood of Me Enemy is a more serious and musically complex work than their previous, but still enjoyable, output. and  Heavy and aggressive, it doesn't feel as interested in reminding just how cool or tough they are. Instead, the music speaks for itself and delivers multiple swift steel boots to your fucking teeth.

14. Cannibal Corpse- Red Before Black- Red Before Black is Cannibal Corpse's best album since Torture, possibly since Kill. It is a solid and heavy, slab of death metal that is unrelenting and uncompromising. Songs like "Code of the Slashers" and "Heads Shoveled Off" are some of the coolest and most memorable extreme metal songs of the year. In fact, this might be the most straight up fun death metal of 2017.

13. Suffocation- ...Of the Dark Light- Holy fuck this is one unrelenting and brutal release! Determine to pummel your fucking head with savage death metal, Suffocation continue to churn out some of the finest releases in death metal. From the very opening of the blistering "Clarity through Depravity" and beyond this is uncompromising and technical assault as your likely hear at this level of spectacular quality.

12. Darkest Hour- Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora- Anyone who thinks that there are no more classic albums to be made in the metalcore world needs to get a listen to this major ass kicker. Darkest Hour have pulled all the stops and made rollicking and vicious release with great musicianship and pounding breakdowns. This fucker is guaranteed to kick your ass from here to the next fucking continent. Songs like "This Is the Truth" and "The Flesh and the Flowers of Death" are some of the most badass songs of the year!

11. Cradle of Filth- Cryptopia: The Seductiveness of Decay- While, I greatly liked the last Cradle of Filth album, Hammer of the Witches, Cryptopia: The Seductiveness of Decay blows it away. It is is without question the finest album CoF has made since Nymphetamine. The album is a dark and fully enrapturing piece of extreme gothic/ symphonic black metal. It takes all the things that make the band great and gives to us in droves. Honest to Satan, this is the first Cradle of Filth album that keep going back to listen to in ages and helped to remind me why I absolutely adored them many years ago. And, can I say that "Heartbreak and Seance" is one of my favorite extreme metal singles of the year? Another thing that is one of my favorites for this year is the amazing cover art! It is so fucking cool!

I would like to take this time to thank you all for your support in this year! May you all have a happy, fun, and safe New Year's! Stay tuned for the top ten albums of 2017!

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The 175 Greatest Heavy Metal Album Covers of all Time Pt. 15: 20-11

We are getting down to very best!! Here are the first half of the top 20 heavy metal album covers of all time!!

20. AC/DC- Highway to Hell- The fifth international release by these Aussie hard rockers is a classic of the highest order. It would be the last one that they recorded with their late, great signer Bon Scott and is my favorite album with him, as well as my second favorite of the band over all. It's iconic cover featuring the band is undoubtedly one of the greatest covers in all of hard rock.






19. Emperor- In the Nightside Eclipse- This is the first studio release by these masters of true Norwegian black metal. It is one of the absolute greatest and most influential in the history of black metal. The beautiful and creepy cover art was drawn by Kristian "Necrolord Wåhlin. It depicts orcs going to Minas Morgul, a city from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth.

18. Danzig- Thrall: Demonsweatlive- The cover to this highly successful Danzig EP is done by Simon Bisley and has the feel of something out of a Conan story. The use of swords, boobs, muscles, and the Danzig skull depicted in such stunning art makes it probably the best looking cover on an EP ever!







17. Celtic Frost- To Mega Therion- The second album by the Swiss extreme metal band has an amazing and blasphemous cover by H.R. Giger named Satan I. The title is Greek for the "great beast" and is one of the truly great and most influential albums in all of extreme metal, having inspired many a death and black metal band.

16. Metallica- Master of Puppets- The third studio album by thrash gods Metallica is, IMHO, the single greatest metal album EVER. The classic cover was designed by Metallica and Peter Mensch and was painted by Don Brautigam. In it a graveyard is manipulated by a puppet master seen only by his hands.







15. Anthrax- Spreading the Disease- The second studio album by NY thrashers Anthrax was the first to have Joey Belladonna on vocals and Frank Bello on bass. The cover of a metal looking dude being looked on by guys in hazmat suits is perhaps the band's most popular cover. It is also happens to be their best looking one.







14. Cradle of Filth- The Principle of Evil Made Flesh- The debut by these black metallars has a cover that has everything I could ask for: hot lesbian vampire babes and blood! It is a stock image from founder of horror company Redemption, Nigel Wongrove's portfolio.

13. Entombed- Left Hand Path- This phenomenal debut from the Swedish death metal masters is incredibly influential and important to the sub-genre. The cover which features a tombstone, slime, a desolate, creepy place, and monster in hiding, is pure death metal!!








12. Cannibal Corpse- Butchered at Birth- The third studio album by this death metal act is one of it's most controversial. The graphic cover of a zombie literally eating out a tied and butchered female corpse is the stuff that will piss off anyone with a closed mind. Offensive and truly awesome this one really sums up the band at this time period perfectly!

11. Megadeath- Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?- The second album by theses thrashers is one of their finest. The cover in which their mascot Vic Rattlehead is selling the decrypt and bombarded United Nations building is a genuinely classic metal image. It's done by Ed Repka and so perfectly captures the title track and the political nature of the band.

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