Dying steel veterans SIX FEET UNDER will unencumber their fourteenth studio album, “Killing For Revenge”, on Would possibly 10 thru Steel Blade Data. The reputable lyric video for the LP’s 2d unmarried, “Ascension, may also be noticed under.
From the outlet moments of first unmarried “Know-Not anything Ingrate“, which kicks off the report, it’s right away transparent that SIX FEET UNDER targeted their energies into one thing that’s as brutal, lyrically visceral, and musically dazzling as one would hope for from the ground-breaking Tampa-bred demise steel. “Killing For Revenge”, a gnarly beast of a report that’s now not for the faint-hearted, dishes up nightmare-inducing imagery courtesy of frontman Chris Barnes by way of the vocalist’s trademark guttural vocals. Each the album name and darkly detailed red-hued album duvet via artist Vince Locke are easiest packing containers for the brutality inside of.
“I selected the name ‘Killing For Revenge’ when we finished writing and spotted that all of the lyrics and storylines had a not unusual theme of revenge. Revenge via human or revenge via nature,” Barnes says. “The album name describes the drift of the tales inside the lyrics completely.”
“Killing For Revenge” marks the second one album that Barnes and guitarist Jack Owen (ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE) have created in combination since reuniting for 2020’s “Nightmares Of The Decomposed”. Owen additionally produced “Killing For Revenge”.
“We labored smartly in combination in CANNIBAL CORPSE,” remembers Barnes. “I beloved him to demise as a pal and a musician, so I’m in reality comfy giving him the reins as a result of I simply have such nice appreciate for him as an artist.”
It’s obviously a partnership that works, given the brilliance of CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s early paintings below Barnes and the truth that the Owen–Barnes rekindled symbiotic courting has breathed new existence, or most likely new demise, into SIX FEET UNDER.
“I requested Jack to map out what portions of the songs he sought after lyrics for, and he simply began writing lyrics as an alternative and gave me a demo vocal observe for just about all of the songs,” Barnes says. “I assumed it used to be nice. That’s how the track and lyrics sought after to look this time, so I simply let it come thru that manner and labored with him in a collaborative manner. Like we did again within the previous days, like at the track ‘Shredded People’.”
SIX FEET UNDER used to be to begin with shaped as a facet mission for Barnes throughout his ultimate years with the band that he co-founded, CANNIBAL CORPSE. It was the frontman’s sole focal point in 1995, coinciding with the discharge in their debut, “Haunted”. Best Barnes stays from SIX FEET UNDER‘s authentic incarnation, however the high quality has remained remarkably constant. The present lineup of Barnes, guitarists Owen and Ray Suhy, bassist Jeff Hughell and drummer Marco Pitruzzella make for a devastating unit.
Whilst Barnes is the only real ultimate member, SIX FEET UNDER is ready greater than he and Owen. The singer is delighted with the present lineup, and what each and every member brings to the desk. “Jeff and Marco had been with me for approximately 10 years,” Barnes says. “I’m in reality lucky that I’ve almost definitely the most productive musicians in steel.
“In case you take a look at it, we now have the same quantity of authentic individuals as CANNIBAL CORPSE. Jeff is a killer bass participant. Marco‘s almost definitely the most productive drummer in the market. Jack‘s the best songwriter I’ve ever been concerned with over the 30-plus years I’ve been doing track professionally. And Ray is only a extra special guitarist who can play the whole thing from jazz to demise steel. The lineup now’s untouchable.”
The chemistry between the 5 males is palpable; taking note of “Killing For Revenge”, one may well be forgiven for assuming that they concealed themselves away someplace for a few months and hammered it out in blessed, inventive seclusion. Now not the case. “All of us recorded it on our personal, in numerous portions of the rustic since we’re all unfold out,” says Barnes. “I feel an important factor is to position everyone in a comfy area in order that they get an excellent efficiency. That’s what you need to seize. It’s in reality exhausting at the moment to find the money for everybody being within the studio recording like we used to again within the ’90s. It may be completed simply as successfully this fashion.”
The songs on “Killing For Revenge” — highlighted via the singles “Know-Not anything Ingrate”, “Ascension” and “When The Moon Is going Down In Blood” — dive headfirst into topics which can be as gleefully vile, graphic and downright gruesome as you could dream of from a Barnes/Owen mission.
Finally, the 2 males had been necessary cogs within the CANNIBAL CORPSE band that launched such delightfully offensive demise steel classics as “Butchered At Delivery” and “Tomb Of The Mutilated”. Highlights of this newest SIX FEET UNDER opus come with “Compulsive”, which tells the story of a disturbed particular person in a padded mobile, consuming himself alive: “Show of carnage for the deficient soul who unearths you; To find ill survival that binds you; Heaving lungs the one factor intact; Scattered expelled organs your ultimate act.”
“Jack wrote 90 p.c of the lyrics in this album, and that used to be one who he got here up with the storyline to,” says Barnes. “How you need to interpret it’s as much as you. You’ll in finding deeper that means or metaphors or symbolisms. However I’d say a just right interpretation is somebody struggling who’s devouring himself. That you must glance deeper because it being about dependancy.”
As a primary preview of the report, these days the band unveils “Know-Not anything Ingrate”. Notes Owen, “This track used to be written early within the writing procedure. Short of to stay the aggression of a previous SIX FEET UNDER track like ‘Amputator’, I wrote track within the taste of early DARK ANGEL or KREATOR, who all the time had cool riding drumbeats. I had all of the riffs in my head as I wrote the drums in a pair hours.
“Lyrically, I kicked round a word that are compatible the forestall portions all over the track. After bobbing up with ‘Know-Not anything Ingrate’, the lyrics wrote themselves. It’s principally about on-line trolls who voice their uneducated and unnecessarily spiteful evaluate of any artist’s output. You’re entitled in your opinion, and I’m entitled to mine.”
SIX FEET UNDER additionally recorded a canopy of NAZARETH‘s “Hair Of The Canine”, which seems on all codecs of “Killing For Revenge” except vinyl. “‘Hair Of The Canine’ has this kind of heavy groove to it and the vocal is so killer and noteworthy that it gave the impression of a super are compatible for us, and one thing amusing so as to add to the album as an advantage observe,” explains Barnes. “Plus there’s cowbell!”
Obviously, 2024 is shaping as much as be an enormous 12 months for SIX FEET UNDER, and Chris Barnes hopes to take complete benefit. “I’d love to get a excursion put in combination,” he says. “I would like to get again out at the street. It’s been too lengthy. 3 of the ones years had been because of the pandemic. I really like being at the street. I really like being in a excursion bus and being in entrance of other people on degree. I’ve overlooked it such a lot. It’s what I used to be supposed to do.”
“Killing For Revenge”, which includes a visitor look via guitarist Jason Suecof on “Neanderthal”, used to be blended and mastered via Chaz Najjar at Badlands Recording in Denver, Colorado. The report might be launched on CD and virtual codecs in addition to vinyl.
SIX FEET UNDER “Killing For Revenge” observe checklist:
01. Know-Not anything Ingrate
02. Associate To Evil Deeds
03. Ascension
04. When The Moon Is going Down In Blood
05. Hostility Towards Mankind
06. Compulsive
07. Are compatible Of Carnage
08. Neanderthal (visitor lead guitar solo Jason Suecof)
09. Judgement Day
10. Bestial Savagery
11. Mass Casualty Murdercide
13. Spoils Of Warfare
13. Hair Of The Canine (NAZARETH duvet; CD + Virtual Best)
