Cannibal Corpse have announced their sixteenth studio album Chaos Horrific will release through Metal Blade Records on September 22nd. According to bassist Alex Webster, the album “feels sort of like a continuation of Violence Unimagined“.
Erik Rutan, the band’s guitarist, also produced the album, offering the following:
“I never go into a record thinking about anything, I just let the writing flow freely with no limitations. 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.”
The first single from the album is a song called “Blood Blind“, which the official video for can be found below. The video was directed by David Brodsky.
Paul Mazurkiewicz, the band’s drummer says that “Blood Blind” is “about mass mutilations to reset the human race in a genocide that was embraced by the masses”, which Rutan added:
“‘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…”
Chaos Horrific track listing:
01 – “Overlords Of Violence”
02 – “Frenzied Feeding”
03 – “Summoned For Sacrifice”
04 – “Blood Blind”
05 – “Vengeful Invasion”
06 – “Chaos Horrific”
07 – “Fracture And Refracture”
08 – “Pitchfork Impalement”
09 – “Pestilential Rictus”
10 – “Drain You Empty”
Along with the news the band announced their co-headlining tour with Mayhem. The run will find the bands supported by Gorguts, and Blood Incantation. Dates are:
09/22 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Hall
09/23 Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
09/24 Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
09/26 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
09/27 Toronto, ON – Rebel
09/28 Montreal, QC – L’Olympia
09/29 Worcester, MA – The Palladium
09/30 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
10/02 Detroit, MI – The Royal Oak
10/03 Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live
10/04 Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
10/06 Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
10/07 Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
10/09 Tacoma, WA – Temple Theatre
10/10 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factroy
10/11 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
10/13 San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
10/14 San Diego, CA – SOMA
10/17 San Antonio, TX – The Aztec Theatre
10/18 Dallas, TX – The Factory
10/20 Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
10/21 Louisville, KY – Paristown Hall
