The cover artwork for "Evisceration Plague", the new album from Tampa, Florida-based death metal veterans Cannibal Corpse, can be viewed here.
Commented bassist Alex Webster, "For 'Evisceration Plague' we enlisted legendary gore/horror artist Vincent Locke, who has done artwork for all of our releases. He did two pieces for us this time, a dark and foreboding cover piece, and a violent and gory piece for the interior of the CD packaging. Vince has shown once again that he is a master of capturing a macabre and eerie vibe with his artwork."
"
Evisceration Plague" is scheduled for release on February 3, 2009 via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2006's "
Kill" was produced by
Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Morbid Angel) at his Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Commented bassist Alex Webster: "In Cannibal Corpse, our goal has always been to try and make each new album we record our heaviest. That goal was a bit more challenging this time since we were extremely satisfied with our last album 'Kill', but we knew that by working with producer Erik Rutan at Mana Recording Studios again, we would be able to start at that same level of heaviness and take it even further. Now that we can hear the finished product, I would say we've been able to achieve this goal, and I think our fans will agree. 'Evisceration Plague' has the best guitar sound we've ever recorded, and the entire band has never played with more precision and power. We can't wait until you all get a chance to hear the album in early 2009, because we think you'll be as happy with it as we are."
"Evisceration Plague" track listing:
01. "Priests of Sodom"
02. "Scalding Hail"
03. "To Decompose"
04. "A Cauldron of Hate"
05. "Beheading and Burning"
06. "Evidence in the Furnace"
07. "Carnivorous Swarm"
08. "Evisceration Plague"
09. "Shatter Their Bones"
10. "Carrion Sculpted Entity"
11. "Unnatural"
12. "Skewered From Ear to Eye"
"Evisceration Plague" will be available as a limited-edition digipack including a bonus track and bonus DVD, jewelcase CD and on limited splatter vinyl.
Cannibal Corpse's seven-plus-hour DVD set "Centuries Of Torment" (which came out July 8) sold 2,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 8 on the Top Music Videos chart.
In a recent interview with Blabbermouth.net, Webster stated about the set, "We're thankful for all the good reviews, but pretty much all the praise should go to [director/producer] Denise Korycki. She basically did everything. She shot the footage, she edited it, and she was the one who was in charge of organizing it and making it into a coherent story. That had to be a pretty difficult job for her because there is a lot of ground to cover. We did not know how dedicated she was going to be to this and how much work that she was going to put into it. She really made it her full time job for several months and we've never really had anything like that."
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