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Here’s Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster talking about his band in the January 2009 issue of Decibel:

“We’ve gotten a little more musical though the years and I think it’s a gradual and natural progression. We’ve always been trying to improve ourselves as players and songwriters. If you compare out first record and this one, the difference is enormous; but fromalbum one to album to 11, it’s been a slow progression.”

I wouldn’t blame you if you thought that maybe Mr. Webster was talking some bullshit hype, as musicians are prone to do when promoting a new release. But not only does Webster speak the truth – he could just as easily be talking about his peers in Napalm Death.

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The more I listen to Evisceration Plague, the most I wanna have Cannibal Corpse’s abortion (And it’s streaming on their MySpace page right now!).

The album just rocks so fucking hard, and it makes me so happy to listen to, I really can’t even begin to tell you.

So. By June of 2009 – not even a full half way through the year – The Faceless will have toured with Cynic, Meshuggah, Arsis, Misery Index, The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravanganza, and, now CANNIBAL FUCKING CORPSE.

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It was fun to speculate last about with whom Slayer might spend the summer touring, but now we have an official answer: as rumored, they’ll be co-headlining the Rockstar Energey Mayhem Festival with their ‘07 tourmates, Marilyn Manson.

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I am going to include exclamation points and some kind of onomatopoeiatic grunting noise in every Cannibal Corpse headline from now until the time I review their new album. Just deal with it.

ANYWAY, The Deciblog dudes have a short clip from the making-of DVD that will accompany Cannibal Corpse’s new album, Evisceration Plague. And in case hearing the title track didn’t make you go from six to midnight right quick, this video oughta finish the job. ‘Cause not only does the music sound sick, but it’s got Erik Rutan! I haven’t typed the dude’s name in caps for a couple of weeks, so once more with feeling – ERIK FUCKING RUTAN! Plus, as The Deciblog notes, the band’s Centuries of Torment DVD was very possibly “the greatest thing ever,” so there’s reason to be confident that this could be an above average “please please please buy a physical copy of the album” filler DVD.

Check it out here.

-AR

Animosity’s Leo Miller is not a man of large stature, which is why it was so surprising to see him command the stage like a rabid dog upon catching them on the Metal Sucks-sponsored Job for a Cowboy/ All Shall Perish/ Annotations of an Autopsy tour. Miller and company brought the sort of frenetic energy necessary to translate their last two stellar full lengths – Empires and last year’s Animal – to life, which is by no means a small feat. In a time when death metal bands rely on either predictability or shifting between riffs too rapidly to savor, Animosity jump from thought to savage thought masterfully, producing blink-and-you’ll-miss-it excellence reminiscent of old Dillinger Escape Plan through a DM lens. Their records demand repeat listens, and reward greatly upon them. Miller’s gruff vocals and atypical lyrical approach help elevate the band to thinking man’s level, counteracting metal’s brutish stereotypes.

I managed to catch him – after three botched attempts – on my way out the door after Job for a Cowboy’s set in Providence at the end of last November, and goddamn, I’m glad I caught him. He possesses the kind of eloquence and thoughtfulness an examination of his lyrics would imply, and it was interesting to get a glimpse into the thought process behind the gut-wrenching Animal, easily one of my favorite metal records of 2007, if not in the last few years. Despite the difficult personal events that lead to the album, Leo had a positive tone to his voice throughout our entire conversation, touching upon the band’s plans for the future and his feelings on our next president.

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I’ve never actually caught Daath live (at least not yet), so I don’t know how the band handles soloing duties – but I do know that guitarist Eyal Levi is kind of the public face of the band and it’s de facto leader, so people may forget that there’s another super talented guitarist, Emil Werstler, in the band.

But the below video of Werstler shredding his ass off should throw the dude in the spotlight at least for a hot minute. Fucker has chops, that’s for damn sure.

Daath’s new album, The Concealers, will be out later this year. While you’re waiting patiently, don’t forget that you can download an exclusive Daath death metal metal medley consisting of covers of Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Dying Fetus right here at MetalSucks.

-AR

It may be a new year on the calendar, but we’re still talking about the same stupid shit here at MetalSucks. Here’s where we focused our energies this week:

• Most awesomest metal festival EVARRR! Not to be confused with the most awesomest tours of early 2009.
  
• New music from Cannibal Corpse!!!
• Mastodon counted down to a new website while Trent Reznor counted down to giving away approximately 400 Gigs of HD concert footage for fans to tinker with.
• We questioned Drew Barrymore’s interest in metal and demanded she take off her shirt.
• We spoke with members of All Shall Perish and Job For a Cowboy.
• Mike Schleibaum declared The Crown’s Deathrace King underrated while Dallas claimed music critics are overrated.
• Can’t anyone make a decent heavy metal TV show?
• One Roadrunner Records staffer named MetalSucks.net the #10 best album of 2008.

Later, gators…

The title track from Cannibal Corpse’s forthcoming Evisceration Plague is now streaming here, where you can also pre-order an autographed copy of the album.

Not that much to say about it, other than it’s slower than I thought it would be – it’s kinda like the riff from Kill’s “Death Walking Terror,” but with more of an elephants marching beat (which, if you know us but at all, you know we fucking love).

The Erik Rutan (ERIK FUCKING RUTAN!!!) produced Evisceration Plague drops on Metal Blade on February 3. We’ve now heard the latest from Lamb of God, God Forbid and Napalm Death, but still haven’t heard this. But I’m really fucking excited to give it a spin.

-AR

Someone e-mailed me the other day to tell me how shitty the cover art for the new Cannibal Corpse album is (I know there’s at least one major grammatical error in that last sentence, but fuck it.). And they’re not wrong; it’s not Iron Maiden’s Dance of Death bad, but we know that CC are capable of so much more.

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This coming Monday the entire MetalSucks staff will each release Top 10 lists for the entire year in metal of 2008. Get psyched! Things have been slowing down here at the MS Mansion as the holidays approach, but we still found ways to keep it fun this week:

• Axl Rose finally did some press to support Chinese Democracy… but as usual, there’s an asterisk.
• We debuted a new, exclusive Daath track — a medley of Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Dying Fetus covers.
• We interviewed members of Clutch, Bison B.C., Dir En Grey, and Fear Factory / Arkaea.
• Job For a Cowboy’s Jonny Davy blogged about urination and hotel trashing, while Darkest Hour’s Mike Schleibaum’s guest blog claimed that Entombed’s Uprising and Morning Star are two of the most underrated albums of all time. Oh, and The Haunted’s Peter Dolving blogged about sleep.
• Gojira’s Joe Duplantier orders you to stop the killing of baby seals but apparently has no problem with ripping New York City a new arsehole.
• Meshuggah + Cynic + The Faceless = The Erection Tour of 2009.
• The metal industry lost a kindred soul. R.I.P. Adrian Bromley.

While in the studio recording their new album, The Concealers, the members of Daath decided to record a medley of classic death metal songs by Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel and Dying Fetus (see behind-the-scenes video above). Charmingly dubbed “Fecal Finger,” the track won’t actually appear on the band’s new album, so they decided to let us pass it on to you… for free!

Daath drummer Kevin Talley explained the genesis of the track to us via e-mail:

“Fecal Finger”… a beautiful name for a beautiful piece of music. One day we jammed some death metal songs and we jokingly said we should play them at a show… so we did. We chose the DYING FETUS song because I wrote and recorded it with them and many people never saw me play it live. Matt DeVries [Chimaira] and I used to jam that MORBID ANGEL riff a couple years ago so we brought that in since it is crushingly brutal. And you can’t jam a jam without Jim Carrey’s favorite death metal band CANNIBAL CORPSE. We recorded this freakin shit because kids these days need to recognize who influenced the newer bands they listen to. After hearing the originals for so many years, it’s weird hearing these songs with a newer style recording. But Sean Z’s vocals are fucking sick and Jonny Davy’s (Job for a Cowboy) guest vocals on the MORBID ANGEL part are amazing. This recording is finally growing on me and it’s actually my favorite thing to listen to right now.

-Kevin Talley

And so, without further adieu…

Daath, “Fecal Finger”

The Concealers will hit stores sometime in early 2009.

-MetalSucks

Cracked.com, the surprisingly hilarious website that picks up where Cracked Magazine (a.k.a. the poor man’s Mad) left off, has compiled a list of the 15 worst album covers of all time. Amongst the inductees are Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (the original robo-rape cover, not the cross n’ skulls), The Scorpions’ Lovedrive and Virgin Killer, and Cannibal Corpse’s Tomb of the Mutilated, of which the site writes the following:

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Ohio Deathrashers Brother Von Doom are one of our favorite new metal bands on 2008. They have an awesome new album, Relentless, out now on Deathcote (read David Bee Roth’s review here), and an insanely sweet, metal as fuck new David Brodsky-directed video – with knights!!! – for their merciless single, “Eater of Days” (above). So when the opportunity to e-mail the band some questions arose, of course, I jumped at the chance.

After the jump, find out where the name “Brother Von Doom” comes from and get the band’s thoughts on their songwriting process, working with David Brodsky and producer Andreas Magnusson, the worst trends in metal today, and a whole lot more…

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Cannibal Corpse have announced Evisceration Plague as the title of their new album. Metal Blade will release the latest from death metal’s elder statesmen on February 3.

Yes, it’s a silly album title, but c’mon – it’s Cannibal Corpse. Everything about them is kinda silly. That doesn’t mean it’s not also awesome.

In a statement, bassist Alex Webster commented, “Br00tal br00tal br00tal, hype hype hype, heaviest album ever, br00tal br00tal br00tal.”

Find out what other silly metal phrases the band has selected as song titles after the jump.

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Where we falter, you guys are always there to pick us up; MetalSucks Maniac Kevin reminded us of the deleted scene from Ace Ventura in which our hero crowd surfs at a Cannibal Corpse show and goes on stage to sing with the band. Apparently Jim Carrey was a huge CC fan and insisted upon their inclusion in the movie, but unfortunately only a snippet of “Hammer Smash Face” made the final cut as background music. Here’s the full, deleted scene.

-VN

I haven’t reviewed the new Cannibal Corpse DVD, Centuries of Torment, yet because, well, there’s a LOT to digest on that motherfucker and I’m a busy man. I will tell you that what I’ve watched so far has been awesome, that the cover art for the DVD is fucking mind blowing, and that it has re-ignited my passion for the song “Stripped, Raped and Strangled,” a song the very title of which has often made me wonder “Should I be enjoying this so much?”

Yes. Yes I fucking should.

-AR

MetalSucks is thrilled to be able to debut an exclusive clip from Cannibal Corpse’s forthcoming DVD Centuries of Torment which comes out July 8th on Metal Blade Records. In this clip we get behind-the-boards insight from producer (and MetalSucks fave) Erik Rutan (ex-Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal), who produced the band’s 2006 record Kill.

Centuries of Torment drops July 8th; pre-order it here.

- The MS dudes

MetalSucks recently had the opportunity to have a quick chat with Origin guitarist Paul Ryan on the set of the band’s shoot for their new video, “Finite.” Ryan had some interesting things to say about life on the road, the band’s new album, Antithesis (read Axl’s review here), and what lies ahead for these death metal masters. Above, watch the David Brodsky-directed video for “Finite;” after the jump, read the full transcript of our chat with Paul.

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And now for something completely different…

Kataklysm, “The Chains of Power” – from Prevail (Nuclear Blast)

This is pretty much the most brutal song I’ve ever heard this band do… we can only hope the entire album is this crushing.

Prevail, the latest from our favorite Canucks, comes out May 27. It features guest appearances from members of Cannibal Corpse, Overkill, and Jason Suecof, who is also mixing the album. Then the band hits the road for one of the best tours of the summer.

In the meantime, check out our interview with Kataklysm front man Maurizio Iacono.

-AR

Am I the only person hoping that the return of Filter would mean Richard Patrick was going to make more industrial-flavored alt rock? ‘Cause we’ve had no such luck: “Soldiers of Misfortune,” the new single currently streaming on Filter’s MySpace page, is more easy-listening in the vein of “Take A Picture,” a.k.a. “The Song that Makes Axl Rosenberg Wanna Murder Richard Patrick Every Time He Hears It.”

Look: I know Patrick ain’t gonna turn around and make a Cannibal Corpse album – and I wouldn’t want him to – but is another “Hey Man Nice Shot” or “Welcome to the Fold” too much to ask?

-AR