Six Feet Under’s Next Album is Done, Mixing to Start Pretty Soon
When it comes to death metal bands, Six Feet Under is definitely one of those outfits that you either fuckin’ love them or you fuckin’ hate them. At least that’s what I gather from our comment section. You guys have some major issues with this band — and rightfully so in some instances. (Though some of you guys are super unfair, too.)
Still, regardless of whether you love or hate him, vocalist Chris Barnes revealed in an interview with Metal Blade Records CEO Brian Slagel on the 100 Songs That Define Heavy Metal podcast that the follow up to 2024’s Killing For Revenge is done and ready for the mixing process real soon.
“It’s a really interesting album… Well, me and Jack wrote the songs on this… This time he wrote half of the lyrics on the album; I wrote the other half. And that’s been really interesting for me too, to collaborate as a lyricist with someone… So me and Jack collaborated on [Cannibal Corpse’s debut album] Eaten Back To Life, on ‘Shredded Humans’. And his writing style and his storytelling is very immersive as well. And I love the way Jack writes. He’s been a really amazing addition to Six Feet Under as far as progressing the band and keeping things interesting.
“This album, it encompasses just a lot of everything we’ve done. I mean, even going back to Haunted, there are some songs that are very rhythmic and I think more on the simple, straightforward side. And then there’s some songs that are very thrashy, which kind of came into play on the last album, on Killing For Revenge, where they’re more thrashy-based type of death metal. And then there’s some songs — one of the songs really reminds me of like something we would’ve done on The Bleeding when I was in Cannibal Corpse, when [Jack and I] were both in Cannibal Corpse. So it’s really, really cool.”
According to Barnes, Six Feet Under will be returning to the well for the person who’ll mix the new album, as Mark Lewis will once again handle that task for the band. Eagle-eyed fans of the band will recognize Lewis for his work on the band’s 2010 covers album Graveyard Classics III, in addition to the band’s 2012 record Undead and 2013 record Unborn.
“We haven’t worked with [Lewis] since Undead and Unborn. And I really liked his mix that he did on — he did the new Dying Fetus record, but the last one, I was really, really a fan of that.
“And we actually reconnected on Six Feet Under’s tour earlier this past year — it was January, February 2025 here when we were in Nashville and we talked backstage and we had a really good conversation. So it was sticking with me for a few months after that, like, ‘Man, I just really love that production he did on the Fetus album and it’d be great to work with him again.’ So I kind of connected with him after that tour, a couple of months after, and he was, like, ‘Oh, man, I’m down. Let’s do this.’ So he’s really open to explore the production and the mix in an interesting way so that it complements these songs, ’cause they are very diverse from each other.”
So yeah, with the album heading to mixing, it’s only a matter of time before we start hearing some new Six Feet Under tunes. Keep your eyes peeled here to find out as soon as more info comes out.
