“Carnival Is Forever”, the fifth studio album from Polish technical death metallers DECAPITATED, sold around 2,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 11 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
“Carnival Is Forever” was released in North America on July 12 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD’s cover art was created by Lukasz Jaszak and can be seen below. The follow-up to 2006’s “Organic Hallucinosis” was recorded at Radio Gdansk Studio in Poland with producer Wacek Kieltyka and engineer Arkadiusz “Malta” Malczewski. Drums were tracked with Daniel Bergstrand (BEHEMOTH, MESHUGGAH, DIMMU BORGIR, KEEP OF KALESSIN, DEFLESHED), who also handled mixing duties.
“Carnival Is Forever” track listing:
01. The Knife
02. United
03. Carnival Is Forever
04. Homo Sum
05. 404
06. A View From A Hole
07. Pest
08. Silence
The “Carnival Is Forever” special-edition CD/DVD digipak (featuring different artwork) contains “making-of” video footage from the album recording sessions.
Commented DECAPITATED guitarist Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka: “[The album cover is] very intriguing and quite strange for a metal album but surely staying in memory. A vital thing is that it’s a photo. We did not want any computer graphics this time or anything artificial or plastic. The same regards the production of the album. We had actually been thinking about getting a painting for the cover but unfortunately we couldn’t do it. Maybe next time.”
Regarding the album title, Vogg previously said: “Carnival: war, rape, lies, pathology, evil displayed through certain events and situations of the latest years in the world. Is Forever — I guess it doesn’t need explaining. Both in the text and the title, there is bitter irony. The author of the title and all lyrics is Jarek Szubrycht (LUX OCCULTA, author of “No Mercy”, the world’s first biography of thrash metal legends SLAYER.”
DECAPITATED’s new album was released through Nuclear Blast Records in all territories except the band’s home country where the group made the CD available via its own label.
DECAPITATED’s lineup includes Waclaw “Vogg” Kieltyka on guitar, Kerim “Krimh” Lechner (THORNS OF IVY, TONE INTIMACY) on drums, Rafal Piotrowski (KETHA, FORGOTTEN SOULS) on lead vocals, and Filip “Heinrich” Halucha (VESENIA, ROOTWATER, UNSUN, MASACHIST) on bass.
“Homo Sum” audio stream:
DECAPITATED – Homo Sum by NuclearBlastRecords
Source: www.blabbermouth.net