Source: Blabbermouth.net
Death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE will enter Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida this coming weekend with producer Mark Lewis (ARSIS, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, WHITECHAPEL, DEVILDRIVER, DEICIDE, SIX FEET UNDER) to begin recording their new album for a tentative summer release via Metal Blade Records.
In a recent interview, CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster stated about the band’s decision to work with Lewis on the new CD: “We really like a lot of stuff he’s done.
“We did three great records [2006’s ‘Kill’, 2009’s ‘Evisceration Plague’ and 2012’s ‘Torture’] with my good friend Erik Rutan (HATE ETERNAL). He’s one of the best. We felt like, ‘Man, we’ve done three awesome records with him. Let’s try doing something different.’ Not because we are displeased with what he’s done — he did a fantastic job — but we just felt like mixing it up.
“We’ve been working with Erik since 2005. We thought, ‘That’s a good eight years. Let’s give Mark a try for a little while and see how that goes.”
CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s twelfth studio album, “Torture”, sold 9,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band’s previous CD, “Evisceration Plague”, also opened with 9,600 units to land at No. 66. That was more than 50 percent higher than the opening tally of CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s 2006 CD, “Kill”, which entered the chart at No. 170 after shifting more than 6,000 copies.
Metal Blade Records last year released picture discs from the band’s expansive catalog of releases (“Eaten Back To Life”, “Butchered At Birth”, “Tomb Of The Mutilated”, “The Bleeding”, “Vile”, “Gallery Of Suicide”, “Bloodthirst”, “Gore Obsessed”, “The Wretched Spawn”, “Kill”, “Evisceration Plague”, “Torture”). A total of 12 pictures discs were released, covering all of the band’s full-length studio albums, some of which had never been released on picture disc.
CANNIBAL CORPSE was selected for induction in the Buffalo Music Hall Of Fame as a member of the Class of 2013. CANNIBAL CORPSE was the latest addition to the Hall Of Fame, which also includes Buffalo natives the GOO GOO DOLLS, Billy Sheehan, 10,000 MANIACS, and many more. The Class Of 2013 was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall Of Fame at its 30th-anniversary induction gala, which was held October 3, 2013 at the Tralf Music Hall in Buffalo.