![]() The global pandemic heightened the situation (read: no touring, expanded free time) and caused Archspire to turn inward and apply additional rigor to their songwriting process, albeit painstakingly so. Thus, the pressure was already there to top Relentless Mutation when the band started to compile new songs in 2018. It was, unquestionably, an innovation of sound and technique - Archspire had broken the speed barrier while creating songs memorable as they were unabashedly extreme for extreme metal. The ‘Europe Summer’ tour includes festival appearances such as Party.San, Brutal Assault, Alcatraz & Summer Breeze!Ġ4 Aug 23 Munich (DE) Backstage (+Shadow Of Intent +Within Destruction)Ġ7 Aug 23 Dresden (DE) Reithalle (+Shadow Of Intent +Within Destruction)Ġ8 Aug 23 Kraków (PL) Kwadrat (+Fit For An Autopsy +Within Destruction)Ġ9 Aug 23 Warsaw (PL) Hybrydy (+Signs of the Swarm)ġ2 Aug 23 Bremen (DE) Tivoli (+Converge +Dying Fetus)ġ4 Aug 23 Schweinfurt (DE) Stattbahnhof (+Dying Fetus)ġ5 Aug 23 Bochum (DE) Matrix (+Dying Fetus)ġ6 Aug 23 Tilburg (NL) 013 (+Converge +Dying Fetus)ġ8 Aug 23 Spital am Semmering (AT) Kaltenbach Open Airġ3 Oct 23 Sydney (AU) The Factory Theatreġ4 Oct 23 Melbourne (AU) The Corner Hotelġ5 Oct 23 Adelaide (AU) Lion Arts Factoryġ7 Oct 23 Perth (AU) Amplifier Bar (no Werewolves)Īrchspire’s 2017 Relentless Mutation was a cavalcade of speed and extremity - blasting, accelerating and, in partial reference to its title, “mutating” as each song unfolded, all the while rapid-fire, shotgun vocals blurred the lines between a man’s throat and additional instrument. Extreme metal champions, now and forever.ARCHSPIRE recently announced new European tour dates for the Summer of 2023. In fact, no one else does it."Īs if to prove his point, Carcass rounded out 2021 with a headline performance at the UK's prestigious Damnation festival, a snarling masterclass in their legacy that proved once and for all that the new material was every bit as iconic and unstoppable as in their formative years. ![]() "Meanwhile, Jeff Walker’s ageless rasp and unerringly perverse and sardonic lyrics are as unique as ever. "The band are instinctively disinterested in rehashing past glories, and are still overburdened with brilliant, eccentric ideas," he continues. Theirs is a proudly old-school approach, and yet from the ripping riff-splurge of the opening title track to the cudgelling pomp of The Scythe’s Remorseless Swing, Carcass always sound utterly contemporary too." "These songs offer a wonderfully organic and human antidote to the legions of Pro-Tooled conformity. "Veteran status be damned, Carcass sound thoroughly vital and vivacious here," he wrote in a glowing review. ![]() Hammer's resident death metal expert Dom Lawson had no hesitation in handing a 9/10 score for the sheer excellence on display throughout Torn Arteries. The Liverpudlians' seventh effort Torn Arteries unfolded with an ungodly level of (surgical) precision, each clattering drum-fill, nimble-fingered riff structure and throat-shredding snarl measured out to just the right level to assert exactly why Carcass are considered the grand-daddies of extremity whilst grasping for inhuman levels of virtuosic brilliance. Potent and perilously addictive, Violence Unimagined is, without question, 2021’s bloody benchmark for the genre."ģ5 years of boundary pushing, tolerance testing extremity and still Carcass manage to astound. His closing statement proves to be no less descriptive in summarising just how much Corpse bring to the table - "the old-school death metal revival has gained steam recently, but most of those newbies sound like piss down the pan compared to this. ![]() Instead, Florida’s death metal daddies have weaned one of their most wretched, brutal babies this side of the millennium." What violence is there left to imagine, lads? Album number 15 doesn’t detail any new, exciting ways to remove someone’s scrotum using just a fidget spinner and elbow grease. Violence Unimagined wasn't any massive transformation for the band's sound, nor did it represent a new watermark in extremity as a whole, rather it was Corpse delivering the same pulverising nastiness and brutality fans have come to expect over the past 30 years plus, drenched in offal and claret as the band barely came up for breath.Īs Hammer's Alec Chillingworth mused in his review, "You already wrote Fucked With A Knife. Trust death metal legends Cannibal Corpse to go and trump just about everyone else in the game purely on the virtue of being, well, Cannibal Corpse.
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