Cannibal Corpse Announces New Album, New Member
Cannibal Corpse has announced their 15th studio album will be arriving this spring. Violence Unimagined continues the band’s extreme metal legacy while also marking a new lineup. Guitarist Erik Rutan, who fronts Hate Eternal, has permanently taken the spot vacated by Pat O’Brien in 2018. He’s also a renowned producer that has worked with Cannibal Corpse several times. Bass monster Alex Webster weighed in on Rutan’s addition to the group.
“I think the most noticeable difference on this record will be the addition of Erik to the band. He wrote three full songs for the record, music and lyrics, and his song writing and guitar playing have added something new, and I think his musical style integrated into ours very well,” he says. “He’s a great friend of ours, so on a personal level, he’s been a perfect fit, as we knew he would be. Beyond that, he’s one of the hardest working people I know, in music or otherwise, and he maintains a high energy, positive demeanor in challenging situations where other people might go in a negative direction. This energy and great attitude rubs off on the rest of us as well. That’s really a perfect situation to have when you add someone to a band, or any kind of team: someone who’s great at what they do, and also inspires the people around them.”
Although the guitarist brings a lot to the table, Webster says you can expect what you hear on every Cannibal Corpse album: the heaviest music ever.
“It really follows the path we’ve been going down for a few years now,” the bassist explains. “I think we approach the writing in a similar way most every time: each of us try to write the heaviest, most memorable songs we can. We want each song to have its own identifiable character. Showing my age, I like to say you can ‘drop the needle’ on any point of one of our albums and quickly tell which song you’re listening to.”
Just check out the first single, “Inhumane Harvest,” and you’ll know he means it. [Warning: video contains graphic content.]
Violence Unimagined is slated to drop on April 16th in multiple formats.
Violence Unimagined Track List:
- Murderous Rampage
- Necrogenic Resurrection
- Inhumane Harvest
- Condemnation Contagion
- Surround, Kill, Devour
- Ritual Annihilation
- Follow the Blood
- Bound and Burned
- Slowly Sawn
- Overtorture
- Cerements of the Flayed
