CANNIBAL CORPSE have begun recording their twelfth studio album at Sonic Ranch studios in Texas with producer Erik Rutan (HATE ETERNAL). Speaking to Metal Hammer bassist Alex Webster talks bout the new material:

“I can’t tell you the album title or the song titles or what the artwork’s gonna look like! The artwork will be a bit more like what we were known for in the past and a bit less subtle than the last two albums. They were fairly subtle by Cannibal Corpse standards. The lyrics on this record are pretty much what we’re known for and the title is not going to be a huge shocker for anyone either.

Music-wise, there has been a pretty interesting development on this record. I’ve been one of the main writers on the last few records and on ‘Evisceration Plague’ I wrote seven whole songs, lyrics and music, and another half of another song plus lyrics for ‘Scalding Hail’, which Rob and me did together. So I did a lot, but this time round I wanted Pat (O'Brien) and Rob (Barrett) to get involved a little more and I was afraid that by writing so much, they were so busy learning my stuff that they hadn’t been able to focus on writing their own stuff.

I had another recording project going on anyhow so I decided to lay off the writing a little. In the end, Pat wrote four songs and Rob wrote three, so there’s a much more even division of songwriting and a lot more variety on this record."

Read the entire interview here.

Cannibal Corpse will headline the first-ever edition of the Destroyers Of The Faith tour, and will be bringing with them some of the biggest names in extreme music.

Joining the New York titans of gore on this history-making trek will be none other than bowel-exploding doom metal kings TRIPTYKON, spearheaded by seminal extreme metal icon Tom G. Warrior of CELTIC FROST and HELLHAMMER fame. And, as if that wasn't enough, both bands will also be joined by veteran Norwegian progressive black metallers ENSLAVED and Arizona death metal favourites, JOB FOR A COWBOY.

"Just being a part of such a killer package and having these bands on there...it's gonna be an exciting time and a great tour for the UK," says Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz. "I hope all the fans are really pumped for this one, because we definitely are! This is the first time that this is happening in the UK, and it's very exciting."
"It's the perfect tour!" adds Job For A Cowboy frontman Jonny Davy. "We still feel like we have a lot to prove, and this is the perfect tour to get in everyone's faces."

Destroyers Of The Faith marks the first time that four such blockbuster extreme metal bands have toured the UK on one bill, and promises to be a legendary showcase of some of the gnarliest, darkest and downright heaviest music to ever grace these shores.

Destroyers Of The Faith will hit the UK on the following dates:

March

7 - Bristol, England – O2 Academy
8 - Glasgow, Scotland – O2 ABC
9 - Manchester, England – Academy
10 - London, England – HMV Forum
11 - Birmingham, England – HMV Institute