MOB RULES released their new album, Cannibal Nation, on October 19th, 2012 via AFM Records. Guitarist Sven Luedke is featured in a new interview with Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited discussing the album:

Jeb: This is your seventh album and still the USA does not know much about you. Does it frustrate you that the USA seems to not care as much about metal as other countries?

Luedke: "We are not frustrated about the situation for Mob Rules in the USA. I can’t just think about the attention we get or not get. All I can do is write songs I like and hope the people out there will like them too. Of course, we would love to get more dates in the USA. Playing San Francisco Bay Area Rock Fest and Atlanta Prog Power USA was a blast. The fans were awesome and visiting the USA is absolutely overwhelming."

Jeb: Cannibal Nation smokes, but what an odd title. What the hell does it mean?

Luedke: "Thanks, man. Yes, the title is kind of odd. It was like fooling around with words, sort of wordplay. The song is about Jean Bedel Bokassa, the President of South Africa in the seventies, who did horrible things to his people. We came up with these two words and we thought it was a great sounding and cryptic title."

Jeb: You guys play a great mix of your own sound, but also have a classic feel to you. How do you describe the sound of Mob Rules?

Luedke: "There are a lot of influences within the band, from '60s/'70s hard rock to modern death metal. There are some styles that everyone in the band likes, like prog rock/metal and classic heavy metal, so it has a classic feel, like you said. Funny thing is, no matter what styles we combine, it always sounds like Mob Rules. It is important to us that it is strongly melodic and heavy. That’s why we call it melodic metal."

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According to a press release: “Cannibal Nation is a varied, hook-oriented and energetic record. By building their own studio, a whole lot of new possibilities opened to the band. So the Dwelling Mound studio of guitarist Sven Lüdke became the place for Mob Rules to compose their new material. The result: every song on Cannibal Nation appears sophisticated and right on point."

Cannibal Nation tracklisting follows:

'Close My Eyes'

'Lost'

'Tele Box Fool'

'Ice And Fire'

'Soldiers Of Fortune'

'The Sirens'

'Scream For The Sun (May 29th 1953)'

'Cannibal Nation'

'Sunrise'

Bonus track on digipak: 'Children Of The Flames' (Live In Atlanta)

The video for the track 'Ice & Fire' can be seen below: