CARCASS guitarist Bill Steer recently spoke with Sweden's Metal Shrine. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q; The album Surgical Steel has been out for a couple of months and you´ve had time to reflect on it. Do you feel that it came out exactly the way you wanted it to?

Bill: "Not exactly, because they never do. I´d say we are reasonably happy with it because we spent a fair amount of time on the whole thing, looking on the whole process from the beginning of the writing thing to completing the mixing. We worked hard. Once I had a bit of distance from the thing and didn't listen to it for a while, I actually started to enjoy it."

Q: Are you already now thinking about the next album, even though this one is fairly new?

Bill: "Yeah. There´s a mutual agreement between us that we´d like to do one. There´s an awareness that if we can get through the next seven months of touring and festivals and still like each other and feel good about this, we definitely want to do a record. There´s loads of lessons we learnt on this one and while I´ve still got it fresh in my head, I want to build on that. It´s fun, but it´s a really challenging thing to do because I haven´t done anything creatively in this genre of music for so long, but it suddenly felt very fresh. I had escaped it because it was too limited in my mind and after a few years of doing other styles of music, I found there were new limitations with that and I wanted to go back and do extreme music again (laughs). You can never be 100% happy, but right now this is what I like doing. As I said, it´s a challenge and probably more so now than ever, because it´s hard to be innovative in this music. There´s a lot of incredible players out there. Especially the American guys, they´re treating it like a sport and the drummers especially and you have to admire the dedication and tenacity, but I also think this music has to have a little bit of soul and maybe some swing."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

In a huge accomplishment for a metal band, Carcass hit #43 on the world sales charts with their new album Surgical Steel.

Global Surgical Steel first-week chart positions include:

Finland: #6

Germany: #10

Austria: #24

US: #41

Sweden: #42 (Sweden Rock/Metal #4)

World: #43

UK: #47 (UK Indie #13, UK Rock #4)

Australia: #59

Netherlands: #73

France: #80

Ireland: #84 (Ireland Indie: #15)

Belgium: #117 (Flanders #130, Walloonia #87)

Surgical Steel, the band’s first studio release since their 1996 LP Swansong, was produced by Colin Richardson (NAPALM DEATH, BOLT THROWER, GOREFEST, CANNIBAL CORPSE, SINISTER, RODRIGO Y GABRIELA) and mixed/mastered by Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, ACCEPT, EXODUS, TESTAMENT). Joining guitarist Bill Steer and bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker in the band's current incarnation are new drummer Dan Wilding (ABORTED, TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED) and guitarist Ben Ash (PIG IRON, DESOLATION, LIQUEFIED SKELETON). Expect some guest vocals from original sticksman Ken Owen as well, when Surgical Steel is finally released this fall worldwide.

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Check out BraveWords' glowing review of Surgical Steel here. BraveWords scribe Aaron Small's new Carcass feature is available at this location.