Death metal legends CANNIBAL CORPSE check in with the following update:

"Hello everybody, we’ve just returned from a 7 show mini-tour of Europe that was comprised of three festival dates and 4 headlining shows.

We began with a performance at France’s Hellfest on June 22nd, the show went very well despite some inclement weather. Ask anyone who was there and they’ll tell you there was definitely a lot of mud to deal with, as well as strong winds and rain. Regardless, the fans gave us and the other bands a great response.

The next show was at Belgium’s Graspop festival. We had a great time at the festival, not only due to the great fan response during our performance, but also as fans ourselves. Getting to watch the other bands at these festivals is definitely part of the fun for us. For all of us, the band of the day was probably Heaven and Hell, who played on the main stage minutes after our performance at one of the tent stages. It rained pretty hard during Heaven and Hell’s set, but we didn’t mind getting soaked to watch masters like them perform. It was a truly killer show.

Following Graspop, we had a day off in Frankfurt and then we traveled on to St. Petersburg Russia. We had a great time performing there, and we were happy to have a little time to talk with some fans after the show. One fan told us we were playing during the “White Nights” of St. Petersburg, and sure enough, even after the show had ended there was still daylight outside.

After an overnight train ride we arrived in Moscow. This was our 3rd show in Moscow, and we are very happy we returned. Of all of the shows, the Moscow gig probably had the most stage diving, the crowd had extremely intense energy. Again, we were happy to be able to hang out with some fans at the club after the show, as we had not had much opportunity to do so during our first two trips to Moscow.

After Moscow, we returned to Germany and spent the night in Berlin. The next day we went to Leipzig for the With Full Force festival. It was another excellent festival with a great crowd, and of the three fests it was probably the one that had the best weather. There were a lot of great bands playing the festival throughout the night, but unfortunately didn’t see many as we had to leave soon after our performance to get to the airport for our flight to Iceland.

It was our first time in Iceland, and we were all very excited to play there. We played two shows at the Nasa club in Reykjavik, and we had a great time at both. The fans were really intense both nights (the first show was drinking age, the second all ages). Everybody we met in Iceland gave us an incredible warm welcome and we hope to return to play again there in the future. A few of us also stayed in Iceland for an extra day for some sightseeing and the term “awesome” is certainly not an overstatement to describe the things we saw (waterfalls, geysers, lava fields, hot springs, etc.). We should also note that during the 3 days went spent there it was daylight the entire time, much like the aforementioned “White Nights” in St. Petersburg. That made an already interesting experience that much more unique. This was our first trip to Iceland, but we certainly hope it’s not the last because it was an incredible trip.

In all, this short trip to Europe was really excellent and also very interesting. We’d like to thank the following people for their help during the tour (apologies to anybody we forget): Our road crew (Paul and Brain), Henk from Vain Productions, Vadim from Flaming Arts Productions, Hellfest, Graspop, With Full Force, Metal Blade Records Europe, Access metal pub in Berlin, the drivers who took us to WFF and the airport, Thorsteinn, Smari, and everybody involved with the shows in Iceland (including the people who loaned us gear and the guys who helped out with the apartment, thanks so much), all of the great bands we shared the stage with during the tour, all of our friends we saw at the festivals, and of course, most importantly we need to thank the fans who came to the shows and kicked so much ass.

You guys are the best, thank you!"