In the new video interview below, CARCASS members Jeff Walker and Bill Steer discuss the changes in the music industry over the years:

Carcass have released their anxiously-awaited sixth full-length album, Surgical Steel. In a new video posted by Nuclear Blast Records, the band are asked about the album artwork.

Carcass have released the following three track-by-track videos breaking down the songs from Surgical Steel.

Part I:

Part II:

Part III:

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.

Surgical Steel tracklisting:

'1985'

'Thrasher's Abattoir'

'Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System'

'A Congealed Clot Of Blood'

'The Master Butcher's Apron'

'Noncompliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard'

'The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills'

'Unfit For Human Consumption'

'316L Grade Surgical Steel'

'Captive Bolt Pistol'

'Mount Of Execution'

'Intensive Battery Brooding' (digipack and Japanese bonus track)

'A Wraith In The Apparatus' (Japanese bonus track)

Full album stream:

'Captive Bolt Pistol' lyric video:

Check out BraveWords' glowing review of Surgical Steel here.

A brief tour of The United States in support of Surgical Steel has totally sold out well in advance:

September

23 - Reggie’s - Chicago, IL (with MACABRE)
25 - Saint Vitus - Brooklyn, NY (with IMMOLATION)
26 - Gramercy Theatre - New York, NY (with Immolation)
28 - The Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA (with EXHUMED)
29 - The Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA (with Exhumed)