Six Feet Under has confirmed details of their annual X-mas In Hell European Tour. "Should be a kick ass time this holiday season," says vocalist Chris Barnes. The routing is as follows:

December
3 - Flensburg, Germany – Roxy
4 - Rostock, Germany – Alte Zuckerfabrik
5 - Cham, Germany – L.A.
6 - Wien, Austria – Viper Room
7 -Berlin, Germany – K 17
8 - Magdeburg, Germany – Factory
9 - Aalen, Germany – Rock it
10 - Ingolstadt, Germany – Eventhalle Westpark
11 - Bischofswerda, Germany – East Club
12 - Glauchau, Germany – Alte Spinnerei

Earlier this year, Six Feet Under released a video for the Crypt Of The Devil album track, “Open Coffin Orgy”, shot with director Mitch Massie (Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation).

Crypt Of The Devil, the band’s eleventh studio album includes the cover art of Mike Hrubovcak (Aurora Borealis, Sinister, Rumplestiltskin Grinder). The ten track slab of audio violence was composed by vocalist Chris Barnes and Cannabis Corpse bassist/vocalist Phil "Landphil" Hall. Recording for the album took place at Hall's studio in Virginia. Hall tracked rhythm and bass guitar, while his brother, Josh Hall, tracked drums, and guitarist Brandon Ellis tracked the majority of the album's leads. Barnes took to London Bridge Studio (Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains) in his new base of operations in Seattle, Washington to record vocals and in fact holed himself up in the very same booth where Layne Staley tracked his words. The mix was completed by Rob Caldwell (Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan) in Sarasota, Florida and mastering was done by Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Revocation, Torche, Skeletonwitch) at West West Side in New Windsor, New York.

It was strictly hands-off for Barnes when it came to the music that appears on Crypt Of The Devil. “Phil (Hall) gave me a whole album’s worth of material,” he tells BraveWords. “We had a bunch of demo stuff… I don’t really have any say. It’s like this man – you go to a restaurant that you’ve really wanted to eat at for a long time. Before you even sit down, you go into the kitchen and you start harassing the chef. I mean, what the fuck do you think is going to come out on your plate? Probably a meal with some extra bodily fluids. If I’m surrounded by great chefs, and I’m going to be eating up their food, why the fuck do I want to go in and tell them how to do their job? I don’t know how to be a chef. I know how to put the frosting on the cake though. That’s how I feel, surrounding myself with these great musicians and great writers for a reason. I just let them do their thing. Phil gave me his best work, and I don’t think it could be anything greater. It’s funny because the demos were slightly different; ins and outs, the feel. I am the guy that gets demo-itis really fast and tries to preserve those things. When things did start to change, and evolve a little bit during the process, it did shake me up. I had to kind of face my fears with all those things, kind of letting go of production. The past couple of albums, I’ve had to slightly let myself become less involved because I think that’s the better thing for the band and for myself as far as my own motivation and inspiration goes. I just let Phil take the wheel, man. Even though I would have stopped things and put the brakes on if it was a different point in time in my life. If I was overseeing things, I would have done it differently, but I’m really glad I didn’t.”

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