Polish technical death metal band DECAPITATED will release their fifth studio album and Nuclear Blast debut, Carnival Is Forever, in Poland and North America on July 12th and rest of the Europe on July 15th.

'Homo Sum', a track off of the new album, is available for worldwide listening in its entirety at this location.

Decapitated previously released a preview for Carnival Is Forever. Check it out below:

Carnival Is Forever tracklisting:

'The Knife'

'United'

'Carnival Is Forever'

'Homo Sum'

'404'

'A View From A Hole'

'Pest'

'Silence'

Guitarist and founding member Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka discusses the album title and cover art by Lukasz Jaszak: “Carnival: war, rape, lies, pathology, evil displayed through certain events and situations of the latest years in the world. Is Forever - I guess it doesn't need explaining. Both the text and the title are bitterly ironic. The art is very intriguing and quite strange for a metal album but surely staying in memory. A vital thing is that it's a photo. We did not want any computer graphics this time or anything artificial or plastic. The same regards the production of the album. We had actually been thinking about getting a painting for the cover but unfortunately we couldn't do it. Maybe next time.”

Carnival Is Forever is the follow-up to 2006’s Organic Hallucinosis and was produced by Wacek Kie?tyka and sound engineered by Malta Arkadiusz Malczewski. Drums and mixing duties were handled by Daniel Bergstrand (BEHEMOTH, MESHUGGAH, DIMMU BORGIR, KEEP OF KALESSIN, DEFLESHED). The author of the album’s lyrics is Jarek Szubrycht, music journalist, author of No Mercy, the world’s first biography of thrash metal legends SLAYER.

The band will be self-releasing the new album in their native Poland.