Carnifex Release ‘More Than Misery’ and Share ‘The Process of Pain’ Video With Entheos’ Chaney Crabb
Carnifex have released their first album for Sumerian Records, More Than Misery, and marked it with a video for ‘The Process of Pain’ featuring Entheos vocalist Chaney Crabb.
Carnifex have released their first album for Sumerian Records, More Than Misery, and marked it with a video for ‘The Process of Pain’ featuring Entheos vocalist Chaney Crabb.
The Southern California deathcore band’s new record is out today (6 November), and they’re celebrating on stage tonight at Corporation in Sheffield as part of the Death Dominion Tour.
Scott Ian Lewis Says More Than Misery Is About Surviving Trauma
According to the band’s label, earlier Carnifex records found vocalist Scott Ian Lewis trying to process pain while still living through it. On these ten tracks, he writes from the other side, tackling toxic relationships, past trauma and the damage they leave behind.
The title is meant to cut both ways. It could hint at something worse beyond the darkness, but for Lewis it’s about recognising that a life can contain suffering without being swallowed by it.
“We wrote this album to be a reminder, that the only way out is through,” Lewis says, adding that it’s meant to be heard start to finish.
Recorded With Whitechapel’s Zach Householder
Carnifex tracked the album in Tennessee over roughly five to six weeks with Zach Householder of Whitechapel, with Jeff Dunne mixing.
The band say they had more time to write, scrap and rebuild songs than on any previous album. The label describes the result as first-wave deathcore mixed with death metal, blackened atmosphere and symphonic scale, with lead guitar pushed further forward.
Early reviews quoted by the label are positive, including an 8/10 from Blabbermouth. As always, those are the reviews the label chose to share, so judge it for yourself.
Death Dominion Tour Dates
Carnifex are co-headlining the Death Dominion Tour with Despised Icon and Suffocation, with Gates to Hell in support. After Sheffield tonight, the run calls at Electric Bristol tomorrow (7 November) before heading into Europe and finishing in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 20 November.
Formed in Fallbrook, California, in 2005, Carnifex have now spent 21 years at the heart of deathcore, through its first rise, the backlash and its current resurgence. Twenty-one years in, More Than Misery is their statement that they’re still standing.
Is this the record that brings Carnifex back to their heaviest, or have they been on form all along?
