Throughout an look on the newest episode of the “100 Songs That Outline Heavy Steel” podcast, hosted by Steel Blade Information CEO Brian Slagel, SIX FEET UNDER vocalist Chris Barnes spoke concerning the progress of the recording classes for the band’s upcoming album. The follow-up to final 12 months’s “Killing For Revenge” is tentatively due in early 2026 through Steel Blade Information. Barnes stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Properly, the brand new album’s accomplished. I completed vocals final week down in Miami, on the Standards [studios].”
Relating to what followers can count on from the brand new SIX FEET UNDER LP, Chris stated: “It is a actually fascinating album… Properly, me and Jack [Owen, SIX FEET UNDER guitarist] wrote the songs on this… This time he wrote half of the lyrics on the album; I wrote the opposite half. And that is been actually fascinating for me too, to collaborate as a lyricist with somebody… So me and Jack collaborated on [CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s debut album] ‘Eaten Again To Life’, on [the song] ‘Shredded People’. And his writing model and his storytelling may be very immersive as properly. And I like the way in which Jack writes. He is been a very superb addition to SIX FEET UNDER so far as progressing the band and retaining issues fascinating.”
He continued: “This album, it encompasses simply quite a lot of every part we have accomplished. I imply, even going again to ‘Haunted’, there are some songs which might be very rhythmic and I feel extra on the easy, simple aspect. After which there’s some songs which might be very thrashy, which form of got here into play on the final album, on ‘Killing For Revenge’, the place they’re extra thrashy-based sort of dying metallic. After which there’s some songs — one of many songs actually jogs my memory of like one thing we might’ve accomplished on ‘The Bleeding’ after I was in CANNIBAL CORPSE, when [Jack and I] had been each in CANNIBAL CORPSE. So it is actually, actually cool.”
Relating to the manufacturing of the upcoming SIX FEET UNDER LP, Barnes stated: “We have not blended the album but; that begins subsequent month in November. Mark Lewis is gonna be mixing this album. So we’re gonna be working with him once more. We have not labored with him since ‘Undead’ and ‘Unborn’. And I actually preferred his combine that he did on — he did the brand new DYING FETUS document, however the final one, I used to be actually, actually a fan of that. And we really reconnected on SIX FEET UNDER‘s tour earlier this previous 12 months — it was January, February 2025 right here once we had been in Nashville and we talked backstage and we had a very good dialog. So it was sticking with me for a number of months after that, like, ‘Man, I simply actually love that manufacturing he did on the FETUS album and it might be nice to work with him once more.’ So I form of related with him after that tour, a few months after, and he was, like, ‘Oh, man, I am down. Let’s do that.’ So he is actually open to discover the manufacturing and the combination in an fascinating approach in order that it enhances these songs, ‘trigger they’re very numerous from one another.”
He added: “I do not like blanket productions. I feel I discussed to you years in the past, I used to be, like, how come one track cannot have one manufacturing, like with a distinct snare sound, for example? And why cannot that track have one other sound to it on the identical album? And I perceive there must be some cohesiveness all through the album. I am an enormous fan of creating every track its personal entity. We’re not gonna go to this point with it like that, however I’ve all the time revered bands and albums and producers which were in a position to try this and never simply do a blanket manufacturing to make it sound extra natural, I suppose.”
A month in the past, SIX FEET UNDER canceled its beforehand introduced “Midnight In Hell” tour with EXHORDER, WRETCHED and INCITE “attributable to unexpected circumstances”. The trek was scheduled to launch on September 20 in Indianapolis, Indiana and conclude on October 25 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
“Killing For Revenge” got here out in Might 2024 via Steel Blade Information. The LP marked the second effort that Barnes and Owen (ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE) had created collectively since reuniting for 2020’s “Nightmares Of The Decomposed”. Owen additionally produced “Killing For Revenge”.
SIX FEET UNDER was initially fashioned as a aspect mission for Barnes throughout his closing years with the band that he co-founded, CANNIBAL CORPSE. It grew to become the frontman’s sole focus in 1995, coinciding with the discharge of their debut, “Haunted”. Solely Barnes stays from SIX FEET UNDER‘s unique incarnation, however the high quality has remained remarkably constant. The present lineup of Barnes, guitarists Owen and Ray Suhy, bassist Jeff Hughell and drummer Marco Pitruzzella make for a devastating unit.
Whereas Barnes is the only real remaining member, SIX FEET UNDER is about greater than he and Owen. The singer is thrilled with the present lineup, and what every member brings to the desk. “Jeff and Marco have been with me for about 10 years,” Barnes stated in final 12 months’s press launch. “I am actually lucky that I’ve most likely the most effective musicians in metallic. For those who have a look at it, we’ve the identical quantity of unique members as CANNIBAL CORPSE. Jeff is a killer bass participant. Marco‘s most likely the most effective drummer on the market. Jack‘s the best songwriter I’ve ever been concerned with over the 30-plus years I have been doing music professionally. And Ray is only a phenomenal guitarist who can play every part from jazz to dying metallic. The lineup now’s untouchable.”
“Killing For Revenge”, which featured a visitor look by guitarist Jason Suecof on “Neanderthal”, was blended and mastered by Chaz Najjar at Badlands Recording in Denver, Colorado. The document was launched on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl.
SIX FEET UNDER is:
Chris Barnes – vocals
Jack Owen – rhythm guitar
Ray Suhy – lead guitar
Jeff Hughell – bass
Marco Pitruzzella – drums
