Berlin based CARNAL TOMB reveal the new digital single cover track ‘Dismembered’, which is part of a two-track digital single “Dismembered Flesh” that will come out on October 8, 2024.
“Dismembered Flesh” is an enthusiastic tribute to seminal Swedish death metal icons DISMEMBER and GRAVE. It features cover versions of DISMEMBER’s eponymous track ‘Dismembered’ and the GRAVE classic ‘Extremely Rotten Flesh’). CARNAL TOMB‘s logo pastiche of the iconic DISMEMBER lettering for this release was personally approved by the Swede’s drummer Fred Estby.
The release of the full-digital single will also double up as the starting signal for CARNAL TOMB‘s upcoming European “Unearthly Decay Tour” in support of ENGULFED. The single will be also available as a limited physical 7″ edition during the tour. The German death metal fanatics will also use this opportunity to introduce their new lead guitarist and background vocalistLiran Aloni aka Immolator live.
Please see below for all currently confirmedCARNAL TOMB shows. CARNAL TOMB will tour in support of the current third album. Cover art, tracklist, and details of “Embalmed in Decay” can also be found below.
CARNAL TOMB comment: “Along with embarking on our tour with Engulfed, this October will also mark the 10th anniversary of the foundation of Carnal Tomb and we have prepared something special to celebrate this occasion”, drummer Daniel ‘Vomitchrist’ Sturm writes. “The name of our band has been inspired by a song of the mighty Dismember. The Swedes have influenced us right from the beginning and they are still important to us. We decided to record a cover version of the song ‘Dismembered’ from their debut album ‘Like an Everflowing Stream” as a tribute. This track will also appear with a different mix on an upcoming Dismember tribute compilation.”
CARNAL TOMB & ENGULFED
“Unearthly Decay Tour” EU October 2024
09 OCT 2024 Berlin (DE) Urban Spree
10 OCT 2024 Hamburg (DE) Bambi Galore
11 OCT 2024 Wolfsburg (DE) Sauna Club
12 OCT 2024 Göttingen (DE) Juzi
13 OCT 2024 Münster (DE) Baracke
14 OCT 2024 Köln (DE) Valhalla
15 OCT 2024 Essen (DE) Don’t Panic
16 OCT 2024 Brussel (BE) Magasin 4
17 OCT 2024 Karlsruhe (DE) P8
18 OCT 2024 Zürich (CH) Ebrietas
19 OCT 2024 Nürnberg (DE) Kunstverein
20 OCT 2024 Graz (AT) Music-House
21 OCT 2024 Wien (AT) Cafe Carina
22 OCT 2024 Budapest (HU) Robot
23 OCT 2024 Wrocław (PL) Liverpool
Headliner Show
05 OCT 2024 Bielefeld (DE) JZ Stricker, Live Undead 43
CARNAL TOMB will be touring in support of their latest album “Embalmed in Decay”, which was released on November 3, 2023.
“Embalmed in Decay” is streaming in full via this link:
https://carnaltomb.bandcamp.com/album/embalmed-in-decay
Tracklist
1. Intro
2. The Putridarium
3. Cataclysmic Maze
4. Defiled Flesh
5. Draped in Disgust
6. Cerebral Ingestion
7. Morgue Usurper
8. Embalmed in Decay
9. Eyes of the Chasm
CARNAL TOMB from Germany’s chaotic and vibrant capital city Berlin have reached that point in their career, which is traditionally associated with ‘making or breaking it’: the famous third album. Entitled “Embalmed in Decay”, this beautifully putrid and rotten manifest of morbidity perfectly channels the spirit of old school death metal.
The Germans have honed their songwriting to razor-edged sharpness with slightly shorter tracks compared to their previous releases, fast forward blast beats, and they have also kept some of their characteristic doom-driven passages. It all adds up to a contemporary version of classic death metal with enormous firepower that will cement their status as one of the hottest young acts of this most brutal genre.
Guest performances on “Embalmed in Decay” by Serkan Niron from Turkey’s death metal sickos ENGULFED on the track ‘Draped in Disgust’ and some additional intros from former MORBID PANZER as well as PUTRESCINE, and SPEEDWHORE guitarist Leonhard Link put the deliciously toxic icing on CARNAL TOMB‘s gut and gore cake.
The album title “Embalmed in Decay” as well as the track ‘The Putridarum’ are inspired by a chilling funeral practice particularly ‘popular’ in Southern Italy from late medieval until early modern times: The corpses of the deceased were placed into a so-called ‘putridarium’ where they were left to rot until nothing remained except the bones, which were brought to an ossuary as their final resting place. This procedure was symbolising a state of purgatory that the dead had to go through.
Other gruesome sources of inspiration for CARNAL TOMB were shaped in the original mould of death metal lyrics that include the works of H.P. Lovecraft as well as gore and zombie movies such as Amando de Ossorio’s 1972 genre classic “Tombs of the Blind Dead”, which directly influenced the song ‘The Putridarium’. Obviously, these themes have also inspired the morbid cover artwork of “Embalmed in Decay” by artist Skaðvaldur.
CARNAL TOMB were formed in Berlin in 2014 out of a hunger for old school death metal that possessed all band members. Besides a remarkable number of demo recordings, EPs, split and single releases, their two full-lengths “Rotten Remains” (2016) and “Abhorrent Veneration” (2019) quickly earned the band an excellent reputation in death metal circles around the globe.
Particularly, “Abhorrent Veneration” opened the stages of Europe to CARNAL TOMB – of which the early 2023 “Decayed Manifestations” tour with TERATOMA led them through Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Switzerland, and Germany. A tour supporting “Embalmed in Decay” is already in the planning stages.
With the putrid death metal horror of “Embalmed in Decay”, CARNAL TOMB raise the blind dead from their tombs and unleash these monsters and other brutal evils upon an unsuspecting world.
Band: Carnal Tomb
Album: Embalmed in Decay
Release date: November 3, 2023
Style: Death Metal
Label: Testimony Records
Reording line-upMarc Strobel (Cryptic Tormentor) – guitars, vocals
Toni Thomas (Goat Eviscerator) – guitars
Daniel Sturm (Vomitchrist) – drums
Mustafa Kaya (Impaler) – bass
Current line-up
Marc Strobel (Cryptic Tormentor) – vocals, guitars
Daniel Sturm (Vomitchrist) – drums
Mustafa Kaya (Impaler) – bass
Liran Aloni (Immolator) – lead guitar, backing vocals
Guest musician
Serkan Niron (ENGULFED) – additional vocals on ‘Draped in Disgust’
Leonhard Link (PUTRESCINE, SPEEDWHORE) – additional intros
Recording & Mix by Tobias Engl at Englsound in Berlin, Germany
Mastering by Sverker Widgren at Wing Studios, Stockholm, Sweden
Artwork by Skaðvaldur
Layout by Skaðvaldur & Marc Strobel
Links
www.facebook.com/CarnalTombDeathMetal
www.instagram.com/carnal_tomb