Six Feet Under Drops “Ascension” Lyric Video

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SIX FEET UNDER today unveils their latest single, “Ascension.” The annihilating new track comes by way of the band’s upcoming fourteenth studio album, Killing For Revenge, set for release on May 10th through Metal Blade Records.

A gnarly beast of a record that’s not for the faint-hearted, Killing For Revenge dishes up nightmare-inducing imagery courtesy of legendary frontman Chris Barnes via the vocalist’s trademark guttural vocals. Both the album title and darkly detailed red-hued album cover by artist Vince Locke are perfect containers for the brutality within.

Forged as a side project for Barnes during his final years with the band that he co-founded, Cannibal Corpse, SIX FEET UNDER became the frontman’s sole focus in 1995, coinciding with the release of their debut, Haunted. Only Barnes remains from SIX FEET UNDER‘s original incarnation, but the quality has remained remarkably consistent. The current lineup of Barnes, guitarists Jack Owen (ex-Cannibal Corpse) and Ray Suhy, bassist Jeff Hughell, and drummer Marco Pitruzzella make for a devastating unit.

Killing For Revenge marks the second album that Barnes and Owen have created together since reuniting for 2020’s Nightmares Of The Decomposed. Owen also produced the record. The chemistry between the five men is palpable; listening to Killing for Revenge, one could be forgiven for assuming that they hid themselves away for a couple of months and hammered it out in creative seclusion. Not the case. “We all recorded it on our own, in different parts of the country since we’re all spread out,” says Barnes. “I think the most important thing is to put everybody in a comfortable space so that they get a great performance. That’s what you want to capture. It’s really hard nowadays to afford everyone being in the studio recording like we used to back in the ’90s. It can be done just as effectively this way.”

From the opening moments of “Know-Nothing Ingrate,” which kicks off the vile proceedings, it’s immediately clear that SIX FEET UNDER focused their energies into something that’s as brutal, lyrically visceral, and musically dazzling as one would hope for from the ground-breaking Tampa-bred death metal lineup.As a special bonus, SIX FEET UNDER also recorded a cover of Nazareth‘s “Hair Of The Dog,” which appears on all formats of Killing For Revenge with the exception of vinyl.

Elaborates Owen of today’s “Ascension” single, “I wrote the music first, with no lyrical ideas in mind. I wanted a small musical phrase that linked the parts together throughout the song, so I wrote a little chord/drum fill thing to segue riffs from the start of the song, through to the end. It turned out sounding like early Possessed, according to listeners. I have an archive of riffs, so I dug for some fast-picking parts that would be easy to sing to.

“I had recently found a vinyl box set of works by Shakespeare, and listened to Macbeth,” he continues, “It’s pretty violent! So while ‘Ascension’ isn’t a direct interpretation of the story, it’s my take on the classic tale of influence, revenge, and the fate you face. As with many of the songs, Chris lent his lyrical talents to make the song that much better.”

Watch SIX FEET UNDER‘s lyric video for “Ascension” at THIS LOCATION.

Watch the lyric video for first single, “Know-Nothing Ingrate,” HERE.

Killing For Revenge, which features a guest appearance by guitarist Jason Suecof on “Neanderthal,” was mixed and mastered by Chaz Najjar at Badlands Recording in Denver, Colorado. The record will be released on CD and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:

Clear w/ Red Bloodshot (US)
180g Black (EU)
Crusted Blood Marbled (EU)
Khaki Brown Marbled (EU – Ltd. 300)
Blood Red Splatter (EU – Ltd. 300)
Gold “Black Dust” (EU – Ltd. 200)

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SIX FEET UNDER:
Chris Barnes – vocals
Jack Owen – rhythm guitar
Ray Suhy – lead guitar
Jeff Hughell – bass
Marco Pitruzzella – drums

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MASTER BOOT RECORD Announces European Tour for the Fall of 2024!

MASTER BOOT RECORD is helmed by technologist/producer/songwriter Victor Love (AKA Vittorio D’Amore). Founded in 2016, Love fuses heavy metal and synthesized electronic music to fabricate a sound that exists in a singular category of its own. The live shows see D’Amore taking the stage along with guitar virtuoso Edoardo Taddei on lead guitars and technical death metal drummer Giulio Galati and features stunning retro-visuals in a journey into demoscene, crack scene, and retrogaming.

Comments Love: "We are very excited to return to Europe this fall to spread the code after the great success of our previous tour! We’ll revisit many cities where we’ve already performed, as well as explore new ones, as we continue to expand our touring plans in collaboration with Doomstar Bookings. With a new album expected to release just before the tour, we will introduce a fresh setlist that includes new songs along with classics from our discography. Additionally, we plan to enhance our visual shows with more hardware, computers, cathode TVs, and a load of floppy disks to be thrown at the end of each show!"

MASTER BOOT RECORD European tour 2024
18 OCT – FR – MARSEILLE – LE MOLOTOV
19 OCT – FR – PARIS – BACKSTAGE BY THE MILL
20 OCT – FR – NANTES – LE FERRAILLEUR
22 OCT – UK – LONDON – ACADEMY 2
23 OCT – UK – MANCHESTER – SATANS HOLLOW
24 OCT – UK – GLASGOW – CATHOUSE
26 OCT – IR – DUBLIN – GRAND SOCIAL
28 OCT – UK – BRISTOL – EXCHANGE
30 OCT – NL – EINDHOVEN – EFFENAAR
31 OCT – NL – AMSTERDAM – MELKWEG
02 NOV – DE – COLOGNE – CLUB VOLTA
03 NOV – NL – LEEUWARDEN – NEUSHOORN
04 NOV – DE – HAMBURG – LOGO
06 NOV – DK – COPENHAGEN – STENGADE
07 NOV – SE – GOTHENBURG – VALAND
08 NOV – NO – OSLO – GOLDIE
09 NOV – SE – STOCKHOLM – KOLLEKTIVET LIVET
12 NOV – DE – BERLIN – GRETCHEN
13 NOV – DE – DRESDEN – CHEMIEFABRIK
14 NOV – CZ – PRAGUE – KASARNA KARLIN
15 NOV – CZ – BRNO – KABINET MUZ
16 NOV – HU – BUDAPEST – TURBINA
17 NOV – AT – VIENNA – SZENE
18 NOV – CH – MONTHEY – PONT ROUGE
19 NOV – CH – ZURICH – EXIL

Make sure to check out the brand new upload of a full live show from Winterthur in late 2023 at: youtu.be/P_FdTLIoIXw

MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s most recent studio offering, Personal Computer, was released in 2022 on Metal Blade Records. Personal Computer serves as Love’s eighth full-length album since emerging – as an 8-bit ghost – from the bulletin board system (BBS) scene in 2016. A symbolism-rich mélange of intensely ornate yet driving digital orchestrations, don’t call Personal Computer synthwave, or whatever new-fangled term is being used to describe MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s masterful videogame-like scoring. To put it simply: this is metal done with a synth.

Notes Love, "The main elements include chiptune, demoscene, and video game music, thrash/death metal and some black metal as well as classical and symphonic patterns and progressive structures. But everything is programmed and done with synthesizers."

The result, influenced as much by classical baroque music, Bay Area thrash, and Commodore 64 games, is a frenzied mashup of what logic suggests should be disparate sounds, but in the hands of MBR, make sense, taking the listener in unexpected and always thrilling directions, smashing through genre walls.

Preview and purchase Personal Computer at: metalblade.com/masterbootrecord

"Creative, crushing and thrillingly over-the-top…" — Blabbermouth

"Victor Love has risen to the occasion as a purveyor of aggressive avant-garde chiptunes. Love’s synthesized instrumentation reveals an expressive array of classically-tinged dehumanized symphonies." — Metal Injection

"Enigmatic, glitched-out chiptuned shredding" — MetalSucks

"The grand crescendos create excitement, and the lulls create a dire suspense…the frontiers of metal have just gotten richer… and Victor Love is leading the way with MASTER BOOT RECORD." — The Spill Magazine

"A unique take on metal by completely digitizing it and turning it into something different, grand, epic, and pretty brutal" — Dead Rhetoric

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