Carcass "Torn Arteries (Limited Edition Digipak, Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 5368-0/27361 53680)"

Torn Arteries is the seventh studio album by English extreme metal band Carcass. It was released on 17 September 2021. Named after a demo tape recorded by former Carcass drummer Ken Owen during his teenage years, this is the band's first album in eight years after its predecessor Surgical Steel (2013). It also marked the first time since 1993's Heartwork that Carcass had recorded more than one album with the same lineup – with bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker, guitarist Bill Steer and drummer Daniel Wilding, and the first to not feature Owen in any capacity. Torn Arteries was initially scheduled to be released on 7 August 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused the album to be delayed for over a year.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Jeffrey Walker; all music is composed by Bill Steer, Walker and Daniel Wilding.

Torn Arteries track listing

1. "Torn Arteries" 4:00
2. "Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstance March No. 1 in B)" 4:29
3. "Eleanor Rigor Mortis" 4:14
4. "Under the Scalpel Blade" 3:55
5. "The Devil Rides Out" 5:22
6. "Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment Limited" 9:42
7. "Kelly's Meat Emporium" 3:23
8. "In God We Trust" 3:57
9. "Wake Up and Smell the Carcass / Caveat Emptor" 4:36
10. "The Scythe's Remorseless Swing" 5:20

Total length: 48:58

6-panel Digipak with 24-page booklet.

Official videos:

- 'Dance of Ixtab',

- 'The Scythe's Remorseless Swing'.

Recording information:

Recorded at Ghost Ward Studios & The Stationhouse, Leeds, United Kingdom, November 2018-August 2019.

Additional keyboards, organ, and piano recorded at Roth Händle Studios, Stockholm, Sweden.

Mixed at Ghost Ward, Stockholm, Sweden.

Mastered at Fascination Street Studios.