Length 42:30 Artist Decapitated Label Nuclear Blast | Carnival Is Forever
(2011) Blood Mantra
(2014) Release date 12 July 2011 Genre Technical death metal | |
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Released July 12, 2011 (2011-07-12) Recorded February 9 – March 31, 2011, RG Studio, Gdańsk, Poland Producer Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka, Daniel Bergstrand Similar Decapitated albums, Technical death metal albums, Other albums | ||
Decapitated carnival is forever studio report 2011
Carnival Is Forever is the fifth studio album by Polish death metal band Decapitated. It was released on July 12, 2011, via Nuclear Blast Records. Carnival Is Forever was produced by Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka with Daniel Bergstrand.
Contents
- Decapitated carnival is forever studio report 2011
- Decapitated the knife
- Background
- Critical reception
- Track listing
- Songs
- References
Carnival Is Forever is Decapitated's first album to feature vocalist Rafał "Rasta" Piotrowski, and their only album to feature bassist Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha and drummer Kerim "Krimh" Lechner.
Decapitated the knife
Background
In 2009, after a period of disbandment, Decapitated's guitarist, composer and founding member Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka reformed the band with Austrian drummer Kerim "Krimh" Lechner, vocalist Rafał Piotrowski, and bassist Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha. Throughout 2010, the band toured in Europe, United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Decapitated entered RG Studio in Gdańsk, Poland on February 9, 2011, to record Carnival Is Forever, the follow-up to Organic Hallucinosis (2006). The album was produced by Kiełtyka, and the drum tracks were recorded with Daniel Bergstrand. In order to achieve "the 'true', organic and natural sound", the band recorded with live drums (without using drum triggers) and without double guitar tracks, which means one guitar per side.
Several riffs on the new album were created with previous drummer Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka. The almost two-month recording session was finished on March 31. The cover art was created by Łukasz Jaszak. The lyrics were contributed by Jarosław Szubrycht, the vocalist for Lux Occulta.
Critical reception
Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic said [...] implausibly heavy, musically vicious and polyrhythmically busy numbers such as "The Knife," "United," "404," and "Pest" (all of which owe a trick or two to Meshuggah, Gojira, and even Byzantine) appear to be at war with themselves -- such is the instrumental complexity displayed by each musician as he fights to out-shred his bandmates." Dave Schalek of About.com noted Decapitated musicians skills "[...] the quality of the musicianship is as high as ever. Vogg’s riffing and staccato time changes are tight and flawlessly played, and drummer Krimh fills out the sound with perfect accompaniment to Vogg’s frenetic riffing."
Scott Alisoglu of Blabbermouth.net also praised musicianship: "In what turns out to be an ace rhythm section, bassist Filip Halucha and Kerim "Krimh" Lechner deliver the rhythmic goods in the form of tight, acrobatic performances and some very colorful percussion that both contrasts and syncs up with all those gouging and biting Waclaw riffs."
Track listing
All lyrics written by Jarosław Szubrycht.
Songs
1The Knife4:32
2United5:26
3Carnival Is Forever8:49