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Carcass sign to Nuclear Blast
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 28 May 2013
Veteran extreme metallers Carcass have signed to Nuclear Blast Records, the label announced last week. The band are due to release a new album, ‘Surgical Steel’, in the autumn, their first for quite some time.
Announcing the deal, the band growled in unison: “We are pleased to announce that we have found the perfect home for ‘Surgical Steel’, the first Carcass album for, what, seventeen years?! We’ve inked a deal with Nuclear Blast for our new baby. We have to thank [Nuclear Blast founder] Markus Staiger for his enthusiasm and belief in what he heard, but mostly his ability to take advantage of Jeff [Walker, vocalist] with a bad hangover when he visited the office in Donzdorf to let him be the first to hear the rough mixes”.
They continued: “Nuclear Blast has managed to secure this release despite interest from all the main players in what remains of the metal ‘music industry.’ We’re also looking forward to working with our pals in the US office, who have done favours for us behind the scenes over the last few years”.
Staiger added: “It feels like a dream come true. When Jeff Walker let me listen to the new record, I knew immediately that Carcass had made one of their best albums ever! It is a perfect mixture of ‘Heartwork’ and ‘Necroticism’ with a massive production to boot. The album is without a doubt just as perfect and lethal as surgical steel itself, and exactly what both old and new fans have waited for eagerly all of these years! I am very proud to say, Carcass – welcome to the Nuclear family. It is an honour to work with this legendary metal band”.
