Articles by "Six Feet Under"
Six Feet Under to Join Nile on 2025 US Co-Headlining Tour
SIX FEET UNDER will join Nile for a US co-headlining tour this Winter! The Revenge Of The Underground Tour 2025 begins January 7th in Nashville, Tennessee and runs through February 22nd in Houston, Texas. Support will be provided by Psycroptic and Embryonic Autopsy. Additionally, the tour will include several SIX FEET UNDER one-off shows scattered throughout.
Comments SIX FEET UNDER vocalist Chris Barnes, "After more than a decade long hiatus of SIX FEET UNDER touring the States, I'm super excited and very much looking forward to our upcoming co-headlining tour with our old friends, Nile! It's gonna be a motherfucking ripper!"
Check out the dates listed below!
TOUR DATES:
1/07/2025 Basement East - Nashville, TN
1/08/2025 Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
1/09/2025 Handlebar - Pensacola, FL**
1/10/2025 The Abbey - Orlando, FL
1/11/2025 Culture Room - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1/12/2025 Orpheum - Tampa, FL
1/13/2025 Music Farm - Charleston, SC
1/14/2025 Radio Room - Greenville, SC
1/15/2025 Hangar 1819 - Greensboro, NC
1/16/2025 Tally Ho Theater - Leesburg, VA**
1/17/2025 Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
1/18/2025 The Palladium Underground - Worcester, MA
1/19/2025 Empire Live - Albany, NY
1/20/2025 Lovedrafts - Mechanicsburg, PA
1/21/2025 Preserving Underground - Pittsburgh, PA
1/22/2025 Montage Music Hall - Rochester, NY**
1/23/2025 Agora Theater - Cleveland, OH
1/24/2025 The King Of Clubs - Columbus, OH
1/25/2025 The Machine Shop - Flint, MI
1/26/2025 Elevation - Grand Rapids, MI
1/27/2025 The Forge - Joliet, IL
1/29/2025 Red Flag - St. Louis, MO
1/30/2025 Bogarts - Cincinnati, OH
1/31/2025 Piere's - Ft. Wayne, IN
2/01/2025 The Rave - Milwaukee, WI
2/02/2025 Skyway Theater - Minneapolis, MN
2/03/2025 Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln, NE**
2/04/2025 Oriental Theater - Denver, CO
2/06/2025 Sinwave - Las Vegas, NV
2/07/2025 Observatory - Santa Ana, CA
2/08/2025 Goldfield Roseville - Roseville, CA
2/10/2025 Bossanova Ballroom - Portland, OR
2/11/2025 El Corazon - Seattle, WA
2/13/2025 Cornerstone - Berkeley, CA
2/14/2025 Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA
2/15/2025 1720 - Los Angeles, CA
2/16/2025 Nile Theater - Phoenix, AZ
2/17/2025 Rockhouse - El Paso, TX**
2/18/2025 Lauter Haus - Farmington, NM
2/20/2025 Haltom Theater - Dallas, TX
2/21/2025 Come And Take It Live - Austin, TX
2/22/2025 Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
**SIX FEET UNDER & PSYCROPTIC ONLY
Six Feet Under Reveals "When the Moon Goes Down in Blood" Lyric Video
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SIX FEET UNDER's Killing For Revenge, their fiery fourteenth studio album, is out now on Metal Blade Records!
In celebration of the record's release, the band drops a lyric video for "When The Moon Goes Down In Blood," created by Reino Aedmäe who also produced visualizers for "Zodiac" and "Blood Of The Zombie" from SIX FEET UNDER's Nightmares Of The Decomposed offering.
Comments legendary frontman Chris Barnes of "When The Moon Goes Down In Blood," "I think all of the songs on the album deal with revenge in one way or another. That's why the album's called Killing For Revenge. Each song has that as a theme in it, whether it be man against man, or nature against man. There's a macabre core theme and it's more straightforward as far as lyrics go and the tone of the storyline really being a lot more horror, and generally speaking, about killing people. My mood is always really just diving into my own imagination and kind of a meditative state of concentrating and listening to the music and letting it lead me into a storyline."
Adds guitarist Jack Owen, "This was the last song written for the album. Chris suggested something 'early 1990s.' I created drum beats reminiscent of early Immolation or Suffocation, where the tempo was somewhere between a thrash beat and a blast beat. Back then we wrote guitar riffs that were simple diminished lines with tons of palm muting, just crunching along with the snare drum. The music was written pretty quickly and I sent it off to Chris and he replied. 'I got this!' Boy, did he! It turned out to be possibly the best song on the album. A brutal old-school vibe."
Watch SIX FEET UNDER's "When The Moon Goes Down In Blood" lyric video HERE.
Six Feet Under Drops New Song "Ascension"
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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.
Check it HERE.
Six Feet Under to Release "Killing for Revenge" Full-Length on May 10th 2024!
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SIX FEET UNDER will unleash their pulverizing fourteenth studio album, Killing For Revenge, on May 10th 2024 through Metal Blade Records.
From the opening moments of first single, "Know-Nothing Ingrate," which kicks off the record, 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. Killing for Revenge, a gnarly beast of a record that's not for the faint-hearted, dishes up nightmare-inducing imagery courtesy of 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.
"I chose the title Killing For Revenge after we completed writing and noticed that all the lyrics and storylines had a common theme of revenge. Revenge by human or revenge by nature," Barnes says. "The album title describes the flow of the stories within the lyrics perfectly."
Killing for Revenge marks the second album that Barnes and guitarist Jack Owen (ex-Cannibal Corpse) have created together since reuniting for 2020's Nightmares Of The Decomposed. Owen also produced Killing For Revenge. "We worked well together in Cannibal Corpse," recalls Barnes. "I loved him to death as a friend and a musician, so I'm really comfortable giving him the reins because I just have such great respect for him as an artist."
SIX FEET UNDER was initially formed as a side project for Barnes during his final years with the band that he co-founded, Cannibal Corpse. It 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 Owen and Ray Suhy, bassist Jeff Hughell, and drummer Marco Pitruzzella make for a devastating unit.
The songs on Killing For Revenge dive headfirst into subjects that are as gleefully vile, graphic, and downright grotesque as you might dream of from a Barnes/Owen project. After all, the two men were vital cogs in the Cannibal Corpse band that released such delightfully offensive death metal classics as Butchered At Birth and Tomb Of The Mutilated. 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.
As a first preview of the record, today the band unveils "Know Nothing Ingrate." Notes Owen, "This music was written early in the writing process. Wanting to keep the aggression of a prior SIX FEET UNDER song like 'Amputator,' I wrote music in the style of early Dark Angel or Kreator, who always had cool driving drumbeats. I had all the riffs in my head as I wrote the drums in a couple hours. Lyrically, I kicked around a phrase that fit the stop parts throughout the song. After coming up with 'Know Nothing Ingrate,' the lyrics wrote themselves. It's basically about online trolls who voice their uneducated and unnecessarily spiteful review of any artist's output. You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to mine."
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.
Watch a lyric video for SIX FEET UNDER's "Know-Nothing Ingrate" right HERE.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Know-Nothing Ingrate
02. Accomplice to Evil Deeds
03. Ascension
04. When the Moon Goes Down in Blood
05. Hostility Against Mankind
06. Compulsive
07. Fit of Carnage
08. Neanderthal (Guest Lead Guitar Solo - Jason Suecof)
09. Judgement Day
10. Bestial Savagery
11. Mass Casualty Murdercide
12. Spoils of War
13. Hair of the Dog (Nazareth Cover - CD + Digital Only)
SIX FEET UNDER Announces New European Tour
Death Metal masters SIX FEET UNDER return to Europe in May for a round of ten dates. Make sure not to miss out, it's going to be massive!
Comments Chris Barnes: "Looking like it's gonna be a brutal spring in Europe for the fans of Six Feet Under! Don't miss these shows it's gonna be intense!"
THE LORD OF THE UNDERWORLD TOUR 2018:
SIX FEET UNDER
+ INFERNAL TENEBRA
+ MOROSE VITALITY
+ CRITICAL MESS
24/05/18 DE - Erfurt - From Hell
25/05/18 DE - Magdeburg - Factory
26/05/18 DE - Dresden - Skullcrusher
27/05/18 CZ - Ostrava - Barrak
28/05/18 CZ - Liberec - Bunkr
29/05/18 SK - Bratislava - Majestic Music Club
30/05/18 HU - Budapest - Dürer Kert
31/05/18 AT - Wien - Viper Room
01/06/18 DE - Leipzig - Bandhaus 2.0
02/06/18 DE - Röbel - Alte Heimat
Six Feet Under Announce X-Mas In Hell Tour 2015 through Germany and Austria!
American Death Metal legends SIX FEET UNDER return to mainland Europe early December for the "X-Mas in Hell Tour 2015"! Comments singer Chris Barnes: "Zombie Santa is coming to town to bring you dead things for Xmas! Looking forward to our yearly brutalizer and seeing all our fans! - kill you soon!" The band will be joined by Short Fuse, Soulline, Blackout, and Systemhouse33.
TOUR DATES:
03/12/15 DE - Flensburg - Roxy
04/12/15 DE - Rostock - Alte Zuckerfabrik
05/12/15 DE - Cham - L.A.
06/12/15 AT - Wien - Viper Room
07/12/15 DE - Berlin - K17
08/12/15 DE - Magdeburg - Factory
09/12/15 DE - Aalen - Rock It
10/12/15 DE - Ingolstadt - Eventhalle Westpark
11/12/15 DE - Bischofswerda - East Club
12/12/15 DE - Glauchau - Alte Spinnerei
Six Feet Under Releases New Song ""Open Coffin Orgy" and Release New Album Details
Legendary death metal unit, SIX FEET UNDER, will release their eleventh studio recording this spring via Metal Blade Records. Titled "Crypt Of The Devil", the ten track slab of audio violence was composed by vocalist Chris Barnes and Cannabis Corpse bassist/vocalist Phil "Landphil" Hall. While on tour with Cannabis Corpse in 2013, Barnes and Hall met and kept in touch. Barnes would later lend his vocals to a track on Cannabis Corpse's "From Wisdom To Baked". That same year, Hall and Barnes joined forces to pen brand new SIX FEET UNDER tracks. Barnes lauds Hall's take on the SIX FEET UNDER style of death metal and stated that this material was, "where my wheelhouse is - it's where I thrive vocally and lyrically."
With "Crypt Of The Devil", Barnes has worked to continue the overall story from the previous works, wherein he is penning lyrics from the perspective of a serial killer. Or as Barnes describes, it's a "winding journey through his mind. The songs paint a picture that's not necessarily linear, rather a meandering back and forth through a dark soul." Soon-to-be-classic cuts such as "Open Coffin Orgy" serve as exemplary examples of the fruits of Barnes' macabre muse.
Recording for the album took place at Hall's studio in Virginia. Hall tracked rhythm and bass guitar, while his brother, Josh Hall, tracked drums, and guitarist Brandon Ellis tracked the majority of the album's leads. Barnes took to London Bridge Studio (Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains etc.) in his new base of operations in Seattle, Washington to record vocals and in fact holed himself up in the very same booth where Layne Staley tracked his words. The mix was completed by Rob Caldwell (Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan etc.) in Sarasota, Florida and mastering was done by Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse, Revocation, Torche, Skeletonwitch etc.) at West West Side in New Windsor, New York. "Crypt Of The Devil" stands as a truly collaborative and cross-country effort from a selection of today's finest metal minds, and the result is a refreshing SIX FEET UNDER experience. Or as refreshing as brutal, visceral death metal can be, anyway.Check out the new song HERE.
TRACKLISTING:
1. Gruesome
2. Open Coffin Orgy
3. Broken Bottle Rape
4. Break The Cross In Half
5. Lost Remains
6. Slit Wrists
7. Stab
8. The Night Bleeds
9. Compulsion To Brutalize
10. Eternal in Darkness
Six Feet Under Goes on Tour
April 2015 will see the return of the HATEFEST Tour. The unholy billing will be headlined by SIX FEET UNDER and includes also Marduk, Vader and Hate! Special guests on all weekend-dates will be Eisregen and Debauchery.
Comments SIX FEET UNDER singer Chris Barnes: "We are very proud to announce our first tour dates of 2015 headlining the HateFest Tour in Europe this April! It's gonna be fucking brutal!! It's a great package with some real heavy hitters! And don't forget to come check us out on our upcoming shows next month in Germany on our annual Xmas in Hell Tour of Germany it's gonna get bloody!"
TOUR DATES:
02/04/15 DE - Leipzig - Hellraiser
03/04/15 AT - Wien - Gasometer
04/04/15 CH - Pratteln - Z7
05/04/15 DE - Essen - Weststadthalle
06/04/15 DE - Saarbrücken - Garage
07/04/15 DE - Lindau - Club Vaudeville
08/04/15 DE - Ludwigsburg - Rockfabrik
09/04/15 DE - Hamburg - Markthalle
10/04/15 DE - Geiselwind - Musichall
11/04/15 DE - München - Backstage
12/04/15 DE - Berlin - Postbahnhof
SIX FEET UNDER to Embark on "X-Mas In Hell Tour 2014" in Germany in December!
American Death Metallers SIX FEET UNDER will embark on a 10-date tour through Germany under the name "X-Mas In Hell Tour 2014" in December! Joining them will be Maat, Zanthropya Ex, Cretura, and Invisible Mirror.
TOUR DATES:
11/12/14 DE - Flensburg - Roxy
12/12/14 DE - Rostock - Alte Zuckerfabrik
13/12/14 DE - Cham - L.A.
14/12/14 t.b.a.
15/12/14 DE - Aachen - Musikbunker
16/12/14 DE - Bochum - Matrix
17/12/14 DE - Würzburg - Posthalle
18/12/14 DE - Ingolstadt - Eventhalle Westpark
19/12/14 DE - Glauchau - Alte Spinnerei
20/12/14 DE - Bischofswerda - East Club
IHATE: Chris Barnes Launches Vicious New Death Metal Project
Six Feet Under founding throat/death metal icon, Chris Barnes, is pleased to bring fans his latest work of sonic deviance in the form of the fittingly christened, IHATE. A venture inadvertently launched between Barnes and multi-instrumentalist/fellow horror enthusiast Bob Taggett, their as-yet-untitled debut promises to deliver eight violent tracks of raw, unrepentant, death metal brutality and lyrical depravity.
Relays Barnes of the project's formation, "Early last year I got a message via Facebook from someone named Bob and Bob said to me, as a lot of people do, 'I have some songs and I'd like you to sing on them. Can I send you a song so you could check it out?' I get a lot of these requests and didn't think too much of it, but since I was just fresh back from a tour and a little bored, I decided to entertain the idea of listening to a song from Bob. After receiving an email with the first track that was attached to a video which more or less mapped out a murder storyline, I thought it was really different, and definitely creepy visually. And there was something very primitive and energetic to the attack of the music. It was very driven. I could feel it instantly. I knew this wasn't a joke and wasn't done half-assed. The music I was listening to was aggressive as a knife carving chunks of flesh off a body. Putting the music to a video caught my attention, immediately, as to Bob's focus. I found it all really interesting. I have almost always worked from a storyline in my head for my lyrical inspiration and my own imagination, but never have started from the standpoint of lyrically scoring a storyline already laid out on video first, like scoring a film. That seemed really exciting to me as a writer as well as a vocalist. I emailed Bob back and told him I would love to be involved with making this album with him. So one thing led to another and we began writing and recording. We are very close to finishing the album and have enlisted the good people at Pledge Music to help us reach out to all of the fans who we hope will help us make this album a reality."
As for what true death metal miscreants can expect from the IHATE end product? "To me, it really is a masterpiece of brutal, violent death metal," says Barnes, "I'm really stoked that if got to work on this album. The fans know that I'm no stranger to writing some sick lyrics, but the stuff I have come up with this time is entirely over-the-top even by my standards. I really want the fans to hear this album and dig into the storylines of the songs. This is the first time I've used crowd-funding to make and release an album. And it's been a very challenging, interesting learning experience along the way. And an eye-opener as well. We are really hoping the fans of death metal will make a pledge and preorder our new album. It's really important to us that this album gets released. This is brutal as fuck."
Check out more from Barnes as well as a preview of the track "Seeing Red" HERE.
Several IHATE preorder packages, which include autographed posters and CDs as well as a chance to have a personal listening session with Barnes himself, are available via Pledge Music. For more info, point your browser HERE.
JUNGLE ROT ANNOUNCE TOUR
Join two of the most important death metal bands in America, JUNGLE ROT and SIX FEET UNDER, for the highly-anticipated East Coast Armageddon tour.
TOUR DATES:
8/09 – Huttikerberg, CH @ Meh Suff Festival
8/10 – Leeuward, NL @ Into The Grave Festival
8/11 – Tilburg, NL @ Little Devil
8/11 – Ieper, BE @ Ieper Fest
8/12 – Rijssen, NL @ Rage Metal Bar
8/13 – Vienna, AT @ Escape Metalcorner
8/14 – Budapest, HU @ Durer Kert
8/15 – Szeged, HU @ Club Noir
8/17 – Saint Nolff, FR @ Motocultor Fest
w/ SIX FEET UNDER
11/8 – Providence, RI @ Fete
11/9 – Nashua, NH @ Evolution
11/10 – Amityville, NY @ Revolution Bar
11/12 – Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall
11/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Paperbox
11/15 – Springfield, VA @ Empire
11/16 – Newark, DE @ Mojo Main
11/17 – Clifton, NJ @ Dingbatz
SIX FEET UNDER Parts Ways With Drummer, Announces Replacement
Florida-based death metal veterans SIX FEET UNDER have parted ways with drummer Kevin Talley and have replaced him with Marco Pitruzzella.
Marco, who previously played with SIX FEET UNDER bassist Jeff Hughell in BRAIN DRILL, will make his live debut with SIX FEET UNDER this Saturday in Memphis, Tennessee at the Scion Rock Fest.
Comments SIX FEET UNDER frontman Chris Barnes: "I'm proud to announce a new addition to the ranks of SIX FEET UNDER. Replacing drummer Kevin Talley is our new friend and cohort, Marco Pitruzzella. Marco has worked with Jeff Hughell in their former band, BRAIN DRILL, and is such an amazing talented and great guy. I'm very excited having him in the band and can't wait to take the stage with Marco this Saturday in Memphis for Scion Rock Fest!"
He adds: "It was good working with Kevin Talley for the past couple of years, but we are very ready and extremely focused on moving the band forward with a new, more stable and permanent lineup for writing as well as touring.
"Be prepared to be shredded! See you all soon!"
SIX FEET UNDER Announce New Album, "Unborn"; to be released March 19th
Death metal behemoths SIX FEET UNDER are back, and with the seething UNBORN, the tenth full-length of their imposing career, they are out for blood. Led by the inimitable Chris Barnes, owner of one of the most powerful and instantly recognizable voices in the genre, the band are returning with an overhauled line up that sees them reinvigorated and churning out some of the most visceral music they have ever put their name to.
In November of 2010 when vocalist and founding member Chris Barnes first started to get the idea of working with new writers for SIX FEET UNDER's next release, he contacted Rob Arnold, Jari Laine, and Ben Savage to share in the writing process. After just two years of writing and recording 20 plus tracks, and releasing UNDEAD in May of 2012, SIX FEET UNDER are now proud to unveil UNDEAD's demented fraternal twin…
"The journey to create, write, and record UNDEAD and UNBORN has been the most challenging and exciting musical endeavor and process I have ever been involved with," expresses vocalist and founder Chris Barnes. "Working with all these amazing writers and musicians like Ben Savage (Whitechapel) on songs like Neuro Osmosis and Fragment are some of the most dynamic, beautiful, and brutal songs I've ever had the pleasure of putting lyrics to." Barnes continues, "I believe Ben is a true innovator of the death metal genre. It was also a lot of fun working Jari Laine from Torture Killer again. We wrote a great album together a few years back called SWARM! –one of my favorite releases I've been involved with– and Jari is someone who I have really wanted to work with again ever since. I wanted to revisit collaborating with Jari because of how well we work together; proof of that on UNBORN are the hook heavy sounds of songs like Zombie Blood Curse and Incision."
UNDEAD proved to be one of SIX FEET UNDER's most critically acclaimed albums to date, and with a revamped and tour-hardened lineup rounded out by: guitarist Ola Englund, drummer Kevin Talley, bassist Jeff Hughell, and long-time guitarist Steve Swanson, UNBORN promises to elevate the band to even loftier heights.
You can check out the lyrical video for the first track called "Zombie Blood Curse" HERE.
Six Feet Under's Fall Tour!
This fall a new tour with headliners Six Feet Under and support from Cattle Decapitation and Wretched will be coming to a town near you.
TOUR DTAES:
10/30 Tampa, FL Crowbar* w/ Abiotic
11/01 Charlotte, NC Tremont Music Hall * w/ Abiotic
11/02 Richmond, VA Kingdom
11/03 Frederick, MD Cafe 611
11/04 Clifton, NJ Dingbatz
11/05 Boston, MA Middle East
11/06 New York, NY The Studio at Webster Hall
11/07 Buffalo, NY Club Infinity
11/08 Reading, PA Reverb
11/09 Amityville, NY Revolution
11/10 Dayton, OH McGuffy's
11/11 TBA
11/12 St Paul, MN Station-4
11/13 Joliet, IL Mojoe's
11/14 Lansing, MI Mac's Bar
11/15 Peoria, IL The Brass Rail
11/16 Valparaiso, IN Roadies Music Venue
11/17 Louisville, KY Phoenix Hill Tavern
11/18 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
* = SFU Only
Ghoul Patrol's First Video for "Six Feet Under"
Ghoul Patrol is a death rock n' roll act who just released their first official music video for the song "Six Feet Under" check it out below!