Progressive Death Metal Band CARNOSUS To Release ‘Wormtales’ on Willowtip in October

 Örebro (SE) – Progressive Death Metal band CARNOSUS will release new album, Wormtales, October 18 on CD digipak, gatefold vinyl LP, cassette, and digital formats via Willowtip Records. The release is the band’s third overall and first for Willowtip.

The official video for the album’s first single, “Within Throat, Within Heart,” is available at: youtu.be/bsHe9TaDkm0.

Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit CARNOSUS. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band’s most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.

Indeed,Visions of Infinihility, the quintet’s independently released second album, garnered loads of positive press (see below), further amplifying the anticipation for CARNOSUS’ Willowtip debut, Wormtales!

“The term tour de force’ was coined to describe albums like Visions of Infinihility.With Visions of Infinihility, Carnosus announces themselves as important players in the tech-death game.” (Album of the Year 2023)

– Angry Metal Guy

“The songs are well-written and the band’s technical chops well-deployed. It’s clear from the start that Carnosus know how to showcase their skills, but they do this to enrich the songs, rather than to show off for the sake of it.”

– Wonderbox Metal

“By combining elements of thrash and progressive metal into their technical death metal approach (…), the band not only provide an even more aggressive and mature structure and sound (…), they also show a stronger variety of impressive musicianship skills”

– AndyMetalFreak (MetalStorm)

“The riffs (…) sound like Psycroptic riffs from another dimension. Every song is downright jaw dropping. There is no wrong answer to the best song on Visions of Infinihility” (9/10)

– Zach (The Progressive Subway)

“They’ve tightened up the screws on what they already did well while flexing their creative muscles into more diverse and varied songs. The spidery side of their music brings to mind some of the best of The Black Dahlia Murder’s more tech-infused riffing, and the slower mid-tempo tunes take on a more aggressive death metal bent while bringing in some unorthodox melodies.”

– Spear (ToiletOvHell)

“Their death metal is tight, mean, and feral, but it’s also a whole goddamn lot of fun. They touch on the early technical death metal of Atheist, Death, and Cynic, the ironclad melodeath of Edge of Sanity or Heartwork-era Carcass, as well as more modern incarnations of tech death like Gorod, Anata, or Arsis.”

– Dan Obstkrieg (Last Rites)

“Nearly every song on this record is high-quality, hard-hitting death/thrash, and Carnosus also incorporate some technical elements that are handled expertly and maturely. The band’s virtuosity extends beyond the guitars as well, as we are treated to some of the most versatile vocals I’ve heard in a long time, with unrivaled rhythmic precision and some tasty variation in tones.”

– Metal Utopia

“Some of their finest riffs to date.” (9/10)

– Distorted Sound

CARNOSUS was established in 2011. The band members all come from different subgenres within Metal, resulting in a mixture of technical melodic death metal, thrash, progressive metal and a pinch of black metal influences scattered throughout.

Album pre-orders will be available on Friday, August 16.

Track Listing:

1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil

Credits:

Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic).
Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios.
Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.