Six Feet Under aren’t pulling back, they’re digging deeper.
Death metal lifers Six Feet Under have released ‘Mutilated Corpse In The Woods’, a new single and video from their upcoming album Next To Die, and it’s exactly as unflinching as the title suggests.
Set for release on April 24th via Metal Blade Records, the record marks the band’s fifteenth full length, and if this track is anything to go by, they’re still committed to pushing their most grisly instincts front and centre.
Six Feet Under ‘Mutilated Corpse In The Woods’ video
Built from real horror
Guitarist Jack Owen traced the origins of the track back to something unexpectedly mundane (per press release).
“This song started when my wife and I were in an antique store… she said it’s a Rutilated Quartz. Well, that’s all I needed for a title and some lyrical ideas.”
From there, it spiralled into something far darker.
“The verses were from a true crime show where a woman described being attacked… In real life she survived the attack… In this song, unfortunately she did not survive… My killer buried her where she will never be found.”
It’s the kind of storytelling Six Feet Under have always thrived on, taking fragments of reality and twisting them into something more brutal, more final.
Six Feet Under ‘Next To Die’ splits its identity
Six Feet Under ‘Next To Die’ Track List
- Approach Your Grave
- Destroyed Remains
- Mister Blood and Guts
- Mutilated Corpse in the Woods
- Unmistakable Smell of Death
- Wrath and Terror Takes Command
- Skin Coffins
- Mind Hell
- Naked and Dismembered
- Grasped from Beyond
- Next to Die
- Ill Wishes
The upcoming album is described as sitting across two lanes, Death and Groove, a structure that tracks with the band’s long running ability to balance straight-up brutality with something more rhythmic and dragging.
Frontman Chris Barnes tracked vocals at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami, a space he’s returned to for most of the band’s catalogue, keeping a sense of continuity even as the sound evolves.
Pre order here.
Still locked into their lane
Now three records deep into their reunion era with Owen, Six Feet Under aren’t reinventing themselves, they’re refining the formula.
There’s a reason this band has lasted since the mid ’90s, while trends shift around them, they’ve stayed committed to a sound that doesn’t compromise or soften with time.
‘Mutilated Corpse In The Woods’ isn’t trying to win over new audiences, it’s a reminder for the ones already in deep, this is still what Six Feet Under do best.
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