Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting For A New CARCASS Record

Carcass‘ reunion albums have been few and far between – Surgical Steel was released in 2013 and its follow-up Torn Arteries dropped in 2021. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like the wait time between Torn Arteries and whatever might come next is gonna be any shorter.

According to Carcass guitarist Bill Steer in an interview with the Everblack podcast, not everyone in the band is on the same page when it comes to new material.

“Not at the moment. I mean, as far as the eye can see, we’ve just got tours, dates, festivals,” said Steer. “That would pretty much take us up towards the end of the year. And then beyond that, yeah, this is something that would just have to be kind of, in some way, discussed between the various band members, because we had a similar situation after we released Surgical Steel.

“We got deep into touring, and after a couple of years, I think one or two of us thought, ‘Well, maybe now we should start gradually working on some new material,’ but then you discover not everybody’s on the same page. So you go back and do another year or two of touring, and then before you know it, half a decade’s gone. So I’m kind of hoping we don’t mimic that situation too closely, because five years is a hell of a lot of time [between albums]. But, yeah, we’ve got to be at a point where everyone wants to record. So, if and when that time comes around, great. But it doesn’t feel like it’s particularly close right now.”

Fortunately, Steer is working on a new band that he said is “between that kind of ’70s bluesy hard rock stuff and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal.” So not exactly Carcass, but hey – at least we’ll be getting some Steer riffs.

“Yeah, I’ve been doing some demos on and off for, I guess, a few months, a year or so, with a couple of friends in Leeds. And we haven’t decided what to call it, but we’ve done a whole bunch of tunes, maybe around 15 or so, with the idea that at some point we’ll pick the best numbers and record them properly for an album. ‘Cause I just had really wanted to do something of that nature for quite a while; I just didn’t really have the confidence or any kind of vision of a way forward.

“But my friends were very sort of helpful in getting me started on that. And, yeah, it’s just nice to have another outlet for your music, because Carcass doesn’t record very often, as we discussed. I actually enjoy being in the studio, so, yeah, it’d be really nice if I could make an album with someone else, really.”