Now only a week away the wait for the brand new album from death metal legends is almost reaching fever pitch. Their thirteenth studio album A Skeletal Domain will be hitting record stores a week today and to add insult to injury for those who are waiting they have just premièred a brand new track. Entitled “A Murderers Pact” the new song is the longest on the album clocking in at over five minutes in length and is as expected absolutely brilliant, not to mention its one of the best written songs of their career. Renown for their reliability as a band, making albums that stand alone, it seems that Cannibal Corpse have slowly begun their evolution. Previously hinted at in Torture with more complex song ideas and more accessible song structures it seems that this was only the tip of the iceberg.

This week we’ve a band that has seen so many ups and downs in their long career. Releasing an absolute masterpiece one year, leading them to  be at one time the leading edge metal band in the 2000’s whilst in the same decade also releasing some of their worst material, Machine Head have had a career that was all over the place. It began with Burn My Eyes an album that all metal heads seem to love, then came the not so great era of Machine Head, with the abomination that was Supercharger most thought they were done for, but then came Through The Ashes Of Empires and after that one of the top albums in modern metal full stop, The Blackening. Alas this is where as with Machine Head’s trend, things went a little downhill.