History & Biography The Californian executioners took the helm from the many carnifexes preceding it and formed in 2005. The Carnifex demo of 2005 was followed by 2006’s Love Lies In Ashes. Early members Rick James and Kevin Vargas had left by now. The band signed with This City Is Burning Records and issued a debut album in 2007. Calderon joined the band in time for The Diseased And The Poisoned. The grouped supported Despised Icon on the road. The band announced a hiatus from touring for the "foreseeable future" on October 9th, 2012. The group was suffering from poverty. Some eight months later on June 10th, 2013 the band was back. After three albums through Victory Records, San Diego death metal band Carnifex would release its Nuclear Blast debut, Die Without Hope, on March 7th, 2014. The album was recorded at Audiohammer Studio in Sanford, Florida and produced by Mark Lewis. The band now featured guitarist Jordan Lockrey. The band was booked for Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth Park, UK for July 4th - 6th 2014. The band was also booked for the New England Metal Fest April 18th and played Hawaii in the same year. Carnifex released its 2016 album, titled Slow Death, on August 5th through Nuclear Blast Records. The band released a new EP, called Bury Me In Blasphemy, through Nuclear Blast in late 2018. The record was mixed by Jason Suecof (Death Angel, Chelsea Grin, Job For A Cowboy, etc.). The EP was most comprised of mallcore cover versions. USA-based Carnifex would release an album, entitled World War X, through Nuclear Blast in August. Jordan Lockrey left in 2020. The band had a video clip for the song No Light Shall Save Us, which featured Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz. The Chaos & Carnage tour’s 2022 iteration featured co-headliners Suicide Silence and Carnifex as well as Lorna Shore, Upon A Burning Body, Angelmaker and Distant. The tour was to run through the USA in May and June. Carnifex released a new album, entitled Necromanteum, through Nuclear Blast Records on October 6th 2023. The album was co-produced by singer Scott Ian Lewis and drummer Shawn Cameron. Carnifex was touring the USA with To The Grave and The Last Ten Seconds Of Life. The band was booked for South America next. The act was conducting the Chaos & Carnage 2024 tour with Cattle Decapitation, Rivers Of Nihil, Humanity’s Last Breath, The Zenith Passage, Vitriol and Face Yourself in the USA in the spring of 2024. Carnifex, Cryptopsy, Mental Cruelty, Organectomy and Heavy Hitter announced the Necromanteum Part II North American tour for October and November 2024.
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