Hackneyed: Carnival Cadavre – new album

Germany's HACKNEYED third album was released in Europe on August 22nd, 2011 and awaits its North American release on August 30th, 2011. ‘Carnival Cadavre’ is the group's Lifeforce Records debut. Watch this still young band encounter their third album here, here, here and here (YouTube) - with another episode yet to be released - as witnessed by producers Aaron Brusius, Nicolas Fuchs, Orcun Sakar and Gregor Trunk. Below you’ll find two new HACKNEYED tracks and if you like what you hear buy the album here.

Inspired by the likes of CANNIBAL CORPSE and DECAPITATED, vocalist Philipp Mazal, guitarists Felix Papp and Devin Cox, bassist Alex “iX” Büttner, and drummer Tim Cox formed HACKNEYED in 2006, and quickly became quite possibly the youngest death metal band in history to be given a recording contract, with members averaging between 14 and 16 years of age, and quite certainly the youngest death metal band signed by Nuclear Blast Records. HACKNEYED's debut studio album, Death Prevails’, came out in 2008:

“But even though all of them were either babies or unborn when grindcore bands like CARCASS, CANNIBAL CORPSE and CANCER were in their prime, the German metallers' affection for old-school grindcore is evident on this album,” [acknowledged AllMusic's Alex Henderson] “Musically, ‘Death Prevails’ doesn’t have old-school grindcore's garage-like rawness; their work is more technical, and they offer a lot of tempo changes instead of playing at breakneck speed 100-percent of the time.”

In 2009, HACKNEYED recorded their second full-length, ‘Burn After Reaping’, with new guitarist Juan Sierra, released by Nuclear Blast in Europe and by Koch Records in North America:

“HACKNEYED do literally nothing to reinvent the death metal wheel - creatively or aesthetically - on the sophomore album, but then, neither do 95-percent of active bands twice their age, and there’s enough earnest desire on display here to get the boys extra credit for effort,” [was lenient in his review of “these otherwise precocious German teenagers' ” album AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia]

Precious girl called Tini Wuttke replaced Alex Büttner on bass in 2010.

HACKNEYED: Maculate Conception – courtesy of hackneyed

HACKNEYED: Holy Slapstick – courtesy of hackneyed