Carcass will be touring very soon with Deafheaven and Inter Arma, and naturally that triplet has fans of each of those bands whining on the Internet about their counterparts.
Now, Jeff Walker of Carcass explains to Decibel that not only will the tour be attractive to a wide audience, but he's been suggesting to tour with Deafheaven since 2013!
Like I said, back in ’13 when they and us were hitting all the end-of-year critics’ list I thought it would have been cool to do a tour with them, Gorguts and Inquisition as we’d all made the end of year lists. Deafheaven’s manager had dismissed it out of hand as she said she didn’t “get it…” plus she thought I’d dissed them once as I made a joke about their pink album cover, ha ha! What’s interesting is that they’re moderately successful [as Carcass is] and I think it makes a strong “package”—they have a slightly different audience to us so, at the end of the day we’re trying to put bums on seats here and trying to reach people who have never heard Carcass—and believe me there’s a lot of them!
Walker also touches on Deafheaven's "black metal" tag, and how the band is an interesting representation of American black metal.
As far as the hipster thing goes… it’s definitely a more interesting take on U.S. “Black Metal” to me at least—kinda makes more sense to a European than Americans standing in the woods in corpse paint with a toffee hammer ‘round their necks trying to be all necro!
Amen regarding the "necro" bit too, because really, isn't black metal puritanism a little ridiculous in 2016?
Get dates to the tour here.
