Former DevilDriver guitarist Neal Tiemann has officially joined Carnifex after playing live with the band on recent tours. According to Carnifex vocalist Scott Ian Lewis in an interview with The Jasta Show, Tiemann is currently working on writing the next Carnifex record that will be tracked with Jason Suecof in February 2023.
"Neal Tiemann is going to be playing guitar for us. He's a member of the band, which is… he's really an awesome guy and he's just a riff factory. Like, dude can just write all day, any metal genre you want. Riffs just come out of his hands and that's, you know that's the ultimate [guitarist]… Obviously [drummer and keyboardist Shawn Cameron is] still writing a bunch, [guitarist Cory Arford] writing a bunch and I've always got my… I'm always in there like 'no, move this here, move that there.' It's fun because it's more to play with, because [Neal is] really just pumping out material in a way that we kind of never… I guess we're just not riff factories like that, you know what I mean?"
Carnifex will hit the road in the next few weeks for a tour celebrating their 2007 debut Dead In My Arms. The tour is opened by Spite, Oceano, Left To Suffer, and Crown Magnetar.
9/23 Fresno, CA – Strummer's
9/24 Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst Club
9/25 Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone
9/26 Reno, NV – Cargo Concert Hall
9/28 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
9/29 Denver, CO – Summit
9/30 Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep
10/1 Lincoln, NE – The Royal Grove
10/2 Iowa City, IA – Wildwood Saloon
10/4 Joliet, IL – The Forge
10/5 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
10/6 Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
10/7 Fort Wayne, IN – Piere's
10/8 Cleveland, OH – The Beachland Ballroom
10/10 Buffalo, NY – Rec Room
10/11 Syracuse, NY – THE LOST HORIZON
10/12 Manchester, NH – Jewel Nightclub
10/13 Worcester, MA – Palladium (Upstairs)
10/14 Atlantic City, NJ – Anchor Rock Club
10/15 Frenchtown, NJ – Artie's
10/16 Richmond, VA – The National
10/18 Greensboro, NC – The Blind Tiger
10/19 Knoxville, TN – The Concourse
10/20 Cincinnati, OH – Riverfront Live
10/21 Sauget, IL – Pop's
10/22 Oklahoma City, OK – Whiskey Nights
10/23 Wichita, KS – TempleLive
10/25 Dallas, TX – Southside Music Hall
10/26 Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live
10/27 El Paso, TX – Rockhouse
10/28 Tucson, AZ – Encore
10/29 Pomona, CA – The Glass House
