Carcass released its comeback album Surgical Steel in 2013 and an EP full of songs that didn't make the final cut in 2014. Naturally since the release of the album, fans have been hounding the band about when a new album will happen, to which the reply is usually the same – eventually.
Ghost Cult Magazine posed the same question to guitarist Bill Steer, and surprisingly got a different answer! It's nothing along the lines of "new record this year!" or anything, but it's something.
“Hmm, interesting question, really, because the new music will have to differ from the previous record to a degree, because you have to feel like the music going forward. With Surgical Steel, we had the advantage where people didn’t know we were working on an album until it came out, and expectations were low, which was great, because when the album came out, it was actually great, and it was surprising to many people.
When [Carcass vocalist and bassist] Jeff Walker and I get together and write music through, we’re going to have to walk a tight rope— writing music that’s identifiable, as well as breaking new ground.
We do have a couple of songs tucked away—the momentum just picked up, and at the start of last year, we got together and worked on a handful of tunes, and we’re excited with some of the things we were working on. When we have a quiet time this year, in 2016, we’ll look into the stuff more carefully."
Steer adds he'd "like to have a large chunk of rehearsal space time—if we’re going to make a new record, I don’t want to waste anyone’s time," so we'll see how things come along! So definitely nothing in 2016, but maybe 2017?
