Red Before Black | ||||
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Released | November 3, 2017 | |||
Recorded | December 2016, April–June 2017 at Mana Recording Studios | |||
Genre | Death metal | |||
Length | 46:26 | |||
Label | Metal Blade | |||
Producer | Erik Rutan | |||
Cannibal Corpse chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Blabbermouth.net | 8.5/10 [2] |
Red Before Black is the fourteenth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, released on November 3, 2017. [3] This is the band's final album to feature guitarist Pat O'Brien before producer Erik Rutan officially replaced him in 2021.
The band started to write the album in 2016 after the last run of touring for their previous album, A Skeletal Domain . When interviewed in 2017 drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz stated that the band never go by any specific blueprints when they start writing for an album, pointing out that this was also the case with Red Before Black. However the idea of utilizing some slower doom elements was discussed beforehand. This manifested in a couple of songs, while they mostly remained true to their death metal sound and thrash metal roots. [4]
Mazurkiewicz came up with the album title while sleeping in the middle of the night, making him wake up. [4] Further down the road of creating the album he said about the title "... I really pushed for it because I felt it was very strong and something very different than our previous titles. It’s simple, but effective". [5]
After hearing the song 'Only One Will Die', penned by bassist Alex Webster, all members of the band thought it should be the first track of the album. The first song they worked on was 'Red Before Black'. It started out as an unnamed piece written by guitarist Pat O'Brien with Mazurkiewicz contributing with a title and the lyrics later. [6]
Choosing to work with Erik Rutan as a producer again after working with Mark Lewis on the previous album was partly because of convenience, enabling the band to stay focused during the recording process, [6] although Rutan's previous work with the band was also a deciding factor. [7]
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Only One Will Die" | Alex Webster | Webster | 3:24 |
2. | "Red Before Black" | Paul Mazurkiewicz | Pat O'Brien | 3:12 |
3. | "Code of the Slashers" | Rob Barrett | Barrett | 4:46 |
4. | "Shedding My Human Skin" | Mazurkiewicz | O'Brien | 3:29 |
5. | "Remaimed" | Mazurkiewicz | O'Brien | 4:14 |
6. | "Firestorm Vengeance" | Webster | Webster | 3:43 |
7. | "Heads Shoveled Off" | Mazurkiewicz | O'Brien | 3:37 |
8. | "Corpus Delicti" | Barrett | Barrett | 3:29 |
9. | "Scavenger Consuming Death" | Webster | Webster | 4:33 |
10. | "In the Midst of Ruin" | Mazurkiewicz | Barrett | 3:26 |
11. | "Destroyed Without a Trace" | Mazurkiewicz |
| 4:01 |
12. | "Hideous Ichor" | Webster | Webster | 4:34 |
Total length: | 46:26 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Original artist | Length |
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1. | "Sacrifice" |
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| Sacrifice | 3:04 |
2. | "Confessions" | Jeff Becerra | Mike Torrao | Possessed | 2:58 |
3. | "No Remorse" | James Hetfield |
| Metallica | 6:16 |
4. | "Demon's Night" | Accept | Accept | Accept | 4:17 |
5. | "Bethany Home (A Place to Die)" | The Accüsed | The Accüsed | The Accüsed | 3:20 |
6. | "Endless Pain" | Petrozza | Kreator | 3:11 | |
7. | "Behind Bars" | Dave Carlo | Carlo | Razor | 2:20 |
Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes. [8]
Chart | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] | 29 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] | 116 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [11] | 70 |
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [12] | 33 |
French Albums (SNEP) [13] | 101 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [14] | 16 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [15] | 29 |
US Billboard 200 [16] | 95 |
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