Carnival Is Forever is the fifth studio album by Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Decapitated

Decapitated (band)

Decapitated is a death metal band that formed in Krosno, Poland in 1996. The group comprises guitarist, founder and composer Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka, vocalist Rafał Piotrowski and Austrian drummer Kerim "Krimh" Lechner. Decapitated have gained recognition as one of the genre's most widely respected...

. It was released on July 12, 2011 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2006's Organic Hallucinosis

Organic Hallucinosis

Organic Hallucinosis is the fourth studio album by the death metal band Decapitated from Poland. The album was released in 2006 on February 7 in the United States, on February 13 in Europe, and on February 22 in Japan. The release was followed by a European and North American tours...

was produced by Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka with Daniel Bergstrand.

Background

In 2009, after a period of disbandment, Decapitated

Decapitated (band)

Decapitated is a death metal band that formed in Krosno, Poland in 1996. The group comprises guitarist, founder and composer Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka, vocalist Rafał Piotrowski and Austrian drummer Kerim "Krimh" Lechner. Decapitated have gained recognition as one of the genre's most widely respected...

's guitarist, composer and founding member Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka reformed the band with Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n drummer Kerim "Krimh" Lechner, vocalist Rafał Piotrowski, and bassist Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha

Filip Hałucha

Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha , is a Polish black metal musician. He is a bassist known for his contributions to the bands Vesania, UnSun, Masachist, Rootwater, and Decapitated .-Gear:* Mayones Slogan 5* Ampeg B4R amp* Sansamp Bass Driver...

. Throughout 2010, the band toured in Europe, United States, Australia and New Zealand.

Decapitated entered the RG Studio in Gdańsk

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 on February 9, 2011 to record the follow-up to 2006's Organic Hallucinosis

Organic Hallucinosis

Organic Hallucinosis is the fourth studio album by the death metal band Decapitated from Poland. The album was released in 2006 on February 7 in the United States, on February 13 in Europe, and on February 22 in Japan. The release was followed by a European and North American tours...

, Carnival Is Forever. The album was produced by Kiełtyka. The drum tracks were recorded with Daniel Bergstrand. In order to achieve "the 'true', organic and natural sound", the band recorded with live drums (without using drum triggers) and without double guitar tracks, which means one guitar per side.

Several riffs on the new album were created with previous drummer Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka. The almost two-month recording session was finished on March 31. The cover art was created by Łukasz Jaszak. The lyrics were contributed by Jarosław Szubrycht, the former vocalist for Lux Occulta

Lux Occulta

Lux Occulta was a Polish avant-garde metal band, founded in late 1994. Their work, also strongly influenced by progressive metal and black metal, commonly incorporates elaborate arrangements often featuring multiple sections and unpredictable time changes.- Biography :The band was started when...

.

Track listing

Personnel

Decapitated Rafał "Rasta" Piotrowski – vocals Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka – guitar Guitar The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... s, production Record producer A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music... Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha Filip Hałucha Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha , is a Polish black metal musician. He is a bassist known for his contributions to the bands Vesania, UnSun, Masachist, Rootwater, and Decapitated .-Gear:* Mayones Slogan 5* Ampeg B4R amp* Sansamp Bass Driver...  – bass Bass guitar The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... Kerim "Krimh" Lechner – drums Drum kit A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

Other Bartosz Hervy – guest keyboards Keyboard instrument A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... Jarosław Szubrycht – lyrics Daniel Bergstrand – mixing Audio mixing (recorded music) In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may... , drum production Arkadiusz "Malta" Malczewski – sound engineering Audio engineering An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including... Rickard Sporrong – mastering Audio mastering Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced... Łukasz Jaszak – cover, design, photos Wojciech Kiełtyka – consultant, help, lyric revision

Release history

Region/Country	Date	Label	Format
Poland		Riffs Factory/Mystic Production	CD, CD+DVD
United States		Nuclear Blast Nuclear Blast Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...	CD, LP, CD+DVD
Europe		Nuclear Blast	CD, LP, CD+DVD

External links

Drum-Tracking Footage From The Studio - Mar. 25, 2011 Studio preview for SickDrummerMagazine.com, Blabbermouth.net