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Behind-the-scenes photos from DECAPITATED’s video shoot for the song “Pest” can be viewed at this location. The shoot took place on Friday, February 10th with Grupa 13 (BEHEMOTH, ELUVEITIE, SONATA ARCTICA) in charge of production; Dariusz Szermanowicz is the director.

“Pest” is the seventh track off of 2011’s Carnival Is Forever album, which debuted at #11 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart last July and captured the #43 position on GuitarWorld.com’s “Top 50 Albums of 2011” list.

DECAPITATED will be the opening band on “The Ophidian Trek” tour with headliners MESHUGGAH and direct supporters Baroness, which launches April 29th.

Confirmed dates are:

4/29/12 House of Blues - Houston, TX
4/30/12 House of Blues - Dallas, TX
5/01/12 Emo’s - Austin, TX
5/03/12 Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
5/04/12 House of Blues - Anaheim, CA
5/05/12 House of Blues - Hollywood, CA
5/06/12 The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
5/08/12 Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, B.C. - CANADA
5/09/12 Showbox Sodo - Seattle, WA
5/11/12 Odgen Theatre - Denver, CO
5/13/12 First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
5/15/12 House of Blues - Chicago, IL
5/16/12 St. Andrews Hall - Detroit, MI
5/17/12 Sound Academy - Toronto, ON - CANADA
5/18/12 Theatre of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
5/19/12 Palladium - Worcester, MA
5/20/12 Olympia de Montreal - Montreal, QUE - CANADA
5/22/12 The Fillmore - Silver Springs, MD
5/23/12 Terminal 5 – New York, NY

Polish technical death metal band DECAPITATED continue their work at Radio Gdańsk Studio in Poland recording their Nuclear Blast debut and follow-up to 2006’s Organic Hallucinosis.

Guitarist Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka posted the following studio update:

"Hi Everyone,

We are half-way through with guitar tracking. All is going according to the plan and in a few days we are starting with the bass. The guitars sound heavy yet very selective. I must admit we have come up with a very original sound that in my opinion resembles 'black storm clouds'. Heinrich is coming to the studio on the day after tomorrow and we will crack on with the bass then. Malta is a very demanding engineer and he is controlling the whole situation meticulously. The new material is beginning to take its shape and it is getting more and more interesting here.

Take it easy folks!

Vogg"

[Source: Myspace]

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Polish technical death metal band DECAPITATED will be entering RG Studio in Gdańsk, Poland on February 9th to record their fifth studio album and follow-up to 2006’s Organic Hallucinosis.

The new release will be produced by Wacek Kiełtyka and sound engineered by Malta Arkadiusz Malczewski. Drums will be recorded with Daniel Bergstrand (BEHEMOTH, MESHUGGAH, DIMMU BORGIR, KEEP OF KALESSIN, DEFLESHED), who will also handle mixing duties.

DECAPITATED’s as-yet-untitled new album appeared on “The Top 25 Most Anticipated Albums of 2011” list in Decibel magazine’s February 2011 issue, available now at newsstands.

DECAPITATED's line-up includes: Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka on guitar, Kerim "Krimh" Lechner (Thorns Of Ivy, Tone Intimacy) on drums, Rafał Piotrowski (Ketha, Forgotten Souls) on lead vocals, and Filip "Heinrich" Hałucha (Vesenia, Rootwater, Unsun, Masachist) on bass.

Visit DECAPITATED online at: www.DECAPITATEDBAND.net | Facebook | Myspace | Youtube

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MetalSucks' Axl Rosenberg and Vince Neilstein caught up with DECAPITATED guitarist Vogg at the NYC stop of Summer Slaughter. Vogg shared his thoughts on the new lineup, the reception fans have been giving them, and where the band stands in terms of releasing a new album. An excerpt follows:

Have you started writing the new album at all?

I’m starting to write some riffs. I have some ideas. After this tour, I will start to write new material for real, for serious. There are too many shows and we don’t have much time to write any new songs. I think in January we go to the studio and have four months of preproduction for the new material. I have a lot of ideas right now, I just have to take all these ideas together and [turn them into] a new record. It should be ready next year for sure. The new record should be ready in 2011.



You’re a band that’s evolved its sound as time has gone on…

I know that this band will always change. Every album we did was different than the one we did before. We are always looking for something new or something else. We don’t want to be a band that wants to play the same all the time. We don’t have to. For real artists [laughs], it should be like you’re looking for something fresh all the time – to not be boring and not stay in the same place all the time. I expect more changes for the new album and the recording.



That’s what we were going to ask you.

Yeah, yeah. There will be more differences – no just fucking fast, blast double kick riffs. There will be something more. You’ll see.


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