Carnifex Released New Album “More Than Misery”

Southern California deathcore titans CARNIFEX have released their brand new album, "More Than Misery", via Sumerian Records.To mark its arrival, the band have also shared the official music video for "The Process Of Pain", featuring Chaney Crabb of Entheos. Stream the album HERE and watch the video HERE.

Twenty-one years into a career spent staring directly into grief, isolation, anxiety and the fight to survive, CARNIFEX have turned that history into the central statement behind "More Than Misery". Earlier records captured vocalist Scott Ian Lewis attempting to endure and process pain while he was still living inside it. Across these ten tracks, he writes from the aftermath, confronting toxic relationships, past trauma, the person in the mirror and the lasting damage those experiences leave behind.

The title carries a deliberate double meaning. "More Than Misery" can suggest something even worse waiting beyond the darkness, however, for Scott Ian Lewis, it expresses the recognition that a life can contain suffering without being consumed by it and that there is a better life waiting on the other side of the struggle.

Speaking on the album, Scott Ian Lewis shares:

“Carnifex as a band are more driven and focused than ever and More Than Misery isn’t just an album. It’s a statement of survival and a decent into the darkness of living with and surviving past trauma. We wrote this album to be a reminder, that the only way out is through. This album was meant to be listened to start to finish. Deep dive the lyrics, become more than your past, become More Than Misery.”

Musically, "More Than Misery" brings the instincts that shaped CARNIFEX in 2005 into the present with twenty-one years of experience behind them. The record combines the physical directness of first-wave deathcore with the band’s death-metal foundations, blackened atmosphere, symphonic scale and increasingly prominent lead-guitar work. Guitars sit firmly at the front, orchestration deepens their impact and every song was written with the live room in mind.

With more time to write, scrap and rebuild than on any previous album, CARNIFEX tracked "More Than Misery" in Tennessee across approximately five to six weeks with Zach Householder of Whitechapel. The record was mixed by Jeff Dunne and marks the band’s first full-length release for Sumerian Records.

EARLY PRAISE FOR MORE THAN MISERY

• “"More Than Misery" has both feet firmly planted in the malevolent mire, and it suits this band perfectly. This is a fearless sprint down the left-hand path.” - Blabbermouth, 8/10
• ““More Than Misery” brings the heavy back to the Carnifex catalog. Crushing breakdowns, menacing blackened riffs, and downtuned insanity abound on this record.” - Metal Wani, 7/10
• “Carnifex aren’t just surviving — this is a band that is thriving on their own terms. “More Than Misery” takes the darkness that has defined them and filters it through clarity.” - Chaoszine, 4/5
• “More Than Misery is another expert affair from a veteran outfit that has consistently delivered throughout the years.” - Boolin Tunes, 8/10
• “Carnifex are back with a brutally heavy, relentlessly aggressive slab of emotionally driven blackened deathcore that delivers everything fans love” - The Riff Collective, 8/10
• “this is the violent, dark, crushing brutality of a 2000s-era Carnifex with two decades of skill at their command, and it’s a hell of a thing.” - Metal Epidemic, 4/5

CARNIFEX are currently on the road across the UK and Europe for the Death Dominion Tour, a triple co-headline run with Despised Icon and Suffocation, joined by Gates to Hell. The band celebrate the arrival of More Than Misery onstage tonight at Corporation in Sheffield.

Full list of upcoming tour dates below. Tickets and further information HERE EUROPE AND UK:

DEATH DOMINION TOUR REMAINING DATES

Triple co-headline tour with Despised Icon, CARNIFEX and Suffocation, with Gates to Hell

• November 10th: Lyon, France - La Rayonne
• November 11th: Milan, Italy - Legend Club
• November 12th: Vienna, Austria - Arena Wien
• November 13th: Budapest, Hungary - Barba Negra
• November 14th: Leipzig, Germany - Felsenkeller*
• November 15th: Prague, Czech Republic - MeetFactory
• November 17th: Warsaw, Poland - Proxima
• November 18th: Berlin, Germany - Columbia Theater
• November 19th: Hamburg, Germany - Gruenspan
• November 20th: Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage

* Expanded Death Dominion Festival bill also featuring Stillbirth, Sun Eater and Dogbite.

LISTEN TO "MORE THAN MISERY" HERE

"More Than Misery" tracklisting

1. ...and I Held Hands With Death
2. More Than Misery
3. The Process Of Pain (ft. Chaney Crabb)
4. No Gods Only Graves
5. Coffin Crowned King
6. Roses & Rotting Corpses
7. Only The Dead
8. Gothic Serpent
9. Heart Made of Teeth
10. Licking Love From A Knife

ABOUT CARNIFEX

Formed in Fallbrook, California, in 2005 by vocalist Scott Ian Lewis and drummer Shawn Cameron, CARNIFEX emerged from the collision of death metal, black metal, metalcore and the physical energy of Southern California’s all-ages hardcore scene. Their early music helped establish the language of deathcore’s first wave, while nine studio albums and twenty-one years of relentless touring have made them one of the genre’s most durable forces.

Across albums including Dead in My Arms, Hell Chose Me, Die Without Hope, Slow Death, World War X and Necromanteum, CARNIFEX have expanded their sound through blackened atmosphere, symphonic scale and an increasingly prominent melodic and lead-guitar presence. Through deathcore’s initial rise, years of backlash and its current resurgence, the band have remained committed to the music they helped shape.

That durability is rooted in the way CARNIFEX operate. Scott Ian Lewis, Shawn Cameron, Cory Arford, Neal Tiemann and Fred Calderon function as five equal band members with two decades of friendship behind them. Their relationship with listeners has endured just as long, with fans and band members moving through adulthood together and repeatedly showing one another that neither side is alone.

On More Than Misery, CARNIFEX bring twenty-one years of hard-earned live instinct to a record written from the far side of survival, built to hit with the same force when they step onstage.