It’s been a long time coming, but Tennessee’s Whitechapel are finally back to splitting skulls on their monstrous new single. It seemed with albums like 2019’s ‘The Valley’ and 2021’s experimental ‘Kin’ that the deathcore legends were all done with being heavy, but obviously, we were wrong to assume that, as new stand-alone single ‘A Visceral Retch’ sees Phil Bozeman and the crew going back to the savage style they perfected on early albums like 2008’s ‘This Is Exile’. Along with Suicide Silence, All Shall Perish, and After The Burial, the Knoxville horde wrote the rulebook on evil deathcore while drawing heavy on their death metal roots. Hell, ‘A Visceral Retch’ sees them moving almost fully into death metal mode in an unanticipated move.
Comments vocalist Phil Bozeman: “’A Visceral Retch‘ is a song that fans of ‘The Somatic Defilement’ will latch onto immediately. It was one of the first songs we had in the chamber to work with. This song came to light thanks mostly to [guitarist] Zach Householder. He showed us and we all immediately said, ’yup, that‘s it.’ Zach is notorious for very dark and horror-like vibes so this album is right in his wheelhouse. The song is disturbing. Imagine being put in a situation of survival by gluttonous, mammoth demons that give you a choice. Eat the demon’s waste, eat each other, or starve to death. The twist, you‘re against the people you love the most. It‘s a way to find the ones that are truly evil people to build and strengthen their cult. It also represents how horrible people can really be, when push comes to shove.”
Whitechapel will serve as direct support to Lorna Shore on their upcoming, mostly sold out, North American headlining tour. The journey begins on September 19th at Montreal, Quebec, runs through October 30th in Wallingford, Connecticut, and includes performances at Louder Than Life and Aftershock. Additional support on the tour will be provided by Kublai Khan TX and Sanguisugabogg. In November, the band will join Thy Art Is Murder for eight dates in Latin America before closing out the year in late December with the Tennessee Takeover 2024, a trio of headlining shows through Chattanooga, Nashville, and Knoxville. Support will be provided by Sanguisugabogg, Gates To Hell, and Peeling Flesh.
Check out the new single here: