Format: Album CD Date: Sep 23, 2003 Label: Metal Blade Records Catalog: 14444 Buy now!

Track Listing: Sick In The Head Amerika The Brutal My Hatred Murdered In The Basement When Skin Turns Blue Bringer Of Blood Ugly Braindead Blind And Gagged Claustrophobic Escape From The Grave

Description:

Formed as a side-project by Barnes and Obituary guitarist Allen West in 1993, Six Feet Under took on a different complexion when Barnes was ousted from his then-priority band, Cannibal Corpse in 1995. The semblance of the side-super group-turned leaders of the resurgent death metal underground changed once more in January 1998 when West left the band. Enter former Massacre guitarist Steve Swanson. "Steve learned 17 songs in the three weeks leading up to tour," he says. "Our songs may not be the most technical [pieces] ever written, but Steve performed them on the road like he had been playing them for years." Ironically, when the band first gathered in Tampa, Florida to begin writing tracks for what would eventually become Maximum Violence, they were at a loss. Would they continue down the experimental path they had headed on 1997's Warpath or would they return to their cutting-edge death metal roots? "We had a new guitarist, so the songwriting assignments had changes considerably," recalls Barnes. "We went back and forth trying different stuff. But eventually things came together in a big way." This is a brand new release from one of the best selling death metal bands in the world.