Florida-based death metal veterans CANNIBAL CORPSE have announced a massive European headline tour for early 2023. The trek will kick off in Hengelo, Netherlands on March 10 before steamrolling 15 countries, including five U.K. dates, and ending at Rock City in Nottingham, U.K. on April 23. Support on the tour will come from DARK FUNERAL, INGESTED and STORMRULER.

Tour dates:
Mar. 10 – NL – Hengelo – Metropool
Mar. 11 – DE – Speyer – Halle 101
Mar. 12 – CH – Lausanne – Metropol
Mar. 14 – FR – Toulouse – Le Bikini
Mar. 15 – ES – Pamplona – Sala Totem
Mar. 16 – ES – Madrid – La Paqui
Mar. 17 – ES – Barcelona – Razzmatazz 2
Mar. 18 – FR – Lyon – Ninkasi Gerland / Kao
Mar. 19 – DE – Stuttgart – Im Wizemann
Mar. 21 – FR – Rennes – Antipode
Mar. 22 – FR – Paris – Elysee Montmartre
Mar. 23 – DE – Cologne – Essigfabrik
Mar. 24 – CH – Zurich – Komplex 457
Mar. 25 – CZ – Prague – Palak Akropolis
Mar. 26 – HU – Budapest – Barba Negra
Mar. 28 – DE – Munich – Backstage Werk
Mar. 29 – AT – Vienna – Arena
Mar. 30 – PL – Cracow – Hyde Park
Mar. 31 – DE – Leipzig – Hellraiser
Apr. 01 – DE – Coesfeld – Fabrik
Apr. 02 – DE – Berlin – Huxley’s Neue Welt
Apr. 04 – DK – Copenhagen – Amager Bio
Apr. 05 – SE – Stockholm – Klubben
Apr. 06 – NO – Oslo – Inferno Festival Norway
Apr. 07 – SE – Gothenburg – Pustervik
Apr. 08 – DK – Aarhus – Train
Apr. 09 – DE – Hamburg – Gruenspan
Apr. 11 – DE – Hannover – Capitol
Apr. 12 – NL – Leiden – Gebr. de Nobel
Apr. 13 – BE – Antwerp – Trix
Apr. 14 – FR – Strasbourg – La Laiterie
Apr. 15 – DE – Geiselwind – Music Hall
Apr. 16 – FR – Lille – Le Splendid
Apr. 18 – GB – Bristol – O2 Academy
Apr. 19 – GB – Glasgow – Barrowlands
Apr. 21 – GB – Manchester – Academy
Apr. 22 – GB – London – O2 Forum Kentish Town
Apr. 23 – GB – Nottingham – Rock City

CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s 15th studio album, “Violence Unimagined“, was released in April 2021 via Metal Blade Records. Erik Rutan, one of the death metal’s most acclaimed guitarists who is known for his time as part of MORBID ANGEL throughout the ’90s and early 2000s, as well as handling vocals/guitars for HATE ETERNAL, lent his guitar as well as production skills to the effort, which was recorded at his Mana Recording in St. Petersburg, Florida. Rutan previously produced four CANNIBAL CORPSE albums (in addition to “Violence Unimagined”),alongside the likes of GOATWHORE, SOILENT GREEN and BELPHEGOR. Filling in live on guitar since 2019, in 2020 he became a full member, contributing to the writing process.

In a 2021 interview with Shawn Ratches of Laughingmonkeymusic, CANNIBAL CORPSE drummer and founding member Paul Mazurkiewicz was asked how long he thinks the band can keep going. He responded: “As long as we’re all healthy, then who knows how long we can take it. I wouldn’t have ever thought when I started that I’d still be doing this still at 53 years old. So, how long can we take? You’ve just gotta look at it, at this point, day by day. You never know. If you stay healthy and you keep active and you keep doing it, it’s just gonna come down to that — it’s gonna come down to the health factor. Because everybody knows — the older you get, anything can go wrong at any given time, whether it’s a disease or an injury or whatever that you just go, ‘I can’t do it anymore. No matter how much I practice and how much I do the right thing, it doesn’t matter.’ So we’ve gotta just take it day by day at this point. There’s no denying — we’re more at the end of our career than we are in the beginning. Can we go another 30 years? Well, I highly doubt it. I would be 83 doing this… That would be incredible [if we could still do it at that age], but I would have to almost think that would slightly be impossible. I guess it’s possible — who knows? We don’t know. Nobody’s done it in that sense in the extreme form.