Carnifex release new single ‘Licking Love From A Knife’

Southern California deathcore titans CARNIFEX have released their new single, “Licking Love From A Knife“. The track is the latest to be taken from the band’s forthcoming album, “More Than Misery”, arriving November 6th via Sumerian Records. Listen HERE and watch the official music video HERE.

“Licking Love From A Knife” places one of the album’s most personal subjects at its center: surviving a toxic relationship. Across “More Than Misery”, vocalist Scott Ian Lewis writes from the perspective of someone who has come through the pain that has always shaped his lyrics. The new single brings that changed perspective into the fallout of a damaging relationship, speaking directly to those who know what it means to make it out.

He shares:

“Licking Love From A Knife is my favorite song on More Than Misery and a song that I hope speaks deeply to our fans that have survived toxic relationships.”

More Than Misery is built around survival. The title carries a deliberate double meaning, expressing the idea that a person’s life can be larger than the misery it contains. Earlier CARNIFEX records captured Scott Ian Lewis attempting to endure and process pain while he was still living inside it. On the new album, he looks back from the other side, carrying those experiences without allowing them to define the whole of his life.

Musically, CARNIFEX approached the record with their original 2005 instincts and the tools of 2026. Guitars take the lead, orchestration deepens their impact and every song was built with its live translation in mind. The album brings together the physical directness of first-wave deathcore, the band’s death-metal and black-metal foundations, the symphonic atmosphere of their later work and the stronger lead-guitar identity of the current lineup.

With no fixed delivery date dictating the sessions, CARNIFEX had more time to write, dismantle and rebuild the material than on any previous album. The record was tracked in Tennessee across approximately five to six weeks with Zach Householder of Whitechapel and mixed by Jeff Dunne.

“More Than Misery” is CARNIFEX’s first full-length album for Sumerian Records and follows the previously released singles “Roses & Rotting Corpses” and album title track, “More Than Misery“. “More Than Misery” will be released on November 6th via Sumerian Records. Pre-order HERE.

Having just completed a North American tour with All Shall Perish for The Price of Existence 20th anniversary tour, a run of US headline dates and an appearance at Furnace Fest, Carnifex now set their sites on Europe and the UK. The Death Dominion Tour is a monster triple co-headline run with Despised Icon and Suffocation with special guests Gates to Hell. The tour crosses the November 6th release of More Than Misery, with CARNIFEX performing in Sheffield on release day.

Full list of upcoming tour dates below. Tickets and further information HERE

EUROPE AND UK: DEATH DOMINION TOUR
Triple co-headline tour with Despised Icon, CARNIFEX and Suffocation, with Gates to Hell

October 29th: Munich, Germany – Backstage
October 30th: Essen, Germany – Weststadthalle
October 31st: Haarlem, Netherlands – Patronaat
November 1st: Antwerp, Belgium – Kavka Zappa
November 3rd: London, UK – Electric Brixton
November 4th: Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute
November 5th: Manchester, UK – Academy 2
November 6th: Sheffield, UK – Corporation – Album Release Day
November 7th: Bristol, UK – Electric Bristol
November 9th: Paris, France – La Machine du Moulin Rouge
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.

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.

Carnifex are
Scott Lewis – Vocals
Cory Arford – Guitar
Neal Tiemann – Guitar
Shawn Cameron – Drums
Fred Calderon – Bass