200 STAB WOUNDS Released ‘Hands of Eternity’ from New Album

200 STAB WOUNDS PREPARES A NEW ALBUM FOR JUNE, 2024 BY METAL BLADE RECORDS…

It was titled of ‘Manual Manic Procedures’ and will be released in June 28.

The themes on “Manual Manic Procedures” run the gamut of classic gore-metal horror subject matter, beloved to the band and their rapidly growing audience. “I’ll feel what kind of vibe the song has, and what topic would fit for that particular song,” vocalist/guitarist Steve Buhl explains. “The last song on the new record, ‘Parricide,’ is about someone going into a nursing home, and just blowing it up. The lyrics are about those type of corporations that don’t really give a fuck about those people. It’s all just a money grab.”

The lead single is “Manual Manic Procedures’” opening track, “Hands Of Eternity”. Buhl explains that the song is about being trapped in your own mind, something most of us can relate to. “That song is a good example of where we want to go musically. The heavy riffs are there, but there’s still a lot of good melody. It’s not just crazy fucking blast beats and, ‘riff riff riff.’ It’s more structured, groovy, and melodic, but still heavy. That’s one of my favorites.”

Tracklisting:

1. Hands Of Eternity

2. Gross Abuse

3. Manual Manic Procedures

4. Release the Stench

5. Led To the Chamber/Liquified

6. Flesh From Within

7. Defiled Gestation

8. Ride the Flatline

9. Parricide

The album’s penultimate track, “Ride the Flatline,” is the second drop before the album releases. It’s an Ezra Cook-penned song inspired by a chemical spill in the Ohio River after a train derailed . “All the crazy chemicals caught fire,” Buhl said. “The Ohio River goes into Lake Erie, which is where our water supply is. So the song comes from that really. But obviously, we put a little bit of animation into it, with someone getting run over by a train in the process and fucking exploding and shit.“

Another standout aural atrocity is “Gross Abuse,” which Buhl describes as a “basic death metal torture song. That song is so simple, heavy and groovy,” he says. “It’s a great song – it’s heavy as fuck, just brutal – so we needed lyrics to match that,” he says, of lyrics that include “Switch blade slides into the skull / Brain seeps out onto the floor / Violent killing, I need gore.” The singer/guitarist adds, “It’s your standard torture-fucking-murder-fucking-death metal song about killing somebody.”

Will be released in June 28, 2024 by ‘Metal Blade Records’ in Physical Format: Vinyl & CD by Indie Merch (U.S.A.), Kings Road (Europe) and Eye Sore Merch (UK);
And on Digital Format: Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, Amazon MP3, Bandcamp;
Pre-order: metalblade.com/200stabwounds/