Chaney Crabb of Entheos features on CARNIFEX’s official music video for “The Process Of Pain,” shared alongside the release of More Than Misery. The ten-track album arrived November 6, 2026, through Sumerian Records and is available to stream and purchase.
For vocalist Scott Ian Lewis, the record approaches trauma from its aftermath. Where earlier material dealt with enduring pain while still experiencing it, these songs confront toxic relationships, past trauma, self-examination and the damage that remains. The title holds two meanings: the possibility of something worse beyond misery, and Lewis’s recognition that suffering need not consume an entire life.
“We wrote this album to be a reminder, that the only way out is through,” Lewis says. “This album was meant to be listened to start to finish. Deep dive the lyrics, become more than your past, become More Than Misery.” He describes the album as a statement of survival.
The music brings together first-wave deathcore, death-metal foundations, blackened atmosphere, orchestration and an increasingly prominent lead-guitar presence. Guitars remain at the front of the arrangements, with every song written with live performance in mind.
CARNIFEX allowed more time to write, discard and rebuild material than on any previous album. Recording took place in Tennessee over approximately five to six weeks with Zach Householder of Whitechapel. Jeff Dunne mixed the record, which is the band’s first full-length release for Sumerian Records.
The album also includes “Licking Love From A Knife,” announced in the supplied release’s subject as a single and video available now. Separate video links accompany the title track and “Roses & Rotting Corpses.”
- …and I Held Hands With Death
- More Than Misery
- The Process Of Pain (ft. Chaney Crabb)
- No Gods Only Graves
- Coffin Crowned King
- Roses & Rotting Corpses
- Only The Dead
- Gothic Serpent
- Heart Made of Teeth
- Licking Love From A Knife
The announcement includes early review scores of 8/10 from Blabbermouth, Boolin Tunes and The Riff Collective; 7/10 from Metal Wani; and 4/5 from Chaoszine and Metal Epidemic. Their quoted assessments address the record’s heaviness, blackened riffs, emotional focus and the band’s accumulated experience.
The release coincides with CARNIFEX’s UK and European Death Dominion Tour, a triple co-headline run with Despised Icon and Suffocation, joined by Gates to Hell. The November 6 album-release-day stop was listed at Corporation in Sheffield. The announcement supplied the following November dates:
- November 6 — Sheffield, UK — Corporation — Album Release Day
- November 7 — Bristol, UK — Electric Bristol
- November 9 — Paris, France — La Machine du Moulin Rouge
- November 10 — Lyon, France — La Rayonne
- November 11 — Milan, Italy — Legend Club
- November 12 — Vienna, Austria — Arena Wien
- November 13 — Budapest, Hungary — Barba Negra
- November 14 — Leipzig, Germany — Felsenkeller
- November 15 — Prague, Czech Republic — MeetFactory
- November 17 — Warsaw, Poland — Proxima
- November 18 — Berlin, Germany — Columbia Theater
- November 19 — Hamburg, Germany — Gruenspan
- November 20 — Karlsruhe, Germany — Substage
The Leipzig date carries an expanded Death Dominion Festival bill that also features Stillbirth, Sun Eater and Dogbite.
Lewis and drummer Shawn Cameron formed CARNIFEX in Fallbrook, California, in 2005. The band developed from death metal, black metal, metalcore and Southern California’s all-ages hardcore scene. Its earlier albums include Dead in My Arms, Hell Chose Me, Die Without Hope, Slow Death, World War X and Necromanteum. The supplied biography describes nine studio albums and twenty-one years of touring, spanning deathcore’s initial rise, backlash and resurgence.
The lineup comprises Lewis on vocals, Cory Arford and Neal Tiemann on guitars, Cameron on drums and Fred Calderon on bass. The five operate as equal members, with two decades of friendship behind them. The announcement also describes a longstanding connection with listeners who have moved through adulthood alongside the band.
