07/14/2026 18:08

Cartilage

Cartilage (USA) to release new album 'Operating Altar' in September

At St. Petersen's University Hospital, nightmares become coursework and 'Operating Altar' is the soundtrack to those horrors!

US band Cartilage channel Matthew Krolmark's descent into medical madness with a single, sprawling deathgrind opus: faster than a panicked heartbeat, sharper than Dr. Warwick Locke's questionable scalpel, and dripping with enough gore to violate several ethical boards.

A grand‑guignolesque blood ritual disguised as an album, 'Operating Altar', ready to carve its way through the living, the dead, and anyone foolish enough to listen without anesthesia!

Track listing:
1. Metal, Bone, and Sinew
2. S.C.D. (Sudden Cardiac Death)
3. The Autopsy: A Surgical Sonata
4. The Sanguine Fiend
5. A Lymphatic Labyrinth of Roiling Rot
6. Among the Offal
7. Anatomical Incantations
8. The Operating Altar
9. Stitch by Stitch

Guitarist Mike Flory commented: "With this album, we sought to compose one large piece instead of simply a collection of songs. We've combined more influences from the likes of both brutal death metal and classic heavy metal, yet we pushed ourselves to faster tempos that we've never done before. 'Operating Altar' is uniquely formulated to leave your ears bleeding with pleasure, our Maggot O-Pus if you will!"

For fans of Exhumed, Impetigo, Carcass, Pharmacist.

The album will be out on Everlasting Spew Records on September 11th, 2026.

Line-up:
Mark Wallace - Cankerous Larynx Invocations
Mike Flory - Oscillating Vein Necromancy
Ria Flory - Strung Fascial Divinations and Tracheal Exertions
Adam Houmam - Tremoring Transmutations on Taut Epidermises

(source: Everlasting Spew Records)