Carrion Vael‘s “1912” went up for streaming this week, emerging as the second single from the Richmond, Indiana technical melodic death metal band’s upcoming fifth studio album, “Slay Utterly“. That record continues the group’s fascination with true crime, focusing on the lives and victims of various serial killers, gruesome murders and more. This song was inspired by the Villisca, IA axe murders that took place on June 10th of 1912. That unsolved case saw 8 people viciously killed with an axe in a house one night, with six of the victims being children.
Carrion Vael commented:
“Some tragedies serve as a gruesome reminder of evil’s capabilities to sleuth beneath the surface of even the most scenic of small town communities. On a stifling June night in Villisca, Iowa, a mother, father, and 6 young children, saw first hand a portrait of the truly wicked. Unfortunately, they were the only ones to witness it, as no one was ever apprehended for the murders. ‘1912‘ dives into this horrifying mystery, and we let waves of brutal blasting lead the way.”
