SIX FEET UNDER’s New Album Is Complete, Will Be Mixed Soon

Six Feet Under is done with the follow-up to their 2024 record Killing For Revenge and it’s gonna be everything you love about the band and then some. According to Six Feet Under vocalist Chris Barnes in an interview with Metal Blade Records CEO Brian Slagel on the 100 Songs That Define Heavy Metal podcast, the new record is recorded and is largely a collaboration between Barnes and guitarist Jack Owen.

“It’s a really interesting album… Well, me and Jack wrote the songs on this… This time he wrote half of the lyrics on the album; I wrote the other half. And that’s been really interesting for me too, to collaborate as a lyricist with someone… So me and Jack collaborated on [Cannibal Corpse‘s debut album] Eaten Back To Life, on ‘Shredded Humans’. And his writing style and his storytelling is very immersive as well. And I love the way Jack writes. He’s been a really amazing addition to Six Feet Under as far as progressing the band and keeping things interesting.”

He continued: “This album, it encompasses just a lot of everything we’ve done. I mean, even going back to Haunted, there are some songs that are very rhythmic and I think more on the simple, straightforward side. And then there’s some songs that are very thrashy, which kind of came into play on the last album, on Killing For Revenge, where they’re more thrashy-based type of death metal. And then there’s some songs — one of the songs really reminds me of like something we would’ve done on The Bleeding when I was in Cannibal Corpse, when [Jack and I] were both in Cannibal Corpse. So it’s really, really cool.”

Barnes later revealed that the new Six Feet Under would be mixed by Mark Lewis, who they worked with on the 2010 covers album Graveyard Classics III alongside the 2012 and 2013 records Undead and Unborn: “We haven’t worked with him since Undead and Unborn. And I really liked his mix that he did on — he did the new Dying Fetus record, but the last one, I was really, really a fan of that.

“And we actually reconnected on Six Feet Under‘s tour earlier this past year — it was January, February 2025 here when we were in Nashville and we talked backstage and we had a really good conversation. So it was sticking with me for a few months after that, like, ‘Man, I just really love that production he did on the Fetus album and it’d be great to work with him again.’ So I kind of connected with him after that tour, a couple of months after, and he was, like, ‘Oh, man, I’m down. Let’s do this.’ So he’s really open to explore the production and the mix in an interesting way so that it complements these songs, ’cause they are very diverse from each other.”

So stay tuned! I thought Killing For Revenge was easily the best thing Six Feet Under has done in a while and I’m pretty stoked for the new stuff – especially after having seen Six Feet Under live recently. Dudes sounded fucking great.