Carrion Vael announce new album ‘Slay Utterly’

November 23, 2025 James Weaver

CARRION VAEL have announced a brand new album!

The Richmond, Indiana-based technical melodic death metal outfit have confirmed details of their upcoming full-length record! Titled Slay Utterly, the album will be released on January 16th, 2026 via Unique Leader Records. Serving as the follow-up to 2024’s Cannibals Anonymous, the new record intends to promise a relentless display of precision, violence, and razor-edged melodic craft.

Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “Slay Utterly’ is our third release on Unique Leader Records, and it’s our best work to date. The stories told within these songs mimic the chaos that is each individual song. It’s brutal, it’s fast, and its moments of reprieve are relatively short lived, before the barbarism starts all over again.”

Alongside the announcement, the band have released the first single 19(fucking)78. Speaking about the new single, the band says,, “to live in California during the 1970’s was to live within a cloud of terror cast by The Hillside Stranglers. The details about the abductions, torture, and public disposal of bodies upon the hillsides of southern California were gruesome and unsettling, and with each news report, a darkness seeped into the aspect of everyday life for citizens of the Golden State. The captures of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono offered some closure, but the scars remained.

The Hillside Stranglers case became a chilling reminder of the capacity for human cruelty, and forced Californians to confront the darkest aspects of their reality. 19(fucking)78 dives into the most brutal aspects of this case and holds nothing back in the process.”

Watch the official music video for 19(fucking)78 here: