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I mentioned it in my review this week, but it's worth noting again that the local death-metal band Whitechapel's third disc, A New Era of Corruption, opened at #43 on the Billboard album charts last week, with more than 10,000 copies sold. That's a lot of records for a death-metal band, especially one that was playing all-ages matinees in Knoxville just a few years ago

Knoxville death metal kings Whitechapel are recording their third album, the follow-up to 2008's This Is Exile, for Metal Blade.



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From the band's MySpace page:


Just home from touring with Trivium and Chimaira and closing out an extremely busy and successful year, Tennessee's WHITECHAPEL are now set to head into the studio December 27th to January 31st with infamous metal producer Jason Suecof (Trivium, All That Remains, The Black Dahlia Murder, Chimaira, DevilDriver and many more). WHITECHAPEL are set to record the follow up to the band's crushing Metal Blade debut, This is Exile, at Jason's Orlando, FL based Audiohammer Studios. Be sure to stay tuned to Whitechapel's and Metal Blade's sites as more information regarding guest vocalists, studio updates, and video updates will be posted throughout the band's recording process.

Guitarist and founding member Alex Wade comments:

"We're really excited to announce that we will be hitting the studio in January with a producer who needs no introduction, Jason Suecof. Suecof has produced some of the most brutal metal albums to date and we are excited for him to get his hands on our new material to make it the heaviest music we've created thus far.

Also, Dusty Peterson has been signed on to handle the artwork duties. His dark, yet meticulously detailed style of hand drawn artwork is sure to bring out a truly vivid and brutal masterpiece. We really wanted our artwork for the record to speak as loudly for us as the music we are creating, thus, Dusty was picked for his unbelievably realistic and detailed hand drawn style. In this day and age where downloading a CD is as easy as typing the cd's name into a search bar, we wanted to make the artwork something creative and special for the fans who actually purchase the CD. Almost like owning a piece of art.

As for the title and tracklisting, you'll just have to wait for that as the CD comes closer to completion."

This is Exile was unleashed on July 8th, 2008, and debuted at #118 on the Billboard top 200 charts, #2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers, and #14 on Billboard's Top Independent albums. An accomplishment that is impressive for veteran artists, much less a relatively brand new metal act.


Stuff to Do This Weekend

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It's a big weekend in Knoxville:

• The James Agee Film Festival starts tonight at the East Tennessee History Center and continues tomorrow at the Square Room and Sunday at the Bijou Theatre. Lots and lots of details courtesy MP editor Coury Turczyn here.

Jonathan Sexton has a release show for his new CD New Day at the Square Room tonight with his band the Big Love Choir.

• The first Knoxville Horror Film Fest is tonight at Pilot Light.

KSO at the Tennessee Theatre tonight.

• Comedian D.L. Hughley at Sidespltters Comedy Club.

Angel Zuniga Martinez, formerly of Angel and the Love Mongers and long overdue for some MP coverage, is playing at Preservation Pub tonight with Kevin Hyfantis and Matt Urmy.

• Get an intro to Knoxville Rock Girls Camp at the Birdhouse on Saturday afternoon.

Brewers' Jam at World's Fair Park on Saturday.

• Local deathcore kings Whitechapel at the Valarium.  
In response to the Daily Times' feature on local deathcore-band-made-good Whitechapel, Randy Neal and a few other KnoxViewers are trying to come to grips with what death metal is and why people like it.

We wrote about Whitechapel here and here.

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