Cartilage Announces New Video, EP, and 2025 US Tour Dates
The dead may rest but the grind goes on. Cartilage is serving up another frenzied feast with Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology. The blastmasters took their studio operations to home base, enlisting Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Ghoul, Thrice) for recording and mixing duties, while the genre’s perennial grindfather Leon del Muerte (Impaled, Exhumed, Nails) handled mastering, the record then completed with art by Jason V Roberts, and photos by Kei Mowry.
The Bay Area gore titans continue to spill their guts across the land, but with new tools in their trade: twisting harmonies and cinematic set-pieces now compliment Cartilage’s arsenal of blistering blasts, ripcord riffs, and deranged shrieks fans know to expect. Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology offers the biggest color palette on a Cartilage release to date. Now with even more shades of red.
The video for “Globs Of Glimmering Gore” was directed and edited by Mike Flory, with Kei Mowry as director of photography, and gore effects by Mark Wallace and Mike Flory. The band declares, “This video contains glorification of gelatinous, gangrenous, gargling, ghastly, gut garroting grossness that is ‘Globs Of Glimmering Gore!’” Peep the video here. Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology is out now on digital, CD, MC formats, and with a vinyl pressing due this Summer. Find preorders at the Everlasting Spew webshop.
Cartilage has announced a string of West Coast dates supporting the EP, including sets at Northwest Massacre Fest and Disemboweled God Fest with Impaled and more.
Cartilage 2025 US Tour Dates:
3/27/25: Savage Henry Club – Eureka, CA
3/28/25: John Henry’s – Eugene, CA
3/29/25: Northwest Massacre Fest – Erebus – Kelso, WA w/ Impaled
3/30/25: Disemboweled God Fest @ Central Saloon – Seattle, WA w/ Impaled
Surgical Strangulation Tour w/ Unidad Trauma:
4/11/2025 Eli’s Mile High Club – Oakland, CA
4/12/2025 TBA
4/13/2025 Republica de Hops – Tijuana, MX
4/14/2025 Tower Bar – San Diego, CA
4/15/2025 The Griffin – Las Vegas, NV
4/16/2025 URBNXN Tucson – Tucson, AZ
4/17/2025 Club 101 – El Paso, TX
4/18/2025 Hi Tones – San Antonio, TX
4/19/2025 Three Links – Dallas, TX
4/20/2025 TBA – Houston, TX
4/22/2025 The Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
4/23/2025 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
4/24/2025 Knucklehead – Los Angeles, CA
About Cartilage:
Since their malformation in 2014, the San Franciscan sickos Cartilage have brewed a special concoction of gory deathgrind so foul, it would leave Carcass and Impetigo screaming in horror.
After spending their formative years sharpening their axes, the Cartilage crew entered Greg Wilkinson’s Earhammer Studios to spawn their debut full-length, Dialect Of The Dead (2017). Upon its release, members Mark Wallace, Teresa Flory, Michael Flory, and Adam Houmam spent the next few years spreading their grotesque gospel to terrified audiences across the greater US and Europe.
2020 saw the addition of bassist Kienan Hamilton, adding his pummeling low-end to the quintets next two blood offerings; the self-released and recorded Gore-Met EP (2020), followed by The Deader The Better LP (2022), produced by Matt Harvey (Exhumed) and released via Creator-Destructor Records. With a wealth of shows throughout the East and West Coasts and a US tour with Gruesome under their leathers, the five-piece has tightened into a well-bloodied machine.
