Torture is the twelfth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, released on March 13, 2012 by Metal Blade Records. The album was produced at Sonic Ranch Studios by Hate Eternal guitarist Erik Rutan (an ex- Morbid Angel member). The album entered the US Billboard 200 at number 38, selling 9,600 copies its first week. Bassist Alex Webster said about the record: "After having spent the past seven months writing and rehearsing new material, we're very excited to finally begin recording. We've had great success working with Erik Rutan on our past two albums so we've decided to work with him again, but to keep things fresh we decided on a change of location — we're returning to Sonic Ranch studios in Texas, where we've recorded several albums in the past. We are psyched to see how this combination works out — we feel it's a pairing that could result in our best album yet." Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz said of the album's writing and recording process, "We've got the same method going now with writing and recording to the click, but I definitely feel a lot more comfortable working with it than I did, say, on Evisceration. I think looking back, Evisceration is a great album, but it was a lot more simplistic in what I was doing, more so than ever, with the lack of drum fills and things going on in the drum department, which I contribute mostly to getting used to that click track. This time around, everything seemed to fall into place a lot easier becau