- Product Code: NB 3148-0
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First band’s album since “Swansong” (1996)!!!
Without a doubt, UK legends CARCASS have released several classic albums over the years and changed the trajectory of Extreme Metal with each consecutive release. Whether it was inventing Gore Grind (i.e. "Reek Of Putrefaction", "Symphonies Of Sickness") or creating the template for Melodic Death Metal (i.e. "Heartwork"), Carcass has always made records by which bars were set and rules were broken. Carcass disbanded in 1996, prior to the release of their album "Swansong". Upon their untimely demise, fans mourned the loss of the seminal act and longed that the band would one day be exhumed from their premature grave. After an 18-year hiatus, Carcass has been fully reanimated and it’s safe to say, they haven’t missed a pathological step.
Walker, Steer, and Amott reformed in 2007 with Arch Enemy drummer Daniel Erlandsson as a live act and performed at festivals around the world for the next several years. In 2008, Steer said in an interview that a new album was unlikely due to Amott's and Walker's busy schedules.
While touring in 2008, Steer watched drummer Dan Wilding play and felt inspired by his similarity to former Carcass drummer Ken Owen, who had been unable to join Carcass for the reunion due to a cerebral hemorrhage he suffered in 1999. Amott and Erlandsson left the band in 2012 to focus on Arch Enemy, and Steer and Walker recruited Wilding to record "Surgical Steel", which they financed independently as they had no label backing at the time.
With "Surgical Steel", Carcass has risen to the occasion and given fans an album that holds up to their classic repertoire, delivering another milestone in their highly influential career. Everything a Carcass fan could want is on this record, with every era of the band represented! Its genesis however was not without its fair share of blood, sweat and tears of course. Long-time producer Colin Richardson actually walked out on the mixing sessions after tracking, possibly burnt out from the stress of having to top such landmark productions as "Heartwork". The equally renowned Andy Sneap (Testament, Exodus, Megadeth) stepped in at this time to mix the record, and put the finishing touches on their long-awaited masterpiece. The result is a combination of talent that should undoubtedly go unmatched for an undetermined stretch of time!!
In an era, seemingly content to endlessly chug away at their e-strings in various rhythmic denominations, Carcass has brought the power of the riff back to a generation. Songs like "The Master Butcher’s Apron", "Unfit for Human Consumption", "The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills", "Noncompliance to ASTM F899-12 Standard", are sure to become classics and put an air-guitar in the hands of every man, woman and child within earshot! Only the choicest of cuts were made to bring us a record worthy of the Carcass legacy!! In short, "Surgical Steel" is just what the doctor ordered!!!
The album features first songs Carcass has recorded since reforming in 2007. Also, “Surgical Steel” is their first album with drummer Dan Wilding and their first to reach the Top 50 in UK album charts.
Surgical Steel was named “2013's Album of the Year” by several Metal magazines and websites, including Metal Assault, MetalSucks and Decibel Magazine.
Limited digipack edition features bonus track “Intensive Battery Brooding”.
Nuclear Blast Records, 2013 (NB 3148-0). Made in Germany. First press.
Tracklist:
1. 1985 1:15
2. Thrasher's Abattoir 1:50
3. Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System 4:02
4. A Congealed Clot Of Blood 4:14
5. The Master Butcher's Apron 4:00
6. Noncompliance To ASTM F 899-12 Standard 6:07
7. The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills 4:10
8. Unfit For Human Consumption 4:25
9. 316L Grade Surgical Steel 5:20
10. Captive Bolt Pistol 3:17
11. Mount Of Execution 8:25
12. Intensive Battery Brooding 4:43
Total playing time: 51:48 min.
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- Product Code: MOSH 18CD
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While this album still retains the Goregrind style of "Reek Of Putrefaction", now the sound became more characteristic of Death Metal. If "Reek Of Putrefaction" was one series of brusque, quick, and brute explosions after another, "Symphonies Of Sickness", as its title indicated, is something of a complex step up. None of the power is lost at all, but thanks to a combination of crisper recording and a desire on the part of the band to stretch things out a bit more (three- to-five-minute-long songs and so forth) Carcass here play with their enjoyably ugly sound just enough.
This is a succulent Death Metal record that keeps its roots to a degree in Grindcore, and leaves a strong impression in the listener’s mind, even years after first hearing it!
In February 2009, “Symphonies Of Sickness” was ranked number 4 in Terrorizer's list of essential European Grindcore albums.
Earache Records Ltd., 1989/2003 (MOSH 18CD). Made in UK.
Tracklist:
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2. Exhume To Consume 3:51
3. Excoriating Abdominal Emanation 4:32
4. Ruptured In Purulence 4:12
5. Empathological Necroticism 5:45
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8. Cadaveric Incubator Of Endoparasites 3:25
9. Slash Dementia 3:23
10. Crepitating Bowel Erosion 5:28
Total playing time: 43:12 min.
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- Product Code: MOSH 97CD
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Sure, "Heartwork" shocked the fanbase to its pyosisified core, but Carcass - who had spent their youngest years gurgling Gore (and forcing longhairs to the dictionary) with “Regurgitation of Giblets”, “Crepitating Bowel Erosion” and “Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition” - had quantum-leaped the scene they called home for good reason. They wanted to move on. By their fourth album, Carcass had reinvented Death Metal!
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Earache Records, 1993/2004 (MOSH 97CD). Made in Netherlands.
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5. Embodiment 5:36
6. This Mortal Coil 3:49
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10. Death Certificate 3:40
Total playing time: 41:52 min.
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- Product Code: MOSH 6CD
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Earache Records Ltd., 1988/2003 (MOSH 6CD). Made in UK.
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2. Regurgitation Of Giblets 1:24
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15. Splattered Cavities 1:54
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17. Burnt To A Crisp 2:43
18. Pungent Excruciation 2:31
19. Manifestation Of Verrucose Urethra 1:02
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- Product Code: MOSH 160CD
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It is the only Carcass album to feature guitarist Carlo Regadas. This album was intended to be their major label debut, having been signed by Columbia Records following the success of "Heartwork", but disputes with that record company caused them to return to Earache Records. It was the band's last studio release for over 17 years, until "Surgical Steel" was released in 2013.
Although 1994's excellent "Heartwork" opus had already served notice of Carcass' increasingly commercial new direction, much of the band's loyal contingent of fans still viewed 1995's "Swansong" album not as a natural progression but as a huge betrayal. One of the leading lights of the British Grindcore movement, Carcass had made a name for themselves with their unrelenting sonic fury and unbelievably disgusting lyrics. But on "Swansong", much of that fury was reigned in to accommodate more conventional song structures topped with articulate, at times even humorous lyrics (see "Keep on Rotting in the Free World") from vocalist Jeff Walker.
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This CD contains bonus video “Keep On Rotting In The Free World” in its raw archive form.
Earache Records Ltd., 1996/2004 (MOSH 160CD). Made in UK.
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1. Keep On Rotting In The Free World 3:42
2. Tomorrow Belongs To Nobody 4:17
3. Black Star 3:29
4. Cross My Heart 3:33
5. Child's Play 5:43
6. Room 101 4:35
7. Polarized 4:02
8. Generation Hexed 3:48
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11. Don't Believe A Word 3:57
12. Go To Hell 3:24
Total playing time: 49:45 min.
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