Carcass
Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious
Earache/Relativity, 1992



 Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious, introduces a more pronounced technicality and melodic soloing  to Carcass's  death metal-styled grindcore. Vocals are insane butcher snarls constrated with deeper monstrous grunts.  NWOBHM-influenced guitars mesh with grinding riffs and rhythms churning into thrashing pace and mid-paced groove patterns. Lyrics are twisted tales implementing terms from medical dictionaries, providing humor and wit to mock the seriousness of death. A death metal classic, and the band's finest moment.

2000

Tracklisting

1. Inpropagation
2. Corporeal Jigsore Quandary
3. Symposium Of Sickness
4. Pedigree Butchery
5. Incarnated Solvent Abuse
6. Carneous Cacoffiny
7. Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide Composition
8. Forensic Clinicism/The Sanguine Article

                                                

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Heartwork
Earache/Columbia, 1994

Traditional classic heavy metal guitar playing in the syle of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest dominates much of this album, as Carcass move into more melodic territory. The grindcore elements remain in some songs, but the band are clearly interested in exporing more accessible music. The rasping vocals of Jeff Walker are still intact, but the lyrical themes have now shifted to personal, social, and political concerns. Megadeth are a band that comes to mind often when listening to this album, mainly in the riffs of most songs, which are essentially speed metal riffs recalling classic work from that band. A very accomplished album in its execution and scope. The band work a fine balance of aggression and melody, and the album benefits from a bombastic production that compliments the nature of the material. Classic heavy metal and grindcore seem a strange merging, but Carcass find a way to make it work.

Tracklisting

1. Buried Dreams
2. Carnal Forge
3. No Love Lost
4. Heartwork
5. Embodiment
6. This Mortal Coil
7. Arbeit Macht Fleisch
8. Blind Bleeding The Blind
9. Doctrinal Expletives
10. Death Certificate

                                                  

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Swansong
Earache, 1995

The growls of Jeff  Walker are all that is left as a link to Carcass's grindcore past, as the band's final album has more in common with Iron Maiden and Thin Lizzy than the band's earlier work. Standard speed metal and traditional heavy metal riffs mark most songs, while others feature riffs common to 1970s southern rock. What carries most songs is the band's personality and energy, especially the spiteful tone of Walker's vocals. That the band would dissolve at this time, and its members would go on to start stoner rock and hard rock bands is no surprise after this. It is not awful music by any stretch, but strange considering where they came from. At its core, this is a pretty good heavy metal/hard rock album delieverd with the urgency and vocals of death metal.

Tracklisting

1. Keep On Rotting In The Free World
2. Tomorrow Belongs To Nobody
3. Black Star
4. Cross My Heart
5. Child's Play
6. Room 101
7. Polarized
8. Generation Hexed
9. Firm Hand
10. R**k The Vote
11. Don't Believe A Word
12. Go To Hell

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Carcass Discography

Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment demo (Self-released, 1987)
Symphonies Of Sickness demo (Earache, 1988)
Reek Of Putrefaction (Earache, 1988)
The Peel Sessions EP (Strange Fruit/Dutch East India, 1989)
Symphonies Of Sickness (Earache, 1989)
Live Dismemberment live album (Earache, 1990)
Live St. George's Hall, Bradford 15.11.89 live EP (Distorted Harmony, 1990)
Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (Earache/Relativity, 1991)
Gods Of Grind split with Entombed, Confessor, and Cathedral (Earache, 1992)
Tools Of The Trade EP (Earache/Relativity, 1992)
The Heartwork EP (Earache, 1993)
Heartwork (Earache/Columbia, 1994)
Swansong (Earache, 1995)
Wake Up And Smell The Carcass compilation (Earache, 1996)
Best Of Carcass compilation (Toy Factory, 1997)
Choice Cuts compilation (Earache, 2004)