Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: Choice Cuts
Album Release Date: May 2004
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Death Metal
Record Label: Earache
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 21 Tracks CD
A seminal death metal band from Liverpool, UK, founded in 1985.
Starting out as a three-piece, Carcass were one of Earache Records' grindcore flagship and had a huge impact on the birth of so-called goregrind style. The group debuted with the extremely lo-fi underground classic "Reek of Putrefaction", which the late BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel declared as his favourite album of 1988. With 1989's "Symphonies Of Sickness" the band developed the goregrind style further with the addition of vastly improved production values. The album tour also saw the addition of a second guitarist Mike Amott. 1991's "Necroticism" was the band's first studio work as a four piece and the album, albeit incorporating highly complex guitar riffing and structures, showcased somewhat more accessible and thrashier guitar work and overall less emphasis on full-on grindcore. 1993's "Heartwork", while still being brutal and complex at times, saw the band abandon nearly all of their grindcore parts and showcased a more streamlined and catchier version of Carcass with more song oriented approach and overall more traditional heavy metal vibe with strong guitar harmonies and melodic lead guitar work. Following the success of "Heartwork" the band singed to Columbia Records, but the major label collaboration didn't turn out to be too fruitful as the band grew frustrated with the music business and proceeded to split up during the recording of their fifth a (...)
| 1 | Genital Grinder | 1:32 |
| 2 | Maggot Colony | 1:36 |
| 3 | Exhume To Consume | 3:50 |
| 4 | Swarming Vulgar Mass Of Infected Virulency | 3:10 |
| 5 | Tools Of The Trade | 3:04 |
| 6 | Corporal Jigsore Quandary | 5:48 |
| 7 | Incarnated Solvent Abuse | 5:01 |
| 8 | Buried Dreams | 3:58 |
| 9 | No Love Lost | 3:22 |
| 10 | Heartwork | 4:33 |
| 11 | Keep On Rotting In The Free World | 3:40 |
| 12 | Rock The Vote | 3:53 |
| 13 | This Is Your Life | 4:08 |
| Bonus Tracks: | ||
| Peel Sessions 02.01.89 | ||
| 14 | Crepitating Bowel Erosion | 5:08 |
| 15 | Slash Dementia | 3:23 |
| 16 | Cadaveric Incubator Of Endoparasites | 3:14 |
| 17 | Reek Of Putrefaction | 3:35 |
| Peel Sessions 16.12.90 | ||
| 18 | Empathological Necroticism | 6:05 |
| 19 | Foeticide | 2:54 |
| 20 | Fermenting Innards | 2:56 |
| 21 | Exhume To Consume | 3:58 |
Tracks 1, 2 taken from the Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction 1988.
Tracks 3, 4 taken from the Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness 1989.
Track 5 taken from the Carcass - Tools Of The Trade EP 1992.
Tracks 6, 7 taken from the Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious 1997.
Tracks 8 to 10 taken from the Carcass - Heartwork 1993.
Tracks 11, 12 taken from the Carcass - Swansong 1995.
Track 13 taken from the Carcass - The Heartwork EP 1993.
Tracks 14 to 17 taken from the Carcass - The Peel Sessions EP 1989.
Tracks 18 to 21 are from an unreleased Peel Session recorded on 16.12.1990.
Tracks 14 to 17 - 'BBC Radio 1 John Peel Show'. Recorded 13.12.1988. Transmitted 2.1.1989.
Tracks 18 to 21 - 'BBC Radio 1 John Peel Show'. Recorded 2.12.1990. Transmitted 16.12.1990.
© & ℗ 2004 Earache Records Ltd. (printed inside the artwork and on the disc).
Tracks 1 - 4, 14 - 21 Published by Earache Songs. Tracks 5 - 13 Published by Zomba Music (printed inside the artwork and on the disc).
© & ℗ 2004 Earache Records Limited. Manufactured and printed in the EU (printed on backside of artwork).
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The highly acclaimed "Best-Of" CD that was intended to be released in 1999 but was shelved due to Ken Owen suffering from a brain haemorrhage. There were a few promotional CDs sent out to magazines and the like which went for mad loot on eBay.
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