Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: Symphonies Of Sickness
Album Release Date: November 1989
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Death Metal
Record Label: Earache
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 10 Tracks Vinyl Album LP
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 (...)
| A1 | Reek Of Putrefaction | 4:01 |
| A2 | Exhume To Consume | 3:50 |
| A3 | Excoriating Abdominal Emanation | 4:30 |
| A4 | Ruptured In Purulence | 4:11 |
| A5 | Empathological Necroticism | 5:47 |
| B1 | Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment | 5:13 |
| B2 | Swarming Vulgar Mass Of Infected Virulency | 3:10 |
| B3 | Cadaveric Incubator Of Endoparasites | 3:22 |
| B4 | Slash Dementia | 3:21 |
| B5 | Crepitating Bowel Erosion | 5:28 |
Original black vinyl release in gatefold cardboard sleeve containing artwork and lyrics. In some copies, there was an inner sleeve added with the lyrics printed in white on black, much easier to read than on the gfold, where they are printed in blue over the splatter imagery.
All lyrics and music severely decomposed, deranged, excreted by Carcass. Recorded and mixed at Slaughterhouse Studios, July-August 1989.
"Thanks to John Peel, our friends and everyone who's helped to exhume us."
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