Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: Best Of Carcass = 解体全書〜ベスト・オヴ・カーカス
Album Release Date: December 1997
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Death Metal
Record Label: Toy's Factory
Album Release Country: Japan
Music Record Type: 32 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 (...)
| 1-1 | Genital Grinder | 1:31 |
| 1-2 | Regurgitation Of Giblets | 1:23 |
| 1-3 | Reek Of Putrefaction | 4:08 |
| 1-4 | Exhume To Consume | 3:49 |
| 1-5 | Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment | 5:13 |
| 1-6 | Inpropagation | 7:07 |
| 1-7 | Corporeal Jigsore Quandary | 5:28 |
| 1-8 | Incarnated Solvent Abuse | 4:43 |
| 1-9 | Buried Dreams | 3:58 |
| 1-10 | Heartwork | 4:33 |
| 1-11 | This Mortal Coil | 3:50 |
| 1-12 | Death Certificate | 3:38 |
| 1-13 | Rot 'N' Roll | 3:49 |
| 1-14 | Keep On Rotting In The Free World | 3:40 |
| 1-15 | Tomorrow Belongs To Nobody | 4:17 |
| 1-16 | Polarised | 4:01 |
| 1-17 | Generation Hexed | 3:47 |
| 1-18 | Rxxk The Vote | 3:52 |
| 2-1 | Edge Of Darkness | 6:08 |
| 2-2 | Emotional Flatline | 4:15 |
| 2-3 | Ever Increasing Circles | 4:05 |
| 2-4 | Blood Splattered Banner | 4:41 |
| 2-5 | I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Does Suck) | 3:50 |
| 2-6 | Buried Dreams (Live) | 4:05 |
| 2-7 | No Love Lost (Live) | 4:51 |
| 2-8 | Rot 'N' Roll (Live) | 3:44 |
| 2-9 | Edge Of Darkness (Live) | 5:49 |
| 2-10 | Corporeal Jigsore Quandary (Live) | 5:27 |
| 2-11 | Incarnated Solvent Abuse (Live) | 4:34 |
| 2-12 | Exhume To Consume (Live) | 4:04 |
| 2-13 | Carnal Forge (Live) | 4:24 |
| 2-14 | Heartwork (Live) | 5:00 |
Limited to 10000 copies.
Live tracks on CD2 are as follow:
2-6 to 2-9 Live for the BBC "Friday Rock Show"
2-10 to 2-12 Live in Italy 04/30/1992
2-13 to 2-14 Live in Tokyo 05/10/1994
(these live tracks are exclusive to this release)
File download is hosted on Megaupload
