Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: Flesh Ripping Symphony
Album Release Date: November 2024
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Death Metal
Record Label: Devil Metal Records
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 28 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 (...)
Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment 1987 | ||
1 | Genital Grinder | 1:17 |
2 | Regurgitation Of Giblets | 1:28 |
3 | Festerday | 0:15 |
4 | Limb For Limb | 1:02 |
5 | Pyosisified (Rotten To The Gore) | 2:49 |
6 | Excreted Alive | 0:58 |
7 | Malignant Defecation | 1:53 |
8 | Fermenting Innards | 2:30 |
9 | Necrocannibal Bloodfeast | 1:40 |
10 | Die In Pain | 0:08 |
11 | Psychopathologist | 1:26 |
12 | Pungent Excruciation | 3:01 |
13 | Face Meltaaargh!!!! | 1:11 |
Symphonies Of Sickness 1989 | ||
14 | Reek Of Putrefaction | 3:45 |
15 | Slash Dementia | 3:13 |
16 | Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment | 4:54 |
17 | Cadaveric Incubator Of Endoparasites | 3:21 |
18 | Ruptured In Purulence | 3:49 |
19 | Crepitating Bowel Erosion | 5:17 |
Carcass: Live Planet X, Liverpool 9/24/88 | ||
20 | Fermenting Innards | 2:25 |
21 | Pungent Excrucitation | 2:35 |
22 | Microwaved Uterogestation | 2:24 |
23 | Oxicidised Razor Masticator | 3:18 |
24 | Reek Of Putrefaction | 3:59 |
25 | Feast On Dismembered Carnage | 1:31 |
Rehearsal 1988 | ||
26 | Cadaveric Incubator Of Endoparasites | 3:18 |
27 | Slash Dementia | 3:07 |
28 | Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment | 4:58 |
Edition of 1,000 copies.
Compilation of rare demo & live tracks spanning the years 1987-1989.
Tracks 10 and 11 are in the wrong order in the printed tracklist.
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