Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: Reek Of Putrefaction
Album Release Date: June 1988
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Goregrind
Record Label: Earache
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 22 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 (...)
| Faecal Disarticulation Side | ||
| A1 | Genital Grinder | 1:28 |
| A2 | Regurgitation Of Giblets | 1:18 |
| A3 | Maggot Colony | 1:32 |
| A4 | Pyosisified (Rotten To The Gore) | 2:47 |
| A5 | Carbonized Eye-Sockets | 1:06 |
| A6 | Frenzied Detruncation | 0:54 |
| A7 | Vomited Anal-Tract | 1:38 |
| A8 | Festerday | 0:19 |
| A9 | Fermenting Innards | 2:29 |
| A10 | Excreted Alive | 1:17 |
| A11 | Suppuration | 2:14 |
| Anal Disgorgement Side | ||
| B1 | Foeticide | 2:38 |
| B2 | Microwaved Uterogestation | 1:22 |
| B3 | Feast On Dismembered Carnage | 1:23 |
| B4 | Splattered Cavities | 1:49 |
| B5 | Psychopathologist | 1:15 |
| B6 | Burnt To A Crisp | 2:37 |
| B7 | Pungent Excruciation | 2:26 |
| B8 | Manifestation Of Verrucose Urethra | 0:58 |
| B9 | Oxidised Razor Masticator | 3:06 |
| B10 | Mucopurulence Excretor | 1:05 |
| B11 | Malignant Defecation | 2:10 |
Recorded, mixed, re-recorded and re-mixed at Rich "Funeral" Bitch Studios December 1987 - March 1988 on 16 track facilities.
Digitally mastered onto "King Sonic" magnetic tape.
Sessions constantly interupted by the YTS headphone/microphone/video/lead moverarounders
Sleeve art and layout by (no, not Dig!) Grusome Graphics Inc.
'Real' catalog number on jacket is MOSH 6, centre labels have a 'joke' catalog number of MUSH 006.
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