Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: St. George's Hall, Bradford 15/11/89
Album Release Date: November 1990
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Death Metal
Record Label: Distorted Harmony
Album Release Country: Mexico
Music Record Type: 3 Tracks Vinyl 7"
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 (...)
| A | Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment |
| B1 | Swarming Vulgar Mass Of Infected Virulency |
| B2 | Pungent Excruciation |
Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies, all on black vinyl. This edition was sanctioned by Bill Steer.
There is a repress of 1000 copies on red, but this is most likely a bootleg.
A & B1 recorded live at St. George's Hall in Bradford, UK on November 15, 1989.
B2 is a bonus track, and was recorded live from ULU on February 23, 1989. Track title is printed on the label as "Crepitating Bowel Erosion", but is struck through.
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