Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: Wake Up And Smell The...
Album Release Date: November 2024
Music Genre: Rock Death Metal Goregrind
Record Label: Earache
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 22 Tracks DVD
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 | Heartwork |
| 2 | Corporal Jigsore Quandary |
| 3 | Keep On Rotting In The Free World |
| 4 | Incarnated Solvent Abuse |
| 5 | No Love Lost |
| Gods Of Grind Tour 1992 | |
| 6 | Inpropagation |
| 7 | Corporal Jigsore Quandary |
| 8 | Reek Of Putrefaction |
| 9 | Pedigree Butchery |
| 10 | Incarnated Solvent Abuse |
| 11 | Carneous Cacoffiny |
| 12 | Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide Composition |
| 13 | Exhume To Consume |
| 14 | Tools Of The Trade |
| 15 | Ruptured In Purulence |
| Grindcrusher Tour 1989 | |
| 16 | Genital Grinder II |
| 17 | Exhume To Consume |
| 18 | Excoriating Abdominal Emanation |
| 19 | Ruptured In Purulence |
| 20 | Empathological Necroticism |
| 21 | Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment |
| 22 | Reek Of Putrefaction |
Gods Of Grind Tour: recorded live at London Astoria - 18 March 1992.
Grindcrusher Tour: recorded live at Nottingham Rock City - 14 November 1989.
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