Band Name: Carcass
Music Album: Wake Up And Smell The... Carcass
Album Release Date: November 1996
Music Genre: Rock Death Metal Grindcore
Record Label: Earache
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 17 Tracks Cassette
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 (...)
| Side A | ||
| "Swansong" Sessions | ||
| 1 | Edge Of Darkness | 6:08 |
| 2 | Emotional Flatline | 4:16 |
| 3 | Ever Increasing Circles | 4:05 |
| 4 | Blood Spattered Banner | 4:41 |
| 5 | I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Does Suck) | 3:51 |
| Radio 1 Rock Show Session | ||
| 6 | Buried Dreams | 4:05 |
| 7 | No Love Lost | 4:51 |
| 8 | Rot N'Roll | 3:45 |
| 9 | Edge Of Darkness | 5:48 |
| Side B | ||
| "Heartwork" EP | ||
| 10 | This Is Your Life | 4:09 |
| 11 | Rot N' Roll | 3:49 |
| "Tools Of The Trade" EP | ||
| 12 | Tools Of The Trade | 3:05 |
| 13 | Pyosisified (Still Rotten To The Core) | 3:10 |
| 14 | Hepatic Tissue Fermentation II | 6:38 |
| "Pathological" Compilation | ||
| 15 | Genital Grinder II | 3:01 |
| 16 | Hepatic Tissue Fermentation | 6:12 |
| "Grindcrusher" Compilation | ||
| 17 | Exhume To Consume | 4:18 |
Tracks 1-5: Unreleased tracks from "Swansong" sessions. Produced by Colin Richardson, February-April 1995.
Tracks 6-9: Radio 1 Rock Show session. Produced by Tony Wilson for the BBC, October 1994. Date of first transmission 6 November 1994.
Tracks 10-11: From the "Heartwork" EP. Produced by Carcass, September 1993
Tracks 12-14: From the "Tools of the Trade" EP. Produced by Colin Richardson, July-November 1991
Tracks 15-16: From the "Pathological" compilation. Produced by Carcass, August 1989
Track 17: From the "Grindcrusher" compilation. Produced by Carcass, February 1989
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