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Carcass are one of those bands that I feel like I should borderline worship at the altar of. As one of the earliest and most successful Grindcore bands, essentailly the founder of Goregrind (I'm not a fan of this subgenre, I should add), the creators of some of the most revered Old School Death Metal, the creators of one of the most influential albums in Death Metal (especially for sub-sub-genre, Melodic Death Metal) in etc etc... they just have a range and have left such a mark on some of my favorite stuff. Yet... they aren't my favorite nor one of my favorites. Something ain't quite clicking.
Their debut album released a year before Symphonies of Sickness is gloriously ugly and disgusting and was recorded so poorly the prodcution becomes its own draw that separates it from so much else. Yet, even on their debut, their version of Grind is very very muddy and the grindy bits don't cut your ears so much as rub them with sandpaper. The sound of even their most clearly grind music is like a muted, deep, chainsaw sound. In comparison to some of their contemporaries, like Napalm Death or Repulsion, which sound razor sharp and almost aggressively angular (lol of course its aggressively angular), this band almost always have sounded gauzy and droning in their grind assaults if that makes sense. And I suppose I prefer the sharp, and angular side of grind more than the ugly, soupy sound.
This album is not Deathgrind. It is however an album that goes back and forth between OS DM and Goregrind and its clear when they are doing those respective things. In Deathgrind classics like World Downfall by Terrorizer released the same year as this album, there is a melding of the genres and most songs can be looked at as a hybrid of Grindcore and Death Metal. For this album, Carcass will go along with a mostly Death Metal song, with some cool atmospherics thrown in, some very slowed down and chunky DM riffs and some surprisingly quickly developed nifty guitar solos and work. Then the next song will start with a minute or so blast of that classic ultra fast, Grind blastbeat before transitioning to DM again and etc. This is a cool sound. And they do it well. And it should be noted again that within one year the fact that this band stepped up their solos, riffs, vocals, production, and almost everything on a technical front so substantially is impressive. Part of me prefers the atmosphere and the ridiculousness of their debut over this still. But they are such different animals that its a little tough for me to compare.
Goregrind is a genre that first off has a shitty name but also is based on the explicitly gross lyrics. I don't understand a fucking word they are saying nor do I look up the lyrics, so this aspect, this VERY important aspect of what makes this genre Goregrind I am just not paying attention to at all. At no point in my life have I found bloody and gory lyrics remotely interesting. But to each their own I suppose. The music is just cool DM with some grind moments. Nothing here really floors me and I know this album came out in 1989 so this maybe sounded very very fresh then, but to my ears this sounds like just a solid early Death Metal album. The albums released this year within Grind, Death Metal or Deathgrind that I find t5o be substantially better and have aged amazingly are World Downfall, Horrified, The Peel Sessions by Napalm Death (kinda cheating as those recordings are from 87-8Cool, of course Altars of Madness, and even Realm of Chaos by Bolt Thrower wows me more these days than this second Carcass LP.
Now as for Carcass as a whole, like I said I majorly respect and like them. ERven if they aren't held in as high regard as Napalm Death or other peers, I know that each of their fiorst 5 albums at least will be good to great. I recently had a small back and forth with LedZep on my diary thread and he mentioned how impressive Mastodon is/was for managing to master 2 very very distinct genres and make classics in both (Sludge and then Prog metal). I was wondering who else has done similar things and I think Carcass' career and run of 5 albums is just about as impressive. They made in 1993 no less an extremely forward thinking and innovative and very melodic death metal album with Heartwork. This was 2-3 years before the Swedes really ran with this sound. They made what is for many a top 10 Death Metal album in Necroticism. They essentially created the goregrind genre and were one of the first bands to make grindcore. They finally in 1995 made the very widely disliked album Swansong which is... very different, very melodic, much less death metal, very politically fiery (and I really like it). So yeah, not sure my point outside of showing some appreciation for Carcass, one of the most influential bands to emerge in 1987-1988 or so.
Overall, this gets a 3/5 or a 6.8ish out of 10. Of the Carcass I have heard I rank em:
#1 - Heartwork (1993)
#2 - Necroticism... (1991)
#3 - Symphonies of Sickness (1989)
#4 - Reek of Putrefaction (1988)
#5 - Swansong (1995)
all are good and only Heartwork and maybe Necroticsm (neeeed to listen again, that is the one I have heard the least randomly enough) is truly great. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2022]
Their debut album released a year before Symphonies of Sickness is gloriously ugly and disgusting and was recorded so poorly the prodcution becomes its own draw that separates it from so much else. Yet, even on their debut, their version of Grind is very very muddy and the grindy bits don't cut your ears so much as rub them with sandpaper. The sound of even their most clearly grind music is like a muted, deep, chainsaw sound. In comparison to some of their contemporaries, like Napalm Death or Repulsion, which sound razor sharp and almost aggressively angular (lol of course its aggressively angular), this band almost always have sounded gauzy and droning in their grind assaults if that makes sense. And I suppose I prefer the sharp, and angular side of grind more than the ugly, soupy sound.
This album is not Deathgrind. It is however an album that goes back and forth between OS DM and Goregrind and its clear when they are doing those respective things. In Deathgrind classics like World Downfall by Terrorizer released the same year as this album, there is a melding of the genres and most songs can be looked at as a hybrid of Grindcore and Death Metal. For this album, Carcass will go along with a mostly Death Metal song, with some cool atmospherics thrown in, some very slowed down and chunky DM riffs and some surprisingly quickly developed nifty guitar solos and work. Then the next song will start with a minute or so blast of that classic ultra fast, Grind blastbeat before transitioning to DM again and etc. This is a cool sound. And they do it well. And it should be noted again that within one year the fact that this band stepped up their solos, riffs, vocals, production, and almost everything on a technical front so substantially is impressive. Part of me prefers the atmosphere and the ridiculousness of their debut over this still. But they are such different animals that its a little tough for me to compare.
Goregrind is a genre that first off has a shitty name but also is based on the explicitly gross lyrics. I don't understand a fucking word they are saying nor do I look up the lyrics, so this aspect, this VERY important aspect of what makes this genre Goregrind I am just not paying attention to at all. At no point in my life have I found bloody and gory lyrics remotely interesting. But to each their own I suppose. The music is just cool DM with some grind moments. Nothing here really floors me and I know this album came out in 1989 so this maybe sounded very very fresh then, but to my ears this sounds like just a solid early Death Metal album. The albums released this year within Grind, Death Metal or Deathgrind that I find t5o be substantially better and have aged amazingly are World Downfall, Horrified, The Peel Sessions by Napalm Death (kinda cheating as those recordings are from 87-8Cool, of course Altars of Madness, and even Realm of Chaos by Bolt Thrower wows me more these days than this second Carcass LP.
Now as for Carcass as a whole, like I said I majorly respect and like them. ERven if they aren't held in as high regard as Napalm Death or other peers, I know that each of their fiorst 5 albums at least will be good to great. I recently had a small back and forth with LedZep on my diary thread and he mentioned how impressive Mastodon is/was for managing to master 2 very very distinct genres and make classics in both (Sludge and then Prog metal). I was wondering who else has done similar things and I think Carcass' career and run of 5 albums is just about as impressive. They made in 1993 no less an extremely forward thinking and innovative and very melodic death metal album with Heartwork. This was 2-3 years before the Swedes really ran with this sound. They made what is for many a top 10 Death Metal album in Necroticism. They essentially created the goregrind genre and were one of the first bands to make grindcore. They finally in 1995 made the very widely disliked album Swansong which is... very different, very melodic, much less death metal, very politically fiery (and I really like it). So yeah, not sure my point outside of showing some appreciation for Carcass, one of the most influential bands to emerge in 1987-1988 or so.
Overall, this gets a 3/5 or a 6.8ish out of 10. Of the Carcass I have heard I rank em:
#1 - Heartwork (1993)
#2 - Necroticism... (1991)
#3 - Symphonies of Sickness (1989)
#4 - Reek of Putrefaction (1988)
#5 - Swansong (1995)
all are good and only Heartwork and maybe Necroticsm (neeeed to listen again, that is the one I have heard the least randomly enough) is truly great. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2022]
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