I actually bought this one by mistake a little more than a year ago. I was trying to pick up the album on CD but unwittingly bought the cassette off of ebay. Oh well. Just another addition to the cassette collection.Carcass has had kind of an odd career. The band started out as one of the early grindcore bands out of England along with Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower. Like their countrymen, Carcass began incorporating more and more death metal influences. Necroticism is probably their closest album to straight death metal. There are some grindcore influences and parts, but for the most part, the band had become a death metal band. However, after this album, the band released Heartwork, which is considered one of the earliest melodic death metal albums. And after that, they went in a death 'n roll direction on Swansong.
On this album, Carcass presented their most basic death metal sond. The band also had its most classic song on this album "Corporal Jigsore Quandary". The songs are mostly fast paced, with complex grinding riffs and a very heavy low end. The guitar solos come out of nowhere and are blazing fast and melodic. The vocals are delivered in a lower register rasping growl.
As for the lyrics, Carcass has made a career out of taking words straight from medical textbooks. This album, in addition to "Corporal Jigsore Quandary" also features "Lavaging Expetorate of Lysergide Composition" and "Forensic Clinicism".
After all is said and done this is one of the best death metal albums out of England. It is dynamic and powerful. A great album by the legendary band.
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