Surgical Steel
Liverpool death metal pioneers Carcass' immaculately produced, linguistically rich comeback album might be calculated, but it doesn't feel forced: Surgical Steel is a document of middle-aged lifers trading ponderous maturity for the visceral thrills they relished in their prime.
Few bands ever took the term "death metal" as literally as Liverpool, England's Carcass.
That track takes the rock smarts of Heartwork and adds the gore of Necroticism for the middle ground Carcass promised for their return, but no one knew if they'd deliver.
Like football fans have certain dates marked on their calendars for potentially colossal matches, death metal fans have September 17th swirled within a blood red circle, heralding the new album from British grind-gore lords, CARCASS. As we can never have Chuck Schuldiner and DEATH back, then let cha...
A review of Carcass - Surgical Steel which is out on the 13th of September in Europe and the 16th and 17th of September in the English speaking world.
As time passes by and popular trends cycle and mutate, the internal and external pressure pressed upon respected bands who begin to write music after...