Carcass
| Carcass | |
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 Carcass at Elbriot 2016 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Liverpool , England |
| Genre (s) |
Grindcore (early) Death Metal (middle period) Melodic Death Metal (new) |
| founding | 1985 as Disattack , 2007 |
| resolution | 1995 |
| Current occupation | |
| Bill Steer | |
Vocals, bass
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Jeff Walker |
guitar |
Tom Draper (since 2018) |
Drums |
Daniel Wilding (since 2012) |
| former members | |
singing |
Sanjiv (1987) |
guitar |
Mike Hickey (1993-1994) |
guitar |
Carlos Regadas (1994-1995) |
Vocals, drums |
Ken Owen (1985-1995) |
Drums |
Daniel Erlandsson (2007–2012) |
guitar |
Michael Amott (1990–1993, 2007–2012) |
guitar |
Ben Ash (2012-2018) |
Carcass ( English : Kadaver ) is an English grindcore / death metal band from Liverpool .
history
Beginning in 1985
The band was founded in 1985 by Bill Steer and Ken Owen under the name Disattack . For the first two years the band played hardcore punk in the style of Discharge with changing lineups . After Jeff Walker was fired from the Electro Hippies in early 1987 , Bill Steer brought him into the band, which shortly thereafter changed its name to Carcass . In the summer of 1987 there was a change in the line- up ; all members except Steer and Walker left the band, and drummer Ken Owen returned. Shortly afterwards the band recruited the singer Sanjiv and played the first demo Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment . Shortly afterwards, Sanjiv left the band and Walker and Steer took over the vocals. The demo caught the attention of Digby Pearson, who offered Carcass a record deal with his label Earache Records . The debut album Reek of Putrefaction was released in June 1988 and piqued the interest of BBC radio presenter John Peel , who gave the album an unexpected amount of airplay on his radio show and declared it his personal album of 1988 in The Observer newspaper . Peel was particularly fond of the record cover , which shows a collage of autopsy photos, and the texts full of medical terms. After a year and various tours , the second album, Symphonies of Sickness, was released .
Breakthrough 1991-1994
With the third long player, Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious , which was released in 1991, Carcass changed the style even further away from pure grindcore. They allowed very clear Death Metal influences and became more technical, but also more melodic. In April 1990, the group was expanded by a second guitarist, Michael Amott (formerly Carnage ) from Sweden , who only wrote a few songs on Necroticism , as the songwriting for the record was already well advanced at this point. This was followed by the Gods of Grind tour with label colleagues Entombed , Cathedral and Confessor .
In the summer of 1992 the EP Tools of the Trade was released, which contained songs that were recorded during the Necroticism recordings.
In 1993 the band played at the full-of-hate Easter festivals with Death , Cannibal Corpse , Tiamat and Gorefest . In the same year the band presented the most popular album Heartwork , which now also contained classic heavy metal elements and lyrically moved a little away from the former carnage lyrics. With this, Carcass lost a large part of the old fan base, but gained an even larger number of new enthusiasts. Heartwork brought the band the breakthrough in the metal scene (number 54 in the UK album charts). The commercial success of this album finally helped Carcass to a deal with the major record label Columbia Records , which also signed Napalm Death at the same time. The cover of Heartwork comes from the Swiss artist HR Giger .
Michael Amott decided shortly before the big US tour with Morbid Angel and Stabbing Westward to stop playing for Carcass and was replaced on the tour by a roadie . He later launched the bands Spiritual Beggars and Arch Enemy .
Major contract and dissolution 1994–1999
At about the same time as Carlos Regadas, who now took over the second guitar and had been a friend of the band for a long time, Carcass switched from Earache Records to Columbia Records in order to be able to develop even better. But the new label rejects the recorded material for the next album. After remixing the songs, Steer was not satisfied and protested. But the label threatened to block.
Annoyed, the band released the album in 1996 under the name Swansong on the former Earache label. The style of the sound carrier is groovy mid-tempo and can best be assigned to Melodic Death Metal . Shortly before (1995), however, the band broke up because guitarist Bill Steer had dropped out due to "internal difficulties" between the members.
Earache released the sampler and DVD (2001) Wake Up & Smell the Carcass in 1996 , each containing recordings of Tools of Trade and Heartwork , as well as previously unreleased material (including five numbers originally planned for Swansong ).
Ken Owen, who enriched the music world with his extraordinary drum style and still influences many musicians, suffered a severe brain hemorrhage in 1999 and was in a coma for ten months . He is now on the mend and is even playing a little drums again.
present
In 2006 Jeff Walker released under the name Jeff Walker and Die Flüffers: the solo album Welcome to Carcass Cuntry , on which he covered Johnny Cash , Hank Williams and other country and blues musicians - it also contains many metal riffs. Behind the Flüffers are old bandmates like Bill Steer and Ken Owen as well as almost all Amorphis members, Faith No More 's Billy Goulde and HIM's Ville Valo .
In an interview in June 2006, Jeff Walker spoke about the possibility of a reunion of Carcass (from outside sources the summer 2007 is mentioned). At first it was not certain whether Steer would be there. On October 5, 2007, the reunited band was officially confirmed for the Wacken Open Air 2008. At the Wacken Open Air 2008, Ken Owen performed a little drum solo despite his serious illness.
At the end of 2012 it became known that the band was working on new material. Furthermore, Carcass performed live again, u. a. in London and from April 2013 in some cities in South America. From the original line-up before the first breakup, guitarist Bill Steer and bassist and singer Jeff Walker have been part of the band since the end of 2012, with guitarist Ben Ash and drummer Dan Wilding from Trigger the Bloodshed joining the band . The comeback album Surgical Steel was released on September 13, 2013 by Nuclear Blast .
In March 2018 the band went on tour again and had Tom Draper ( Pounder , Primitai , Ex- Angel Witch ) on guitar. Shortly after the tour began, the retired Ben Ash announced that he had left the band for private reasons.
Texts
On the first three albums, Carcass addressed bizarre combinations of medical instruments and chemicals with human medicine :
- "Oozing chyme reeks as your duodenum is hacked
- Secreting gastric juices, enzymes melt your faecal tract
- Torn major arteries, your corpse with blood is drenched
- Your mouth is ripped inside-out as your esophagus is wrenched "
- (from: Maggot Colony from the album Reek of Putrefaction )
Translation:
- "Dripping porridge stinks because your duodenum is chopped up,
- he secretes gastric juices; Enzymes melt your fecal tract
- because of the torn main artery your corpse is soaked with blood,
- your mouth is torn open because your esophagus was pulled out. "
Over time, however, the topic was superseded by socially critical topics. It has often been suggested that the Splatter theme and artwork was actually directed against meat consumption, as all members were vegetarians (Bill Steer and Jeff Walker even vegans ). In an interview with the German rock-hard magazine, however, the band denies this:
“All the technical terms come from the lexicon and, in our opinion, go well with the music, but shouldn't distract from it. We don't have any messages either. Somebody once asked us if we were writing these brutal lyrics because we are vegetarians, as a deterrent. That's just as stupid. "
Walker described the lyrics in the interview as "so aloof and exaggerated that you can't really take them seriously as a healthy person." However, later there was a change from medical / splatter lyrics to socially critical songwriting, for example with Don ' t Believe a Word from the Swansong album. It points out the tendency towards manipulation and misinformation in the mass media.
- "You should never take too literally what you read,
- Misinformation, distortion, make belief,
- Fabrications, half truth implied,
- Misquotations, out of context and lies,
- Read - You believe them all,
- Read - You swallow them whole,
- Lies - Half truths misinformation and ...
- Read - You believe them all! "
Translation:
- "You should never take what you read too literally,
- Misinformation, distortion, pretense,
- Lies with half-truths in them
- Wrong quotes without context and lies,
- Lies - you believe them all
- Lies - you swallow them whole,
- Lies - half-truths, misinformation and ...
- Lies - you believe them all! "
Discography
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Studio albums
- 1988 - Reek of Putrefaction
- 1989 - Symphonies of Sickness
- 1991 - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
- 1993 - Heartwork
- 1996 - Swansong
- 2013 - Surgical Steel
Demos and EPs
- 1987 - Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment
- 1989 - The Peel Sessions
- 1992 - Tools of the Trade
- 1994 - The Heartwork EP
- 2014 - Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel
Best of albums and compilations
- 1996 - Wake Up and Smell the ... Carcass
- 1998 - Best of Carcass
- 2004 - Choice Cuts
Web links
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- ↑ Jeff Walker Interview. (No longer available online.) Earache.com, May 30, 2003, archived from the original on January 1, 2010 ; accessed on May 21, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . Iron Pages, 2006, ISBN 3-931624-35-8 , pp. 109 f .
- ^ Mudrian: Choosing Death. P. 113.
- ↑ Carcass: Live videos from the gig with a new line-up. In: Rock Hard . April 17, 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2013 .
- ^ Carcass Parts Ways With Guitarist Ben Ash; Replacement Revealed - Blabbermouth.net In: blabbermouth.net , accessed November 28, 2018.
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Carcass. Art instead of chaos? In: Rock Hard. No. 57, January 1992.
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US