Carnivore (Carnivore album)

chronology
Carnivore
Carnivore studio album
Publication ; (s)	Late 1985
admission	July 1985
Label (s)	Roadrunner Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Thrash metal
Title (number)	8th
occupation	Peter Steele : vocals , electric bass ; Keith Alexander : electric guitar ; Louie Beateaux: drums ;
production	Norman Dunn

Carnivore is the debut album by the US thrash metal band Carnivore . It was released by Roadrunner Records at the end of 1985 and is now one of the most important early Thrash Metal works. The music magazine Rock Hard had it on its list of 250 Thrash albums you should know in 2009 , and for Ian Christe it is one of the 15 most important releases of the genre in the 1980s. Revolver magazine counts it among the 14 thrash metal albums you have to own.

Creation and publication

Carnivore had been active in the New York City region since 1983, with the CBGB club at its center . Its booking manager Connie Barnett was hired as a talent scout by Cees Wessels, owner of Roadrunner Records. Barnett was also the manager of Carnivore and Whiplash and helped these two bands to a record deal with Roadrunner in 1985. Carnivore had written enough songs for an album in the time before the record deal, World Wars III & IV and Carnivore were already included on the 1984 demo . Both the basic structure of the pieces and the lyrics came from singer Peter Steele , and he and Louie Beateaux made the arrangements, as Carnivore temporarily had no permanent guitarist when the songs were being written. The recordings for the album took place overnight in a recording studio in Manhattan under the direction of music producer Norman Dunn in July 1985 . Steele in particular was dissatisfied with the result, he felt that his vocals were too much in the foreground and Keith Alexander's guitar work was insufficient, which is why only bass, drums and vocals could be heard in the first mix. For this reason the band had the album mixed again at their own expense.

Carnivore was released in Europe in late 1985 and in North America in early 1986. The cover came from the New York artist Seán Taggart. The release received little attention, so only around 5,000 albums could be sold in the USA.

reception

The album was received positively by fans and critics in terms of music, Joachim Prein from Rock Hard rated it with 8.5 out of 10 points. According to Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia , the mix of hardcore and metal makes the album stand out from the crowd of similar releases of the 1980s. The lyrics on the album, which at the time were viewed as inhuman and misogynistic, caused irritation. Johannes Paul Köhler from Deaf Forever magazine described them in 2014 as “arias of brutalization” and for Rivadavia, overusing topics such as world war and genre-typical clichés in the lyrics was typical of American metal in the 1980s. Singer Peter Steele later described the band's image as "(bitterly) irony". Drummer Louie Beateaux also emphasizes that Carnivore was never a political band, that the triskeles depicted on the cover could be misunderstood as swastika was not intended.

Track list

Predator - 4:33
Carnivore - 3:22
Male Supremacy - 7:31
Armageddon - 4:14
Legion of Doom - 3:31
God Is Dead - 4:14
Thermonuclear Warrior - 5:38
World Wars III & IV - 10:13

Bonus tracks from the re-release (2008, Metal Mind ):

USA For USA (Demo)
SMD (demo)
Sex and Violence (demo)

literature

Johannes Paul Köhler: Nuclear Andertaler! Special for the 30th anniversary of Carnivore . In: Deaf Forever . No. 1/15 , p. 14-17 .

Web links

Carnivore at Allmusic (English)

supporting documents

↑ Götz Kühnemund : 250 Thrash albums that you should know . In: Rock Hard . No. 265 , June 2009, p. 75 .
^ Ian Christe : Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . HarperEntertainment, New York NY 2003, ISBN 0-380-81127-8 , pp. 137 .
↑ Martin Popoff: 14 Thrash Albums You Need to Own. In: Revolver. August 29, 2014, accessed February 2, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b Johannes Paul Köhler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 14.
↑ Johannes Paul Köhler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 16.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Johannes Paul Koehler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 17.
↑ Johannes Paul Köhler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 15.
↑ ^a ^b Joachim Prein: Carnivore - Carnivore. In: Rock Hard. 1985, accessed January 31, 2015 .
↑ Götz Kühnemund: Metal for right-wing extremists? Or all just a big misunderstanding . In: Deaf Forever . No. 1/15 , p. 15 .

[1] Götz Kühnemund : 250 Thrash albums that you should know . In: Rock Hard . No. 265 , June 2009, p. 75 .

[2] Ian Christe : Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . HarperEntertainment, New York NY 2003, ISBN 0-380-81127-8 , pp. 137 .

[3] Martin Popoff: 14 Thrash Albums You Need to Own. In: Revolver. August 29, 2014, accessed February 2, 2015 .

[koehler14-4] Johannes Paul Köhler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 14.

[koehler16-5] Johannes Paul Köhler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 16.

[koehler17-6] Johannes Paul Koehler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 17.

[koehler15-7] Johannes Paul Köhler: Nuclear Andertaler! P. 15.

[rh-8] Joachim Prein: Carnivore - Carnivore. In: Rock Hard. 1985, accessed January 31, 2015 .

[kuehnemund-9] Götz Kühnemund: Metal for right-wing extremists? Or all just a big misunderstanding . In: Deaf Forever . No. 1/15 , p. 15 .