General surgery
General surgery | |
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General information | |
Genre (s) | Goregrind , Deathgrind |
founding | 1989 |
Website | generalsurgery.se |
Current occupation | |
Joacim Carlsson | |
Andreas Eriksson | |
Andreas Mitroulis | |
Erik Sahlström | |
guitar |
Johan Wallin |
former members | |
singing |
Grant McWilliams (1988-2007) |
Bass, vocals |
Matti Kärki (1988–1990) |
Drums |
Mats Nordrup |
General Surgery is the oldest active Grindcore band in Sweden . While it was to be assigned to the Goregrind in its early phase , it combined Grindcore and Death Metal after its reunification and is assigned to the Deathgrind .
Band history
General Surgery was founded in Stockholm in 1989 as a grindcore project by musicians from various Swedish death metal bands under the influence of the English grindcore pioneers Carcass . After a few line-up changes , the band recorded the demos Erosive Offals and Pestisferous Anthropophagia in 1990 with Richard Cabeza (vocals), Joacim "Jocke" Carlsson (guitar), Matti Kärki (bass) and Mats Nordrup (drums) . After Cabeza switched to Dismember , Grant McWilliams became the new vocalist, and the third 1990 demo Internecine Prurience followed . After the recordings for the EP Necrology , Matti Kärki also switched to Dismember and Mats Nordrup went to Regurgitate . The EP was released on Relapse Records in 1991 as vinyl and was re-released on CD in 1994 . After a long break, General Surgery was reorganized in 1999. Several splits with other Grindcore bands and other line-up changes followed. The departure of singer Grant McWilliams delayed the release of the official debut album Left Hand Pathology , which was finally released in 2006. In 2009 the second studio album, Corpus In Extremis - Analyzing Necrocriticism , was released, which showed the group stylistically closer to Death Metal than to Grindcore.
Discography
- Necrology (EP, Relapse Records , 1991)
- General Surgery / The County Medical Examiners (Split, Razorback Records , 2003)
- General Surgery / Filth (Split, Bones Brigade Records, 2004)
- Demos ( compilation , Buio Omega Records, 2004)
- Left Hand Pathology (Album, Listenable Records , 2006)
- General Surgery / Butcher ABC (Split, Obliteration Records, 2009)
- Corpus In Extremis: Analyzing Necrocriticism (Album, Listenable Records, 2009)
- Like An Ever Flying Limb (EP, Relapse Records , 2012)
Individual evidence
Web links
- General Surgery in Garry Sharpe-Young's rock Detector (English)