Heartwork
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Publication |
October 1993 |
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admission |
May to June 1993 |
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| Label (s) | Earache Records / Columbia Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
41min 55s |
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Studio (s) |
Parr Street Studios |
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Heartwork is the fourth studio album by the British extreme metal band Carcass . It was the first album that made it into the official album charts in their home country, where it reached number 67.
backgrounds
The musicians already approached the recordings with the understanding that the album, due to the melodic songwriting , could bring them the final commercial breakthrough and possibly a contract with a major label . In fact, negotiations between Earache Records and Columbia Records were already running for an exclusive deal for North America, which the group saw as an additional incentive. In May 1993 Carcass went to the renowned Parr Street Studios in Liverpool to record the album under the direction of producer Colin Richardson until June . Already during the recording there were tensions within the band, which induced guitarist Michael Amott to leave Carcass immediately after the studio stay. The album was released in October 1993 via Earache Records in Europe and in January 1994 via Columbia Records in North America. The commercial expectations were not met, in Great Britain the album only reached number 67 on the album charts, in the USA it was listed at number 23 on the Top Heatseekers , but could not reach the Billboard 200 . While the band attributed the failure to a lack of support from Earache Records, Earache made the band responsible for these have left by the unusually high revenue contribution of 50% of the label is not enough financial resources to commercial success by publishing a single to promote .
Reviews
Johnny Loftus from Allmusic calls the album, with its mixture of melody and the “anti-music” typical of Carcass, the breakthrough of the Grindcore pioneers. The webzine The Metal Observer describes the album as a big step in the musical development of Carcass, both the repulsive artwork and the "pathological lyrics" are a thing of the past. The reviewer sees the music as "a kind of Death Metal ", but at the same time more melodic and catchy than the previous albums. Only the production of the album is described as "too soft", which should probably do justice to the commercial claim of the album. For Sam Warren from Tartarean Desire , Heartwork is the absolute masterpiece of Carcass, it has set standards in Death Metal that hardly any other band could ever reach. He praises the successful combination of songwriting, catchy melodies, rough vocals and "razor-sharp drumming" and says that every metal fan should own this album.
Track list
- Buried Dreams - 3:59
- Carnal Forge - 3:55
- No Love Lost - 3:23
- Heartwork - 4:33
- Embodiment - 5:37
- This Mortal Coil - 3:50
- Work Makes Meat - 4:22
- Blind Bleeding the Blind - 4:56
- Doctrinal Expletives - 3:39
- Death Certificate - 3:36
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carcass in the UK charts
- ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag Jeske and Mader, 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , p. 169 .
- ^ Mudrian: Choosing Death , p. 170.
- ^ Mudrian: Choosing Death , p. 185.
- ↑ Luca: Carcass - Heartwork. The Metal Observer, accessed April 15, 2011 .
- ↑ Sam Warren: REVIEW: Carcass - Heartwork. Tartarean Desire, accessed April 15, 2011 .