Surgical Steel
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September 13, 2013 |
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CD, LP, download |
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11 |
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47min 7s |
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Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire |
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Surgical Steel is the sixth studio album by the British extreme metal band Carcass . It was released on September 13, 2013 on Nuclear Blast as a comeback album after the group reunited in 2007. Stylistically, it is classified as Death Metal with influences from Grindcore . The album was very well received by the music press.
Emergence
After Carcass regrouped for some concerts in summer 2007, requests for further appearances increased in 2008 and 2009. The illness of drummer Ken Owen was compensated by the engagement of Daniel Erlandsson ( Arch Enemy ) as second guitarist acted Michael Amott (also Arch Enemy). The performances as part of the reunion proved financially lucrative for the band members, but Amott decided in the early 2010s to focus more on his other obligations with Arch Enemy and Spiritual Beggars . Erlandsson also returned to Arch Enemy. But Walker wanted to push the reunion forward, was able to convince Steer to record a new album and the duo started songwriting in summer 2011. This was followed by the signing of Aborted -Schlagzeuger Daniel Wilding and Carcass yet started unsigned and expense mid-2012 with the recordings. Ben Ash joined the band as session guitarist and Ken Owen contributed some vocal parts as a guest musician. The band chose Colin Richardson as producer , who was responsible for the production of the previous four albums. Presumably for business reasons, Richardson found himself unable to mix the album as well , Andy Sneap was hired for this. In February 2013, the band announced that work on the album was almost complete and that Carcass is now looking for a record label to release it. Finally, the German label Nuclear Blast announced in May 2013 that it had signed Carcass. On August 9, the pre- single Captive Bolt Pistol was released , on September 13, 2013 the album was released.
reception
The album was received very positively and was declared album of the month in music magazines such as Rock Hard , Metal Hammer and Legacy , while Surgical Steel is “Death Metal Album of the Year” for American magazine Decibel . The album entered the top 10 of the German album charts at number 10 at the end of September and hit the hit lists in Great Britain , Austria , the USA and Switzerland, among others . The German magazine Visions had the album in their list of the 66 + 6 best metal albums of the third millennium in spring 2017.
Track list
Two of the pieces, the 1985 intro and the second song, Thrasher's Abattoir , were written in the early days of Carcass in the mid-1980s and were first recorded for the album. The lyrics are by Jeff Walker, the compositions by the duo Walker / Steer. On the play The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills worked with Daniel Wilding.
- 1985 - 1:15
- Thrasher's Abattoir - 1:50
- Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System - 4:02
- A Congealed Clot of Blood - 4:13
- The Master Butcher's Apron - 4:00
- Noncompliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard - 6:06
- The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills - 4:10
- Unfit for Human Consumption 4:24
- 316L Grade Surgical Steel - 5:20
- Captive Bolt Pistol - 3:16
- Mount of Execution - 8:25
- Intensive Battery Brooding - 4:43 (bonus track of the digipak version)
Web links
- Surgical Steel at laut.de
- Surgical Steel at Allmusic (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ Sources for chart placements: DE / CH / AT / UK / US , accessed on September 26, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Jan Jaedike: Carcass: Hell is going on in the slaughterhouse . In: Rock Hard . No. 316 , September 2013, p. 32 f .
- ^ A b Thomas Meyns: Interviews: Jeff Walker from Carcass. (No longer available online.) Metalnews.de, September 1, 2013, archived from the original on September 22, 2013 ; Retrieved September 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Matthew: Carcass exclusively reveal album title to Terrorizer. Terrorizer , February 27, 2013, accessed September 21, 2013 .
- ↑ CARCASS - sign with Nuclear Blast Records! Nuclear Blast , May 23, 2013, accessed September 21, 2013 .
- ^ Carcass: Press Feedback. Nuclear Blast, September 20, 2013, accessed September 21, 2013 .
- ↑ oA: The 66 + 6 best metal albums of the millennium . In: Visions, issue 289, pages 52–66
