Opinions on Carcass

Progression. It seems the average Metalhead doesn't get that concept. There are only a few bands that can get away with putting out the same album each time. As much as I love them Cannibal Corpse do this.

Time for me to listen in a deeper concentration to Surgical Steel: at first listening, it sounded to me like a very good album, just like Heartwork or Necroticism.
A bit like Pestilence (whose last albums were quite enjoyable, if you ask me), I don't see what's wrong with the 40-something pioneers' new offerings. At least, they're far less tiring than some younglings I may have seen live on stage (no names!)

RRROOOAAARRR!!! - Vo�vod, II-1, 1986 B.C.

...and they aren´t finished yet either. There are talks of a new album slowly being written.

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Pretty cool they´d actually take the long trip to New Zealand to play gigs. They´ve probably combined it with an Australian tour, but still I´m thinking it´s probably not a good business deal. The travel costs alone...

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^and the country is so big, that you probably have to live in or nearby one of the larger Towns to be able to go to those gigs right?

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I guess we´re pretty priviledged then living in Europe, where there are gigs all the time. Of course there are people living on the country side who have the same challenges as you do, but people in urban areas are spoiled with gigs. If I had the Money and the time, I could go to several gigs each week. I live in a suburb to Copenhagen, and it doesn´t take more than half an hour to get to the center of Copenhagen from my home by bus or train. But as I don´t have neither the Money nor the time, I have to pick and chose the gigs I go to, and I don´t go as often as I wish to.

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LOVE Carcass. Like most, Necroticism and Heartwork are my faves. Also loved Surgical Steel. And Swan Song. And ALL their EPs, can't forget their EPs (including last year's!), great stuff.

Haven't seen them live yet :( My sister has met Jeff Walker several times, they hanged around together lots. Supposedly Jeff was going to mail me a Carcass shirt (because they did not bring any in Athens) but I haven't seen anything yet.

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Tools of the Trade rules.

I missed seeing them last week :(

:-( is an understatement, especially when I hear from one of my mates who went that it was the best concert he has ever been to.

Dobbie03 wrote:

Tools of the Trade rules.

I missed seeing them last week :(

I also missed seeing Carcass, thanks to not knowing they were coming. Angry

Necroticism is my favourite, but I can take any Carcass, any time EXCEPT Heartwork. I just really hate it. After Necroticism it was just too clean, too death metally, too bland I suppose. I liked Swansong and Wake Up And Smell The Carcass after that.

Haven't yet heard the latest one, as such things as Carcass albums are quite hard to find here, because there's only one decent record store left since the earthquakes, and of course everyone knows that, and since I only go shopping there about once every six months, I miss a lot of the good shit.

I remember when I first got Symphonies of Sickness/Reek of Putrefaction. I felt like a bit of a weirdo because it seemed so extreme, but I loved it. I wondered if it meant I held serious murderous tendencies or something! After reading the lyrics (naturally, you can't really listen to them...) I got the joke, and decided I loved the band even more, and it made the over-inflated import price I'd paid for it all worth while.

I got the version with the medical textbook artwork Clap

which was the subject of the police obscenity raid on Earache's offices. The only downside is about 10 tracks from Reek of Putrefaction weren't included because they wouldn't fit on one CD.