This band has always made me laugh - they remind me of a looney asylum where everyone is crazy from listening to them too much. This new album pretty much tops it though... of course the music taken from one of my favourite movies (the original Wonka).
Been getting back into Carcass (on the headphones as nobody would put up with it except me). I kinda didn't like the new album but now that I've listened to it quite a few times, all I can say is fuck I missed them. It'd been 20 years (since the last album) and probably a good 15 of those years I didn't even listen to this kind of music but Carcass are just one of these special bands that I do... simply because they are masters of their craft and also the godfathers of that style. Anyway, got one song to post up, it's good music for in the early hours of the morning. lol.
Unfit for Human Consumption - (sick song)
Here's the lyrics so you can sing along as well - I know Axe will want to. lol. Note: They were med students, hence the lyrics. Some of their earlier writings were even more full on.
Seductive lymphadenitis
Delectable septic metritis
Tempting glanders jaundice
For human consumption unfit
Palatable melanosis
Aromatic mastitis
Saporous brucellosis
Cry havoc and let slip
Salivating
At the leash straining
The cadaver dogs
Devouring
Appetising
Diseased gastric dining
The cadaver dogs
In cold blood
Indulging in sarcocysts
Epicurean pericarditis
Cariosus tender and lean
After all you are what you eat
Unfit for human consumption
An appetite for bovine destruction
A manifesto for mutilation
Manifests in your own dereliction
The dogs of cruror released
On severed carnage feed
Cadaver dogs rapidly bay and seethe
Canine, ulunating, feverishly inhaling
the scent of human debris
Indulgent lymphandetitis
Aromatic mastitis
Corrosive carcass rotten and obscene
After all you are what you eat
Haha, I'm guessing by early hours of the morning you mean a late night, and not just after getting up? . Although it would wake you up quick enough!
Hey, it makes good background music for a romantic dinner with the wife/gf. lol
In all seriousness, I'm really interested in the guitar work. The lick tradeoffs, solos and riff harmonising are reminiscent of Iron Maiden, taking melodic blues roots and twisting it with that Carcass brutality or as they call it "Rot 'N' Roll". Like it or not, they're a classic band (for that genre of music). Nobody else (as far as I know) does it as good as them in that style. Here's another song back from '93.
Mind you - I remember when Heartwork released and it was such a big change from their former albums, it was a bit like Metallica becoming a sellout... fucking hated it. But it eventually grew on me, just like the Black album did... everything after the Black album I don't like though.
Here's what they used to sound like (more grind core)... before that they were even more raw but I'll leave that because it's quite disturbing lol. Their album covers (from those days) were banned in most countries.
Some lyrics (might want to brush up on that vocabulary).
Incarnated Solvent Abuse
Pertinacious, intersecting
Reaving fats from corporal griskin
Culled...for sodden gelatine brayed
Skeletal groats triturated, desinently
Exsiccated, sere glutenate brewed
For frivolous solvent abuse...
Derogate coarse remains
For glue to dry
Despoiled marrow razed
..A truculent shambles so severe...
Extravated bone - as adhesive incarnate
A pellucid quietus - nocuosly I create
Corporal glue, breathe in the fumes
Mucilage vapours, toxic fumes to savour
(Lead: Glue stiffing by W.G. Steer)
Comminuted remains
As gum to dry
A lissom gel so glazed
..A truculent shambolic affair...
The exsanguine esprit - snorted as snuff
Rheumic oils forever - Bonded together as gum
Human glue, choke on the fumes
Noxious vapours, slaughterous labour...
Deffo wasn't knocking it, sorry if I came across that way . I'm a bit more traditional rock'n'roll and blues m'self, but there's definitely a lot of skill in their guitar work, and their vocabulary .
Deffo wasn't knocking it, sorry if I came across that way . I'm a bit more traditional rock'n'roll and blues m'self, but there's definitely a lot of skill in their guitar work, and their vocabulary .
Never thought you were knocking them and never expected you to like them - don't ever expect anyone to like or agree with anything I post up here. I like more traditional rock/blues myself as well... but I seem to like a lot of genres which I phase in and out of... the only one I stay well clear of is top 40 shit.