(Earache Records - Mosh 6)
Release date: 1988

Review: Everyone knows CARCASS and their first cult album, at least I hope! "Reek of putrefaction"(1988!!!) has all the key ingredients that are necessary for a sick gore-grind record: the hard-gore artwork, the funny bloodspattered pathological lyrics and the overall brutal, repulsive grind-death music style, compound of various screamy eructations or raw grunting, with some nauseous vocal effects, distorted and downtuned guitar riffs, confused blasting drum blastbeats... 22 tracks with a really adequat bad sound production, this is the reference in gore-grind genre!!! nothing more to say!

Tracks: 1)Genital Grinder 2)Regurgitation of Giblets 3)Maggot Colony 4)Pyosisified (Rotten To The Gore) 5)Carbonized Eyesockets 6)Frenzied Detruncation 7)Vomited Anal Tract 8)Festerday 9)Fermenting Innards 10)Excreted Alive 11)Suppuration 12)Foeticide 13)Microwaved Uterogestation 14)Feast On Dismembered Carnage 15)Splattered Cavities 16)Psychopathologist 17)Burnt To A Crisp 18)Pungent Excruciation 19)Manifestation Of Verrucose Urethra 20)Oxidised Razor Masticator 21)Mucopurulence Excretor 22)Malignant Defecation

(Earache Records - Mosh 18)
Release date: 1989


Review: This second Carcass album radically changes comparing to "Reek of putrefaction". Carcass were back with a more death-metalish and technical musical sense, adding something more controlled to the Carcass' early grindcore style. First, the far better production makes it more easy to listen, songs are longer, and there are pretty more guitar solos, more elaborated and melodic. Most of vocals are the recognizable Walker's screamy vox, but Steer's backing roars and gory harmonized effects are still present, although more like backing vocals... Guitars are heavier and so skillfully played, Owen's skilful blasting drumming is work of genius... Every song is cult, and the whole album a brilliant masterpiece. A shocking gory artwork, a terrific sense of dark humor and clever pathological lyrics... If you don't know it yet I wonder what you're doing on this site!

Tracks: 1)Reek Of Putrefaction 2)Exhume To Consume 3)Excoriating Abdominal Emanation 4)Ruptured In Purulence 5)Empathological Necroticism 6)Embryonic Necropsy And Devourment 7)Swarming Vulgar Mass Of Infected Virulency 8)Cadaveric Incubator Of Endoparasites 9)Slash Dementia 10)Crepitating Bowel Erosion

(Earache Records - Mosh 42)
Release date: 1991

Review: This well-known third Carcass album is a masterpiece of technical death/grind... most of the insanity of their earlier work is lost; but you can still find elements from the two first albums. The result is very melodic and globally quite slow; but still catchy; with some well-placed fast blast beats... Song structures are complex and varied, guitar solos are sublime... Vocal effects are completely abandonned... only the Walker's aggressive vocals, and Bill Steer's backing roars almost disappeared... Lyrics are also very hermetic, like a much more clever approach of morbidity and pathology... you must finally get a dictionnary to understand them... the sick ambience is garenteed by the spoken introductions (autopsies reports or such)... Beautiful, clever but nothing as exciting and insane as the first albums in my mind...

Tracks: 1)Impropagation 2)Corporal jigsore quandary 3)Symposium of sickness 4)Pedigree butchery 5)Incarnated solvent abuse 6)Carneous cacoffiny 7)Lavaging expectorate of lysergide composition 8)Forensic clinicism/The sanguine article

(Earache Records - Mosh 49)
Release date: 1991

Review: This ep is the ultimate Carcass grinding work; only 4 tracks: first, "Tools of the trade": a catchy fast song with lyrics about all forensic medical instruments... "Incarnated slovent abuse" which comes from "Necroticism..." cd, and new re-recorded versions of "Rotten to the gore" (originally "Pyosified(Rotten to the gore)" on "Reek of putrefaction") and "Hepatic tissue fermentation II" (originally "Hepatic tissue fermentation" from the "Pathological compilation" I think...) which are great new versions; even if I prefer the originals... Anyway, check this Carcass release too, it's a great one!!!

Tracks: 1)Tools of the trade 2)Incarnated solvent abuse 3)Rotten to the gore 4)Hepatic tissue fermantation II