Carcass

[sspadowsky]

I know there are some "hardcore" types among us who think that Descanting the Insalubrous is their best, but you're wrong. It's Heartwork. That album is a stroke of brilliance. Any Carcass fans here, and anyone like Mike Ammot's new band, Arch Enemy?

[Cosmo Electrolux]

I started listening to Carcass when I picked up "Wake up and smell the Carcass"..I bought Swansong after that. I'll get Heartwork if I can find it in any of the pathetic excuse for music stores in Alabama...

P.S. Didn't they put out a CD as Blackstar?

[sspadowsky]

Heartwork is the quintessential Carcass album. You should be able to find that at any decent music store. Swan Song was OK, but Heartwork is amazing.

The "Black Star" CD was Jeff Walker (bass/vox) and some other guys. He was the only one from Carcass involved, I think. It was kind of meh.

[Helm]

I actually only like them up to nectrotism.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

I have "Reek of Putrifaction"...brutal....

[CastroMotorOil]

heartwork is amazing, great, perfect album. Arch Enemy is pretty cool with the female lead now. Saw them with slayer and they were pretty damn good.

[Big Papa Goat]

Heartwork was a travesty.

[Helm]

I agree it's not their best material but a travesty?... Listen to swansong and then beat your head against a wall.

[sspadowsky]

Hahaha. I agree with Helm here. I was grossly disappointed with Swan Song.

Heartwork, to me, represented how good that band could sound. Their previous work could've been great, too, but fuck all you purists that say production has nothing to do with it. It all sounds like shit if you can't tell what's going on, which was the case with their early work. Instrumentally and lyrically, Heartwork was phenomenal. They abandoned the medical dictionary silliness and went for lyrics that had a point. I'm familiar with a good amount of their early work, and I'm sorry, but it's hard for me to take "Vomited Anal Tract" seriously. "Arbeit Macht Fleisch," on the other hand, is well-done, clever, and viciously executed.