For most metalheads, Carcass will forever be known as one of the genre's extreme forefathers, whose repulsive grindcore beginnings gave way to their bludgeoning death metal rhythms that helped give the scene its bounce and medical obsession. The power of 1991's Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious put it at #4 on our list of the 15 greatest death metal albums of the '90s.
"After revolutionizing extreme metal by helping create grindcore, Carcass then did a one-eighty, thickened up their riffs, and released one of the greatest albums death metal has ever known," wrote our own Chris Krovatin. "That said, it’s exactly that nutrition that makes Necroticism the powerhouse that it is: With their starker, punk-informed background, Carcass were ready to change tempos on a dime and focus on adventurous songwriting rather than blind fury. As such, tracks like Inpropagation and Incarnated Solvent Abuse have a gnarly spring in their step, while the raw brutality of Corporeal Jigsore Quandary still maintains a bizarre playfulness that makes it a total fucking earworm."
Carcass' new album will come out August 7, presumably on Nuclear Blast.
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