Carcass – "Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment" (Self-Released ) 1987

 Ahhh, some Death Metal from the home of the Beatles(Liverpool for gen Z),which sounds like Helter Skelter fed through a cheap distortion pedal and cement mixer......except this ain't Death Metal is it? It's Grindcore innit?

Chief Grinder, Bill Steer, was in Napalm Death for one album....."Scum" I think.So, the relevance of this post was to make a connection between Carcass and the early disemboweling grind of Napalm Death.

However, Bill Steer, was to leave and missed Napalm stalwart Shane Embury joining, like ships in the night,after leaving Warhammer,whom we featured in the previous post.

Most of the musicians....musicians???....in these groups were interchangeable, so no determinable difference was made, and a smooth transition was easily achievable.

The Thesaurus for this entire genre is but a slim volume,concentrating mainly on technical Autopsy references, and different,but the same, forms of putrefaction. Poetry it ain't,but it does convey rotting meat as some kind of alternative Flower representing the horrific ugliness of humankind....an image best represented by a naked Donald Trump....of you can imagine that without losing your mind?

I did also have a pint with Napalm Death,at Leicester University....of course i asked for an autograph for my children,so I provided a Fag Packet and Mick Harris dutifully wrote "Salamanderrrr Autopsy Doss, from Mick Harris". I sold them on Yahoo auctions (remember them?) as part of a package I made up, with The Napalm Death Peel Sessions CD, which skipped like a fucker.....a bit like this tape!? More fun facts>>> This tape was recorded in 22 minutes,but still managed to sound better than the debut album, "Reek Of Putrefaction.

PS isn't "Die in Pain" actually shorter than " You Suffer"? if you remove the count in on drum sticks?

PPS : Check out Stewart Lee on going Orienteering with Naplam Death

Tracklist:

A1 Genital Grinder 1:19
A2 Regurgitation Of Giblets 1:29
A3 Festerday 0:14
A4 Limb From Limb 1:01
A5 Rotten To The Gore 2:51
A6 Excreted Alive 0:56
A7 Malignant Defecation 1:54
A8 Fermenting Innards 2:31
A9 Necro-Cannibal Bloodfeast 1:41
A10 Psychopathologist 1:26
A11 Die In Pain 0:02
A12 Pungent Excruciation 3:01
A13 Face Meltaaargh 1:12

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Carcass ‎– "Reek Of Putrefaction" (Earache ‎– MOSH 6) 1988

I haven't listened to, or rather endured, this  for about 25 years! It certainly stuck out in the album racks at the record shop. Mainly due to the crass collage of post-mortem photo's that adorn this charming recording.
Certainly a classic of the early Earache releases, and featuring Napalm Death's own Bill Steer, exorcising his obvious need for gore.......Grindgore anyone?
Its all very low end mushed up grindcore doom,recorded under a mudslide; most likely a mudslide that engulfed a school full of children.
These are the kind of kids you'd find in the sixth form common room huddled in the corner swapping Dostoevsky and Yukio Mishima novels.
The Earache sticker on the cover kind of sums it all up......all for £4.99!

Tracklist:

Faecal Disarticulation Side:
A1 Genital Grinder 1:28
A2 Regurgitation Of Giblets 1:18
A3 Maggot Colony 1:32
A4 Pyosisified (Rotten To The Gore) 2:47
A5 Carbonized Eye-Sockets 1:06
A6 Frenzied Detruncation 0:54
A7 Vomited Anal-Tract 1:38
A8 Festerday 0:19
A9 Fermenting Innards 2:29
A10 Excreted Alive 1:17
A11 Suppuration 2:14

Anal Disgorgement Side:
B1 Foeticide 2:38
B2 Microwaved Uterogestation 1:22
B3 Feast On Dismembered Carnage 1:23
B4 Splattered Cavities 1:49
B5 Psychopathologist 1:15
B6 Burnt To A Crisp 2:37
B7 Pungent Excruciation 2:26
B8 Manifestation Of Verrucose Urethra 0:58
B9 Oxidised Razor Masticator 3:06
B10 Mucopurulence Excretor 1:05
B11 Malignant Defecation 2:10

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