Carcass

Together with Napalm Death, Carcass were the progenitors of the emerging goregrind scene. The feast of blood, guts and gore was backed by intelligent lyrics that seemed to come straight out of a medical handbook. As for the music, Carcass sounded every bit as deadly as their morbid artwork promised and ‘Reek of Putrefaction’ (1988) and ‘Symphonies of Sickness’ (1989) are still landmark albums. The more melodic approach on ‘Heartwork’ (1993) was credited with carrying the seed for what would later become known as melodic death metal but in 1996 - and in spite of growing commercial success - recording issues and a changing music industry heralded the demise of the band. The patient was ultimately resuscitated in 2007 when Carcass were booked to play a number of festival shows but it would be another six years before ‘Surgical Steel’ dropped, another masterpiece that brings a mix of crushing grind and melodic death metal with a set of cojones the size of wrecking balls. Their last album to date, 2019’s ‘Torn Arteries’ sees Carcass wielding less lethal instruments than in their youthful prime but the surgical precision makes for more accessible tracks. Jeff Walker’s sarcastic stage banter is an attraction in itself and GMM die-hards will certainly remember their headlining Marquee show at our 2019 edition. #GMM25