CARCASS - Surgical Steel (2013)

this album will be in my top ten.

I mean, that riff that Steer played in alternating octaves on "Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System" is my current favorite thing.

even though I'm acquiring new metal albums by the boatload I still force myself to listen to this one daily.

giving this a first listen right now, finally

man

I have just always loved the parts where they slow down and go in, like this ending part of Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System

Yeah their slow breakdowns are the best. Wait till you get to the one on A Congealed Clot of Blood.

it's just an insanely hooky album. I love Steer's sense of melody, and it compliments the heavier riffs just fine.

Walker's vocals are sick on this album too.

yeah fuck this is great. I generally take my death metal more big-n-cosmic but...how could anybody not love this, this is just a blast

like my problem with a load of melodic death is that much of it forgets how to rock out, there are some real pit inducers on this one though. I have heard some folks say this is like a cross of Necroticism and Heartwork, and I gotta say I don't really hear much Necroticism here, but I'm kind of glad of that. I really think they managed to improve on Heartwork, which I love. It's like they took the style of "Death Certificate" and made an album based on that template.

I think the songwriting is a bit stronger on Heartwork - the new one is more fun though.

i probably need to do a side-by-side compare - I can't find my copy but I'll just Spotify it or something. been a while since I've listened.

Heartwork's more or less my favourite ever metal album, so this even coming close is quite an accolade.

Nice
http://soundcloud.com/decibelmagazine/carcass-zochrot-db034

This is the first metal album (of any subgenre) in years that I flat out love front to back, and just wanna listen to all the time.

At first I thought I still preferred Heartwork but with every listen, this one is in serious contention for #1 Carcass album, dudes.

I could see this album appealing to many non-disciples of death metal, such are it's undiluted qualities.

it's just an insanely hooky album.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, September 29, 2013 9:56 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah fuck this is great. I generally take my death metal more big-n-cosmic but...how could anybody not love this, this is just a blast

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, September 29, 2013 9:57 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like my problem with a load of melodic death is that much of it forgets how to rock out, there are some real pit inducers on this one though. I have heard some folks say this is like a cross of Necroticism and Heartwork, and I gotta say I don't really hear much Necroticism here

― Neanderthal, Sunday, September 29, 2013 10:00 AM (3 days ago)

everyone otm. shit is CATCHY AS FUCK. surprised to hear some say it takes some getting used to/getting into/whatever, as it seemed super hooky & accessible right out of the gate. holding up real damn well after a couple weeks, too.

can see the necrotism connection in that a lot of this sounds like classic thrash, deathed up just a little (hell, some moments sound like power metal). agree with damo s's p, too: could see a whole hell of a lot of people getting behind this, provided they get a chance to hear it.

My housemate who hasn't listened to metal since he was a teenager was properly rocking out when I put it on the other day.

Carcass have the opening song in this week's computer-compiled Echo Nest Discovery playlist: http://rd.io/x/QUPlBzN-37Q/

is everyone going to try push this album into the big ilm eoy top 10? Uncle Acid made it one year.

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, September 28, 2013 11:40 AM (1 month ago)

it's going to happen

my #1 for the year fwiw

i'm going to have to decide between this and kacey musgraves, also thinking of posting a picture of myself making my eoy list to the 'people who have figured out how to live' thread

"what shall be on the list?" mused j.

also i am 60% sure that at some point in the final cut walker says 'beavises' and i am not going to investigate more closely in case that destroys an illusion

Adorable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2JwjH81gVM

ok they got me with the foot on the double-bass pedal

KEN!!! That's great.

He makes a good Herbert West.

I was going to say, he seems to be pulling a Jeffrey Combs in that.

Okay, that video and song are both great!
I don't know why I haven't purchased the album yet but I am rectifying that immediately.

main riff is so A+

ken...!!!

http://data3.whicdn.com/images/40844645/tumblr_mc4spyw9nH1rh54y9o1_500_large.jpg

d'awwww

So young! Can never get over the fact they were in their very early twenties when they wrote and performed Necroticism.

legitimately got tears in my eyes as that photo loaded

Good Walker interview here: http://www.steelforbrains.com/post/73525363656/carcass

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qd3mr

walker's vocals on record are a force of nature but it's nice to hear them rougher there, holding it down.

http://rvamag.com/articles/full/21964/its-easy-for-people-to-be-cynical-an-interview-with-jeff-walker-of-carcass

He's from a different generation, as far as the drumming goes, but we never pressured him to change for Carcass, but he did. I don't want to get too bogged down in technicalities, but if you understand the way most modern drummers play the fast stuff, it's with two kick drums, but we're from the old school where it was all on a single kick. It sounds childish but it's really important, it's where we're from.

traditionalists!

I was poking around various metal best-of-'13 lists today and unless I missed it, Surgical Steel did not make Rolling Stone's top 20. I know RS is not exactly the metal bible, but ... I mean, c'mon.

seeing them Tuesday \m/ \m/

Full concert

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/wacken-carcass

Man I hope they do a headlining London show soon.

lol walker's stage banter is so lame

the sound is pretty great tho

The Party Stage! I totally missed that the first time.

Aw I think his banter's quite sweet.

Is this the one where he mentions Motorhead in between every song?

yeah, kinda irked that he has to be there playing instead of watching motorhead; or maybe irked that he has to compete with them, unclear

<3

EP with five off-cuts coming out soon (they've all been up on YT for yonks, obviously). Walker does actual singing on one of them.

Any thoughts on the ep? I can see why they left all the tracks off the album, though there are a heap of great moments. The riff that comes in at 3.25 on Intensive Battery Brooding is nuts.

I'm glad they're toying with experiments like Livestock Marketplace, but I really don't think it works.

It's all album leftovers, and although it's decent, it pales in comparison to Surgical Steel, which is looking more and more like a classic album with each passing month.

Seconding that.