This band has had an interesting musical progression, beginning with standard gutter-death-metal, and ultimately evolving into more standard, mainstream thrash. They've also got a couple songs on the Pathological Compilation.

"Reek of Putrefication"

1. "Genital Grinder"--instrumental (1:32)
2. "Regurgitation of Giblets" (1:24)
3. "Maggot Colony" (1:37)
4. "Pyosisified (Rotten to the Core)" (2:55)
5. "Carbonized Eyesockets" (1:11)
6. "Frenzied Detruncation" (0:59)
7. "Vomited Anal Tract" (1:45)
8. "Festerday" (0:22)
9. "Fermenting Innards" (2:35)
10. "Excreted Alive" (1:21)
11. "Suppuration" (2:19)
12. "Foeticide" (2:46)
13. "Microwaved Uterogestation" (1:24)
14. "Feast on Dismembered Carnage" (1:27)
15. "Splattered Cavities" (1:54)
16. "Psychopathologist" (1:18)
17. "Burnt to a Crisp" (2:43)
18. "Pungent Excruciation" (2:31)
19. "Manifestation of Verrucose Urethra" (1:02)
20. "Oxidised Razor Masticator" (3:12)
21. "Mucopurulence Excretor" (1:09)
22. "Malignant Defecation" (2:15)

The song titles here are fucking hilarious! The band must have looked through a journal of gastrointestinal pathology and picked out the most disgusting words they could find (I have no idea what most of them mean, and I don't think I WANT to know!) The sound is similar to early, early Napalm Death (in fact, one of the members was in an early incarnation of that band) -- short, fast, ugly, brutal. Terrible music, really. Apparently I wound up with a "clean" version of the album cover, too.

"Symphonies of Sickness"

1. "Reek of Putrification" (4:09)
2. "Exhume to Consume" (3:50)
3. "Excoriating Abdominal Emanation" (4:31)
4. "Ruptured in Purulence" (4:11)
5. "Empathological Necroticism" (5:45)
6. "Embryonic Necropsy and Devourment" (5:13)
7. "Swarming Vulgar Mass of Infected Virulency" (3:10)
8. "Cadaveric Incubator of Endo-Parasites" (3:23)
9. "Slash Dementia" (3:23)
10. "Crepitating Bowel Erosion" (5:28)

The vocals here are just as throaty & growly as the first release, but the music's a lot more restrained & technical. I think somebody told me this was the ultimate Carcass CD -- whoever it was, they were right! Once again, it's the clean cover...but who fucking cares.

"Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious"

1. "Impropagation" (7:06)
2. "Corporal Jigsore Quandary" (5:48)
3. "Symposium of Sickness" (6:56)
4. "Pedigree Butchery" (5:16)
5. "Incarnated Solvent Abuse" (4:59)
6. "Carneous Cacoffiny" (6:43)
7. "Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition" (4:03)
8. "Forensic Clinicism/The Sanguine Article" (7:09)

Oh, wait a minute...THIS was the "ultimate Carcass album" that guy was talking about! The song structures are almost progressive in nature, and the vox are as brutal and throaty as ever. Unfortunately, I wound up with the "original" version, NOT the reissued version, which contains 3 bonus tracks from their Tools of the Trade EP...well, that's one of the risks when you order from Second Spin...

"Heartwork"

1. "Buried Dreams" (3:59)
2. "Carnal Forge" (3:23)
3. "No Love Lost" (3:23)
4. "Heartwork" (4:33)
5. "Embodiment" (5:37)
6. "This Mortal Coil" (3:49)
7. "Arbeit Macht Fleisch" (4:22)
8. "Blind Bleeding the Blind" (4:57)
9. "Doctrinal Expletives" (3:39)
10. "Death Certificate" (3:40)

Interesting sound on this CD, with growly death vocals accompanying more mainstream, MTv-friendly guitar riffs. Sounds pretty damn good, actually. But apparently it didn't get the public reaction they wanted and the band broke up sometime thereafter.

"Wake Up and Smell the Carcass"

1. "Edge of Darkness" (6:08)
2. "Emotional Flatline" (4:15)
3. "Ever Increasing Circles" (4:05)
4. "Blood Splattered Banner" (4:41)
5. "I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Does Suck)" (3:50)
6. "Buried Dreams"--live (4:05)
7. "No Love Lost"--live (4:51)
8. "Rot 'n' Roll"--live (3:44)
9. "Edge of Darkness"--live (5:48)
10. "This is Your Life" (4:08)
11. "Rot 'n' Roll" (3:49)
12. "Tools of the Trade" (3:05)
13. "Pyosisified (Still Rotten to the Gore)" (3:09)
14. "Hepatic Tissue Fermentation II" (6:38)
15. "Genital Grinder II"--instrumental (3:00)
16. "Hepatic Tissue Fermentation" (6:11)
17. "Exhume to Consume" (4:18)

At LAST, I scored a Carcass CD with the original, uncensored artwork! Even better, it makes up for missing the bonus track versions of Nectroticism and Heartwork by including the unreleased tracks from the "Tools of the Trade" and "Heartwork" EP's, and tacks on the rare tracks from the Pathological and Grindcrusher compilations as well. The first five tracks are outtakes from Swansong, similar in style to Heartwork and just as good, if not better. Tracks 6-9 come from a live BBC radio broadcast, though there's no crowd noise. All in all it's a decent wrap-up to this band's career.

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