CARCASS — Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (review)

CARCASS — Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious album cover Album · 1991 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
Here there's little to no sign of the grindcore sound that Carcass made their name with on their previous albums; instead, this journey through a mortician's thesaurus is in a solid death metal style with the occasional more traditional metal-sounding guitar solo. The band regard this as a "progressive" album, but whilst the lyrics are certainly verbose in a Tales From Topographic Oceans sort of way musically speaking the technicality on display here is pretty simple compared to the sort of material Death or Atheist or Cynic would be cranking out at around the same time. Still, this is a nice early 90s death metal album which doesn't embarrass itself when set next to contemporary releases from Deicide or Morbid Angel.
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Time Signature wrote:
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I'd give it seven if I could.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
This was quite revolutionary when it came out. Still one of my favorite death metal albums. I absolutely adore the aggressive sneering vocals by Jeff Walker and the many, many melodic guitar leads.

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