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Carcass - Choice Cuts Audio CD

A fair review of the Carcass "Choice Cuts" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Carcass reviews here, or go back to the Carcass tabs.

Carcass Band: Carcass
Title: Choice Cuts
Rating:
Release Date: 2004-06-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Genital Grinder 2: Maggot Colony 3: Exhume to Consume 4: Swarming Vulgar Mass of Infected Virulency 5: Tools of the Trade 6: Corporeal Jigsore Quandary 7: Incarnated Solvent Abuse 8: Buried Dreams 9: No Love Lost 10: Heartwork 11: Keep on Rotting in the Free World 12: R**k the Vote 13: This Is Your Life 14: Crepitating Bowel Erosion [*] 15: Slash Dementia [*] 16: Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites [*] 17: Reek of Putrefaction [*] 18: Empathological Necroticism [*] 19: Foeticide [*] 20: Fermenting Innards [*] 21: Exhume to Consume [*]

carcass- choise cuts
a blast from the past. i'm a die hard carcass fan, choise cuts is a collection of some of their great hits, it's a mesmerizing experience, someone who has not heard carcass, just bloody buy it, u'll be headbanging all the way mates. .


For fans and for those who want to start listening
If you want to start to listening to them start here since it has there early gore grind to their melodic death metal. This a great collection of carcass's songs. I don't care to much for their last stuff which is this death rock style of music.


Great Retrospective To A Highly Influential Band
Tracks from every album are encountered here, from their badly produced goregrind days during "Reek of Putrefaction" to their well produced classics "Necroticism" (death metal), "Heartwork" (melodic death metal) and "Swansong" (melodic thrash). Carcass was a band that played a highly influential role during their existence from the late 80's to the late 90's. However, there is more to that than just some songs off their timeless classics. Tracks from singles appear as well ("Tools of the Trade", "This Is Your Life"), along with two Peel Sessions from the years 89 and 90 (a goodie for old school Carcass fans). The booklet is also an interesting read, as it has a 2004 interview with Carcass drummer Ken Owen, and it retrospects their early days, their breakthrough days, and the days after Carcass has called it a day.

If you are a diehard Carcass fan, or even a beginner to their music, I recommend this collection. It's not just Earache's way of getting more cash, nope, it's much more than that. .


good carcass compilation
The rest of the songs from the bands earlier grindcore days sadly are s*%t. Tracks 5 through to 13 are great! Real heavy, real clear. Regardless this album is crucial to any metallers collection. They were such a good english band.


Carcass' final legacy...
This brand new compilation recollects material from all their albums, from their uncompromising debut "Reek of putrefaction" to their latest "controversial" effort "Swansong". If you're an all time Carcass fan, like me, you'll surely appreciate this best-of album. But the main dish here are the legendary Peel Sessions, rare and hard to find separately. The "Peel Sessions" are two sessions of live recordings in John Peel's radio Show in Great Britain back in the late 80s and beginning of the 90s.

Carcass' most acclaimed songs are featured in this album. All time classics such as "Exhume to consume", "Corporeal jigsore quandary", "Heartwork" or "Buried dreams", obvious choices when it comes to Carcass' favorites. Personally I'd prefered the song "Reek of putrefaction" from "Symphonies of sickness" instead "Swarming vulgar. . . ", but it's ok anyway, considering that "Reek. . . " is taken from the Peel Sessions, in a killer live version. But, hey, that's me, and favorites may vary from fan to fan, and one or two songs wouldn't make the difference, because, as I said before, the main character are both Peel Sessions and, however, you won't find "Choice Cuts" songs that all Carcass fans don't already have.

Another positive thing is the booklet and album cover. Returning to their great old times, where everything was bizarre, obscene and grotesque. You can see their old logo in the front cover, and drummer Ken Owen slaughtering his buddies (with some kind of kitchen knife or machete) that are laying down, and whose spilled blood in the wall spell "Choice cuts". Yummy! Very primitive, but somehow showing the band's sense of humour since the beginning. Inside the booklet you have a collage of photos, backstage passes, concert tickets (like the ones from the famous "Gods of grind" tour with Entombed, Cathedral and Confessor), magazine articles, along with an interview with Ken Owen, whom, apparently, has been the mastermind behind this compilation. He talks about everything past present and future, the scene then and today, memories, anecdotes (how he met Jeff and Bill). A very interesting interview in which carcass story is told, well, answered really, by one who has been a part of it since the very start.

Remember that this compilation was supposed to be released a while ago, but it was suspended due to Ken Owen suffering a brain haemorrage and spending a couple of years in the hospital and now being in the recovery stage. Ken was feeling much better and "Choice cuts" now sees the light of day.

The Peel Sessions above mentioned suffered from a bad production, but they're great anyways, especially the second one, recorded an year later with an improved sound quality.

"Choice Cuts" has everything that al fasn will appreciate, reminding you the old times. Perhaps, the last legacy of one of the greatest death metal bands, whose memory and influence will live on.
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