{"id":8306,"date":"2014-01-09T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2014-01-09T17:52:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:52:53","slug":"carcass-surgical-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/01\/09\/carcass-surgical-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Carcass \u2013 Surgical Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"CarcassSurgicalSteel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I admit that I\u2019m a bad metalhead. I can\u2019t do Cannibal Corpse-esque death metal and I got sucked into Hunter Hunt-Hendrix\u2019 Haptic Void<\/em> when I listened to his band Liturgy. I hadn\u2019t even listened to a Carcass album before, despite knowing that they\u2019re some of the big dogs in the melodic death metal genre and that they cut a CD in the shape of a brain for their album Swansong<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I began to listen to this album, hoping for the best and expecting the worst, when a magnificent guitar solo emerged from my earphones! This is what they meant by \u201cmelodic death metal,\u201d I realized, and as soon as it started the music turned into the rip-roaring thrasher of \u201cThrasher\u2019s Abattoir\u201d! I thought to myself that if a time traveller brought this album back to the 80s and I were an unhappy teen in that era, I would be listening to this album in my parents\u2019 wood-panelled basement, sulking in my denim jacket and quaffing low-quality beer. I may have even played D&D! The production is crisp and glorious, much unlike the grim and grimy tones you\u2019d hear on a death metal classic like Possessed\u2019s Seven Churches<\/em>. The guitar tone is bright and shiny, reminiscent of, shall I say, surgical steel. However, I deduct one cool point for Carcass not cutting the CD in the shape of a sinister brain, or something equally brutal, like they did for Swansong<\/em>. That\u2019s just bad form. (Nuclear Blast, nuclearblast.de<\/a>) Topher Duguay<\/strong><\/p>\n

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