This has to be the most anticipated albums of the year, agree/disagree?? It’s been a bloody long time in between drinks for avid Carcass lovers since the 1996 release “Swansong”, where they left listeners with a dribbly watering mouth of thrashness while praying and hoping it wasn’t an end of this legendary outfit.
You always had a feeling in the gut that they may reform, but with the news that Ken Owen (drummer) fell seriously ill with a brain hemorrhage in 1999, Carcass was buried forever. Alas no, those dirty rumors grew and a bond between band members seemed stronger than ever with Ken’s illness, almost as if reforming was what they had to do. With Ken unable to resume duties behind the kit, Daniel Erlandsson (Arch Enemy) took the job and they resumed rehearsals before hitting the stage at 2007’s Wacken Open Air playing the back catalog of gore splatted grind, to the thrash monsters of their later releases.
After extensive touring to show the world that they had returned, a new album was the next thing that was being mentioned. With members, Michael Amott and Daniel Erlandsson returning to Arch Enemy, new members Daniel Wilding (drums) and Ben Ash (Guitar) filled the shoes for the release of “Surgical Steel”.
The long wait was over in October 2013 when “Surgical Steel” was finally available for our grubby mitts and even grubbier ears to get a blast from Carcass after such a bloody long hiatus – and man was the wait well worth it!
After the first track “1985” which is a lovely sounding guitar piece, you are not quite sure what’s going to happen. Then baadaaabooom, all hell breaks loose with riffs that take you back to the godlike albums Heartwork and Necrotism – blast beats, Jeff Walkers gargling throat and we finally get to hear Bill Steer once again return to the mic with his deep nasty backing vocals that we missed on Heartwork and Swansong, beautiful. This album is pure Carcass, from the first track to the last, and it’s everything diehard fans would have been expecting even after 17 years in the wilderness since 1996’s “Swansong”; holy shit, 17 years, and even though I’ve got the grey hairs and have an old man belly now it really only seems like yesterday, and they had never broken up as this release takes me back. They’ve lost absolutely nothing in their musical writing, musicianship, and all-around aura that Carcass gives you, and it’s a bloody great feeling I can tell you, it’s like seeing an old friend again after many years.
“Surgical Steel” is 11 tracks of brutality, riffing and all-around adrenaline-pumping greatness, Carcass is one of the most influential metal bands in history and this release proves that. Since their 1988 grindcore debut release Reek Of Putrefaction, they have evolved genres and have reclaimed the throne in metal’s elite as a band that will always give their all.
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This release is one hell of a statement to the rest of the bands out there that if you want to show your cards, you better have a fuckin good hand because at the moment Carcass’s “Surgical Steel” is holding a royal flush and is also the dealer.
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Release Year: 2013
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Category: Album
Country: UK
Reviewed by Hayden G.M.
