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Incarnated Solvent Abuse - Carcass (Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious. Earache Records, 1992).
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Before he joined on as bassist for a little band called Carcass, Jeff Waker was the guitarist and vocalist for the seminal UK-punk group Electro Hippies.
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Living Footage # 02: Carcass playing Reek of Putrefaction (off of their 1989 sophomore album, Symphonies of Sickness) live in 1992. I post this up because I just got tickets to the Carcass reunion tour (with motherfucking Suffocation). I nearly crapped my pants when I found out about it because I wasn’t aware that they were coming to Vancouver. It was the frist time I bought a local ticket online, because it was a 15 second timeline from me finding out and me jetting to Ticketmaster.ca and over-paying for a ticket.
About this video, it’s more popular than the other videos that I have found (with a View count already past 86,000) but it is one of the few Carcass videos that is at all audible. Most other videos are either music videos, live footage with the recorded music edited in, or just a mess of noise. Also this shows Carcass at their fucking element in 1992, right before the mid 90’s collapse of Death Metal’s popularity (93-97). The reason for this crash in popularity in the underground was due to an influx of too many death metal bands playing essentially the same thing. This was before Death Metal and Grindcore were being experimented with inorder to create the multiple sub-genres that exist today. It was also before the time when the technical aspect of death metal wasn’t properly utilized: bands were not good at writing complex instrumentation. It would tend to come across as sounding forced or messy (which is a problem that is happening again with some modern bands).
Another aspect of it was Corperate tie-ins but that is for another post.
As for Carcass, I have always felt as though they never recieved enough credit. They get credit for being one the the first few popular genre-benders with the grindcore and death metal world. However, what I love most about them is their lyrical and “poetic” focus. The lyrics were based on medical jorunals and old Gray’s Anatomy texts, which led to heavy use (and missuse) of scientific terms and themes. Because of this, dead bodies, all things rotting and pussing, diseases and furmenting blood were all cornerstones to their songs’ imagery. This is were Goregrind started; this is where extreme metal’s morbid fascination with general death and horror films was ripped open to expose the jucier innards of the macabre. It’s because of this that Carcass have had a large history of imitators, but like anything that is worthwhile, nothing beats the original… expect for the Batman movies.
