Choice Cuts - Carcass

'Choice Cuts' is a compilation album offering up a comprehensive overview of the Liverpudlian metal band's ten-year career, starting off with their unbelievably raw and coarse early goregrind efforts, complete with rough-as-hell production, sickeningly guttoral vocals and grotesque pseudomedical lyrics centred around death and decay, chronologically right through their progression as a band into a still-heavy but increasingly slick melodic death metal band. Finally, tagged on at the end are the early recordings the band did with the late, great John Peel in 1989 and 1990, bringing proceedings to a suitably brutal and unsavory close. There are some cracking ...  Read the complete review

Significantly delayed from 1999, this official collection of old Carcass material combines an authoritative best-of selection with the 1989 and 1990 Peel Session that were conspicuously absent from 1996's 'Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass' and the less imaginative 'Best of Carcass.' This chronologically arranged collection does the perfect job of illustrating Carcass' evolution from spectacularly brutal grindcore death metal (1 to 7 and the Peel Sessions) to melodic death metal (8 to 13), choosing many of the finest songs to illustrate the nuances of these changes. Due to the prominence of the earlier style thanks to the Peel Sessions, this will doubtless ...  Read the complete review