Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious - Carcass

With a constantly evolving band like Carcass, fans will always have differing views on which period was the band's peak, specifically the frenetic gore-grind of their early days or the more contemplative and melodic death metal of their twilight phase, but most tend to agree that the band's third album is a successful meeting between the two styles, and also their finest. 'Necroticism' retains the extreme heaviness and surgical subject matter of the previous two albums, but the introduction of second guitarist Michael Amott (later of Arch Enemy) starts to take the band's music in a melodic direction that was only hinted at in brief passages of 'Symphonies of ...  Read the complete review