In 2008, the band along with Carcass and Cathedral, headlined the Damnation Festival.

* Blackstar ( band ), a heavy metal band formed by former members of Carcass

Swansong is the final studio album by the British extreme metal band Carcass.

Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious is the third album by the British extreme metal band Carcass, released in 1991 through Earache Records.

Wake Up and Smell the ... Carcass is a compilation album by the band Carcass, and is also the name of a Video / DVD compilation of the band's songs.

Despite the early impact of albums such as Repulsion's Horrified and Impetigo's Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, the origins of the genre really lie with the British band Carcass, who began their career in the late 1980s.

In their Reek of Putrefaction-era, Carcass used pitch shifters, medical imagery and several visceral associations when it originally conceived the band, a deviation from the frequently political or left-wing lyrics commonly used in the hardcore punk and grindcore scenes.

For this album, the band, for the first time, had a live drummer, The Carcass, who was previously a member of Texas death metal band Death of Millions, and was, at one point, a touring drummer for Incantation.

Michael Amott ( born 28 July 1969 in London, England ) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass.

Michael left Carcass in 1993, and decided to form a classic rock influenced band, Spiritual Beggars.

Carcass ( band ) | Carcass, shown here performing at Gods of Metal festival in Bologna, Italy ( 2008 ), helped define the melodic death metal genre with their 1993 album Heartwork. Another key band in the definition of melodic death metal was the British band Carcass, who started out playing grindcore but morphed into a death metal style and helped pioneer the melodic death metal genre with their 1993 album Heartwork and define melodic death metal as an authentic genre.

The County Medical Examiners is an American goregrind band who, in their own words, exist for the sole purpose of recreating the sound of early Carcass albums.

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* Carcass of Beef-( c. 1925 ), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

While in Carcass, he used Ibanez ( a road flare red RG550 ), a US-made Charvel and a Gibson white flying V. In 2006, Michael's signature ESP-Ninja guitar became a member of the ESP-USA signature series family, with an LTD model, the Ninja-600 also becoming available and his Ninja has been released in white on Musikmesse 2007.

Carcass also remixed Killing Joke's " Democracy " ( by re-recording the music, but keeping the original vocals ), although this time Regadas performed all guitar duties, as it is thought Steer had quit the band by early 1996.

The band was founded in 1989 by Lee Dorrian ( former singer of grindcore pioneers Napalm Death ), Mark ' Griff ' Griffiths ( a Carcass roadie ) and Garry ' Gaz ' Jennings ( formerly of thrash metal upstarts Acid Reign ).

* Jeffrey Walker ( born 1969 ), British musician in grindcore / death metal band Carcass

The anarcho-punk scene also spawned bands such as Napalm Death, Carcass, and Extreme Noise Terror that in the mid-1980s defined grindcore, incorporating extremely fast tempos and death metal – style guitarwork.

Still heavily into extreme metal, Michael formed a new melodic death metal project in the same vein as Carcass, whose Heartwork album was now considered a Death Metal masterpiece.

Earache Records had also signed many other death metal bands including Carcass and Napalm Death.

According to Allmusic, the band " sought to provide a positive alternative to traditional death metal acts such as Carcass, Death, and Obituary.

Some credit Carcass with being a very early founding influence for not just one, but two genres of metal – grindcore, and melodic death metal.

In May 1994 the Metal EP was Single of the Week in Melody Maker magazine and later that year Cubanate received media attention when they were weirdly paired with Carcass for what turned out to be a notoriously violent UK tour ending in death threats to Heal and an on-air confrontation on the Radio One Rock Show with Bruce Dickinson.

He is best known for his work with the death metal / grindcore band Carcass for which he is also the main lyricist.

Continuing record company problems with Columbia / Sony caused the album to be delayed from late summer 1995 to June 1996, in which time Carcass moved back to Earache Records, and broke up before even releasing Swansong.

Steer also appeared along with Jeffrey Walker ( bassist / vocalist of Carcass ) in an episode of the Sci-Fi comedy Red Dwarf.

Spiritual Beggars is a hard rock / stoner metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed by Michael Amott, who is known from Arch Enemy, Carcass and Carnage.

* Music: Party on Funk-o-tron by Dynamic Harmony / Carcass

Beyond the microsong, it is characteristic of grindcore to have short songs in general ; for example, Carcass ' debut album Reek of Putrefaction ( 1988 ) consists of 22 tracks with an average length of 1 minute and 48 seconds.

Other grindcore groups, such as Cattle Decapitation and Carcass, have expressed disgust with human behavior, animal abuse, and are, in some cases, vegetarians.

Carcass, an early UK grindcore group, in 1989.

Napalm Death's seismic impact inspired other British grindcore groups in the 1980s, among them Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass and Sore Throat.

Ken Owen and Jeff Walker said during The Pathologist's Report Part III: Mass Infection that they rejected the descriptions of Carcass ' music on this album being grindcore.

Napalm Death inspired other British grindcore groups in the 1980s, among them Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass and Sore Throat.

Pioneers, the British band Napalm Death inspired other British grindcore groups in the 1980s, among them Extreme Noise Terror, Carcass and Sore Throat.

Steve Huey of Allmusic praised the album writing that the band, " having honed a potent blend of classic-style death metal, melodic twin-guitar leads à la the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, touches of prog metal and of grindcore courtesy of later Carcass or Napalm Death, and just plain solid riff writing.

The music style, reminiscent of seventies rock bands such as Cream, is a radical departure from Steer's previous work with grindcore pioneers Napalm Death and death metal band Carcass.

Finally in 1989 Repulsion's material enjoyed modest, albeit posthumous, exposure when UK grindcore pioneers Carcass distributed a Repulsion compilation titled Horrified on their own Necrosis Records label ; a subsidiary of Earache Records.

Carnage was a Swedish death metal band whose members later went on to found Dismember, Arch Enemy and the grindcore band Carcass.

When released, Reek of Putrefaction reached # 6 on the UK Indie Chart, establishing Carcass as one of the pioneers of the grindcore genre.

Currently, he is playing reunion shows with legendary grindcore band Carcass as their original drummer Ken Owen cannot play due to complications from a brain haemorrhage he had in 1999.