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.

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.

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

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.

During this time, an early incarnation of Carcass was formed.

In October, Daysend supported UK thrash metal legends Carcass at Sydney's Metro Theatre, before playing a string of New South Wales shows with Dyscord, Psycroptic and the US deathcore band Whitechapel in early January 2009.

Moreover, he was the bass player for General Surgery during 1988 to 1990, and joined again in early 2000 when the band was temporarily resurrected to record a song for the Carcass tribute album Requiems of Revulsion.

During the December 1994 UK tour Carcass showcased two songs from their current writing sessions – " Edge of Darkness " and " Firmhand ", both showing a more straight forward song writing approach than on previous efforts.

Carcass performed an exclusive UK show at the Damnation Festival in Leeds ; Walker hinted at the time that the Damnation performance may have been their last show ever.

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.

The original logo of Earache Records was designed by Jeffrey Walker, vocalist and bassist of the UK band Carcass.

Among their influences were Carcass ( UK ) and Morbid Angel ( US ).

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.

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

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.

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

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.

* Carcass ( band ), a death metal / grindcore band

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 ).

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

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.

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

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

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.

Jeff along with Bill Steer ran the short-lived record label Necrosis, which was an imprint of Carcass ' label Earache Records and that signed bands such as Norwegian group Cadaver and Repulsion from the USA.

He performed as ' Gazza ', a ' neo-Marxist nihilist anarchist ', the bassist of the band ' Smeg and the Heads ' in the 1989 episode " Timeslides " along with Carcass bandmate Bill Steer as the " whacked-out crazy hippy drummer " ' Dobbin '.

Carcass ' work in particular is often identified as the origin of the goregrind style, which is devoted to " bodily " themes.

Carcass released Reek of Putrefaction in 1988, which John Peel declared his favorite album of the year despite its very poor production.

According to Nielsen Soundscan, Napalm Death sold 367, 654 units between May 1991 and November 2003, while Carcass sold 220, 374 units in the same period.

The largest of the Congreve rockets was the 32-pound ( 14. 5 kg ) Carcass, which had a 15-foot ( 4. 6 m ) stick.

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

The cover used a picture of one of Gee Vaucher's Paintings, who did artwork for Crass and Carcass.

Mark later left The Blueprint and with Jason, they formed This Is Menace, a supergroup featuring members from various other bands including Carcass, Napalm Death, Sikth, Send More Paramedics, Funeral for a Friend and earthtone9.

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

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

In The Pathologist's Report, drummer Ken Owen states that he considers Swansong the ultimate Carcass album.

On July 21, 2008, a twelve-panel digipak version of the album was released, with full artwork and lyrics as well as a limited edition sticker sheet with classic Carcass motifs.

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

The album was re-released in 2008 as part of an ongoing series of Carcass reissues, to tie in with their reunion.

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.