Carcass - Heartwork

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#84) Carcass - Heartwork (1993/2008)

 1. Buried Dreams
 2. Carnal Forge
 3. No Love Lost
 4. Heartwork
 5. Embodiment
 6. This Mortal Coil
 7. Arbeit Macht Fleisch
 8. Blind Bleeding the Blind
 9. Doctrinal Expletives
 10. Death Certificate

Pre-Heartwork Parr Street Demos February 1993

 1. Blind Bleeding the Blind
 2. Buried Dreams
 3. Carnal Forge
 4. Death Certificate
 5. Deliverance
 6. Doctrinal Expletives
 7. Heartwork
 8. No Love Lost
 9. This Mortal Coil
 10. Arbeit Macht Frei

the band's 4th album sees a big change. the gory artwork is replaced by an HR Giger sculpture, and other than 2 songs (Carnal Forge and Arbeit Macht Fleisch, and even those are barely gory by early Carcass standards) the over the top medical dictionary lyrics are gone. the riffs have become more melodic and while there are still a lot of  rad, intricate riffs, the song structure is a little more streamlined. on Necroticism most of the songs were 5 minutes or over, with a few topping out at 7 minutes, here the songs are in the more average range of 3 to 4 minutes. the tempo has also leveled out a bit. while tracks like Carnal Forge and Death Certificate are total shredders, overall the album is mostly mid-tempo stuff. Death Certificate is up there with some of the fastest non-grind Carcass and also has some super melodic riffing going on, definitely one of my favorite tracks. this album fucking kills.

the bonuses this time comes in the form of an entire 2nd disc worth of demos. it's the entire album demo-ed out. the tracks have a rough edge to them and sound great, i think some of the tracks actually sound a little better in the demo versions. other than the different track order and the fact that here the song Embodiment is called Deliverance, i didn't really notice any huge differences. admittedly i didn't listen to the discs back to back so there are probably some things i missed but overall it's a rougher sounding version of the normal album. once again a really cool extra feature.