Carcass - Wake Up and Smell the...Carcass

Rot 'N Roll

#86) Carcass - Wake Up and Smell the...Carcass (1996)

 1.Edge of Darkness
 2. Emotional Flatline
 3. Ever Increasing Circles
 4. Blood Spattered Banner
 5. I Told You So (Corporate Rock Really Does Suck)
 6. Buried Dreams
 7. No Love Lost
 8. Rot 'N Roll
 9. Edge of Darkness
 10. This Is Your LIfe
 11. Rot 'N Roll
 12. Tools of the Trade
 13. Pyosisified (Still Rotten to the Gore)
 14. Hepatic Tissue Fermentation II
 15. Genital Grinder II
 16. Hepatic Tissue Fermentation
 17. Exhume to Consume

this is a collection of rarities and unreleased stuff. here's the breakdown:

when Carcass went into the studio to do Swansong they recorded 17 tracks. of those 17, 12 made it onto the album. tracks 1 -5 are the tracks that were cut. at the time there were rumors of an EP containing these tracks but it never happened. luckily they put them on here because they're really solid tracks and are probably the biggest highlight of the album.

tracks 6 - 9 are taken from a Radio One Rock Show session recorded in 1994. it's pretty much your standard radio recording, no real surprises, good audio quality. the only really notable thing is that the set includes Edge of Darkness, which is a Swansong track, 2 years before Swansong was released.

tracks 10 and 11 are taken off the Heartwork EP, released in 1993. This is Your Life is in the same vein as the other midtempo tracks off Heartwork and is a great track, while Rot 'N Roll is a little faster paced. not quite a shredder like Death Certificate or Carnal Forge but a rad track nonetheless.

tracks 12 - 14 are the Tools of the Trade EP which i talked about here

15 and 16 are off the Pathological comp, released in 1989, and features a reworking of Genital Grinder, off  Reek of Putrefaction,  and the original version of Hepatic Tissue Fermentation. the reworking is a really cool instrumental track. Hepatic Tissue Fermentation is pretty much the same track as what you hear on the Tools of the Trade Ep, the biggest difference to me was that the Tools EP had way better production value.

track 17 is taken off the Grindcrusher comp, released in '89, and also appears on Symphonies of Sickness. the big difference between these 2 tracks is that the Grindcrusher versions starts off with about 30 seconds of guitar noises before getting into the track, other than that it's pretty much the same track.

the version of the cd i have also comes with a bonus dvd. i'm not gonna get too into the dvd but it contains:
music videos for Heartwork, Corporal Jigsore Quandry, Keep On Rotting in the Free World,
Incarnated Solvent Abuse and No Love Lost. the videos range from cool (Heartwork, No Love Lost) to unintentionally funny (Incarnated Solvent Abuse) to lame live footage with the studio track playing over it (the rest.)

a live set from The Gods of Grind Tour recorded at the London Astoria, March 18th 1992 and another set from the Grindcrusher Tour recorded at Nottingham Rock City, Nov 14th 1989. the sound isn't the best on either sets but it's not overwhelmingly bad and it's slightly better on the Gods set. 

the cd was a great collection and definitely worth checking out.
after 6 1/2 hours of audio and over 5 hours of video my Carcass journey is over. what a great fuckin band.