"Meanwhile, Jeff Walker’s ageless rasp and unerringly perverse and sardonic lyrics are as unique as ever. "The band are instinctively disinterested in rehashing past glories, and are still overburdened with brilliant, eccentric ideas," he continues.
Theirs is a proudly old-school approach, and yet from the ripping riff-splurge of the opening title track to the cudgelling pomp of The Scythe’s Remorseless Swing, Carcass always sound utterly contemporary too." "These songs offer a wonderfully organic and human antidote to the legions of Pro-Tooled conformity. "Veteran status be damned, Carcass sound thoroughly vital and vivacious here," he wrote in a glowing review. Hammer's resident death metal expert Dom Lawson had no hesitation in handing a 9/10 score for the sheer excellence on display throughout Torn Arteries. The Liverpudlians' seventh effort Torn Arteries unfolded with an ungodly level of (surgical) precision, each clattering drum-fill, nimble-fingered riff structure and throat-shredding snarl measured out to just the right level to assert exactly why Carcass are considered the grand-daddies of extremity whilst grasping for inhuman levels of virtuosic brilliance. Potent and perilously addictive, Violence Unimagined is, without question, 2021’s bloody benchmark for the genre."ģ5 years of boundary pushing, tolerance testing extremity and still Carcass manage to astound. His closing statement proves to be no less descriptive in summarising just how much Corpse bring to the table - "the old-school death metal revival has gained steam recently, but most of those newbies sound like piss down the pan compared to this. Instead, Florida’s death metal daddies have weaned one of their most wretched, brutal babies this side of the millennium."
What violence is there left to imagine, lads? Album number 15 doesn’t detail any new, exciting ways to remove someone’s scrotum using just a fidget spinner and elbow grease. Violence Unimagined wasn't any massive transformation for the band's sound, nor did it represent a new watermark in extremity as a whole, rather it was Corpse delivering the same pulverising nastiness and brutality fans have come to expect over the past 30 years plus, drenched in offal and claret as the band barely came up for breath.Īs Hammer's Alec Chillingworth mused in his review, "You already wrote Fucked With A Knife. It may not be grim, nor is it necro, but this comic is most definitely metal.Trust death metal legends Cannibal Corpse to go and trump just about everyone else in the game purely on the virtue of being, well, Cannibal Corpse. So stop moshing for just a few minutes, Headbanged will take you through the lives of eight young rockers as they fight their way through the metal life and the hilarity that ensues. Headbanged was the comic that started it all - and had a great 10-month run on Metal Storm before wrapping up in May 2005.įrom gore to Satanism, death to desolation, there are many topics often associated with heavy metal, but not often does one take the time to think about how funny it can be.
Vile, sexy and thoroughly enjoyable, this comic takes a very different direction from Headbanged. 31 - Cátia Uiterwijk Winkel-André Almeida
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