Carcass - Wake Up & Smell The Carcass

Classic grindcore weirdly compiled

Carcass are the extreme metal fan’s Pink Floyd, a band whose raw, gripping beginnings remain as influential as the polished, state-of-the-art sounds which they made at the end of their career. After five albums, a couple of key line-up shifts and a mid-term gear-change from hardcore grind to mellifluous death metal, the Liverpudlian trio/ quartet called it a day with this unusual (and not entirely successful) best of in 1996.

Rather than compile a simple career-best album, the band – or their label – elected to gather up a bunch of unreleased sessions, radio recordings and compilation oneoffs for Wake Up & Smell The Carcass, newly reissued with a bonus DVD. It doesn’t work all the way through, with the Swansong cuts – Edge Of Darkness and Blood Spattered Banner among them – nowhere near as visceral as the original tracks. Still, the DVD content (which has appeared in multiple formats over the years) helps to

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