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""Despicable" offers a decent death metal EP but we expect much more from a band as cult as Carcass."
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2/5
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For almost forty years, Carcass has been giving death goregrind its letters of nobility. Over the course of his albums, he has refined his message, culminating in "Swansong", whose political orientation followed in the footsteps of Napalm Death or "Heartwork" with its surgical precision and extreme violence. Then, after seventeen years of silence, the group published "Surgical Steel", violent and controlled. With this new EP, "Despicable", the British intend to come back to the forefront, supported by Tom Draper (Pounder) on guitar.
"Despicable" is full of qualities: the riffs and guitars are sharp ('Slaughtered In Soho') while the aggressive voice gives the songs an identifiable seal ('The Long And Winding Bier Road'). The riffs have just the right amount of melody (the introduction of 'Slaughtered In Soho', 'The Long And Winding Bier Road'), sprinkling the songs with airy spaces while the mid tempo drums bring a communicative groove. The creepy, creepy ambiences ('The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue') are punctuated by hectic accelerations close to thrash metal ('The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue'), the dissonances are cleverly balanced ('Under The Scalpel Blade') and the melodic guitar interventions offer saving moments ('The Long And Winding Bier Road').
The problem is that Carcass seems to serve the recipes which made its success since "Heartwork" or "Swansong". With this EP, the group disappoints because it reappears the same music as twenty years ago, sometimes lacking consistency. As much as "Surgical Steel" pushed the violence cursor quite far, as much as "Despicable" seems to retain this violence and polish it. "Despicable" is thus a very correct, violent, sharp, disturbing and sometimes melodic death metal album that bears the identifiable signature of Carcass. A (maybe too) much-awaited EP from which more was expected from musicians with such a glorious past. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. The living dead at the Manchester morgue - 6:00
02. The long and winding bier road - 4:21
03. Under the scalpel blade - 3:55
04. Slaughtered in Soho - 4:37
LINEUP:
Bill Steer : Guitares
Daniel Wilding: Batterie
Jeff Walker : Chant / Basse
Tom Draper: Guitares
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