Reek of Putrefaction

by Carcass

Reek of Putrefaction cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1988
  • Label: Earache
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 39:47
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Ken Owen, Bill Steer, Jeff Walker, Michael Amott

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A horrifically visceral milestone in extreme music, 'Reek of Putrefaction' single-handedly spawned the goregrind subgenre. Obscured by a notoriously muddy, lo-fi production, the album assaults the listener with pitch-shifted vocals, chaotic blast beats, and lyrics lifted directly from medical textbooks.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, death, vulgar, gore, blast-beats, fast, ferocious, extreme, noisy

Tracklist

  1. Genital Grinder (1:32)
  2. Regurgitation of Giblets (1:24)
  3. Maggot Colony (1:37)
  4. Pyosisified (Rotten to the Gore) (2:55)
  5. Carbonized Eyesockets (1:11)
  6. Frenzied Detruncation (0:59)
  7. Vomited Anal Tract (1:45)
  8. Festerday (0:22)
  9. Fermenting Innards (2:35)
  10. Excreted Alive (1:21)
  11. Suppuration (2:19)
  12. Foeticide (2:46)
  13. Microwaved Uterogestation (1:24)
  14. Feast on Dismembered Carnage (1:27)
  15. Splattered Cavities (1:54)
  16. Psychopathologist (1:18)
  17. Burnt to a Crisp (2:43)
  18. Pungent Excruciation (2:31)
  19. Manifestation of Verrucose Urethra (1:02)
  20. Oxidised Razor Masticator (3:12)
  21. Mucopurulence Excretor (1:09)
  22. Malignant Defecation (2:15)

Credits

  • Carcass - Member, primary artist, producer, written-by [decomposed and deranged by]
  • Ken Owen - Member
  • Bill Steer - Member
  • Michael Amott - Member
  • Jeff Walker - Member
  • Grusome Graphics Inc - artwork, layout
  • Mike Ivory - engineer [initial recording engineered and ruined by]
  • Paul Talbot - engineer [re-recorded, mixed, and salvaged by]
  • Digby Pearson - producer

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