Carcass - Swansong [1995]

Genre: Melodic Death Metal, Doom Metal

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My opinion & thought: My favourite Carcass' album. Just love those guitar riffs from this album, so melodic yet creative at that time. A true pioneer of Melodic Death Metal music.

Stands out track(s): Keep On Roting In The Free World, Cross My Heart, Black Star, Tomorrow Belongs To Nobody


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About the album:
Swansong is the final studio album by the British Melodic death metal band Carcass. It was released on June 10, 1996 in the UK for Earache Records. This album was intended to be their major label debut, having been signed by Columbia records following the success of Heartwork, but disputes with that record company left them to return to Earache. The album was re-released on 21 July 2008 as a dualdisc featuring the 5th part of The Pathologist's Report, as well as a set of stickers in a digipakwith the bonus track mentioned below.

Because Swansong continued the progression towards a more melodic style (beginning with Heartwork), it was not received well by all fans. However, the album gained Carcass many new fans, reaching No. 46 on Billboard magazine's Heatseakers chart.

The band had always shown a sense of humour in their song titles, and Swansong illustrated this with titles such as "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" and "Generation Hexed".

A limited edition of this album was released as a brain-shaped CD, with a bonus 2-track CD 'Somnus Pecunia Cibus'. The reason for the bonus disc was to include "Go to Hell", which wouldn't fit on the brain shaped CD (Made by Nimbus Manufacturing in Wales, UK) due to the 'cutting' into the disc required for the brain shape. This delayed the release of the disc by a week (originally planned for 3 June 1996, the same day as Metallica's Load), so an extra track, "Emotional Flatline" was included as an apology for the delay.

On the CD, you can see the "unfinished pyramid et al" from the Great Seal of the United States, but it reads "carcass" instead of "annuit coeptis", "somnus pecunia cibus" instead of "novus ordo seclorum" and "MCMXCV" instead of "MDCCLXXVI".


Tracklisting:

  1. "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" (Walker) – 3:42
  2. "Tomorrow Belongs to Nobody" (Steer/Walker) – 4:17
  3. "Black Star" (Regadas/Walker) – 3:29
  4. "Cross My Heart" (Steer/Walker) – 3:34
  5. "Child's Play" (Steer/Walker) – 5:43
  6. "Room 101" (Steer/Walker) – 4:35
  7. "Polarized" (Regadas/Steer/Walker) – 4:02
  8. "Generation Hexed" (Steer/Walker) – 3:48
  9. "Firm Hand" (Regadas/Walker) – 5:22
  10. "R**k the Vote" (Walker) – 3:53
  11. "Don't Believe a Word" (Steer/Walker) – 3:57
  12. "Go to Hell" (Walker) – 3:22
  13. "Deathrider Da" - 1:18* (Japanese/2008 reissue bonus track)
  • Deathrider Da is the solo section from "R**k the Vote" with screamed vocals.


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