Carcass - Heartwork
Posted by Steve.
This weekend I'm off on a road trip to Leeds for the Damnation Festival. This festival is a one day event over three stages featuring 17 bands, there is no way you will see all of them, so you have to be a bit picky on who you see! Possibly the 2 main draws for most people at this years event seems to be Sigh - a black metal band all the way from Japan - and Liverpool grind core legends Carcass playing their one and only UK show after splitting up back in 1995. This is their first UK show in 14 long years and rumoured to be their last gig ever.
I saw Carcass years ago at the Wheatsheaf down in Stoke - that place used to be my second home. When it was owned by a guy who loved live music it was an awesome venue. Over the years I saw bands like Napalm Death, Life of Agony, Wolfsbane, Skyclad, Xentrix, Green Day, Hellkrusher, DIRT, Anathema, Clawfinger, Cathedral, Refused, Madball, Dog Eat Dog, Kyuss, Snuff, Dub War, Skunk Anansie, Sham 69, Eddie and the Hot Rods, GBH, UK Subs, The Exploited.... the list is endless. I even put my own shows on there!
Anyway, back to 2008!
Four bands I saw there are playing this weekend in Leeds. One of them I have seen several times away from the Wheatsheaf (Napalm Death), one I couldn't really care less about (Cathedral) and the other 2 I have only seen once and both times at the 'Sheaf - Carcass and Pitchshifter. I want to see them both but they are both on stage at 9.35pm!
Both bands are no longer a going concern (Pithshifter split in 2003 but have played odd shows and festivals since then) so it maybe the last time I see either band ever again - Carcass for sure. But I know I will enjoy Pitchshifter more - but how can you miss Carcass after 14 years? Too many decisions!
Here's the first of 2 Damnation 2008 videos for you - maybe I'll let you decide who I see for me!
Carcass formed in 1987 and due to the covers and titles from their early albums it was always suggested that the band were student doctors! (Reek of Putrefaction, Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious were their early releases), By the time Heartwork came out they had mellowed out but the end was near for the band.
Refering to Red Dwarf again - vocalist Jeff Walker Walker and Bill Steer appeared in an episode Red Dwarf. Walker performed as 'Gazza', a 'neo-Marxist nihilist anarchist', the bassist of the band 'Smeg and the Heads' in the 1989 episode "Timeslides" and Steer was the "whacked-out crazy hippy drummer" 'Dobbin'.
(Lead - Steer)
Works of art, painted black
Magniloquent, bleeding dark
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited
Food for thought, so prolific
In contrasting shades, forcely fed
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative
A canvas to paint, to degenerate
Dark reflections - degeneration
A canvas to paint, to denigrate
Dark reflections, of dark foul light
Profound, aesthetic beauty
Or shaded, sensary corruption
Perceptions, shattered, splintered, mirroring
In deft taints, diluted, tinted
Spelt out, in impaired colour
Denigrating, going to paints to pain - not a pretty picture
Works of heart bleeding dark
Black, magniloquent art
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited
Prolific food for thought
Contrasting, fed with force
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative
Bleeding works of art
Seething work so dark
Seering words from the heart
(1st lead - Steer)
(2nd lead - Amott)
This weekend I'm off on a road trip to Leeds for the Damnation Festival. This festival is a one day event over three stages featuring 17 bands, there is no way you will see all of them, so you have to be a bit picky on who you see! Possibly the 2 main draws for most people at this years event seems to be Sigh - a black metal band all the way from Japan - and Liverpool grind core legends Carcass playing their one and only UK show after splitting up back in 1995. This is their first UK show in 14 long years and rumoured to be their last gig ever.
I saw Carcass years ago at the Wheatsheaf down in Stoke - that place used to be my second home. When it was owned by a guy who loved live music it was an awesome venue. Over the years I saw bands like Napalm Death, Life of Agony, Wolfsbane, Skyclad, Xentrix, Green Day, Hellkrusher, DIRT, Anathema, Clawfinger, Cathedral, Refused, Madball, Dog Eat Dog, Kyuss, Snuff, Dub War, Skunk Anansie, Sham 69, Eddie and the Hot Rods, GBH, UK Subs, The Exploited.... the list is endless. I even put my own shows on there!
Anyway, back to 2008!
Four bands I saw there are playing this weekend in Leeds. One of them I have seen several times away from the Wheatsheaf (Napalm Death), one I couldn't really care less about (Cathedral) and the other 2 I have only seen once and both times at the 'Sheaf - Carcass and Pitchshifter. I want to see them both but they are both on stage at 9.35pm!
Both bands are no longer a going concern (Pithshifter split in 2003 but have played odd shows and festivals since then) so it maybe the last time I see either band ever again - Carcass for sure. But I know I will enjoy Pitchshifter more - but how can you miss Carcass after 14 years? Too many decisions!
Here's the first of 2 Damnation 2008 videos for you - maybe I'll let you decide who I see for me!
Carcass formed in 1987 and due to the covers and titles from their early albums it was always suggested that the band were student doctors! (Reek of Putrefaction, Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious were their early releases), By the time Heartwork came out they had mellowed out but the end was near for the band.
Refering to Red Dwarf again - vocalist Jeff Walker Walker and Bill Steer appeared in an episode Red Dwarf. Walker performed as 'Gazza', a 'neo-Marxist nihilist anarchist', the bassist of the band 'Smeg and the Heads' in the 1989 episode "Timeslides" and Steer was the "whacked-out crazy hippy drummer" 'Dobbin'.
Click to view(Lead - Steer)
Works of art, painted black
Magniloquent, bleeding dark
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited
Food for thought, so prolific
In contrasting shades, forcely fed
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative
A canvas to paint, to degenerate
Dark reflections - degeneration
A canvas to paint, to denigrate
Dark reflections, of dark foul light
Profound, aesthetic beauty
Or shaded, sensary corruption
Perceptions, shattered, splintered, mirroring
In deft taints, diluted, tinted
Spelt out, in impaired colour
Denigrating, going to paints to pain - not a pretty picture
Works of heart bleeding dark
Black, magniloquent art
Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited
Prolific food for thought
Contrasting, fed with force
Abstraction, so choking, so provocative
Bleeding works of art
Seething work so dark
Seering words from the heart
(1st lead - Steer)
(2nd lead - Amott)