Carcass (band)

"I don’t consider our lyrics to be at all gruesome. To me, they’re more absurd and funny than nasty. You read the lyrics and they’re comical. We’re all fans of ‘70s horror movies like The Vault Of Horror and The Crypt Of Horror. They were morality tales, but also had a rich vein of gallows humour running through them. And we were also influenced by the Pan Book Of Horror Stories book series – that’s the way I see our songs. [...] We’ve never gotten any negativity from those in the medical profession for our lyrics or artwork. I’ve met a lot of nurses, doctors and people from the medical world, and they are always positive about what we do."

"When we stared the band in early ’87, there were a lot of band with so-called gore lyrics, but they were just writing about horror films and stuff like that. To us, that was ineffective, it didn’t have any impact on the listener. We wanted to introduce something that was a little more realistic. I mean, obviously, it’s got a fantasy element too, because some of these ideas are very overblown. But at the same time, the roots are in reality, and that’s why we use medical terminology. Also, I’d like to think that there’s an element of humor there. We’re not afraid to parody ourselves at times."

"Some people have missed the point, sexualizing the violence or being gross for the sake of it [..] Whatever we were doing with Carcass, there was definitely some thought behind it. [...] But it’s easy to be shocking, isn’t it? It’s easy to say horrible things. I’d like to say we did it with a sense of humor."

"["Vomited Anal Tract"] is all about someone who turns themselves inside out while they vomit. So, they end up with their rectum coming out of their mouth! Of course, it’s medically impossible – but it’s just our toilet humour."

"Juices digested from each pus-swollen pore Insatiable hunger as I feed on the gore Nothing gives me greater pleasure than a bowl full of chyme Maggot infested kidneys Are what I choose every time."

"The innards decompose, putrefy to jelly The dermis ruptures with sialagogic cruor Green putrefied offal explodes with the discharge Bubbling viscera is splattered all over the floor."

"Sadistically sodomizing with my instruments of grime Force-feeding it down your throat if I find the time Vaseline and talc soothe the gored ano-obliteration Sardonically I gloat on your rectal dislocation"

"Liquidized esophagus mixes with bloodied excretion As you pathetically gasp for breath The stench of hot feces scorch your nose As you violently vomit to death."

"Your mouth is a sea of cartilage, rabid saliva bleeds Swallowing shredded tongue and pulverized, crunching teeth Respirating a bolus of rusty razor blades Asphyxiating bloody garotte, tearing your jugular vein."

"The recumbent are my prey — under my genital blade Your precordium I brutally plunder — whilst you’re put under Exsanguinating — you’re totally parched Exenterating — removing body parts Wholly abraded – surgically maimed Decortication — medically slain."

"As salubrious pet food Human midden is consumed Not one to mince my words But now I love to see those siblings churned In tins they are reared"

"Plugged into the socket Leads attached to twisting skin Ignite the squirming foetus To dissolve it from within"

"Pick at the scab – septic blood starts to weep Rip at my face – ruptured growths start to seep Blackhead and boils, pustular cysts Chapped comedones, perspiring zits Pierce the blade – infected tissue starts to bleed Diseased and plagued – tumours chew and feed [...] The juice is squeezed Sebum bleeds Lick the pox Weals and warts..."

"Carcass are one of extreme metal’s lynchpins."

"Fusing sordid grindcore crunch with anatomically correct gore lyrics, Carcass has some of the nastiest song titles in rock history: “Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites,” “Sarming Vulgar Mass of Infected Virulency,” and “Excoriating Abdominal Emanation,” to name a few."

"is easily one of the least appealing topics on the planet, so obviously Carcass have a song about it."

"Along with their fellow U.K. peers , Carcass played a pivotal role in expanding the genre in the early ‘90s but with a notably more melodic presence. The band intertwined groovy riffs with the sheer aggression of and , which helped to lay the foundations for in the mid ‘90s."

"Melodeath may have been defined by the Swedes, but it was Carcass that made its definitive statement."