| Carcass discography | |
|---|---|
 Carcass in 2010 | |
| Studio albums | 7 |
| Compilation albums | 2 |
| Video albums | 1 |
| Music videos | 7 |
| EPs | 5 |
| Demo albums | 2 |
This is a comprehensive discography of Carcass, an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1996. The band reformed in 2007 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, for health reasons. To date, the band have released seven studio albums, two compilation albums, five EPs, two demo albums, one video album, and seven music videos.
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | |||||||||||
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| UK [1] | AUT [2] | FIN [3] | FRA [4] | GER [5] | JPN [6] | NLD [7] | SWE [8] | SWI [9] | US [10] | |||||
| Reek of Putrefaction |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Symphonies of Sickness |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Heartwork |
| 67 | — | — | — | — | 222 | — | — | — | — | |||
| Swansong |
| 68 | — | 33 | — | — | 72 | — | — | — | — |
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| Surgical Steel |
| 47 | 24 | 6 | 82 | 10 | 36 | 73 | 42 | 44 | 41 |
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| Torn Arteries |
| 62 | 12 | 7 [14] | — | 9 | 29 | — | — | 19 | — | |||
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| Title | Album details |
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| Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass |
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| Choice Cuts |
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| Title | Album details |
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| The Peel Sessions |
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| Tools of the Trade |
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| The Heartwork EP |
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| Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel |
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| Despicable |
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| Title | Album details |
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| Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment |
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| Symphonies of Sickness |
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| Title | Album details |
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| Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass |
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| Year | Title | Directed | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | "Corporal Jigsore Quandary" | Howard Garfield | Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| "Incarnated Solvent Abuse" | Steve Mallet | ||
| 1993 | "Heartwork" | Tony Kunewalder | Heartwork |
| "No Love Lost" | John Moule | ||
| 1995 | "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" | Jan Russell | Swansong |
| 2013 | "Unfit for Human Consumption" [16] | Surgical Steel | |
| 2014 | "The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills" | Kazuaki Kimura & Glenn Maguire | |
| 2020 | "The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue" | Despicable | |
| 2021 | "Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstance March No. 1)" | Chioreanu Costin | Torn Arteries |
| "The Scythe's Remorseless Swing" | Chris Marley |
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