Corpus in Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism

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Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism
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Studio album by
Released12 March 2009
RecordedOctober - December 2008 at Off Beat Studio, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre Goregrind, death metal
Length36:22
Label Listenable
Producer General Surgery
General Surgery chronology
Left Hand Pathology
(2006)
Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism
(2009)
Like an Ever Flying Limb
(2012)

Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism is the second full length album by Swedish goregrind/death metal band General Surgery. It was released on 12 March 2009 through Listenable Records.

Goregrind is a fusion genre of grindcore and death metal. British band Carcass are commonly credited for the emergence of the genre. Goregrind is recognized for its heavily edited, "watery" sounding vocals and abrasive musicianship rooted in grindcore.

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

General Surgery is a Swedish goregrind group, known as one of the earliest Carcass clones. Their 1991 debut, Necrology, was released by Relapse Records and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass tribute album, Requiems of Revulsion. However, in 2003, General Surgery reformed and released a split album with The County Medical Examiners, and have since released a collection of demos, two split 7"s, a 2005 demo, a split album with Butcher ABC, and two full-length albums.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Necronomics"0:46
2."Decedent Scarification Aesthetics"1:47
3."Restrained Remains"3:05
4."Final Excarnation"1:43
5."Necrocriticism"2:54
6."Exotoxic Septicity"2:22
7."Adnexal Mass (CD) / Excessive Corpus Delicti (LP)"0:36
8."Virulent Corpus Dispersement"5:17
9."Ichor"3:06
10."Idle Teratoma Core"2:11
11."Perfunctory Fleshless Precipitate"1:54
12."Plexus Necrosis"1:48
13."Unwitting Donor / Cadaver Exchange"1:27
14."Mortsafe Rupture"3:24
15."Deadhouse"4:02
Total length:36:22

Personnel

General Surgery
Guest musicians
Production

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