HEARTWORK

When Heartwork came out alot of death/grind fans panned the album, which I thought was wrong, the album had a cleaner sound, but no less heavier sound. The band was getting more popular and because they incorporated some slower parts the album really was not commercial by any stretch of the imagination. Songs like carnal forge, This Mortal Coil the awesome title track or the best song on the album Arbeit Macht Fleisch grinded pretty hard, just had more melody. The riffs were simply killer and still are. I can remember Headbanger's ball playing the Heartwork video each week along w/Morbid Angel's rapture video-good times. Anyway again Earache has released a monster remaster and the sound packs so much more heaviness and loudness than the original. Lyrics reprinted on the multi fold out digipack and the dvd has the 4th part documentary. Extra disc includes demos of the album, nothing too special in that dept. Anyway Heartowrk was the album that platooned the band even further and was the last great record for the band. Unfortunatley the band tarnished the name a bit w/the release of Swansong, their last release which really was lame. Heartwork still stands up today and has aged well as a death/grind release.

The finest album of it's kind at a time when there was nothing else like it. This album was a benchmark for metal and I was speechless when I first heard it over 20 years ago and still love it today. Carcass invented this genre of music and no band as of yet has equaled them in it. Poignant messages are brought to life in a ear shredding tone like being hit in the chest rapid fire with an Uzi on full auto. Blind Leading the Blind is one of my all time favorite songs and is riff heaven. You will not be let down with this album...

Heartwork is a landmark melodic death metal release, but really the album transcends that specific style and can be considered an influential extreme metal or heavy metal album as well. Anyone who takes a listen will see why- the production is astonishing for 1993, it was simply ahead of it's time and it still holds up today as a timeless masterpiece.

This reissue of "Heartwork" is excellent-Like the previous one "Necrotism".This is a limited edtion.There is a extra cd of demo tracks from the album and the dvd(Which is always interesting).This is Micheal Amott's last album with Carcass.It's the best Carcass cd ever.The Songs are excellent.The Guitars are so razor sharp and so very heavy.When I frist bought the cd-Carcass gone commercial?.When Earache and Columbia merged together.Still Carcass still kept their heavy sound.This cd put rings around Megadeth's "Countdown to Distiction" during that time-Such a feroarious monster.Highly Reccommeded-Get all these digapak Carcass reissues(Inculding "SwanSong").

This album is a milestone for its time. The recording and mixing done for the album is absolutely spectacular considering how a lot of other underground death metal bands sounded at the time. This thing sounds like it was recorded recently, that's how good it is. The album itself is a masterpiece. There's a reason why many metalheads consider this an absolute must-have album.

Excellent !!!

It is one of the best Death metal albums out. \mm/

This is one of those albums that a fan of metal should just own. Heartwork is a masterpiece.HEARTWORK