With albums such as Symphonies of Sickness, Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious and Heartwork, UK sickos Carcass helped draw up the template for so much modern extreme metal. But after splitting in the wake of 1996’s Swansong, it would be another 17 years before they released a new record in the shape of 2013’s Surgical Steel. Singer/bassist Jeff Walker and guitarist Bill Steer sat down with Metal Hammer at the time to talk splits, reunions and the state of metal.
