Emerging from the late 80s grindcore scene, by the early 90s Carcass had transformed into a surgically-fixated death metal band – and 1993’s Heartwork album remains a landmark of the genre. In 2007, bassist and vocalist Jeff Walker looked back on a record that helped change the course of extreme metal.
Someone once jokingly suggested that Carcass were the most important British band since the Sex Pistols. That might be an exaggeration, but there’s no doubt that the band that rose from the UK’s subterranean crust-punk and grindcore scene went on to become one of the the most significant inspirations on the death metal movement.
