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Heartworkproves that this band, which once buried technical perfection beneath layers of grotesque noise, is capable of shining as cleanly as the steel H.R. Giger sculpture on the cover of this death-metal classic. All of the bludgeoned progressions are intact, but this time they swoon rather than suffocate. This is a meticulously constructed grindcore masterpiece that sounds fresh, but never abandons the unique twists of the genre it helped create. By playing fewer notes, the impressive structure behind Carcass's compositions is revealed. It turns out the snarling skeleton that emerges is just as lethal as the menacing muck from which it crawled.--Ian Christe

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Label: Earache Records
Artist: Carcass
Release Date: September 10, 1996

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review by lordchimp253. March 07, 2003

posted in Music Matters

metal feast.

This is no _Symphonies of Sickness_, or even _Neuroticism_ (an album of transition). The lyrics are still immoderately verbose, but with this album Carcass left grindcore behind them. Melodic, exhilarating, @zz-kicking metal is the order of the day with _Heartwork_ -- this is not a crushing grindcore sludge. While its influence on early NWoSDM may have been exaggerated (In Flames' _Lunar Strain_ and At the Gates' _Terminal Spirit Disease_ came out in the same year, after all), I think many bands … more

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