Carcass live

I never got a chance to post about seeing Carcass a few weeks ago. Life has been too hectic. Or maybe I just haven’t felt like writing. Either way…

Despite some fairly serious technical mishaps (I was at the Seattle show, and Bill Steer’s guitar pedal kept fucking up, also there were some visual blunders), the show was great. Everyone had fun, and seeing some of my favorite songs ever played live was a real treat. Although not one of my favoritest Carcass songs, I have to say that the highlight of the set for me was probably “Incarnated Solvent Abuse” which just killed live. “Heartwork,” “Corproreal Jigsore Quandray” and “Exhume to Consume” were also great of course, and the ending with them playing the last bit from “Carneous Cacoffiny” was the perfect way to end the set.

I really can’t give much more in the way of impressions of their set as I just felt like the 14-15 year old me for a lot of the time (I got into Carcass around 1995) and it was just really… special for me to see. I’m really glad they did this tour, now I’m happy if they never do anything Carcass-related again. I always wanted to see them live but never got the chance until now. I got my badass “Tools of the Trade” t-shirt and everything (strange that they didn’t play that song…). Man, what a great night.

1349 played a great, albeit very short, set, too. I hadn’t seen them  before, but now the next time they roll through town I’ll definitely go.

Next show I go to… maybe Asunder? Not sure.

Carcass

Honestly, I don’t really care about George Carlin being dead. He lived a fairly long time and had an awesome career. Everybody loved him. Let’s move on, shall we?

Well, that was easy, because MOTHERFUCKING Carcass is coming to the U.S.! Dear sweet Jeebus, it finally happened. Ever since Carcass’ reunion was announced, I’ve been obsessively checking the entire intarwebs to see if they were coming over here. Since I blew my overseas metal excursion budget last year on Hole in the Sky (which Carcass is playing this year), I couldn’t justify it this year, but it’s happening. They’re coming here. I feel like a kid waiting for Carcassmas or something.

They’re only confirmed as playing New York right now on Sept. 6th, but “more dates will be announced” according to Blabbermouth. This is just too cool for words.

As the almighty Beavis would say “Thank God! Heh hmm.”

For those of you who either don’t like metal, or who like metal but have lived under a planet-sized stone for the last 20 years, Carcass were one of the most influential and early contributors to the grindcore genre, and later became the very bestest melodic death metal band of all time END OF STORY.