Swansong
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| Swansong | ||
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| Studio album by Carcass | ||
| Released | 1996 | |
| Genre | Melodic death metal | |
| Length | 49:45 | |
| Label | Earache Records | |
| Producer(s) | Colin Richardson | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Carcass chronology | ||
| Heartwork (1994) |
Swansong (1996) |
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Swansong was the final studio album by Carcass. This was supposed to be their major label debut having been signed by Columbia records following the success of Heartwork, but disputes with this record company left them to return to Earache, and it was released through them in 1995. Though (or perhaps because) the album continued the progression towards more melodic music seen on Heartwork, it is was seen as a "sell out" by many of the band's fans. However, it gained many new fans, reaching No. 46 on Billboard magazine's Heatseakers chart.
The band had always shown a sense of humour in their song titles, and Swansong made this more obvious with titles such as "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" and "Generation Hexed".
A limited edition of this album was released as a brain-shaped CD, with a bonus 2-track CD 'Somnus Pecunia Cibus'.
[edit] Track listing
- "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" (Walker) – 3:42
- "Tomorrow Belongs to Nobody" (Steer/Walker) – 4:17
- "Black Star" (Regadas/Walker) – 3:29
- "Cross My Heart" (Steer/Walker) – 3:34
- "Child's Play" (Steer/Walker) – 5:43
- "Room 101" (Steer/Walker) – 4:35
- "Polarized" (Regadas/Steer/Walker) – 4:02
- "Generation Hexed" (Steer/Walker) – 3:48
- "Firm Hand" (Regadas/Walker) – 5:22
- "Rock the Vote" (Walker) – 3:53
- "Don't Believe a Word" (Steer/Walker) – 3:57
- "Go to Hell" (Walker) – 3:22
[edit] Credits
- Nick Brine - Assistant Engineer
- Jim Brumby - Assistant Engineer
- Gee - Paintings
- Stephen Harris - Engineer
- Barney Herbert - Assistant Engineer
- Ken Owen - Drums
- Carlo Regadas - Guitar
- Colin Richardson - Producer
- Bill Steer - Guitar
- Jeffrey Walker - Bass, Vocals
[edit] Miscellanea
- Over the CD, you can see the "unfinished pyramid et al" from the Great Seal of the United States, but it reads "carcass" instead of "annuit coeptis", "somnus pecunia cibus" instead of "novus ordo seclorum" and "MCMXCMV" instead of "MDCCLXXVI".
