Heartwork

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Heartwork
Heartwork cover
Studio album by Carcass
Released 1993
Recorded Parr Street Studios, May 18 – June 21, 1993
Genre Melodic death metal
Length 41:55
Label Earache Records
Producer(s) Colin Richardson
Professional reviews
Carcass chronology
Tools of the Trade
(1992)		 Heartwork
(1993)		 Swansong
(1996)


Heartwork is an album by Carcass, released through Earache Records in 1993. The album was recorded at Parr Street Studios between May 18 and June 21, 1993. Heartwork was Carcass's breakthrough album due to its use of more conventional song structures, increased use of melody in the riffs, and less opaque lyrics (according to one review, they could be translated using a conventional dictionary—the band's use of medical terms in previous albums had earned them some infamy by then). In another departure from previous albums, Bill Steer and Ken Owen's vocals were omitted. The producers opted instead to layer Walker's voice. The sound of the album has been said to be closer to technical thrash than death metal, to the point that Beavis and Butt-Head claimed Walker sounded "just like Dave Mustaine".

The sculpture depicted in the cover art, "Life Support 1993", was designed by H.R. Giger. The video for the song "Heartwork" features a real-life interpretation of the sculpture, including a human welded as a part of it.

This album is widely considered to be one of the first and also greatest melodic death metal releases, being also a landmark in the history of Death Metal.

Michael Amott left the band after the recording of the album, and was temporarily replaced by Mike Hickey.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Buried Dreams" (Steer/Walker)
  2. "Carnal Forge" (Steer/Amott/Walker)
  3. "No Love Lost" (Steer/Walker)
  4. "Heartwork" (Steer/Amott/Walker)
  5. "Embodiment" (Amott/Steer/Walker)
  6. "This Mortal Coil" (Steer/Amott/Walker)
  7. "Arbeit Macht Fleisch" (Steer/Walker)
  8. "Blind Bleeding the Blind" (Steer/Walker)
  9. "Doctrinal Expletives" (Steer/Amott/Walker)
  10. "Death Certificate" (Amott/Steer/Walker)

[edit] Chart position

Heatseekers No. 23 UK Album Chart No. 67

[edit] Miscellanea

The title of the song "Arbeit Macht Fleisch" parodies the phrase "Arbeit macht frei."

[edit] Credits

[edit] Other personnel

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