Carcass discography

Carcass discography

Carcass, 2010
Releases
Studio albums 6
Compilation albums 3
EPs 4
Video albums 1
Music videos 6
Demos 3
Split albums 1

This is a comprehensive discography of Carcass, an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. The band reformed in 2007 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons. To date, the band have released six studio albums, three compilation albums, four EPs, one split, three demos, one video album, and six music videos.

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
JPN
[1]
UK
[2]
FIN
[3]
GER
[4]
AUT
[5]
SWI
[6]
SWE
[7]
NLD
[8]
FRA
[9]
USA
[10]
Reek of Putrefaction
  • Released: July 1988
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
Symphonies of Sickness
  • Released: December 4, 1989
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious
  • Released: October 30, 1991
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
Heartwork
  • Released: October 18, 1993
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
222 67
Swansong
  • Released: June 10, 1996
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
72 68 33
Surgical Steel
  • Released: September 13, 2013
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
36 47 6 10 24 44 42 73 82 41
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Album details
Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass
  • Released: November 12, 1996
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, DL
Best of Carcass
  • Released: October 27, 1997
  • Label: Toy's Factory
  • Formats: CD
Choice Cuts
  • Released: May 24, 2004
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, DL

EPs

Title Album details
The Peel Sessions
  • Released: December 2, 1989
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP
Live at St. George's Hall
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Distorted Harmony
  • Formats: LP
Tools of the Trade
  • Released: June 23, 1992
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
The Heartwork EP
  • Released: September 1993
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel
  • Released: November 11, 2014[14]
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL

Split album

Title Album details Note
Gods of Grind
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CD

Demos

Title Album details
Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment
  • Released: April 4, 1987
  • Label: Self-released
  • Formats: CS
Symphonies of Sickness
  • Released: December 1988
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CS
Pre-Heartwork Parr Street Demos
  • Released: February 1993
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: CS

Video album

Title Album details
Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass
  • Released: November 26, 1996
  • Label: Earache
  • Formats: VHS, DVD

Music videos

Year Title Directed Album
1991 "Corporal Jigsore Quandary" Howard Garfield Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
"Incarnate Solvent Abuse" Steve Mallet
1993 "Heartwork" Tony Kunewalder Heartwork
"No Love Lost" John Moule
1995 "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" Jan Russell Swansong
2013 "Unfit for Human Consumption"[15]
Surgical Steel

References