Carcass 1990

Carcass are an English extreme metal band from Liverpool, formed in 1985. The band have gone through several line-up changes, leaving guitarist Bill Steer and bassist-vocalist Jeff Walker as the only constant members. They broke up in 1996,[2][3][4] but reformed in 2007 without one of their original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons.[5] To date, the band have released seven studio albums, two compilation albums, four EPs, two demo albums, one video album, and six music videos. Carcass are regarded as pioneers of the grindcore and melodic death metal genre.[6][7] They are also described as one of the earliest and most important of the new generation of grindcore and death metal bands.[8] Their early work was also tagged as "splatter death metal",[9] and "hardgore"[10] on account of their morbid lyrics and gruesome album covers. Their fourth album, Heartwork (1993), is considered a landmark in the melodic death metal genre. Carcass were first formed as a school band by Bill Steer and Ken Owen that soon after disbanded.[13] Steer then joined the D-beat band Disattack with drummer Middie, Paul on bass and Pek on vocals.[14][15] After releasing a four track demo entitled A Bomb Drops ... in 1986,[16] the bass player left the band and was replaced by Jeff Walker, formerly guitarist and vocalist of the Electro Hippies. Vocalist Andrew Pek changed his name to Sanjiv after a visit to India.[14] At about the same time, Bill Steer joined Napalm Death (replacing Justin...