Carnage - Dark Recollections (1992)

A world beyond bleeding through the spread fingers with which we attempt to block the obvious, Carnage batters out music that is from alternating angles viewed as either a blunt object or a delicate sensibility emerging from within depraved deconstruction. Formed of the recursive offtime doubletime chording that like a machine builds momentum onto cadence, interspersed with subtleties of melody rising to not only complement its darker counterpart but enwrap it in a context that approaches the simplest symbolism of meaning, the first-wave Swedish death metal of this band defined a sound for which other, related acts gained brand recognition.

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Heavy Metal Influences

Heavy metal is not rock. It rose from rock, however, just as rock rose from blues and blues rose from Anglo-Celtic folk and that in turn rose from European traditional folk. This big cycle comes around again every generation but heavy metal remains in the middle.

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Great cd if you like old Swedish death metal, you know, the good kind.