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THE ULTIMATE METAL CHALLENGE - Melodic Death Metal
This review is gonna be fairly short because everything I could say about this album is either painfully obvious or just common knowledge, but anyways, this record is fantastic! Heartwork is a masterfully performed cacophony of great riffs, genre-defining solos, and mean vocals that all come together to make a cohesive and thoroughly enjoyable experience. This album’s style of guitar playing set the standard for the more death metal ... read more
CARCASS DEEP DIVE PT 4: HEARTWORK
This album can definitely be described as a turning point in a multitude of ways. Most sane and open-minded people would call this a landmark melodeath masterpiece, while boneheaded elitists would call this a “lame sellout album”. Well, if this near 42 minutes of masterful songwriting and sonic perfection is considered “selling out” then I wish every band sold out. Not only is the songwriting truly next level and legendary but the guitar ... read more
Honestly kinda blows my mind that this band and album isn’t more well known, cause this is some of the best death metal I’ve heard in a loooong time.
This album basically does everything I want done with an album like this. Insane guitar work, perfectly balances that level of heaviness and catchy riffs that I love and want from this kinda sound, vocal work is insane, really elevates the sheer terror and album like this warrants, without going too deep into goofy ahh territory, and ... read more
This album absolutely blew my balls clean off from the shock I had when I realized that this album is insanely good. It is quite literally incomparable to Children Of Bodom which is the same genre. I have never listened to the band Carcass or even really heard a band that is this heavy, but damn I’ve never been so blown away by how good vocals are from a first impression, and utterly shocked by the the quality of the drumming and amazing sounding guitar work.
Such nasty, evil, and beautiful album at the same time. Glad Carcass stepped aside from pure goregrind into death'n'roll and completed a masterpiece. The only thing I miss there is a deep/conceptual lyrics, like they did on a Swansong
heartwork is very similar to metallica's black album. some will say it's a landmark in their respective genres, and others will say that it's a sellout album. for me, heartwork does its job very well as an accessible death metal album, making it a true classic of the genre. necroticism is still better for me regardless.
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Track List
| 1 | Buried Dreams 3:59 | 91 |
| 2 | Carnal Forge 3:55 | 90 |
| 3 | No Love Lost 3:23 | 86 |
| 4 | Heartwork 4:33 | 92 |
| 5 | Embodiment 5:36 | 86 |
| 6 | This Mortal Coil 3:50 | 89 |
| 7 | Arbeit macht Fleisch 4:22 | 88 |
| 8 | Blind Bleeding the Blind 4:57 | 87 |
| 9 | Doctrinal Expletives 3:39 | 82 |
| 10 | Death Certificate 3:41 | 87 |
Total Length: 41 minutes
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3mo
Maybe I don't understand what "melodic death metal" means but like where are the melodies
