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Review: Milking the corpse further, Earache released this compilation of tracks -- a greatest hits -- with selected tracks from the Carcass The Peel Sessions recorded by UK Radio One DJ John Peel, ensuring that these stayed available on a full-price CD.

Outside of these tracks, which are excellent, there are few manifestations of their earlier works, and lots of the stuff that as time passes people are increasingly regarding as "filler" -- Heartwork, Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious, and the odious Swansong.

Tracklist:

1. Genital Grinder (1:32)
2. Maggot Colony (1:36)
3. Exhume to Consume (3:50)
4. Swarming Mass of Infected Virulency (3:10)
5. Tools of the Trade (3:04)
6. Corporal Jigsore Quandry (5:48)
7. Incarnated Solvent Abuse (5:01)
8. Buried Dreams (3:58)
9. No Love Lost (3:22)
10. Heartwork (4:33)
11. Keep on Rotting in the Free World (3:40)
12. R**k the Vote (3:53)
13. This is Your Life (4:08)
14. Crepitating Bowel Erosion (Peel Session '89) (5:08)
15. Slash Dementia (Peel Session '89) (3:23)
16. Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites (Peel Session '89) (3:14)
17. Reek of Putrefaction (Peel Session '89) (3:35)
18. Empathological Necrotism (Peel Session '90) (6:05)
19. Foeticide (Peel Session '90) (2:54)
20. Fermenting Innards (Peel Session '90) (2:56)
21. Exhume to Consume (Peel Session '90) (3:59)

Length: 78:49

Copyright © 2004 Earache

As a result, listening to this CD is to find a little bit of familiarity, then a ton of randomized technique and half-complete ideas, and finally, to encounter a handful of tracks from the early days that differ little beyond production and being recorded live.

• Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction (1988)

• Carcass - The Peel Sessions (1989)

• Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness (1989)

• Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (1991)

• Carcass - Tools of the Trade (1992)

• Carcass - Heartwork (1994)

• Carcass - Wake Up and Smell the Carcass (1996)

• Carcass - Swansong (1996)

• Carcass - Choice Cuts (2004)