• Reissue
• White vinyl pressing
  
  

Carcass released Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious in 1991 on Earache Records, establishing themselves as architects of a distinctly British approach to extreme metal. Where their debut refined grindcore's visceral assault, this second album synthesized death metal's structural sophistication with their signature medical-lexicon brutality and darkly clinical production. The record marked a turning point in the band's evolution, demonstrating that technical proficiency and conceptual depth could coexist within the genre's most uncompromising framework.

The album's opening salvo—"Inpropogation" and "Corporal Jigsore Quandary"—establishes the record's surgical precision: riffs that alternate between grinding dissonance and almost melodic progression, while the rhythm section propels everything with inhuman tightness. Tracks like "Symposium Of Sickness" and "Pedigree Butchery" showcase the band's expanded palette, layering angular guitar work over blast beats that feel less like percussion and more like controlled detonation. The sustained horror-movie atmosphere throughout, reinforced by production that renders every distortion and feedback screech with absolute clarity, creates an experience that is grotesque yet oddly cerebral. "Incarnated Solvent Abuse" and "Carneous Carcoffiny" further cement this record as a masterclass in maintaining intensity without sacrificing compositional variety.

This reissue arrives on white vinyl, pressed to original specifications and housed in faithfully reproduced artwork with an inner sleeve and insert. For those who encountered this album on tape or CD, the vinyl format restores the crisp separation in the mix that defined the original—allowing each instrument its own space within the chaos. This pressing captures the record's relentless power in a format that demands proper attention.

Tracklist:

A1. Inpropogation
A2. Corporal Jigsore Quandary
A3. Symposium Of Sickness
A4. Pedigree Butchery
B1. Incarnated Solvent Abuse
B2. Carneous Carcoffiny
B3. Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide Composition
B4. Foresnic Clnicicism/The Sanguine Article