Raw, nauseating, and revolutionary, 'Reek of Putrefaction' marked the moment Carcass carved out their gore-soaked corner of extreme music. Released in 1988, the album fused the speed and abrasion of grindcore with the heavier, darker edges of death metal, effectively defining what would become known as “goregrind.” With its infamous medical-lexicon lyrics, mangled production, and hyperactive song structures, the record challenged boundaries and shocked the underground. Yet beneath the chaos were the foundations of a band that would go on to reshape metal again and again.

This reissue brings renewed clarity to the album’s distorted savagery without dulling its feral energy. 'Reek of Putrefaction' remains a visceral snapshot of Carcass in their most primitive and confrontational form—short, frantic bursts of grinding percussion, serrated riffs, and dual-vocal filth delivered with gleeful abandon. Tracks like “Genital Grinder,” “Pyosisified (Rotten to the Gore),” and “Oxidised Razor Masticator” showcase a band pushing extremity to grotesque new limits. More than a debut, this is a cultural artifact: the birth of a subgenre, an early cornerstone of British extreme metal, and an essential document of a group whose influence continues to reverberate through grindcore and death metal today.

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