CARCASS

Carcass are a British extreme metal band from Liverpool, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1995. The band reformed in 2007 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, due to health reasons. Carcass are regarded as pioneers of the grindcore genre. Their early work was also tagged as splatter death metal, hardgore, and goregrind; on account of their morbid lyrics and gruesome album covers. They also became one of the pioneers of melodic death metal with their 1993 album Heartwork.

The band is influenced by death metal and grindcore bands like Death, Repulsion, Master, Macabre, and other metal acts such as Slayer, King Diamond, Wargasm and Diamond Head. Otrebor of black metal band Botanist cites Carcass' use of medical dictionary terms in lyrics and song titles as a precedent for its lyrics and song titles from plant and insect dictionaries.

The band may be mentioned on the Friends episode "The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress" when a character mentions that her husband wants Carcass to play at their wedding. On the Elementary episode "Bella", the song "Captive Bolt Pistol" is played on a mixtape that supposedly also contains a computer virus.