Cosa segue alla morte di una persona? Funerale, sepoltura e tanti saluti. 

Se questa domanda fosse però stata posta ai Carcass intorno al 1991 vi avrebbero probabilmente invitato ad ascoltare il loro più recente (all?epoca, eh) lavoro: Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious (in italiano, Il processo di morte - Discutendo il malsano).

Già, perché Necroticism è una sorta di concept album che, a differenza di altri concept album (tanto per citarne uno: Tommy, degli Who), non narra una storia, no, bensì ha un tema portante attorno al quale vengono costruite le canzoni. In quattro parole: come riutilizzare i morti...

Sconvolgente direte voi, ma per chi seguiva i Carcass sin dai tempi di Reek of Putrefaction e Symphonies of Sickness questo particolare non poteva destare tanto stupore, d'altronde i nostri ci avevano abituato a contenuti più scontati e splatter.

Necroticism è l'album che denota la prima svolta stilistica dei Carcass (la seconda si avrà col successivo Heartwork): si ha una maturazione dal punto di vista musicale, tralasciando quel Grind rumoroso e poco elaborato degli inizi, in più viene introdotto il chitarrista svedese Michael Amott, il cui apporto si rivelerà fondamentale per i Carcass.

L'album viene spesso (erroneamente) descritto come "il perfetto connubio tra Grind e Death metal" quando, a mio parere, non è affatto così: di Grind si avverte ben poco (ad esempio alcuni blast-beat in Inpropagation, uno dei pezzi più violenti dell'album); piuttosto l'album ci offre un Death metal molto tecnico che per le strutture delle canzoni potrebbe anche essere preso come Progressive.

Come dicevo prima, l'apporto di Michael Amott è fondamentale: i riff di chitarra sono più complessi e innovativi (vedi Pedigree Butchery), in alcune parti Amott e il collega Steer ci deliziano con dei fill intelligenti quanto inaspettati, mentre gli assoli diventano più "gustosi".

Per quanto riguarda gli altri strumenti c'è poco da dire: basso inconsistente, come sempre in questa musica, mentre il drummer Ken Owen, avendo capito che oltre a rullante, charleston e cassa c'è di più, dimostra di essere uno dei migliori batteristi sulla scena estrema.

L'album è caratterizzato da un suono superbo, la produzione è davvero ottima, così anche il contenuto: otto canzoni per una durata di quarantotto minuti in cui non vi annoierete facilmente.

Si passa dalla violenza dell'opener Inpropagation (in cui i poveri cadaveri diventano fertilizzante) a Corporal Jigsore Quandary (cadaveri = puzzle), uno dei brani più famosi della band, sorretto da un riff elementare quanto geniale. La successiva Symposium of Sickness, come dice il titolo, ha contenuti degni di Symphonies of Sickness. A seguire troviamo un altro dei pezzi forti dell'album: Pedigree Butchery (cadaveri = cibo per cani), in cui si fa notare un inaspettato riff pulito. Segue Incarnated Solvent Abuse (cadaveri = colla/solvente..), un altro dei pezzi più famosi. Arriviamo a Carneous Cacoffiny (cadaveri = componenti di strumenti musicali), seguita da Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition, sorretto da alcuni giri in palm muting eccezionali. A chiudere il tutto ci pensa Forensic Clinicism/The Sanguine Artiche, il brano più lungo dell'album, nonché uno dei più complessi, tra l'altro uno di quelli che non ho capito...

In conclusione posso dire che Necroticism è uno degli album più validi dei Carcass, forse gli tiene testa solo Heartwork.

Lo consiglio a chi già conosce alcune hits del quartetto di Liverpool (mica i Beatles, eh) e a chi cerca un Death che sappia fondere potenza con originalità.

 P.S.: notevole il fatto che quasi ogni canzone comincia con un frammento di discorso riguardante autopsie, obitori e via dicendo e che tutti gli assoli possiedono un nome (http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/carcass/necroticismdescantingtheinsalubrious.html#1).

Elenco tracce testi e samples

01   Inpropagation (07:09)

Insipid fumes bellow from the atrabilious chimney
Whilst in the sanctified crevet I calmly pillage and rake
For hot dry powdered human slag
Still steaming in the crematorium's grate

Bio-organic ebullition, bones tar, tallow dehydrates
For my deleterious horticulture so that I may cultivate

Your mortal mechanism dies - in nutrients rich
In the hallowed turf you lie - just for the taking

Charred sinew's as good as lime, no phosphates do I need
Deteriorated flesh used as top-soil, to replenish and nourish seed
Spreading this human potash, as ash matured
Recycling my rich harvest, bring out your dead...for use as manure...

Irrigating tears are shed, but the ground still must be fed

Tipping and dusting up the spilt contents of urns
Every morsel that glows like ember on the fire
Extinguishing all hope of beatrific dispatch
These charred chassis desired

Exequiet rites now performed, a coronach sooting up the flu
Enter my execrable inferno, even in the after-life there's work to do

The nitrogen content's high - but the flesh is weak
At the graveside mourners cry - you're never to wake again

Burnt brisket renews the ground, to germinate my seed
Cremated bodies are my spoil, to use them as plant-feed
Ploughing this abhorrent human manure
Seeding my rich harvest, bring out your dead...for the soils to devour...

Dry the dead are bled, because the ground must be fed
And there's still no rest for the dead

I propagate - dust in the grate
Ashes to ashes - dust to dust, diluted in water and sprayed on crops
Charcoal, fats, flesh and soot fertilising pasture with active fertile rot

Incumbent - latent calories are spent

Ashes to ashes - dust to dust renewing the land with corpses corrupt
Mortuary scrapings, hearses a must, to the hot hearth the deceased are trussed

Harvesting the defouled, to fertilize my soil
Rejuvenating the spent with my fecundate spoils...

Reaping the gone, to nourish the land
Replenishing exhausted pasture with my uncanny sleight of hand
Restoring the unnatural balance, sowing my seed
Defalcating the departed, I rapt and glean...

So I recite my contrite lament, lacrimation for the dead
Their rest which I disturb...
Where should stand row upon row of cold grey remembrance stones
My cash crops now grow...

02   Corporal Jigsore Quandary (05:50)

Excised and anatomised
Deviscerated disarray
The torso diverged with pride
Deftly amputated
Evulsed limbs now defunct
The trunk imbrued
Tatty stumps used as lugs
For a chondrin puzzle so quaint
Head and body decollate
A heaving mass so quiescent

Scattered and scrambled
Your teasement grows
A bloody caricature to make whole
A squirming grisly jigsaw
Detrital fragments fit so snug
That missing piece will
Leave you stumped
Totally disassembled
Nicely sliced and diced
A cold mannequin once resembled
Real cranium teaser
Carved from flesh and bone
So mystifying

Battered and diffused
With placating blows
A human jigsaw to make whole
A sequacious pattern
Which once fitted so snug
Joining together each dubious lump
Ravaged disassembly
Neatly cubed and diced
A cold mannequin reassembled
Astute brain teaser
Incorporate flesh and bone
So mortifying

An incessant game
Methodically made
With each cumulative piecing
Of commensated meat

Bi-manual reconstruction
Eldritch problem complete
A convened effigy
A pathological toy
Each chunk rigorously
Inter mortis locking
As you pathogenically rot
Such a perplexing task
To fit the remains in a casket
Uliginous mess so quiescent

-Solos-

An incessant game
Methodically made
With each cumulative piece
Of commensated meat

03   Symposium of Sickness (06:58)

An encloaking, dark epoch
In which all life is now appraised
Another valueless commodity
On which the paracious may feebly graze
Indebted homage to their mammon
Whilst the mort is the music of the meek
Transcendence from a beatifully brutal reality
Is what I seek...

Noxious, sully dolour
Is not the sentiment upon which we feed
But precocious consciousness
Draws out a morbid nous to bleed
Chiselling out seething words
Which cut deep down to the bone
Always legible
So be it on our own headstone...

Rising to out own nadir
Reality we try to extirpate
Trying to raise a twisted smile
Similar to that silver plate
On a coffin which is joined
Hammering in each final nail
Last kill and testament
Left now intestate...

Noxious, sully dolour
Is not the thesis which is bled
A precarious train of thought
In which mental cattle-trucks are led
Carving out skilful words
Which shear brittle bones
Always spelt out well
We just can't leave the dead alone...

Monographic text
A terminal doctrine of diseased minds perplexed
Enunciated epigrams
Eschatological, rotten requiems

Always our own worst cynics
Exorcisers of scorching scorn
Digging our own graves
But never stand over and mourn
The roulade now pandemonium
Displaced in the muggy sods
Espoused with the macabre
The dead we filch and rob...

...Munificant bale...
...From the deviants staid...

Execrations - taunting spiritual release
Exoneration - upon the perishable we feast
Excogitation - picking at the bones of convention
Exculpitation - foul verbal conflagration...

Epigraphic text, a literary vex
The macabre perplexed, with corporeality meshed

Euthenic text
An unpleasant journey, to a world perplexed
Corporeal epigraphs
Eschatological unpleasantness

Always forever cryptic
Exercisers of twisted grief
Helping you to dig up the interred
Whilst fresh still are the wreaths
The harmony now pandemonium
Heard out in the muddy dirt
Espoused with the bizzare
We play on our own turf...

...Epithetic text...
...A macabre rality perplexed...

Execrations - literary tales of atrocities fairy
Exoneration - harsh, cold bloody marys
Excogitation - a narcissistic eutechnique
Exculpitation - perverse artworks, so unique...

Monographic text, a literary vex
The macabre perplexed, with reality meshed...

04   Pedigree Butchery (05:18)

In caustic butchery
I parent my dominion
In the food chain
I create the missing link
Cold temerity confects
This splintered for age
Infantile corruption
Taken to the brink

Making hash of the
Spumous crubescent
All natural compassion removed
The newly fully developed
Boiled as sprouted fodder
Martilinear murder
Cordon bleu

As salubrious pet food
Human midden is consumed

Not one to mince my words
But now I love to see
Those siblings churned
In tins they are reared

Ghastly I slake
Bestial appetites to sate
As flesh and steel I mate
To fill the lower species' plate

Desparental
Primparal goods oozing
The bawling, squabbling
Denied the suckling teat
Sentient bloodletting
Sprains the sporulate
Makes a choice chimerical treat

Rheological
Twisted nursery chymes
The fluxing of the defleshed
Paedophilosophical
Carnage knowledge
As the illegitimeat to
The domesticated is fed

So as you breed
They will bleed

Contumely calorie count
Ebullient death toll mounts
Higher and higher

-Solos-

Despumation the midden
The desipient I segment
Pertaining vitality
Their dispatch I cement
Served out for minion
In their feeding trough

05   Incarnated Solvent Abuse (05:02)

"If visible identification
Is not possible, the
Pathologist may be able
To take fingerprints from
The body. If decay has set
in,things become more
complicated..."

Intenacious
Intersecting
Reaving fats from
Corporal griskin
Culled for sodden
Gelatine brayed
Skeletal groats
Triturated
Desinently
Exsiccated
Sere glutenate brewed
For frivolous solvent abuse

Derogate coarse remains
For glue to dry
Despoiled marrow razed

A truculent shamble
So severe

Extravated bone
As adhesive incarnate
A pellucid quietus
Nocuously I create

Corporal glue
Breathe in the fumes
Mucilage vapours
Toxic fumes to savour

-Solo-

Comminuted remains
A gum to dry
A lissom gel so glazed

A truculent shambolic affair

The exsanguine esprit
Shorted as snuff
Rheumic oils forever
Bonded together as gum

Human glue
Choke on the fumes
Noxious vapours
Slaughterous labour

-Solo-

06   Carneous Cacoffiny (06:45)

Striking up my discordant underture
A carnal cacophony perversely penned
Transposed...and decomposed
On strings fashioned from human twine
Lovingly wound and fretted upon my bow
Garishly incarcerated...the dead resonate
In a final death-throe

Vibrant as I thresh...
Movements scripted for the dead...

Orchestral horrors I vehemently conduct
My corpus concertos cordial
Disinterred... and detuned
With six feet below
In harmony with the deceased
My inspiration...your disintegration
For my latest masterpiece

My scope creeps your flesh...
Notes seep from sinewy frets...

But don't hold your breath
As you wait for your god or the void
Or the abyss of nothingness
Your usefulness isn't through
Your productivity I resume...

My sorbid, soiled handicrafts
Will be your afterlife's handicap....

...My corrupt crescendos...
...Will leave you out on a limbo...
...Your disposition I unleash...
...You will rest in my piece...

With deadly dynamics
You're dead, buried and barred
Your remains dampened and fingered
Your mortal coil is barbed
The death-bells are peeling
Ringing out as you flake
Shrieking out their recitals
A celebration of your wake...

Enter my funereality
My world two metres under
A curious habitat
Your muddy trench I plunder
Pass on to ethereality
Churned out under the sextant's blade
You live your life in wretchedness
And death is no escape...

07   Lavaging Expectorate of Lysergide Composition (04:05)

Officinal - immiscible compounds are mixed,
A gagging expectorate, of lysergic acids,
Premensely emerced, consciousness slowly sips,
Peculated, in an ebriat(i?)ng narcocis...

...Cataleptic,
Imbibe...neurotripsick...

Neurally numbed, a narcosis so trans-lucid,
So pernicious, halluciagenics,
Procreating, ocular contorting,
Your idiosyncrassy, is now expropriated...

...Extirpation,
Mind...termination...

08   Forensic Clinicism / The Sanguine Article (07:10)

Salutiferous exaltation, through fusty spatterings I sift,
Cauterizing proud flesh, pyogenic cortex I just yearn to rip,
With impalpable, cathartic tools, dilapidated lusts I gratify,
Cold premediated surgery, in my calculated surgery I hold your fragile life...

Pultacious...
Pugnacious...
Pernicious...
Acro-idiopathic...

Artificially concussed, excavating to your gastric core,
Patulous, deep wounds, cascading and crimson as I explore,
Master at my bloody art, I like to carve sculpture and maim,
Mounted on the freezer's geurney, you're exhibited until you enter into decay...

Pultacious...
Pugnacious...
Delicious...
Gastric-idiopathology...

Welcome to my theatre, the stage upon which I act,
Turning into a sumptuous perfomance, heiniously I hew and gash,
Churning out a deep gulch, the incision a major nick,
A quick toke of nitrous oxide is how I get my kicks...

Expurgating healthy tissue, opulent flesh I slit,
Costate cuts expunged as the patient I now fillet,
Malpractising and mussing, carnage hyperventilates,
Self placebonic, the only is operate...

The recumbent are my prey - under my genital blade,
Your precordium I brutally plunder - whilst you're put under

Exanguinating - you're totally parched,
Exenterating - removing body parts,
Wholly abraded - Surgically maimed,
Decortication - Medically slain

Contaminating, infacting, how I love to cough and sneeze,
On the carneous culture, to cause bacteria to breed,
Anaesthetised, paralysed, a clinical stupor is induced,
With callous dexterity your bodily mass is reduced...

I extract the gullet - to end up in my bucket,
A quick flick of my wrist - and I'll be struck off the list

Exanguinating - straigh from the heart,
Exenterating - with my lancet so sharp,
Anatomically - my surgery maims,
Decortication - by the clinically deranged

Gross misconduct, I make the choicest cuts,
Text book stabs, written on your tag...

Wheeled away after a medical mishap,
In a polythene bag your body is now wrapped...
The acute wound now sealed up,
The picture of ill-health, you're a bit cut up...

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Altre recensioni

Di  Frank G

 Non si può restare indifferenti alla grandezza di pezzi come Corporal Jigsore Quandary e Pedigree Butchery.

 Non tutti sanno che i membri della band studiarono proprio in questo campo per poi laurearsi come chirurghi! Mitico, una Death Metal Band con futuri chirurghi!