rial in the bubble. Which wasn't hard
because none of us are particularly
interested in what's happening at the
moment. So the goal was really to do
music that was true to our vision to
what Carcass is.
IE: I really enjoyed how the band was
always progressing and getting more
musical with each release. Can you
actually pinpoint the time when this
musical awareness really took place?
BS: I think you can find these elements going back as early as the second album, Symphonies of Sickness
(1989), but it's really the third album,
Necrotism (1991), when we started to
get ambitious. We were trying all
kinds of different things. Very weird,
IE: There are two new members in the
band. How did you find them, and
how long before they understood what
Carcass is all about?
BS: Well, Dan Wilding we found ini-
May 6
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Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain
Eno / Hyde - Someday World
Liam Finn - The Nihilist
The Horrors - Luminous
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
Maxïmo Park - Too Much Information
Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant
Santana - Corazón
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technical stuff, technical compared to
our abilities at that time. There is
some stuff that is actually quite sweet
and melodic. So tackling those things
at that age, it wasn't easy for us, but
we stretched our abilities to absolute
limits. So when we were ready to do
Heartwork (1993), we had the experience and something to draw out of,
and we were just better equipped to
do what we did.
tially playing for one of our support
bands on our first US tour when we
reunited. He was playing drums in a
band called Aborted from Belgium. I
loved his drumming; I was very
impressed and then I found out that he
was actually British. He was recommended to us if we ever needed a
drummer down the line, and then
nature took its course, and he's with us
now. There was no other contender in
my mind, I mean there were great
drummers that were being pushed at
us, and they're all monster players, but
Dan is just the right guy for Carcass.
Ben Ash came into the picture further
down the line. We'd already completed the album, but it was a similar scenario in one way. Again there were
plenty of names being forwarded to us
as possible guitarists, but ultimately,
he was the only person we were taking
IE: When the decision was made to
write a new album, what was your
guiding light? Was it to maintain that
Carcass purity? Stay relevant, or was
it the combination of both?
BS: Definitely not to be relevant. That
would just scramble my brain if I
attempted to be relevant in today's
metal world. We consciously shut it
all out, and we had to write this mate-
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May 20
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The Roots - …and then you shoot your cousin
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Mindi Abair - Wild Heart
Neil Young - A Letter Home
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