TOOLS OF THE TRADE Carcass

TOOLS OF THE TRADE (Music: Steer, Amott) (Lyrics: Walker) Steel skin clips, Forceps, grooved awls, Retractors, needle, Gouges and saws, Intestinal clamps, Blunt disectors, Scalpels, pins

BLIND BLEEDING THE BLIND Carcass

BLIND BLEEDING THE BLIND (Music: Steer) (Lyrics: Walker) (Lick trade-off Amott/Steer/Amott/Steer) Parched with thirst our cup overfloweth With the crimson milk of human blindness In charnel

FORENSIC CLINICISM/THE SANGUINE ARTICLE Carcass

, With impalpable, cathartic tools dilapidated lusts I gratify, Cold premeditated surgery, in my calculated surgery I hold your fragile life...

Tools Of The Trade Grimfist

Fires rising from the dark Shadows whispers of the one Born undead in darkness These fairy tales they exist Cause you need them So we feed them to you Tools of the trade they are Tools of the trade Fire

Carcass Siouxsie And The Banshees

Someone's in cold storage Seeking Heinz main-courses Craving for a raw love He'll hide you from the cleaver He'll hang with you forever Longing for a fresh meat By hook or by crook You'll be first in his

Decedent Scarification Aesthetics General Surgery

Epidermal carnage Putrid convalescence Problematic healing Necrotic fabric fails Dermatome misuse Post mortem chemabrasion Electrolytic stimuli Reanimate the cells Wield the soldering iron With bold artistic

REEK OF PUTREFACTION Carcass

REEK OF PUTREFACTION Snorting the stench of latent effluvium And maturing damp fumes This foul menage forces tears to your eyes As the corpse's gas are exhumed...

EDGE OF DARKNESS Carcass

Holding as a mirror Condemning to repeat the past End time The realms of a setting sun Twilight A new age has begun Decline Decension to a new dark age Blank time An old world not quite so

SYMPOSIUM OF SICKNESS Carcass

SYMPOSIUM OF SICKNESS (Music: Owen) (Lyrics: Walker) An encloaking, dark epoch In which all life is now appraised Another valueless commodity On which the rapacious may feebly graze Indebted

PSYCHOPATHOLOGIST Carcass

PSYCHOPATHOLOGIST (Lyrics: Owen) Effervescing entrails corroding after years The stench of the canker brings me no tears Festering tumours of cancerous decay gnawed and chewed by maggots with

THIS IS YOUR LIFE Carcass

THIS IS YOUR LIFE (Music: Steer) (Lyrics: Walker) The spirit distilled, the soul is bought. The D.N.A. split, the virus is caught.

CARBONIZED EYESOCKETS Carcass

CARBONIZED EYESOCKETS The pungent aroma of hot, bubbling, molten gristle Blends with the stench of hot singeing flesh soldered to liquid muscle As the cornea is pierced and fried on the sizzling

REGURGITATION OF GIBLETS Carcass

REGURGITATION OF GIBLETS Coughing up a mixture Of mucus, phlegm and bile The sordid sight of burning flesh ...

CARNAL FORGE Carcass

CARNAL FORGE (Music: Steer/Amott) (Lyrics: Walker) Multifarious carnage Meretriciously internecine Sublime enmangling steelbath Of escheated atrocities Enigmatic longanimity of ruminent

RUPTURED IN PURULENCE Carcass

Maturating boils, the canker emmenagogic Grume decays to a frothing sludge Dermatital pustules suppurate with cancer Caustic sepsis coagulates the blood...

EVER INCREASING CIRCLES Carcass

EVER INCREASING CIRCLES (Music: Steer/Regadas) (Lyrics: Walker) Round and round we go, Like a merry-go-round out of control The same old tune, same old song Again, again, and again Round

EMBODIMENT Carcass

EMBODIMENT (Music: Amott/Steer) (Lyrics: Walker) I bow down before, your precious icon, deity of self suppression This effigy of flesh, corporeal christi, nailed In submission to this false

MALIGNANT DEFECATION Carcass

MALIGNANT DEFECATION Dried, rotten, flaking, rancid flesh Crumbling tissue - nothing left Cancerous, mouldy, septic infestation Smouldering decay of defecation Your bowels now play host to pestilent

THIS MORTAL COIL Carcass

THIS MORTAL COIL (Music: Steer/Amott) (Lyrics: Walker) Tearing down the walls Breaching frontiers, unlocking the gates To a new world order A fresh balance of terror, the equilibrium of hate

FIRMHAND Carcass

Lyrics: Walker) Firmhand, iron fist, an ardent dexterous weeding process Overlord with a strong grip, viral containment, a harvesting grid Firmhand - unnatural selection is applied Firmhand - the

SUPPURATION Carcass

SUPPURATION The rotting corpse lies on a mortuary slab Pus starts to burst from each visceral scab Body temperature drops, bone seizure takes place As the discharge oozes from boils on the face

PYOSISIFIED Carcass

PYOSISIFIED (ROTTEN TO THE GORE) (Music: Steer/Walker) (Lyrics: Walker/Steer) The lingering scirrhus begins to harden As the insides fall prey to Putrefaction Rotting tissue turns to mush and

CREPITATING BOWEL EROSION Carcass

CREPITATING BOWEL EROSION (Solo: intumescence of pulverised piles) Wart-encrusted sebaceous growths Pustulating, bleeding piles are what I boast Scabby and blistered pectoral skin flakes away

CADAVERIC INCUBATOR OF ENDO-PARASITES Carcass

CADAVERIC INCUBATOR OF ENDO-PARASITES The inset of rigor mortis, ulcerous corruption and decay Saponified fats lather as soap as you slowly eat yourself away...

FEAST ON DISMEMBERED CARNAGE Carcass

FEAST ON DISMEMBERED CARNAGE Bodies dismembered, corpses desecrated Carcasses liquidized and minced with hatred Brains are splattered, strewn limbs and heads Blood has been spurted as the arteries

EMPATHOLOGICAL NECROTICISM Carcass

Advanced rigor mortis, the corpse internally bruised Kaleidoscope livor mortis, the carcass a shade of livid blue Joints are stiffened, I now bend and crack The cerebrum pulped, with cranial collapse

KEEP ON ROTTING IN THE FREE WORLD Carcass

KEEP ON ROTTING IN THE FREE WORLD (Music: Walker) (Lyrics: Walker) The threads of global fabric are untied The role of the western free world is in decline Still free to consume, free to breathe

NO LOVE LOST Carcass

) (Lyrics: Walker) Sensual awakening Numbing feeling's dead Conception's romanticised Synthesized broken heart's to be bled Without emotion you heartstring's played Strummed and severed to the

DOCTRINAL EXPLETIVES Carcass

DOCTRINAL EXPLETIVES (Music: Steer, Amott) (Lyrics: Walker) A play on words, or words on play Last chapter, verse in the final act Words well scripted, each sentence choking Inaudible gag,

R**K THE VOTE Carcass

R**K THE VOTE (Music: Walker) (Lyrics: Walker) Hands in another's pocket The bed they make Is not the one in which they lie The same old faces The same old establishment The same old lies

BLACK STAR Carcass

BLACK STAR (Music: Regadas) (Lyrics: Walker) Black star, jewel of the night Black star, burning bright Magnificent sun, a beacon burning Five pointed coal, a guide eternal Black star, five

BURIED DREAMS Carcass

BURIED DREAMS (Music: Steer) (Lyrics: Walker) Welcome, it's a world of hate Your life of buried dreams Smothered, by the soils of fate Welcome, to a world of pain Bitterness your only wealth

INPROPAGATION Carcass

Steer) Tipping and dusting up the spilt contents of urns Every morsel that glows as embers on the fire Extinguishing all hope of beatrific dispatch These charred chassis desired Exequiet rites

MANIFESTATION OF VERRUCOSE URETHRA Carcass

MANIFESTATION OF VERRUCOSE URETHRA Bloody hypertrophy of papillae urethritis like urticaria Septicemia filled dermis scorched by acidic uric nocturia Verrucose urethra Glutinous condyloma

SWARMING VULGAR MASS OF INFECTED VIRULENCY Carcass

SWARMING VULGAR MASS OF INFECTED VIRULENCY Festering scabs, papillae and pores Hardened carbuncles, spots and cold sores...

TOMORROW BELONGS TO NOBODY Carcass

TOMORROW BELONGS TO NOBODY (Music: Steer) (Lyrics: Walker) Your kingdom is of emptiness Invisible empire of illusion There's no majesty in your empty words Your ideology - self delusion Revisionism

PEDIGREE BUTCHERY Carcass

Steer) (lead: Prepared on the slab by M.

EXCORIATING ABDOMINAL EMANATION Carcass

I grope in the grime, the evaporated motions slush Pulverising your gut, in my rubber boots and gloves Your nates purple and raw, brillo pads scour and cleanse Sticking plasters on abrased organs, to

BLOOD SPATTERED BANNER Carcass

Burn like your passion, The passion of the damned Can you still hear Dixie? Ignorance is your strength A raped stolen land stands so proud Can you still hear Dixie scream out loud?

FERMENTING INNARDS Carcass

FERMENTING INNARDS Your pulverised torso languishes in its pool of pus Minced, cancerous viscera - gore seeps from the guts My fetid fetish is to excavate the moulding rot I drool my gastric juices

CARNEOUS CACOFFINY Carcass

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

OXIDISED RAZOR MASTICATOR Carcass

incisored skin is shed Scraping on sore teeth, cracking and chipping Shredding and mincing raw nerve endings Salivation - sanguis, phlegm, froth and foam Mastication - your mandible stripped to the

FOETICIDE Carcass

FOETICIDE Plugged into the socket Leads attached to twitching skin Ignite the squirming foetus To dissolve it from within The uterus aspirated...foeticide Suction catheter eradicating...your

PUNGENT EXCRUCIATION Carcass

PUNGENT EXCRUCIATION Sanguinary disinterment Necrobiotic rash Gnawing, throbbing anguish The gullet is now mashed Pungent excruciation Flesh mummified by lice Amputated contusion Help yourself

HEARTWORK Carcass

HEARTWORK (Music: Steer/Amott) (Lyrics: Walker) (Lead - Steer) Works of art, painted black Magniloquent, bleeding dark Monotonous palate, murky spectrum, grimly unlimited Food for thought

Icepick Lobotomy Cannibal Corpse

Ominous nefarious completely insane Doctor Butcher and his dungeon of death Unorthodox therapies performed on the brain Prolific practitioner of pain Laying out the tools of his trade Psychosurgery Scalpel

CORPOREAL JIGSORE QUANDARY Carcass

CORPOREAL JIGSORE QUANDARY (Music: Steer/Owen/Amott) (Lyrics: Walker) Excised and anatomised, deviscerated disarray The torso diverged with pride Deftly amputated, evulsed limbs now defunct

EMOTIONAL FLATLINE Carcass

EMOTIONAL FLATLINE (Music: Steer) (Lyrics: Walker) An emotional void, a cold empty shell Embittered husk, a heart of darkness Trace weak pulse, vascular eclipse Numbed and sapped, emotional

ARBEIT MACHT FLEISCH Carcass

ARBEIT MACHT FLEISCH (Music: Steer) (Lyrics: Walker) Prognathous gears grind So diligent and serrated they mesh Toothed cogs churn So trechant, against soft flesh Worked to the bone Up to

EMBRYONIC NECROPSY AND DEVOURMENT Carcass

Flowing lochial discharge Of copious womb lining torn The mutilated still-born mangled By the whiplashing umbilical cord...