FROM THE CRYPTS - CELEBRATING PAST ALBUM RELEASES in the HISTORY of HARD ROCK & HEAVY METAL…
On November 6, 2012, Macabre Medical Masters General Surgery hacked off 5 brand tracks and presented them under the title Like An Ever Flying Limb via Relapse Records on a 7" slab of orange vinyl! This bonesaw of an EP is at 45 RPM.
Tracklist:
Side A:
1. Like An Ever Flying Limb
2. Ejected Viscous Mucus
3. Seizures
Side B:
4. Rhythmic Epidermal Clamor
5. Dark Cyanotic Hypostasis
Critical Reception:
In his review for Decibel Magazine, Christopher Dick wrote;
“The quote, “This is a good place to start where we left off”, seems appropriate for death metal outfit General Surgery. The first new material since 2009’s Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism effort, Like An Ever Flying Limb—yes, that’s a nod to Hall of Famers Dismember—follows in the gory, early Carcass-like footsteps of General Surgery’s previous output, and there’s little to complain about.
Sure, we are still stump deep in the group’s recent “binders full of death metal and goregrind” in the shape of A Collection of Deprivation, but new material from the Swedes is always welcome, especially considering they’re not the most prolific outfit to come out of land of ice and snus. So, with five tracks spanning a total of 11 blood-splattering minutes Like An Ever Flying Limb is naturally comfy on an old-school gatefold 7″ davenport (1000 copies on orange; 100 on clear) not housed on some silly polycarbonate plastic disc. Sorry, CD folks. Unless Relapse Records is fucking with us, which is entirely possible given their history of chicanery.
About General Surgery:
General Surgery is a Swedish Gore-Grind group known by some as one of the earliest Carcass clones. Their 1991 debut Necrology was released by Relapse Records and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass tribute album, Requiems of Revulsion. However, in 2003, General Surgery reformed and released a split album with The County Medical Examiners and have since released a collection of demos, two split 7-inchs, a 2005 demo, a split album with Butcher ABC, and two full-length albums.
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