The band Carcass was formed in 1985 in England. You have to give its members credit—they’re talented, very talented indeed. Few bands can boast of having pioneered a musical style. The English band, however, can lay claim to the origins of at least three genres of extreme music: grindcore, goregrind, and melodic death metal. Their creativity and pioneering spirit are truly astonishing.

Despite this, Carcass disbanded in 1996… only to reunite and celebrate with a titanic comeback at Wacken 2008! Since that reunion, no extreme metal album has been as eagerly anticipated as *Surgical Steel*—their first album in seventeen years, released in 2013. It was a massive hit, followed by *Torn Arteries* in 2021.