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Dec 4, 2013This is the metal album of 2013, and proof that Carcass still hold the tools of the trade to show all and sundry how to write a winning (“comeback”) album.
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Dec 4, 2013It doesn’t resort to chest-beating nor does it attempt to dilute its primal metal urges. It simply cuts through.
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Dec 4, 2013[Carcass offers] up an 11-track tour de force that's as visceral, inventive, and grotesque as Symphonies of Sickness, yet infused with the dense, machine-shop precision and chrome veneer of 21st century metalcore.
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Kerrang!Dec 4, 2013Metal may have become more extreme in Carcass' absence, but they still take 90 percent of the pack to (medical) school. [7 Sep 2013, p.51]
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Dec 4, 2013Surgical Steel is both muscular and accessible enough to appeal to metal fans of almost all stripes.
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Dec 4, 2013As a whole, though, Surgical Steel succeeds brilliantly in its return-to-form mission.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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