Heartwork

For another album, see Heartwork (The Used album). For the Butch Walker EP, see Heartwork (EP).

Heartwork
Cover art by H. R. Giger[1]
Studio album by
Carcass
Released18 October 1993 (1993-10-18) (Europe) 11 January 1994 (1994-01-11) (US)
Recorded18 May 1993 (1993-05-18) – 21 June 1993 (1993-06-21)
StudioParr Street Studios
GenreMelodic death metal[2]
Length41:55
Label
ProducerColin Richardson
Carcass chronology
Tools of the Trade
(1992) 		Heartwork
(1993) 		Swansong
(1996)
Singles from Heartwork
  1. "Heartwork"
    Released: 1994[7]

Heartwork is the fourth studio album by English extreme metal band Carcass. The album was released in the UK by Earache Records on 18 October 1993,[4] and in the United States on 11 January 1994 by Columbia Records, making it the band's only major label release.[8] Heartwork has been described as the band's "breakthrough" and "mid-period masterpiece", as well as a landmark album in melodic death metal.[9][10] The album was recorded at Parr Street Studios, Liverpool from 18 May – 21 June 1993.

The sculpture depicted in the cover art, "Life Support 1993," was designed by H. R. Giger,[1] and is an update of a sculpture he created in the late 1960s. The video for the title track features a real-life interpretation of the sculpture, including a human welded as a part of it.[original research?] The album was reissued as a Dualdisc on 2 June 2008.

Until 2021's Torn Arteries, this was the only Carcass album to have the same lineup as the previous album. Guitarist Michael Amott left the band after the recording of the album before founding Spiritual Beggars, and was temporarily replaced by Mike Hickey. In The Pathologist's Report, Bill Steer says Heartwork is his favourite Carcass album.[11]

  1. ^ a b Giger, H. R. "Album Covers". HRgiger.com. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  2. ^ Bowar, Chad. "Carcass". About.com. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  3. ^ "Carcass – Heartwork – Reviews – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives".
  4. ^ a b "Carcass – Heartwork (1993, CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Carcass – Heartwork – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives".
  6. ^ "Carcass – Heartwork – Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives".
  7. ^ "Carcass 'Heartwork E.P.'". Earache.com. Nottingham. Archived from the original on 18 December 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  8. ^ "Carcass – Heartwork (1994, CD)". Discogs. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
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  11. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "The Pathologist's Report Part 4" – via YouTube.