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Carcass - The Complete Pathologist's Report

The ultimate collection - 95%

AbitovslothReborn, September 14th, 2012

I will be reviewing the whole box set in its entirety such as the albums, the box and bonus content.

Let me start off with the box, nothing too special about just a flimsy box made of cardboard. but it's not about the "box", however it would be nice if just a little more effort was put into it. The meat and potatoes of this set is the beautifully remastered 5 digipack albums, and boy do they fold out, pretty massive if you ask me. These remasters are probably some of the best I have ever seen, right off the bat you can tell a lot of effort was put into these and not some cheap rehash. Inside you get a no booklets, which is a small bummer but not anything that ruins this. You do get all the the lyrics and credits printed inside the digipacks, which to me isn't the best way to do it. As for the artwork it is all original, except Symphonies of Sickness...which the censored cover is used for reasons I don't quite understand. However the original gore cover can be seen inside the album packaging, but isn't really visible.

The remastering work is pretty good, very well done and not overproduced. The sound on the albums is pretty clear, but for Reek of Putrefacation...that album suffers from terrible production that I just cannot get over and I don't think any remastering job could ever save it or make it better, however I'm not a big fan of this album to begin with.

As for the bonus material, well I had little interest in but I did listen to them such as demo version of Symphonies of Sickness which is a smaller version of the final product with not so great production. As for the Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment demo...well it's production is just as worse as Reek if not more. The pre-production version of Heartwork is decent but not really a must listen and will not spend much time in your player. As for Tools Of The Trade, it is fairly decent but again not a must listen. The documentary was very cool, shows some early photos and videos of the band from humble beginnings to what they became. Also the interviews are nicely done, you get to hear from all the main members of Carcass as they share their experiences and how it was like in the band.

So all in all this is a very awesome collection for any Carcass fan or a newbie who doesn't own anything from the band. In that case, this is a good way to start. You get all 5 albums, along with some cool extras in a simple and nicely put together boxed set. And for the price..I payed around $60, so that is a very fair to me, totally worth it for what you are getting.