''Dark Recollections'' is the only studio album by Swedish

death metal Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...

band Carnage, released in 1990 by

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. It was originally released as a split CD with

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's debut album ''

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'' by Earache Records sublabel Necrosis. Some of the songs were later re-recorded by Dismember. ''Dark Recollections'' is the only album released by Carnage; the band had broken up by the time the album hit the streets. It was later reissued by Earache Records with eight additional tracks, taken from the demos for ''The Day Man Lost'' and ''Infestation of Evil''. "Deranged From Blood", "Death Evocation", "Blasphemies Of The Flesh" and "Self Dissection" previously appeared on Dismember demos circa 1988–1989, before Fred Estby and David Blomqvist joined Carnage. Dismember also officially recorded "Death Evocation" (a bonus track on reissues of ''

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'') and "Torn Apart" (on the ''

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'' EP).

Track listing

*All songs written by Carnage.

Personnel

Original release

Matti Kärki Matti Kärki, (born 13 December 1972) is a Sweden, Swedish singer who is best known for his work with Dismember (band), Dismember. Before he joined Dismember in 1991, he was the singer in the Swedish band Carnage (band), Carnage (1989-1990). The ...

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Michael Amott Michael Amott (born 28 July 1969) is a Swedish guitarist, founding member of the metal bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars and Carnage (band), Carnage, as well as a former member of Carcass (band), Carcass. He is the older brother of Christoph ...

– guitar, bass (on original version of the album) * David Blomqvist – guitar * Johnny Dordevic – bass (credited but did not play on the album) *

Fred Estby Fred Estby (born 14 March 1972) is a Swedish musician. He is best known as the drummer and main songwriter of the Swedish death metal band Dismember. Before he played drums in the band Carnage. Estby appeared in various other projects includin ...

– drums (also on bonus tracks 17 and 18)

Bonus tracks

*Johan Axelsson: Vocals (tracks 11-18), bass (tracks 11-16) *Fred Blomkvist: Guitars *Michael Amott: Guitars *Johnny Dordevic: Bass (on tracks 17-18) *Jeppe Larsen: Drums (on tracks 11-16)

Production

*Produced by Carnage and Tomas Skogsberg *Recording and Mix Engineer: Tomas Skogsberg *

Dan Seagrave Daniel Seagrave (born 1970) is an English-born visual artist who created many album covers for death metal bands, especially in the early 1990s. His works are typically highly detailed. Seagrave grew up in Ravenshead near Nottingham and now liv ...

– Cover artwork

References

{{Authority control 1990 debut albums Carnage (band) albums Albums with cover art by Dan Seagrave Earache Records albums