General Surgery is a Swedish

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group known as one of the earliest

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clones. Their 1991 debut ''

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'' was released by

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and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass

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, ''Requiems of Revulsion''. However, in 2003, General Surgery reformed and released a

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with The County Medical Examiners and have since released a collection of demos, two split 7-inches, a 2005 demo, a split album with Butcher ABC, and two full-length albums.

Members

Current members

*Joacim Carlsson – guitar (1989–1990, 2007–present) *Andreas "Adde" Mitroulis – drums, vocals (2002–present) *Andreas Eriksson – bass, vocals (2002–2004, 2007–present) *Erik Sahlström – vocals (2007–present) *Urban "Ubbe" Skytt – guitar (2015–present)

Former members

*Jonas Derouche – guitar (1988–1989) *Grant McWilliams – bass, vocals (1988–1989, 1990) *

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– vocals (1988–1990, 1999–2002) *

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– bass, drums, vocals (1988–1990) *Mats Nordrup – drums (1988–1990) * Anders Jakobson – drums (1999–2000) *Erik Thyselius – drums (2000–2001) *Chris Barkensjö – drums (2001–2002) *Glenn Sykes – bass (2004–2006) *Johan Wallin – guitar, vocals (2006–2011) *Tobias Sillman – guitar (2012–2015)

Timeline

Discography

Full length albums

*2006 - '' Left Hand Pathology'' (

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) *2009 - '' Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism'' (

)

EPs

*1991 - ''

'' (

) *2012 - '' Like an Ever Flying Limb'' (

) *2021 - ''Lay Down and Be Counted'' (Self-released)

Demos

*1990 - ''Errosive Offals'' *1990 - ''Pestisferous Anthropophagia'' *1990 - ''Internecine Prurience'' *2005 - ''Demo 2005''

Split albums

*2003 - ''General Surgery/ The County Medical Examiners'' (Razorback Records) *2003 - ''Relapse Singles Series Vol. 2'' (

) *2004 - ''General Surgery/Filth'' (Bones Brigade Records) *2004 - ''General Surgery/ Machetazo'' (Escorbuto Recordings/Goryfied Productions) *2009 - ''General Surgery/Butcher ABC'' (Obliteration Records/Living Dead Society)

Compilation albums

*2001 - ''Requiems of Revulsion'' ( Necropolis Records) *2004 - ''Demos'' (Nuclear Abominations Records) *2012 - ''A Collection of Depravation'' (

)

References

External links

Official General Surgery websiteGeneral Surgery
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