GENERAL SURGERY:  Re-Sign To Relapse Records; Announce Singles Collection

Relapse Records is extremely proud to announce the official re-signing of Swedish goregrind legends GENERAL SURGERY!  Originally formed in 1988, GENERAL SURGERY (Joacim Carlsson – guitar, Andreas Eriksson – bass, Andreas Mitroulis – drums, Erik Sahlström – lead vocals) released the seminal Necrology EP via Relapse in 1991 before going on a long hiatus until 2002.  The band released numerous splits, EPs, and two full-length albums since then and will be coming back in a blood-soaked rage in 2012!

A Collection of Depravation, a compilation of 30 GENERAL SURGERY choice cuts will see its official release via Relapse on March 27^th and is available for pre-order here.  The collection was digitally remastered by Pig Destroyer’s Scott Hull and contains a 24 page booklet with extensive liner notes from the band.

Additionally, the band will be releasing a new 7” EP and recording their highly anticipated 3^rd full-length album in the near future.  Dr. Carlsson commented on the signing and upcoming releases:

“We are honored to announce that we will once again be working with the label that started us off (and in a way, we helped get off to a good start too back in 1990). Things are indeed coming full circle as we enter another phase of our gristle spattered career.

The seeds for this collaboration were sown during the process of re-releasing the Necrology EP last year, where both parties felt that further co-operation would be just the right thing for the future.

Coming up immediately is our new 30-track collection CD, ”A Collection of Depravation”, brimming with old putrefying cuts from our earlier split releases.

Following that will be a 5-track 7″ EP entitled ”Like An Ever Flying Limb”, recorded during fall 2011 at Audiohammer (Swe) studio.  As if that wasn’t enough, there will be a 3rd full length album to look forward to in the not so distant future.

Join us in the celebration of blood soaked shenanigans that is 2012 – GS and Relapse will bring you nothing but the best as usual!

Thank you all and we’ll see you in the morgue.”

GENERAL SURGERY are available for interviews upon request.  To get in touch with the band, simply contact bob@relapse.com.  Stay tuned to www.RELAPSE.com and the official GENERAL SURGERY website and Facebook page for the latest GENERAL SURGERY information.

Contains the out-of-print splits with The County Medical Examiners, Filth, Machetazo, along with plenty of unreleased material from the Left Hand Pathology sessions, the Butcher ABC split sessions and the Corpus In Extremis sessions. To top it off, we’ve added the Carcass cover we recorded back in 2001 as a bonus track.
30 oozing cuts in all, plus a 24 page booklet with extensive liner notes. Also, all songs have been remastered by Scott Hull from Pig Destroyer for maximum audio fidelity.

Track list:

1. Pre-Bisectal Corrosive Immersion
2. Lab Rat
3. Mortuary Wars
4. Cauterization Frenzy
5. Reception of Cadavers
6. Decomposer
7. Convivial Corpse Disposal Methodology
8. Foetal Mush (Xysma cover)
9. Unruly Dissection Marathon
10. Scalpel Infestation
11. Fully-Mechanized Corpse Thresher
12. The League of Extraordinary Grave Robbers
13. Necrodecontamination
14. Forensic Farce
15. Viva! Blunt Force Trauma
16. Cold Storage Fever
18. Autopsy Induced Amnesia
19. The Day Man Lost (Carnage cover)
20. Deadhouse
21. Decedent Scarification Aesthetics
22. Idle Teratoma Core
23. Restrained Remains
24. Maggots In Your Coffin (Repulsion cover)
25. Carbonic Residue Conversion
26. Nephroblastoma
27. Excessive Corpus Delicti
28. Pre-Bisectal Corrosive Immersion (2008)
29. Lab Rat (2008)
30. Empathological Necroticism (Carcass cover)
”A Collection Of Depravation assembles all of legendary Swedish goregrind outfit General Surgery’s out of print singles, vinyl only eps, comp appearances and a few unheard demos into one filthy CD collection. Spanning close to two decade’s worth of material A Collection Of Depravation is a headbanging gallop sure to satisfy the most bloodthirsty goregrind fanatics.”

Pre-order it from the Relapse web store.

”Due to increasing personal commitments and lack of time I am unfortunately forced to leave the team of surgeons. I´d like to wish my past fellow medicals all the best for the future, and thank them for these 8 years of unruly scalpel marathon, as well as send out a big cheers to all the fans, promotors who booked us and bands we played with during these years.
/Dr Wallin”

The rest of the surgery team are of course sorry to see Dr Wallin leave our ranks and wish him all the best for the future. We sure had a good run and Dr Wallin’s contribution will not be forgotten.

Right now we are in the process of finishing up our collection of old split releases to come out on CD for the first time. More info on the release date and the label releasing it as soon as we get word.

We have also recorded five new songs during the fall which will be released as a 7″ on said label at some point during the new year. In other news, song writing for the 3rd full length album has commenced.

To sum it up, lots of new product coming out from us in 2012 and for now we will be continuing as a 4 piece unit writing a new album. Sickly splattering sounds will be coming your way in 2012 – the gore won’t stop!

Slicingly yours
//The Surgeons

Date: 2011-12-10
Where: Backstage Live, San Antonio, Texas
Info: http://www.facebook.com/RITESOFDARKNESS

Since it’s a last minute booking, unfortunately that means that Dr Wallin must sit out the show. So this will be a rare occasion to see us performing as a quartet, no less gory though.

Expect a Necrology-heavy set from yours truly plus maybe a some new treats. We’ll see what happens.

Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=231729523531512

Tickets: https://event.webbiljett.se/kulturhuset/step/chooseSeatU.aspx?seId=1883

”For Immediate Release

GENERAL SURGERY: ‘Necrology’ To See Official Re-Issue

Relapse Records will re-issue GENERAL SURGERY’s 1991 debut EP Necrology this June. The long-out-print EP has been completely remastered by Scott Hull and repackaged with three previously unreleased bonus tracks. The Necrology re-issue will be available on June 21st on CD and digitally and is up for pre-order now at this location.

GENERAL SURGERY, one of the first bands to carry on along CARCASS’ gore-grind path, formed in 1988. After releasing Necrology, the band was mostly inactive until 2003 when they began recording and touring again.”

Not only will the EP be re-relase on CD with bonus tracks (all three songs from Demo 2 1990), the same tracks will also come out on a limited 10″ vinyl later in the year.

Tracklist:

• Ominous Lamentation
• Slithering Maceration of Ulcerous Facial Tissue
• Grotesque Laceration of Mortified Flesh
• Severe Catatonia in Pathology
• Crimson Concerto
• The Succulent Aftermath of a Subdural Haemmorhage
• An Orgy of Flying Limbs and Gore

Bonus tracks from ”Pestisferous Anthropophagia”, Demo 2 1990:

• Slithering Maceration of Ulcerous Facial Tissue
• The Succulent Aftermath of a Subdural Haemmorhage
• Grotesque Laceration of Mortified Flesh

Date: Friday December 3 2010
Where: Ibex Bar, Monterrey, Mexico

We just confirmed a a mini tour of the UK in May 2011. As soon as we have more news on support acts, flyers and whatnot we’ll post it.
In the meantime, here’s the confirmed dates:

27th May Liverpool – The Masque
28th May Leicester – The Sumo
29th May London – The Purple Turtle

Date: Saturday December 4th
Where: Metal in the forest fest, Mexico city
Info: http://www.myspace.com/subterranean666

Let the scalpel infestation begin.