General Surgery - Like an Ever Flying Limb
I absolutely love the title of this EP. It’s not just a clever play on words, it’s a perfect summation of all that is General Surgery — the missing link between the classic Sunlight sound and all-out Carcass worship. At least that’s the case when the band is on, and I’m pleased to report that when it comes to this 5-song teaser, they are motherfucking on. While this 11-minute appetizer may not be the full-course follow-up to 2009’s Corpus in Extremis: Analysing Necroticism that we’ve been patiently waiting on for what seems like forever, it’s an all-killer/no-filler affair that will gladly do for now. The title track and “Ejected Viscous Mucus” storm out of the morgue like Nihilist jamming Symphonies of Sickness riffs. If this tandem doesn’t get your plasma pumping, you might be a cadaver. “Seizures” is just a 40-second Grindcore fart —which begins with an actual fart if I’m not mistaken— that serves as a brutal bridge to “Rhythmic Epidermal Clamor” and standout closer “Dark Cyanotic Hypostasis.” These two cuts also take pages straight out of the Walker/Steer medical dictionary to anthemic Swedeath effect. Admittedly, Like an Ever Flying Limb is over before you know it, but it begs for repeated listens. If this is any indication of the full-length to come, it won’t be a mere regurgitation of giblets, or worse yet, more microwaved uterogestation. Rather, the band will reach their massive killing capacity and send us all into the grave. If I may, a few working suggestions for the new album title: Where No Lysergide Composition Dwells, And Here I Die… Pyosisified, Across the Open C-Section, or perhaps The Head in the Sky Is Ours?
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