# Carcass discography

This is a comprehensive discography of Carcass, an extreme metal band from England, who formed in 1985 and disbanded in 1996. The band reformed in 2007 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen, for health reasons. To date, the band have released seven studio albums, two compilation albums, five EPs, two demo albums, one video album, and seven music videos.

## Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Sales |
| Title | Album details | UK | AUT | FIN | FRA | GER | JPN | NLD | SWE | SWI | US | Sales |
| Reek of Putrefaction | Released: 7 July 1988 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Symphonies of Sickness | Released: 4 December 1989 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious | Released: 30 October 1991 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Heartwork | Released: 18 October 1993 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL | 67 | — | — | — | — | 222 | — | — | — | — | UK: 10,000 US: 64,366 |
| Swansong | Released: 10 June 1996 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL | 68 | — | 33 | — | — | 72 | — | — | — | — | US: 22,868 |
| Surgical Steel | Released: 13 September 2013 Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: CD, LP, DL | 47 | 24 | 6 | 82 | 10 | 36 | 73 | 42 | 44 | 41 | US: 8,500 |
| Torn Arteries | Released: 17 September 2021 Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: CD, LP, DL | 62 | 12 | 7 | — | 9 | 29 | — | — | 19 | — | |

## Compilation albums

| Title | Album details |
| Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass | Released: 12 November 1996 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, DL |
| Choice Cuts | Released: 24 May 2004 Label: Earache Formats: CD, DL |

## EPs

| Title | Album details |
| The Peel Sessions | Released: 2 December 1989 Label: Strange Fruit Formats: CD, CS, LP |
| Tools of the Trade | Released: 23 June 1992 Label: Earache Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL |
| The Heartwork EP | Released: September 1993 Label: Earache Formats: CD, LP, DL |
| Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel | Released: 11 November 2014 Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: CD, LP, DL |
| Despicable | Released: 30 October 2020 Label: Nuclear Blast Formats: CD, LP |

## Demo albums

| Title | Album details |
| Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment | Released: 4 April 1987 Label: Self-released Formats: CS |
| Symphonies of Sickness | Released: December 1988 Label: Earache Formats: CS |

## Video albums

| Title | Album details |
| Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass | Released: 26 November 1996 Label: Earache Formats: VHS, DVD |

## Music videos

| Year | Title | Directed | Album |
| 1991 | "Corporal Jigsore Quandary" | Howard Garfield | Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| 1991 | "Incarnated Solvent Abuse" | Steve Mallet | Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious |
| 1993 | "Heartwork" | Tony Kunewalder | Heartwork |
| 1993 | "No Love Lost" | John Moule | Heartwork |
| 1995 | "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" | Jan Russell | Swansong |
| 2013 | "Unfit for Human Consumption" | | Surgical Steel |
| 2014 | "The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills" | Kazuaki Kimura & Glenn Maguire | Surgical Steel |
| 2020 | "The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue" | | Despicable |
| 2021 | "Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstance March No. 1)" | Chioreanu Costin | Torn Arteries |
| 2021 | "The Scythe's Remorseless Swing" | Chris Marley | Torn Arteries |