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Album Review: Olidous Operettas

  • Artist: County Medical Examiners
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: January 29, 2007
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Carcass was the first extreme metal act to replace "dining with Satan" lyrics with nearly incomprehensible words and phrases that belonged in a medical student's final exam essay. And subsequently, they spawned a host of similarly styled groups, such as County Medical Examiners (these chaps cut right to the chase, eh?). The group's 2007 release, Olidous Operettas, follows all the guidelines Carcass set early in their career -- growled vocals, speedy tempos, and of course, simply grisly subject matter (and just as gruesome album cover art for that matter -- the cover of Olidous Operettas is an oh-so pleasing conglomeration of faces that appear to be completely devoid of any skin). Make sure the proper anesthesia dose has been administered and that the scalpel is sharp before diving into such selections as "The Virchow Postmortem Procedure," "Expeditious Evisceratory Mishap," and especially the potential Top Ten hit, "Maturating Decompositional Gas." ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Casper's Dictum County Medical Examiners (4:11)
Morgagnic Anatomics County Medical Examiners (4:13)
Necrotic Apologues County Medical Examiners (4:15)
Blunt Force Flight County Medical Examiners (4:18)
The Virchow Postmortem Procedure County Medical Examiners (3:51)
Expeditious Evisceratory Mishap County Medical Examiners (1:54)
Maturating Decompositional Gas County Medical Examiners (3:37)
Kaleidoscopic Malacia County Medical Examiners (3:31)

Credits

Dr. Morton Fairbanks (Guitar), Dr. Morton Fairbanks (Vocals), Dr. Jack Putnam (Drums), Dr. Jack Putnam (Vocals), Dr. Guy Radcliffe (Bass), Dr. Guy Radcliffe (Vocals)
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Olidous Operettas
Studio album by The County Medical Examiners
Released 2007
Recorded 2006
Genre Goregrind
Length 29:54
Label Relapse Records
Producer The County Medical Examiners
The County Medical Examiners chronology
Reeking Rhapsodies for Chorale, Percussion, and Strings (EP)
(2004)
Olidous Operettas
(2007)

Olidous Operettas is the second full-length album from The County Medical Examiners, as well as their first on Relapse Records. This is also the first album in the history of Relapse Records to feature a "scratch-n-sniff" CD face. According to the liner notes the odor of "corpse reek" on the CD face was donated by John Doe #4502.

Track listing

  1. Casper's Dictum - 4:11
  2. Morgagnic Anatomics - 4:13
  3. Necrotic Apologues - 4:15
  4. Blunt Force Flight - 4:18
  5. The Virchow Postmortem Procedure - 3:51
  6. Expeditious Evisceratory Mishap - 1:54
  7. Maturating Decompositional Gas - 3:37
  8. Kaleidoscopic Malacia - 3:31
  9. Decomp-Aerosol Perfume Excrete (Japanese Bonus track)

Personnel

  • Dr. Morton Fairbanks - guitar/vocals
  • Dr. Jack Putnam - drums/vocals
  • Dr. Guy Radcliffe - bass/vocals

 
 

 

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