General Surgery (band) explained

General Surgery
Origin:	Stockholm, Sweden
Genre:	Death metal, goregrind
Years Active:	1989–1991 1999–present
Label:	Listenable
Associated Acts:	Dismember Carbonized
Website:	Official Website
Current Members:	Erik Sahlström Joacim Carlsson Tobbe Sillman Andreas Eriksson Adde Mitroulis
Past Members:	Grant McWilliams Johan Wallin Matti Kärki Glenn Sykes Mikael Von Tuominen Mats Nordrup

General Surgery is a Swedish goregrind group known as one of the earliest Carcass clones.^[1] Their 1991 debut Necrology was released by Relapse Records and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass tribute album, Requiems of Revulsion. However, in 2003, General Surgery reformed and released a split album 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.

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)
Richard Cabeza – vocals (1988–1990, 1999–2002)
Matti Kärki – 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 v bass (2004–2006)
Johan Wallin – guitar, vocals (2006–2011)
Tobias Sillman – guitar (2012–2015)

Timeline

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Discography

Full length albums

2006 - Left Hand Pathology (Listenable Records)
2009 - (Listenable Records)

EPs

1991 - Necrology (Relapse Records)
2012 - Like an Ever Flying Limb (Relapse Records)
2021 - Lay Down and Be Counted (Self-released)

Demos

1990 - Errosive Offals^[2]
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 (Relapse Records)
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 (Relapse Records)

External links

Notes and References

Ekeroth, Daniel (2008). Swedish Death Metal. Bazillion Points Books. . p. 263, 349-350.
Web site: General Surgery - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives. Metal-archives.com. 2020-03-25.