General Surgery (band)
{{Short description|Swedish goregrind band}}
{{More citations needed|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = General Surgery
| image =
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| genre = Death metal, goregrind
| years_active = 1989–1991
1999–present
| label = Listenable
| associated_acts = Dismember
Carbonized
| website = [http://www.generalsurgery.nu/ 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.Ekeroth, Daniel (2008). Swedish Death Metal. Bazillion Points Books. {{ISBN|978-0-9796163-1-0}}. p. 263, 349-350. 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.
Members
=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 – bass (2004–2006)
- Johan Wallin – guitar, vocals (2006–2011)
- Tobias Sillman – guitar (2012–2015)
=Timeline=
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Discography
=Full length albums=
=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{{Cite web|url=https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/General_Surgery/3162|title=General Surgery - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives|website=Metal-archives.com|accessdate=2020-03-25}}
- 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)
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.generalsurgery.nu Official General Surgery website]
- [http://www.myspace.com/generalsurgery General Surgery] at MySpace
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Category:Swedish death metal musical groups
Category:Deathgrind musical groups
Category:Goregrind musical groups
Category:Relapse Records artists
Category:Musical groups established in 1989