General Surgery is a Swedish

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group known as one of the earliest

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clones. Their 1991 debut ''

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'' was released by

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and would be General Surgery's only material released until 2001, when the group recorded one track for the Carcass

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, ''Requiems of Revulsion''. However, in 2003, General Surgery reformed and released a

split album A split album (or split) is a music album that includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There are also singles and EPs of the same variety, which are often called "split singles" and "split EPs" respectively. Split albums differ from "var ...

with

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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 ''Left Hand Pathology'' is a debut full-length album by Swedish goregrind/ death metal band General Surgery after seventeen years forming. The title is a reference to the Entombed's album ''Left Hand Path''. The cover illustrations was taken fro ...

'' (

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) *2009 - '' Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism'' (

)

EPs

*1991 - ''

'' (

) *2012 - ''

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'' (

) *2021 - ''Lay Down and Be Counted'' (Self-released)

Demos

*1990 - ''Errosive Offals'' *1990 - ''Pestisferous Anthropophagia'' *1990 - ''Internecine Prurience'' *2005 - ''Demo 2005''

Split albums

*2003 - ''General Surgery/

'' (Razorback Records) *2003 - ''Relapse Singles Series Vol. 2'' (

) *2004 - ''General Surgery/Filth'' (Bones Brigade Records) *2004 - ''General Surgery/

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'' (Escorbuto Recordings/Goryfied Productions) *2009 - ''General Surgery/Butcher ABC'' (Obliteration Records/Living Dead Society)

Compilation albums

*2001 - ''Requiems of Revulsion'' (

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) *2004 - ''Demos'' (Nuclear Abominations Records) *2012 - ''A Collection of Depravation'' (

)

References

External links

Official General Surgery websiteGeneral Surgery
at MySpace {{DEFAULTSORT:General Surgery Swedish death metal musical groups Deathgrind musical groups Goregrind musical groups Relapse Records artists Musical groups established in 1989 Musical groups from Stockholm Listenable Records artists