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Title: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: Will on 28 Dec 2006, 20:49

http://www.myspace.com/CountyMedicalExaminers

This is a goregrind band newly signed to Relapse Records that is basically a clone of Carcass, but consists of a trio of real-life forensic pathologists - the bass player is 64 freaking years old, and still playing this shit.  Other than the one dude who is rocking a full-on grizzly beard, they look like, well...doctors, not rockers.  It's almost surreal to check out their music, because they really do look like people you see when you're going to get your annual check-up or something.

So, seeing as how I am relatively unenlightened in this genre, my question to anyone who cares to check them out is:  Are these guys any good at all, for what they're doing, or are they just a novelty act that's destined to drop into obscurity after that novelty wears away?

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: Misereatur on 28 Dec 2006, 20:54

I checked them out a few years ago, and I really liked them. I kind of forgot about them untill now though.

I'm happy Relapse signed them, they deserve it.

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: KharBevNor on 28 Dec 2006, 21:40

Some quality tunes, and the lyrics are brilliant, but a novelty. I've also seen speculation on the idea they might be a completely fabricated gimmick, based on the fact that their domain name is registered to a member of Exhumed, the fact that they're on Relapse makes that less likely, imo. Probably just someone else handling their website. Still, Carcass clones are getting old. Fast.

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: timehat on 29 Dec 2006, 02:28

Maybe they got into medicine BECAUSE of Carcass, and this is how they're paying them back.

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: valley_parade on 29 Dec 2006, 02:40

Quote from: 10101110 on 28 Dec 2006, 20:49

the bass player is 64 freaking years old, and still playing this shit.

And Lemmy's 61.

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: Will on 29 Dec 2006, 03:25

yes, but Lemmy is no mere mortal.

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: ScrambledGregs on 29 Dec 2006, 04:02

When I saw the word goregrind my eyes immediately glazed over and I pictured a bunch of flesh being run through a grinder while Richard D. James stood nearby, large studio headphones on, with a boom mic in his hands recording every last bit of gristle going through.

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: Will on 29 Dec 2006, 04:22

All things considered, you're not really that far off...

Title: Re: The County Medical Examiners - Novelty? Or awesomeness?
Post by: NiMRoD420 on 29 Dec 2006, 04:24

Nope! Not too far off.

Good music, intelligent lyrics... but... My favorite Carcass album is Heartwork, so I guess goregrind ist not my thing.