Dark Recollections is the debut album by the cult death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band, Carnage

Carnage (band)

Carnage was a Swedish death metal band whose members later went on to found Dismember, Arch Enemy and the Grindcore band Carcass. The band was formed by Michael Amott and Johan Liiva in 1988. They released only one album before dissolving in 1991.-History:...

, released in 1990. It was originally released as a split CD with Cadaver

Cadaver (band)

Cadaver was a death metal band from Råde, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member...

's debut album Hallucinating Anxiety

Hallucinating Anxiety

Hallucinating Anxiety is the debut album by the Norwegian death metal band Cadaver. Originally, it was released as a split CD with Carnage's only album, Dark Recollections, in 1990, through a sublabel of Earache Records, Necrosis, which consisted of members of popular grindcore/death metal band...

on the Earache Records

Earache Records

Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...

 sublabel Necrosis. Some of the songs were later re-recorded by Dismember

Dismember (band)

Dismember was a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the death metal underground. They split up in October 2011.-History:...

. Dark Recollections is the only album released by Carnage, the band had broken up by the time the album hit the streets. It was later re-issued by Earache Records with 8 additional tracks taking from the The Day Man Lost demo and the Infestation of Evil demo. Deranged From Blood, Death Evocation, Blasphemies Of The Flesh and Self Dissection previously appeared on Dismember demos between 1988-1989 before Fred Estby and David Blomqvist joined Carnage. Death Evocation & Torn Apart has also been recorded by Dismember between 1991-1992 and both appears as bonus tracks on Dismember's Like An Everflowing Stream album.

Track listing

Bonus tracks on the re-issue

Personnel

• Michael Amott
  Michael Amott
  Michael Amott is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott...
  
   - guitar
• Matti Kärki
  Matti Kärki
  Matti Kärki, born December 13, 1972, is a Swedish singer who is best known for his work with Dismember. Before he joined Dismember in 1991, he was the singer in the Swedish band Carnage . The first band fronted by Kärki was Therion in 1989. He also appears with the Autopsy-inspired Murder Squad...
  
   - vocals
• Fred Estby
  Fred Estby
  Fred Estby is a Swedish drummer. He is best known as the drummer and main songwriter of the Swedish death metal band Dismember. Before he played drums in the band Carnage...
  
   - drums
• David Blomqvist - guitar
• Johnny Dordevic - bass
• Dan Seagrave
  Dan Seagrave
  Daniel Seagrave is a British artist, who created many record covers for death metal bands especially in the early 1990s. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada. He grew up in Ravenshead, near Nottingham....
  
  - Cover artwork