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Surgical Steel is the upcoming sixth full-length album by British death metal band Carcass. The album is scheduled to be released on 13 September 2013 in Europe, 16 September in the UK, and 17 September in North America, via Nuclear Blast. Surgical Steel will be their first album since Swansong (1996). The album will feature the first songs Carcass has recorded since reforming in 2007. Surgical Steel will be their first album with drummer Dan Wilding.

Carcass disbanded in 1996, prior to the release of their album Swansong. Walker, Steer, and Amott reformed in 2007 with Arch Enemy drummer Daniel Erlandsson as a live act and performed at festivals around the world for the next several years. In 2008, Steer said in an interview that a new album was unlikely due to Amott's and Walker's busy schedules. Also in 2008, Walker told Decibel that the reunion would not produce any new material, saying, "I don't see how it could ever happen, because me, Mike and Bill are all bandleaders. There'd be too many guys thinking they know better." However, in that same interview, he acknowledged that Steer had been "showing [Amott] riffs" that may lead to new songs.

While touring in 2008, Steer watched drummer Dan Wilding play and felt inspired by his similarity to former Carcass drummer Ken Owen, who had been unable to join Carcass for the reunion due to a cerebral hemorrhage he suffered in 1999. Amott and Erlandsson left the band in 2012 to focus on Arch Enemy, and Steer and Walker recruited Wilding to record Surgical Steel, which they financed independently as they had no label backing at the time.

1.  "1985"    1:15
2.  "Thrasher's Abattoir"    1:50
3.  "Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System"    4:02
4.  "A Congealed Clot of Blood"    4:13
5.  "The Master Butcher's Apron"    4:00
6.  "Noncompliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard"    6:06
7.  "The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills"    4:10
8.  "Unfit for Human Consumption"    4:24
9.  "316 L Grade Surgical Steel"    5:10
10.  "Captive Bolt Pistol"    3:16
11.  "Mount of Execution"    8:25

Total length: 47:06