Formed in late 1988 by members of Dismember and Carbonized upon their common love of Carcass and Grindcore in general, General Surgery recorded a debut demo, “Erosive offals” on march of 1990. The band would eventually re-record that demo the very same year, chaging song titles and lyrics and release it as the “Pestiferous anthropophagia” demo.
A third, rehearsal, demo has been released during that same year, shortly followed (November) by the recording of their debut EP, “Necrology”. Upon the EP’s release, General Surgery immediately gained a huge following and big praise from the underground Grindcore scene but called it quits shortly after the EP’s release. (Relapse would re-release it as a posthumous MCD in ’93).
Resurrected in 2000, the short-lived new incarnation of the band recorded a track for the Carcass tribute by Necropolis records and, once again, split up.
A couple more years later (2003) a new line-up was found and some demo tracks recorded. This third General Surgery instalment recorded, in 2004, a split with County Medical Examiners (Razorback), one with Machetazo (Escorbuto) and a split EP with Filth for France’s own Bones Brigade records.
Some more line-up changes later, after 18 years of life as a band, General Surgery recorded what would, at last, become its debut full-length album, “Left hand pathology” (Listenable), in 2006. Since then, the band had, again, to struggle with an instable line-up but managed to release a split with Butcher ABC (Obliteration) and their second (still in their cult “early Entombed meets early Carcass” gore Death Metal / Grindcore style) full-length, “Corpus in extremis: analysing necrocriticism” (2009, Listenable).
