Carcass "Tools Of The Trade (EP, UK, Earache Records, MOSH49T)"

Tools of the Trade is an EP by British extreme metal band Carcass. It was released through Earache Records on 23 June 1992.

It contains re-recordings of two previously released Carcass songs; "Pyosisified (Rotten to the Gore)" from Reek of Putrefaction and "Hepatic Tissue Fermentation", which was originally released on a compilation titled Pathological.

The EP is wholly contained on the compilation album Gods of Grind and the limited edition 2008 dualdisc reissue of Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious. It also appears on Wake up and Smell the... Carcass, but without the track "Incarnated Solvent Abuse".

Track listing

1. "Tools of the Trade" 3:07
2. "Incarnated Solvent Abuse" 4:45
3. "Pyosisified (Still Rotten to the Gore)" 3:10
4. "Hepatic Tissue Fermentation II" 6:37

Total length: 17:39

Features a sticker promoting the Gods of Grind tour on cover.

US release by Relativity Records [88561-1129-2].

Track 3 is re-recorded version of the same song from Reek of Putrefaction (1988)

Track 4 is re-recorded version of song from the Pathological compilation (1989)