Carnage is the name used by several acts, including a Swedish death metal band and a Minnesota hip hop MC.

Swedish death metal band

Carnage is an influential Swedish death metal band formed in 1988 by Michael Amott and Johan Liiva. The group begins as Global Carnage before taking the name Carnage, and it develops as a precursor to Dismember. It goes through several lineup changes during its short career.

The band records two cassette demos in 1989, The Day Man Lost and Infestation of Evil. Its only album, Dark Recollections, arrives in 1990. By that point Michael Amott is the sole founding member still in the group. The album first appears as a split CD with Cadaver’s Hallucinating Anxiety on Necrosis Records, a subdivision of Earache Records, and is later reissued with bonus tracks in 2000. The band breaks up soon after the album is released.

After Carnage, Michael Amott goes on to join Carcass and later forms Arch Enemy with Johan Liiva, as well as Spiritual Beggars. Matti Kärki, David Blomqvist and Fred Estby later reform Dismember.

Minnesota hip hop MC

Carnage is also the name used by a Minnesota hip hop MC from the United States, also known as “The Executioner”, and associated with Ill Chemistry.