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Carcass - No Love Lost

Music Video
ArtistCarcass
SongNo Love Lost
DirectorElizabeth Bailey
IntroNo
OutroNo
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

Carcass perform "No Love Lost" in stark, stylized close-ups, with Jeff Walker's pale visage and the band framed against dark, atmospheric surroundings. The imagery is intercut with a white rose receiving drops of blood, creating a simple but pointed contrast between romantic symbolism and the song's harsh, emotionally detached lyrics. Colorized black-and-white photography, lush outdoor greenery, and grim visual details give the video a distinctly early-1990s British metal aesthetic.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "No Love Lost" appears on Carcass' 1993 album *Heartwork*, released by Earache Records on October 18, 1993.
  • The song was composed by Bill Steer, while Jeff Walker wrote the lyrics. At around three minutes and 22 seconds, it is one of the shortest tracks on *Heartwork*.
  • The video's central image of blood falling onto a white rose turns a traditional symbol of romance into something macabre, matching lyrics about emotional damage, severed heartstrings, and the failure of love.
  • Its visual treatment uses a colorized black-and-white look, a style associated with several high-profile alternative and metal videos of the early 1990s.
  • The video was included on Carcass' 1996 home-video release *Wake Up and Smell the... Carcass*, which collected the band's promotional clips and live performances.
  • "No Love Lost" was one of the Carcass videos associated with the *Heartwork* era, when the band was moving from its earlier grindcore sound toward a more melodic and groove-oriented form of death metal.

Lyrics

Sensual awakening,
Numbing feeling's dead,
Conception's romanticised,
Synthetized broken heart's to bled,

Without emotion, your heartstring's played,
Strummed and severed to the tune of a tragic serenade,
(A tragic chorus,)
Without emotion, your hearstrings break,
Snapped and severed to the tune of a tragic, sad-cliche.

No love lost,
When all is said and done,
...
© Carcass - No Love Lost. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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