CARTILAGE - USA

Dialect Of The Dead – 2017 - Transylvanian Recordings
The Deader The Better – 2022 - Creator-Destructor
Operating Altar - 2026 - Everlasting Spew

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Members
Vocals
Viral, Necromantic Decay, Feast, Septicaemia>>MARK WALLACE>>Feast, Septicaemia

Guitar
Necromantic Decay, Feast, Dreaming Dead, Mortuous, Muldrotha, Emasculator>>TERESA WALLACE>>Feast, Dreaming Dead, Mortuous, Muldrotha, Emasculator - Logistic Slaughter, Septicaemia, Cobweb>>MIKE FLORY>>Logistic Slaughter, Septicaemia, Cobweb

Bass
Excretor, Rawtopsy, Smoldering Torso, Summoner, Atrial Septic Defect, Bob Plant, Nighthämmer>>Kienan Hamilton>>Excretor, Rawtopsy, Smoldering Torso, Summoner, Atrial Septic Defect, Bob Plant, Nighthämmer

Drums
Terrorizer LA, Mæntra, Ion, Exhumed, Ghoul>>ADAM HOUMAM>>Terrorizer LA, Mæntra, Ion, Exhumed, Ghoul




History & Biography
The band was founded in San Francisco, California in 2014. The Wallaces were siblings. It's Necrotic was a 2015 demo. Dialect Of The Dead was issued through a local label. Ryan Daniel was a guest bassist. The band played at the Obscene Extreme in the Czech Republic in 2019. Gore-met was a 2020 demo.

USA-based Cartilage had a new album called The Deader The Better through Creator-Destructor Records in mid-2022. Ross Sewage (Impaled and Exhumed), Leon del Muerte (Impaled and Terrorizer LA), and Tom Draper (ex-Carcass) make guest appearances. The band had booked several California, USA shows. The band was booked for NW Massacre Vol 1 of March 2025 alongside the likes of Impaled, Mazaroth, Coffin Rot, Hateshitter (featuring members of Lord Gore) and Petrification. Everlasting Spew Records released the Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology EP in 2025. Kienan Hamilton left in 2026.

Cartilage's Operating Altar was issued by Everlasting Spew Records on the 11th of September 2026. "At St. Petersen’s University Hospital, nightmares become coursework and Operating Altar is the soundtrack to those horrors! Cartilage channel Matthew Krolmark’s descent into medical madness," per the album's announcement.


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