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Sarcofago -Rotting lp [gold]

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Gold vinyl with green hotfoil stamped cover and printed innersleeve. Limited 250 copies

In the big picture of Brazilian extreme metal, Sarcófago were sort of like the Megadeth to Sepultura’s Metallica: always playing a hopeless game of catch-up to the leaders of the pack, while supposedly harboring plans of revenge because their vocalist and guitarist, Wagner Lamounier, had once been fired by the Seps, early in their career. In truth, the seriousness of this rivalry was largely exaggerated by the press, but feud or no feud, Sarcófago were facing rather impossible odds when their sophomore effort, 1989’s mini-LP Rotting, was released around the same time as Sepultura’s third album, Beneath the Remains, was breaking worldwide. Anything from a bad album, though, Rotting simply wasn’t groundbreaking on a global scale; and its death/thrash style also saw Sarcófago transitioning from the raw but thrilling black metal of ’87 debut I.N.R.I., and the more sophisticated melodic death metal of 91s The Laws of Scourge. Here, the amusingly named “Sex, Drinks and Metal” offered the only unconditional throwback to Sarcófago’s incomparably violent beginnings, and the pornographic intro snippet, “The Lust,” confirmed their unremitting desire to shock. Yet both “Alcoholic Coma” and the album’s title track sacrificed some savagery whilst showcasing their increased technical displays, thereby failing to convince completely on both counts. Much better (and indicative of what was to come next) were the more accomplished, melodic and vary-paced tracks, “Nightmares” and eight-minute centerpiece, “Tracy,” whose moronic title was the only thing one could knock it for. All in all though, Rotting was a solid outing that kept Sarcófago moving forward instead of stagnating, and its historically controversial cover art alone — depicting Jesus under assault by the Grim Reaper –will likely ensure it a lasting place in the hearts and minds of head-bangers everywhere.

Track listing:
1. The Lust
2. Alcoholic Coma
3. Tracy
4. Rotting
5. Sex, Drinks And Metal
6. Nightmare

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Osmose records

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