Sarcófago

Sarcófago (Portuguese for "sarcophagus") is a thrash metal and black/death band from Brazil. They were fronted by Wagner Lamounier, the original frontman for Sepultura, and Geraldo Minelli.

Biography

Sarcófago was influenced by Venom, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate and Bathory. From the beginning in 1985 even today, they always had an extreme Anti-Christian ideology. Their lyrics are extremely blasphemous and sometimes promote Sodomy. The band was created in 1985, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Wagner "Antichrist" Lamounier, who had just left Sepultura, was vocals and lead guitarist for Sepultura.After a few months he was kicked out of Sepultura and started his own band, he then recruited Gerald "Incubus" Minelli for bass, Butcher for rhythm guitarist and Leprous played drums. Although Sepultura never recorded anything with its first singer, their partnership is present in Sepultura\'s first album, Bestial Devastation: the song "Antichrist". Sarcófago\'s first two songs were included in the "Warfare Noise Volume 1" compilation (1986), The Black Vomit and \'Satanás, bands featureed on the album were Brazil\'s: Mutilator, Chakal and Holocausto. Because Lamounier left Sepultura due to ideological and musical divergences, his appearance with a new band and their debut in their demonstration Satanic Lust caused a situation involving several gossips, bad tempers, mutual accusations, shouts and, of course, fights. They didn\'t become as huge as Sepultura. Even so they have released several albums by Cogumelo Records and toured South America and Europe. Their albums were released in Europe by Music for Nations. They had a strong influence on second wave\'s black metal bands like Satyricon who covered their song I.N.R.I.,Darkthrone, Mayhem, Impaled Nazarene, Beherit who covered Satanás renamed Hail Sathanas.^{[citation needed]} The band left a widespread yet often uncredited inheritance among Black Metal circles worldwide. Sarcófago is regarded as one of the main inspirations of the corpse paint style make-up, which eventually became an ensignia of the early 1990\'s black metal scene of Norway and its offspring in Europe and in the United States.

Lyrical Approach

Sarcófago\'s first lyrical approach usually contained such topics as death, sex, alcohol, anti-Christianity and Satanism. On 1990\'s Rotting, the lyrics seemed more polemic for the atheistic content, as can be seen on Rotting track, and on The Laws of Scourge, the band used themes more elaborated, but keeping the band polemical speech, as was seen on Hate and The Worst plays.

Discography

Albums

• (1987) I.N.R.I
• (1989) Rotting
• (1991) The Laws of Scourge
• (1994) Hate
• (1997) The Worst

EPs

• Crush, Kill, Destroy (1992)
• Crust (2000)

Splits

• Warfare Noise Vol.1 (1986) (with Chakal, Holocausto and Mutilator)

Compilations

• Decade of Decay (1995)
• Satanic Christ\'s (2005)

Bootlegs

• Nights In Hell (2002)
• Sex, Drinks And Metal(2006)

Demonstrations

• Satanic Lust (1986)
• The Black Vomit (1986)
• Christ\'s Death (1987)

Music Videos

• Screeches From the Silence (1991)

Last known line-up

• Wagner "Antichrist" Lamounier - vocals, guitar (1985–2000)
• Gerald "Incubus" Minelli - bass (1986–2000)

Session Members

• Eugênio Dead Zone - Drum Programming, Keyboards (1994-2000)

Former members

• Zeber "Butcher" - guitar (1985–1987)
• Fabio Jhasko - guitar (1991–1993)
• Eduardo "D.D. Crazy" - drums (1986–1987)
• "Leprous" - drums (1985–1986)
• Manoel "Joker" - session drums (1989–1991) (From Angel Butcher)
• Lucio Olliver - drums (1991–1993)
• Juninho "Pussy Fucker" - bass (1985–1986)

Resources

• Sarcófago at Encyclopaedia Metallum
• Band at Cogumelo Recoreds website
• Band at Zenial.nl

External links

• Sarcófago at MySpace
• Sarcófago at All Music Guide
• Sarcófago Unofficial Webgrave
• Sarcófago\'s Homepage
• The Laws Of Scourge

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