DEVASTATING BRAZILIAN DEATH/THRASH FROM 1988 TO PLEASE ALL FANS OF SARCOFAGO, MUTILATOR, HOLOCAUSTO! Extreme and raw black death from Brazil circa 1988. Imagine a young, Sarcofago-like band recording in a hot and dark garage with the worst microphones and tape machines. Somehow what you get is one the most cult and notorious demos from the Brazilian deathrash underground. Rawest, most pounding, most extreme of all the bands from that era: holocausto, mutilator, sextrash, sarcofago, or vulcano. Great reissue with gatefold heavy jacket, poster, and "Death Metal" zine #1 that has mostly Necrofago photos and old articles. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, Brazil was like a Petri dish upon which grew, with bacterial rapidity, a particularly virulent strain of Deathrash that ushered in the first manifestations of South American Black Metal. In the early to mid-1980's bands like Vulcano, Sarcofago, and Sepultura began to define a sound that has come to be distinctly associated with Brazil. Within the span of just a few years, a nucleus of bands playing this style quickly emerged, with each providing a variant on the bestial and primitive sound at the core of the Brazilian underground. As this rotten music festered in the sick corners of Brazil, it began to draw the attention of the international underground as bands such as Holocausto, Sextrash, Insulter, Chakal, and others unleashed their own warfare noise and a scene began to coalesce around them. In 1987, a dark entity known as Necrofago was summoned into existence via the ominous incantations of vocalist/guitarist Deathvomit in association with Rotten on bass, Rotten Corpse on drums, and later joined by Post Mortem on guitar. Not to be confused with various other bands of the same name, this band came from Minas Gerais, Brazil. One of the most unique sounding recordings to have come from the Brazilian scene, "Brutal Mutilation" exemplifies, unlike any other recording, the emphasis those bands placed upon harsh aggression and raw recording techniques. The demo sounds like the result of the potent collision of immense quantities cheap alcohol and inhalants in brains already awash in adrenaline and youthful testosterone. Lacking in nearly every category of technical proficiency, Necrofago focused their entire effort into creating a monument to savagery. While the apparent ineptness of the playing may initially be off-putting to some listeners, those capable of suspending their need to generate order out of the chaos of the recording will find some of the most truly evil tracks committed to tape in the 1980?s. Even at the time of its release, the demo was well-received and found its way into the hands of some of the more legendary figures in the underground. When asked about Necrofago, Laruent Remadier of Decibel of Death Zine/Snakepit Magazine responded with the following: "Oh man! I recall Necrofago. I recall being in Morbid Angel house back in '87 and having David mentioning them non-stop like Sarcofago." The guitars on the demo are brittle and sordid and rest uneasily atop the drums. The entire cacophonous mixture teeters on the brink of total collapse throughout each of the three tracks as the repetitious riffs, at times almost hypnotic, roil and churn. Deathvomit's menacing vocals fill out the sound and add to the grotesque character of the music. Aside from the "Brutal Mutilation" demo, only a 1988 rehearsal demo and live recording from the same year exist to affirm the existence of Necrofago.