SARCOFAGO & POLTERGEIST LIVE at THE ABYSS!

SACOFAGO

Along with the now legendary Sepultura, Sarcófago (translation: "sarcophagus") integrated the first wave of Brazilian death metal bands, a ragged collective that stormed out of the South American nation just as it was emerging from decades spent under an oppressive military dictatorship. Though the country's metal scene was understandably small and close-knit at the time, from the very start Sarcófago were committed to doing things differently. Not only were they the most extreme and inaccessible of Brazil's early death metal champions, verging on and, some claim, pioneering what would later be known as black metal, they also embraced the seemingly at-odds elements of punk rock to boot. And even though this radical approach ultimately didn't spell a recipe for widespread success, it certainly made Sarcófago impossible to ignore.

POLTERGEIST

Founded in 1987 out of the ashes of swiss Speed-Metal pioneers CARRION, POLTERGEIST released two well acclaimed demo tapes and played quite a lot of shows in their home country Switzerland and in nearby Germany. After one of these shows where they played with HADES and DESPAIR, Robert Kampf (then Singer for DESPAIR and owner of the freshly started label CENTURY MEDIA) decided to offer POLTERGEIST a record contract. They convinced him with their powerful live appearance and their solid craftmanship on their instruments.

From 1989 to 1993 they released 3 albums and played shows and tours with bands like DESTRUCTION, KREATOR, SODOM, TANKARD, CORONER, WHIPLASH, HELLBASTARD, WATCHTOWER, VOI VOD, RUMBLE MILITIA and many more.
 After the last tour in 1993 with CORONER the band split up and partly transformed into GURD.

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