40 photos
1985–1990
The original run. Live shots, backstage, and the Arlington practice space, mostly shot by whoever had a camera that night.
129 images out of the band’s own boxes and hard drives — original 1980s gig flyers, live shots nobody has seen in forty years, the practice space, and the reunion that started at a wedding. Click any image to see it full size.
The original run. Live shots, backstage, and the Arlington practice space, mostly shot by whoever had a camera that night.
Hand-drawn, photocopied and stapled to telephone poles. Most of these are the only surviving record that the show happened at all — the stories behind the rooms are on The Rooms.
2004 onward — the Memorial Day Massacre tour, the 20th anniversary show, KNON, Robb’s MetalWorks.
Demo covers, credit sheets, the Circus of Fools DVD, and the logo in its many mutations.
Half of this archive only exists because somebody kept a shoebox. If you shot a Rotting Corpse show, kept a flyer off a pole, or have a tape insert in a drawer, send it over — it belongs here.
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Brazil’s biggest metal band plays its last concert on November 7, 2026. Here is the whole run, the records to own, and the nights it spent in Texas.
Our ranked top 10, with the records and rankings behind each pick, and then the Texas players from Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Arlington that national lists keep skipping.
A teenager won a stock maroon Dean ML at a Dallas guitar contest, sold it for a car, and got it back years later from an Arlington luthier who had turned it into the most copied guitar in metal.
