Keep The Thrash Alive

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Every order ships from the band’s own store and keeps a 40-year-old North Texas thrash band on the road.

Rotting Corpse Thrash In Pain t-shirt
Apparel

Thrash In Pain Tee

from $18
Rotting Corpse classic logo t-shirt
Apparel

Classic Logo Tee

from $18
Rotting Corpse JP t-shirt
Apparel

JP Tee

from $18
Rotting Corpse 420 t-shirt
Apparel

420 Tee

from $18
Mr. T Shirt
Apparel

Mr. T Shirt

from $24
White Skull Tee
Apparel

White Skull Tee

from $24
Truckers Cap
Headwear

Truckers Cap

$10
Woven Patch
Patch

Woven Patch

$10

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Space Cadet Jet Distro runs two storefronts and the Rotting Corpse stock isn’t identical between them — each item above links to the one that carries it.

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Thrash History · 9 min read

Sepultura: From Belo Horizonte to the Final Show, With a Stop at Joe’s Garage

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.

Kirk Hammett playing a painted guitar and James Hetfield playing a cream Explorer-style guitar side by side on a blue-lit arena stage, with the crowd in the foreground

Thrash Guitar · 10 min read

The Best Thrash Metal Guitarists of All Time, Plus Texas’s Own

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.

Black and white photo of Dimebag Darrell headbanging with his hair flying while playing a guitar with a V-shaped Dean headstock on stage

Gear · 10 min read

The Dean From Hell: Dimebag’s Lightning-Bolt Guitar, Born in North Texas

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.

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