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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Phoenix gave thrash two Metal Blade bands and a future Metallica bassist, and Tucson added a Roadrunner band. Here is who they were, which record to play first and where they stand in 2026.
The Danish singer Metallica and Slayer learned from has lived in Dallas–Fort Worth for three decades, and a run of his 1990s records was made in North Texas studios.
Dimebag, Rex Brown and Vinnie Paul tracked it in the small city of Dalworthington Gardens, Phil Anselmo sang it hundreds of miles away in New Orleans, and thirty years later it has a festival named after it.
