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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Dallas went punk and new wave. Arlington and Fort Worth went metal, in a pasture, a bar, a tombstone factory and a garage a Lebanese landlord never wanted to be a metal club.
One album on a tiny California label, a decade of silence, and a record that kept finding new listeners until the band had to come back for it.
A country songwriter’s studio at the end of a dead-end street in a one-square-mile town made Cowboys From Hell, Vulgar Display of Power and half the thrash demos in Dallas–Fort Worth.
