– 1986 –
You might know 1986 as the Year Thrash Broke, with seminal recordings like Reign in Blood, Master of Puppets and Peace Sells… But Who's Buying representing but the tip of the iceberg. No surprise, then, that the industry seemed largely focused on bands with potential crossover appeal. In that regard, '86 was kind of a slow year for black metal ancestry. Hell, even Quorthon took the year off.
That word didn't necessarily get down to South America, where Brazil's Sarcófago were quietly making a name for themselves via the ultra-brutal-for-the-time Satanic Lust demo. The vocals of Wagner Antichrist (!) alone are worth the price of admission. Seems pretty blistering now, imagine how this shit came across almost 30 years ago.
Fellow countrymen Sepultura were elsewhere trying their own hands at a blistering Satanic masterpiece, a direction they would quickly abandon in favor of more political material. Man, it's pretty hard to reconcile the likes of "Funeral Rites" with the likes of Arise, though.
