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Dorso - El espanto surge de la tumba

As gross as supposed to be!!! - 80%

Aragorn_Dunadan, September 1st, 2004

"It is from the tomb that horror rises" as translated into English.This
is a very funny band. In order to understand their concept you MUST
be inmersed in gore movies, anime and ghetto sci fi old movies and, of
course, in order to understand their lyrics to be a Chilean and to have
some vague notions of English (since they use a lot of Chilean slang mixed up with English). They use a lot of Spanglish throughout their
songs and not only in this album, but also throughout their whole
discography.
If you can't understand the lyrics, it would be maybe worthless to purchase the album unless you want to listen to a chaotic mixture of almost all trends in the scene.

Listening to only one song of this album is just not enough to be able to
tell what's their style because they take advantage of a lot of styles
such as thrash, speed, death, black, heavy and doom (did I name them all?)
That's what they do, folks, incredible but true.
In their "Jazz-Pop-Clasico" song you're gonna hear them telling a story
in a pathetical Mexican accent about a ritual in which they tried to
build up a goat to worship. They bought cheap rotten pieces of fish, pig
legs, spoilt chicken pieces and a goat head. They also say that they put
a rolled up carpet as the goat's body. Suddenly a cat that had eaten
unriped prunes defecated on the sculpture covering it with diarrhea.

All of the songs herein are gore stories that will enterain and, if the listener understands the lyrics, amuse and invite to the laughter.

Pera Cuadra's voice is one of the best elements that makes "El Espanto" a very enjoyable production since it's harsh and intended to be funny.

The lyrics would talk about many ghetto gore happenings that occur in their world: Dorsalia. From Dog sized spiders that eat children to ladies mutating into crab shaped monsters; from potatos killing a poor old farmlady to a pool full of voratious snails that eat walkerbies.

Realy good, realy funny and, from time to time, extremely brutal.