Texas Thrash Metal · Est. 1985

Rotting Corpse

Dallas–Arlington–Ft. Worth thrash metal, before the scene existed to name it.

1985Formed
2021Reunited
2025New Album
On Stage

Upcoming Shows

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14NOV2026

Haltom Theater

Haltom City, TX · with Iron Jaw

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05DEC2026

Spam's Bar and Lounge

San Angelo, TX

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From a camcorder in Corpus Christi in 1989 to the Haltom Theater stage in 2026. Clips roll as you scroll past or hover over them; tiles with a play button open the full song.

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Thrash in Pain or Die Insane

16 remastered tracks pulling together all four original 1980s demos for the first time on one release. Pressed on red vinyl and streaming everywhere.

Also on Spotify · VIC Records 2025

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From the Archive Desk

Real Texas thrash history, researched and sourced — new pieces added regularly.

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Black and white photo of Nervosa's bassist screaming mid-song through stage haze, a bass guitar angled across the frame in front of Marshall and Ampeg cabinets

Venues · 14 min read

Dallas Metal Venues: Where to See Thrash and Heavy Metal Live in DFW Right Now

From a 1941 neighborhood theater in Haltom City to the ballrooms of Deep Ellum and the West End, the rooms that book heavy music and what each one has on its calendar this winter.

Rex Brown, with long grey-blond hair and a white long-sleeved shirt, playing a natural-wood bass on a stadium stage while security staff in blue vests stand in front of the crowd

Texas Thrash · 9 min read

Rex Brown: Pantera’s Bassist, From an Arlington Lab Band to the Reunion

He joined the Abbott brothers as a teenager in 1982 and is still playing those songs to stadiums in 2026. Here is the career, the records, the basses and the book.

Tom Araya, with long dark hair and a grey beard, singing into a microphone while playing a black bass under blue stage lights, with a Slayer skull backdrop, two white inverted crosses and a Yamaha drum kit behind him

Texas Thrash · 9 min read

Tom Araya in Texas: How Slayer’s Frontman Became “Completely Texan-ized”

He was born in Chile and raised in Los Angeles, and he has spent three decades in small-town East Texas. Here is the move, the ranch, the speedway and the bass.

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Show flyers, throwbacks, and the next date — posted straight from the band, first.

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From The Road

Four Decades On Stage

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1985
Formation
Walt Trachsler, John Perez, and Jim Mulqueen form the band in Arlington, Texas.
1989
Demo Era
Four landmark demos recorded, traded on cassettes across the underground.
2025
New Album
Thrash in Pain or Die Insane remastered anthology pressed on red vinyl and streaming worldwide.
In The Press

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Newly Opened

The Archive

129 photos out of the band’s own boxes — hand-drawn gig flyers from 1985 onward, live shots nobody has seen in forty years, and four songs off a 1986 club tape.

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Flyer for the first Rotting Corpse show at Rascals, Arlington, December 6th
The flyer for the first show — Rascals, Arlington, December 6th, 1985.
Rotting Corpse lineup, mid-1980s
The five-piece, mid-1980s.
Rotting Corpse live onstage, mid-1980s
Onstage, mid-1980s.
Outside the Rotting Corpse practice space, Arlington 1987
Outside the Arlington practice space, 1987.