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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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.
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.
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.
