Review by ZeroSymbolic7188 for Sarcófago - I.N.R.I. (1987)

Before I listen: I'm pretty excited to hear this one, because I know it's legendary. It's one of those icons that got away from me until now. I remember watching BANGERtv a couple years ago, and Sam Dunn was very insistent that Sarcofago should be considered as a black metal founder. He got voted down by his co-hosts and the viewers if I remember it all correctly. He seamed pretty dejected about this but he accepted the verdict. Let's see what Mr. Dunn was getting on about.

Well, it's fine. It's again of the overwhelmingly satanic breed of black metal. The vocals are at times a little bit lower than standard for Black Metal-dipping into death metal-esque growls. As a bonus, if you absolutely need a man to  describe cunnilingus and fellatio in fairly vivid detail "Ready to Fuck" is the song for you! Personally, my own love life is such that I don't need somebody else to sing that to me. The odd thing about that song is that their actually isn't any fucking, just foreplay. You see they aren't fucking yet, just getting ready to fuck. I'm milking this one right now because it's the only departure from black metal cliche's on the album. 

Anyways, history is doing them a lot of favors if this came out later nobody would talk about it. The thing is it wasn't even the most extreme thing of it's time. That's a misconseption. If you want the real roots of black and death metal I would point you in the direction of Medellin, Columbia as early as 1983 (4 years prior to this album) and encourage you to see what bands like Parabellum, Reencarnation, Blasphemia, Astaroth, and Pyrokenisis were churning out. Sorry Mr. Dunn. 

It's a little bit better than dumpster fire tier, but it's nothing remarkable either.