Sarcófago "Hate"

Hate is the third studio album by Brazilian extreme metal band Sarcófago, released in 1994 through Cogumelo Records. It has a more stripped-down approach than their previous record, The Laws of Scourge (1991).

Hate is also notable for its controversial use of a drum machine. At the time Sarcófago were attempting to become the fastest band in the world, and there were no drummers in their native Brazil who could play at the required speeds. Frontman Wagner Lamounier claimed to have no qualms about using this device, on the basis that most death metal drummers use trigger pads for recording purposes, which in the end produces the same homogenized sound as that of a drum machine.

The song "Satanic Terrorism" is about the "Inner Circle" church burnings in Norway that occurred during the early 1990s. Sarcófago was briefly accused of supporting these acts, but Lamounier has insisted that this is untrue.

Track listing

1. "Intro: Song For My Death" 2:30
2. "Pact Of Cum" 3:54
3. "The God's Faces" 3:41
4. "Satanic Terrorism" 2:06
5. "Orgy Of Flies" 4:35
6. "Hate" 2:24
7. "The Phantom" 4:50
8. "Rhabdovirus (The Pitbull's Curse)" 3:03
9. "Anal Vomit" 5:20
10. "The Beggar's Uprising" 1:51

All music by Sarcófago. All lyrics by Wagner Antichrist, except Song for My Death and Satanic Terrorism by Wagner Antichrist and Celio Alves.

Recording information:

Recorded at Dramma Studio and Polifonia Studio in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, between January and March, 1994

Engineered by Eugenio (Dramma) and Tarso Senra (Polifonia)