Dorso



Dorso is a legendary Gore-Grindcore Metal/Jazz-Fusion band from Chile, formed in 1984 by Rodrigo “Pera” Cuadra and Yamal Eltit.

Their music lyrics, in Spanish/Spanglish, are based in horror movies, HP Lovecraft, alien invasions and more.

Albums:


 * Bajo Una Luna Cámbrica (1989)
 * Romance (1991)
 * El Espanto Surge De La Tumba (1993)
 * Big Monsters Aventura (1995)
 * Disco Blood (1998)
 * Lari La Live! (2002)
 * Unplugged Cosmico (2007)
 * Espacium (2008)

Genres played by Dorso:

 * Avant-Garde: Bajo una luna cambrica.
 * Country Music: Zombies from Mapocho sound like this.
 * Death Metal
 * Grindcore
 * Industrial Metal: Songs like Cadaveria, Il maniaco.
 * Progressive Rock: Romance.
 * Thrash Metal

Dorso provides examples of:
""Dr mortis, too much bloody!
 * Album Title Drop:El Espanto Surge De La Tumba and Disco Blood.
 * Alien Invasion:Extraterrestre Gore cannibal invasion.
 * Body Horror
 * Concept Album:
 * Romance is a Fantasy Tale
 * Big Monsters Aventura is all about old horror movies
 * Espacium is about Space Horror
 * Cosmic Horror Song
 * Dead Baby Comedy
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Eldritch Location
 * Everything's Better With Dinosaurs: The song Dinosaur Panorama.
 * Fisher Kingdom: Silvestre Holocaust
 * Gorn
 * Giant Spider: the spiders in Consumer By Pollito Spider.
 * Gratuitous English: Most of the lyrics.
 * Harsh Vocals
 * Heavy Mithril: Several song are related to the Cthulhu Mythos.
 * Hell Hotel: Dunwich Animal Child
 * Human Sacrifice: Horrible Sacrifice
 * Humanoid Abomination: Ultraputrefactus Criatura.
 * Magic Meteor: Silvestre Holocaust
 * Metal Scream
 * Mother of a Thousand Young: Bosques
 * Murder Ballad
 * Naughty Tentacles: The song Hours on Tentaculon. Very explicit.
 * Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly
 * New Sound Album
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Samurai We Fight! is about a Samurai turned in a cyborg. Also, this line from Dr.Mortis

Turn your body

In a spiderzombiemonstervampiro from hell!""


 * Lighter and Softer: Romance compared to the rest of the albums.
 * The Lost Woods: Bosques
 * Obligatory Bondage Song
 * Our Monsters Are Weird
 * Our Zombies Are Different: See Toilet Humor
 * Precision F-Strike
 * The Red Planet: Marte Horror Planet
 * Rock Opera: Romance, again.
 * Something Something Leonard Bernstein
 * Surprisingly Gentle Song: Parodied
 * Shout Out: A Lot
 * Toilet Humor: The song Zombies from Mapocho is about zombies made of crap.
 * Unexpected Genre Change