Damned Cross>>CENOTAPH - MEXICO

The Gloomy Reflection Of Our Hidden Sorrow - 1992 - Horus
Riding Our Black Oceans - 1995 - Cyber
Epic Rites - 1996 - Oz
Saga Belica - 2002 - Oz

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Members
Vocals
Daniel Corchado>>Chasm, Incantation, Magnum Itiner Interius - Foeticide>>Edgardo González>>SOVS

Guitar
Pala - Tormentor, Shub Niggurath>>Julio Viterbo>>Shub Niggurath, The Chasm, Metalucifer, Obeisance, Acerus, Heavens Decay - The Suffering>>Sami [Samuel Ocadiz]>>Foeticide - Pyphomgertum, Domain, Blood Reaping>>Eduardo Guevara>>Hacavitz, Impiety, Rapture, The Killing, Blasphemathory, Metralla, Raped God 666

Bass
Daniel Corchado>>Chasm, Obeisance, Incantation, Magnum Itiner Interius, Acerus - CURRO

Drums
Shub Niggurath, Darkcreed, Denial, The Suffering, Heavens Decay, Funereal Moon, Reverence To Paroxysm>>OSCAR CLORIO>>Shub Niggurath, Darkcreed, Denial, The Suffering, Heavens Decay, Funereal Moon, Reverence To Paroxysm




History & Biography
The Rise Of Excruciation demo was released in 1989 (the group was briefly called Damned Cross), which was the same year as the band's formation. Drummer Oscar Clorio was the founder. Harmony Records of Brazil released the Tenebrous Apparitions 7" in 1990 and the band used the recording to appear on Cyber Records' Appointment With Fear sampler. The Eternal Disgrace 7" followed and the band appeared on the Pantalgia sampler of MBR. Mexico's Horus then signed the band. After the next album, the band begins playing live with the likes of Deicide and Slayer. Following Epic Rites, the band moved to the USA and played shows like the Milwaukee Metal Fest. Unfortunately, the band was then broken up in 1998, only to reform with a new line-up in 2000 looking to reclaim their entity. The Mexican death metal band had been increasingly veering towards a Swedish Gothenburg sound. Saga Belica was produced by Harris Johns in Germany.

On September 24th 2012, The Gloomy Reflections Of Our Hidden Sorrow, the debut from Mexican death metal band, would be made available for the first time on vinyl through Chaos Records. Originally recorded in May of 1992 by Hans Mues at Estudios Tequila in Mexico City, this vinyl reissue had been fully remastered by Roberto Granados at Seismic Sound Studio.

After 16 years of absence, the band returned in 2018. Julio Viterbo was back on guitar. A couple of compilations appeared.

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Reviews

CENOTAPH - SAGA BELICA - OZ
It is bittersweet to review an album by a band which has already gone to metal heaven. Such is the case with Mexico's Cenotaph. After a decade of contribution to the metal underground, band leader and drummer Oscar has decided to hang up the battle armour and allow the Cenotaph to become a monument to the fallen. So what does the band's swan song sound like? Despite Oz Records' characterization of the album as 'brutal death metal,' the album, produced by Harris Johns in Germany, is a guitar-oriented mix of death with thrash metal. We can safely put thoughts of Suffocation and Cryptopsy to rest. Cenotaph is closer to the heavier moments of Testament, the Disincarnate debut, At The Gates and Spain's Deathless. The production favours the singer, although the guitarists clearly have a thing or two to say here. The singer yells, shrieks and growls as the rest of the band keeps up the pace to a moderately fast most of the time. This is an angry album recommended to deathrash fans.


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